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improved main.py, can wrap all names in document now
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@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ import spacy
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from collections import Counter
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import re as regex
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import os
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from saxonche import PySaxonProcessor
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#### Loads all of the necessary variables and functions.
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nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_lg")
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@ -12,7 +14,6 @@ outputPath = os.path.join(workingDir, 'output/')
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insideDir = os.listdir(CollPath)
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print(insideDir)
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# Copies files in case they do not exist
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def copyTextFiles(file):
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content = []
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@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ def copyTextFiles(file):
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with open(CollPath + "/" + file, 'r', encoding='utf8') as inFile:
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for line in inFile:
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content.append(line)
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print("copying " + file)
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print(" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ copying " + file + " ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ")
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inFile.close()
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# With the contents copied, a loop will go through the array and write it all in a new file in output folder.
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with open(outputPath + "/" + file, 'w', encoding='utf8') as f:
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@ -29,37 +30,50 @@ def copyTextFiles(file):
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# Function runs through the tokens of given file. Entities are stored in array, then returned. Called by regexFile().
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def entitycollector(tokens):
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entities = []
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for entity in tokens.ents:
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if entity.label_ == "PERSON":
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entities.append(entity.text)
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with open('output.txt', 'w') as f:
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entities = {}
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for ent in sorted(tokens.ents):
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# if entity.label_ == "NORP" or entity.label_ == "LOC" or entity.label_=="GPE":
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# ebb: The line helps experiment with different spaCy named entity classifiers, in combination if you like:
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# When using it, remember to indent the next lines for the for loop.
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# print(entity.text, entity.label_, spacy.explain(entity.label_))
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entityInfo = [ent.text, ent.label_, spacy.explain(ent.label_)]
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stringify = str(entityInfo)
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f.write(stringify)
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f.write('\n')
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# PRINT TO FILE
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# entities.append(entity.text)
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entities[ent.text] = ent.label_
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return entities
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# Function runs regex through given file.
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def regexFile(file):
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# First, it reads file given. Supposedly, the newly created file in output folder.
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with open(outputPath + "/" + file, 'r', encoding='utf8') as inFile:
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rawText = str(inFile.read())
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# Regex finds all elements in a file and deletes them. Then Regex finds anything that is not a letter, and
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# deletes. It is stored in a variable that is supposedly clean from anything extra.
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cleanedText = regex.sub('[^A-z]+', ' ', regex.sub('<.+?>', ' ', rawText))
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# token stuff
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fileDir = os.path.join(outputPath, file)
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with PySaxonProcessor(license=False) as proc:
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# grabs the original xml file and stores it in a variable for later.
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xml = open(fileDir, encoding='utf-8').read()
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xp = proc.new_xpath_processor()
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node = proc.parse_xml(xml_text=xml)
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xp.set_context(xdm_item=node)
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xpath = xp.evaluate('//p ! normalize-space() => string-join()')
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string = xpath.__str__()
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cleanedText = regex.sub('[^A-z]+', ' ', string)
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tokens = nlp(cleanedText)
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wrappedText = xml
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listEntities = entitycollector(tokens)
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# If the listEntity array has content in it, it will go through the list to see if the content is located
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# anywhere in the original, raw text.
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#print(listEntities)
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if listEntities:
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for entity in listEntities:
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wrappedText = regex.sub(str(entity), '<person>' + entity + '</person>',rawText)
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# Saves newly wrapped elements and then writes it into the copied file.
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with open(outputPath + "/" + file, 'w', encoding='utf8') as f:
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f.write(wrappedText)
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print("WRAPPING " + entity)
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f.close()
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else:
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print("No names... Probably did not detect any?")
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for entity in listEntities.keys():
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#print(entity, listEntities[entity])
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if listEntities[entity] == "PERSON":
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key_template = "<ent type = 'person'>" + entity + "</ent>"
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wrappedText = wrappedText.replace(entity, key_template)
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# Saves newly wrapped elements and then writes it into the copied file.
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with open(fileDir, 'w', encoding='utf8') as f:
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f.write(wrappedText)
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print("WRAPPING " + entity)
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# Goes through all of the original conspiracy texts
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for file in insideDir:
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copyTextFiles(file)
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regexFile(file)
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regexFile(file)
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print("File checking finished.")
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pythonCode/output.txt
Normal file
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pythonCode/output.txt
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['Wayne McGuire', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Zionism', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['mideast', 'LOC', 'Non-GPE locations, mountain ranges, bodies of water']
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['the day', 'DATE', 'Absolute or relative dates or periods']
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['Mideast', 'LOC', 'Non-GPE locations, mountain ranges, bodies of water']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['a few years', 'DATE', 'Absolute or relative dates or periods']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['years', 'DATE', 'Absolute or relative dates or periods']
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['Zionism', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Jewish', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Zionism', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Israeli', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Israeli', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Zionist', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Israeli', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Menachem Schneerson', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Kahanism', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Israeli', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Demjanjuk', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Zionist', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Jewish', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['five', 'CARDINAL', 'Numerals that do not fall under another type']
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['Golan Matti', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Israelis', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Jews', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Hebrew', 'LANGUAGE', 'Any named language']
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['Hillel Halkin Leibowitz Yeshayahu', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['the Jewish State Cambridge', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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['Harvard University', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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['Simon Schuster', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Tom The Seventh Million', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Israelis', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['The Holocaust', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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['Wang Sicker', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Martin Judaism', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['the Land of Israel Boulder CO Westview Press', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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['about four', 'CARDINAL', 'Numerals that do not fall under another type']
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['Zionism', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Martin Sicker', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['thousands of years', 'DATE', 'Absolute or relative dates or periods']
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['a few hundred', 'CARDINAL', 'Numerals that do not fall under another type']
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['decades', 'DATE', 'Absolute or relative dates or periods']
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['Zionism', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Zionism', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Mideast', 'LOC', 'Non-GPE locations, mountain ranges, bodies of water']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Arab', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Mary Weiss]I ve', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Mideast', 'LOC', 'Non-GPE locations, mountain ranges, bodies of water']
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['Israeli', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Zionism', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Jews', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['the decade', 'DATE', 'Absolute or relative dates or periods']
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['Jews', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['the day', 'DATE', 'Absolute or relative dates or periods']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Jews', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Jewish', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Zionist', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Jews', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Jewish', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Zionists', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Theodore Herzl', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Karl Marx', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Zionism', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Jewish', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Jews', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Zionism', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['hundreds', 'CARDINAL', 'Numerals that do not fall under another type']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Jews', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Israel Trust', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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['Marty', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['the last year', 'DATE', 'Absolute or relative dates or periods']
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['two', 'CARDINAL', 'Numerals that do not fall under another type']
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['Jews', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Zionism', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Zionists', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Americans', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Jews', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Jews', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Israelis', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Jews', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['the U S', 'LOC', 'Non-GPE locations, mountain ranges, bodies of water']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Semites', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['one', 'CARDINAL', 'Numerals that do not fall under another type']
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['first', 'ORDINAL', '"first", "second", etc.']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['One', 'CARDINAL', 'Numerals that do not fall under another type']
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['one', 'CARDINAL', 'Numerals that do not fall under another type']
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['Rome', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['one', 'CARDINAL', 'Numerals that do not fall under another type']
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['Sabbatai Sevi s', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['one', 'CARDINAL', 'Numerals that do not fall under another type']
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['Karl Marx s', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Menachem Schneerson s', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['David Koresh s', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Arabs', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Mideast', 'LOC', 'Non-GPE locations, mountain ranges, bodies of water']
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['Israelis', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Israelis', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Jewry', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Jews', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Zionism', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Zionism', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Bereft', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Wayne', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Avineri Shlomo Moses Hess Prophet', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Zionism', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['New York', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['London New York University', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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['Friedman Robert', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Meir Kahane', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['FBI Informant', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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['Knesset', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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['Brooklyn Lawrence', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Golan Matti', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Israelis', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Jews', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Hebrew', 'LANGUAGE', 'Any named language']
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['Hillel Halkin', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Harkabi Yehoshafat', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Fateful Hour', 'LOC', 'Non-GPE locations, mountain ranges, bodies of water']
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['the Jewish State Cambridge', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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['Harvard University', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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['Moshe Balaam s Curse', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Simon', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Schuster Lustick', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Ian S', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Jewish', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['Israel', 'GPE', 'Countries, cities, states']
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['Roth', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Simon Schuster Scholem', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Sabbatai Sevi', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Princeton University Press Translated', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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['Seventh', 'ORDINAL', '"first", "second", etc.']
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['Israelis', 'NORP', 'Nationalities or religious or political groups']
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['The Holocaust', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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['Wang Sicker', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['Martin Judaism', 'PERSON', 'People, including fictional']
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['the Land of Israel Boulder CO Westview Press', 'ORG', 'Companies, agencies, institutions, etc.']
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<xml><p>
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I scanned this excerpt in from the book, "The Delicate Balance" ,
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written by John Zajac. 1989-1990 . ISBN Number 0-910311-57-9 .</p>
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written by <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> Zajac</ent>. 1989-1990 . ISBN Number 0-910311-57-9 .</p>
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<p>** Begin Excerpt **</p>
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specific buying habits. While most customers claim that they are not
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affected by these commercials, the advertising companies have spent a lot of
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money on research proving otherwise. Is this the start of a more modern
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version of George Orwell's "1984," the complete control depicted in Vance
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version of George <ent type = 'person'>Orwell</ent>'s "1984," the complete control depicted in Vance
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Packard's 'The Hidden Persuaders' ? Certainly, computers are powerful and
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indispensable tools. Thanks to computers, paychecks are deposited
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automatically into checking and savings accounts at predefined rates while
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fish will be detected by the same system as they swim back upstream and are
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forced through fish ladders and chutes. *</p>
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<p>Just as impressive is what Walter Wriston, the chairman of CitiCorp did in
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<p>Just as impressive is what <ent type = 'person'>Walter Wriston</ent>, the chairman of CitiCorp did in
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1983. He passed a rule within the bank that was later withdrawn as a result
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of public outcry. His rule stated that unless you were a depositor of $5,000
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or more, you were not entitled to a teller. This meant that the vast
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government, it would seem, want the government to have total control of
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everything.</p>
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<p>In Orwell's 1984, the government "took over," and everyone was controlled by
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<p>In <ent type = 'person'>Orwell</ent>'s 1984, the government "took over," and everyone was controlled by
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"Big Brother." In reality, government may take over, not through control of
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transportation and censorship, but through the economy, the lending
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institutions, and every financial transaction. Is it too far-fetched to
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computer speaks the same language of "1's" and "0's." Thus, 0110,0110,0110
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is 666 universally.</p>
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<p>In the Book of Revelation; John said that 666 is the mark of the beast. This
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<p>In the Book of Revelation; <ent type = 'person'>John</ent> said that 666 is the mark of the beast. This
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number also represents the universal consistency of the computers that will
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be required to control the world's finances and thus the world's people.
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When John wrote 1,900 years ago, he did not know anything about the binary
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When <ent type = 'person'>John</ent> wrote 1,900 years ago, he did not know anything about the binary
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number system, computers, or why computers would require binary coded
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decimals. Yet, he stated emphatically that the mark of the beast is 666.</p>
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through the computer, giving the government total control. The greatest fear
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is that when receiving the mark, you also may be forced to pledge allegiance
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to your flag and (as in the days of kings) to your ruler, but in this case
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the world leader would be the Antichrist. Of course, to have allegiance with
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the Antichrist is to make a pact with the Devil. If you think that this
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the world leader would be the <ent type = 'person'>Antichrist</ent>. Of course, to have allegiance with
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the <ent type = 'person'>Antichrist</ent> is to make a pact with the <ent type = 'person'>Devil</ent>. If you think that this
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unified system is very far away, then you have missed some intriguing news
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items.</p>
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<p>Volume I: Defining the 9 planes</p>
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<p>Written by: <person>Starmaster</person> and Locust</p>
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<p>Written by: <ent type = 'person'>Starmaster</ent> and Locust</p>
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<p>1st dimensional plane: This plane consists of only the single dimension
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of length. It is not advised to try to envision this dimension for it may
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<p>That about does it for this file. That pretty much explains everything that I
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can think of dealing with the unexplainable. If you can think of any more,
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leave mail on Centre of Eternity for <person>Starmaster</person> (#75). I will ponder for the
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leave mail on Centre of Eternity for <ent type = 'person'>Starmaster</ent> (#75). I will ponder for the
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answer, until I can get a suitable one using this theory. None will be turned
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away. Who knows, maybe I'll get enough quetions to write another phile. Slatez
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||||
dudes.</p>
|
||||
|
@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ age.
|
||||
Conspiracy theories fill a human need. They make some sense of
|
||||
the cruel narrative that is the 20th century. They turn the random
|
||||
violence of a lone madman into an act of orchestrated malice. In
|
||||
this way the loss of a figure like Kennedy becomes somehow more
|
||||
this way the loss of a figure like <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> becomes somehow more
|
||||
comprehensible. To be angry is more bearable than to be uncertain.
|
||||
This soothing function can be at odds with truth, however.
|
||||
Alternative conspiracist history is as flawed as the `authorised'
|
||||
@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ version. Worse, a conspiracist view can suppress awkward pieces of
|
||||
information by toying with the notion that events have been covered
|
||||
up by the authorities to suit their own ends: encounters with alien
|
||||
space ships, the real makers of the Lockerbie bomb and the truth
|
||||
about Rudolf Hess have all been hidden from the public but the
|
||||
about <ent type = 'person'>Rudolf <ent type = 'person'>Hess</ent></ent> have all been hidden from the public but the
|
||||
higher officers of the state are in the know.
|
||||
Some of the conspiracy theories which date from earlier this
|
||||
century have more ignoble, murkier origins. Anti-semites were
|
||||
@ -65,12 +65,12 @@ third kind took place on 27 December 1980, when airmen at two RAF
|
||||
stations in East Anglia witnessed something extraordinary. First
|
||||
radar operators at RAF Watton in Norfolk picked up an oddity on
|
||||
their screens. Then RAF Phantom pilots reported seeing intense
|
||||
bright lights in the sky. Former radar operator Mal Scurrah said:
|
||||
bright lights in the sky. Former radar operator <ent type = 'person'>Mal Scurrah</ent> said:
|
||||
`As the Phantoms got close the hovering object shot upwards at
|
||||
phenomenal speed " monitored at more than 1,000 mph.' Later, airmen
|
||||
stationed at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk investigated a mystery fire
|
||||
in Rendlesham Forest. Sergeant Jim Penniston witnessed the
|
||||
encounter with airman John Burroughs. Penniston said: `The air was
|
||||
in Rendlesham Forest. Sergeant <ent type = 'person'>Jim Penniston</ent> witnessed the
|
||||
encounter with airman <ent type = 'person'>John Burroughs</ent>. Penniston said: `The air was
|
||||
filled with electricity and we saw an object about the size of a
|
||||
tank. It was triangular, moulded of black glass and had symbols on
|
||||
it. Suddenly it shot off faster than any aircraft I have ever
|
||||
@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ intelligence which didn't originate on Earth'. His tape and film
|
||||
were confiscated by visiting US defence officials. Former British
|
||||
Chief of Defence Staff Lord Hill-Norton has claimed: `Someone is
|
||||
sitting on information that should be in the public domain.'
|
||||
Believability: 9/10 (Possible explanation: what the airmen saw may
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 9/10 (Possible explanation: what the airmen saw may
|
||||
not have been a UFO, but a prototype of the Stealth bomber, which
|
||||
has a black triangular shape, a strange radar print and was, in
|
||||
1980, ultra-secret. Project Aurora, a new ultra-ultra-secret
|
||||
@ -93,48 +93,48 @@ responsible for all subsequent UFO sightings.)</p>
|
||||
<p> B IS FOR THE BILDERBERG GROUP, which organises semi-secret
|
||||
annual three-day meetings of the European-Atlantic great and good
|
||||
from the worlds of business, diplomacy and politics. The first
|
||||
meetings were organised in 1954 by eminence grise Joseph Retinger,
|
||||
meetings were organised in 1954 by eminence grise <ent type = 'person'>Joseph Retinger</ent>,
|
||||
the then secretary general of the newly fledged, CIA-funded
|
||||
European Movement. Karl Otto Pohl, then president of Deutsche
|
||||
Bundesbank, David Rockefeller, Lord Carrington and Governor Bill
|
||||
Clinton of Arkansaswere among recent delegates. Denis Healey was at
|
||||
that first meeting and, having retired, discusses Bilderberg in his
|
||||
autobiography, The Time Of My Life. Bilderberg is one of the
|
||||
European Movement. <ent type = 'person'>Karl Otto Pohl</ent>, then president of Deutsche
|
||||
Bundesbank, <ent type = 'person'>David Rockefeller</ent>, Lord <ent type = 'person'>Carrington</ent> and Governor Bill
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> of Arkansaswere among recent delegates. <ent type = 'person'>Denis Healey</ent> was at
|
||||
that first meeting and, having retired, discusses <ent type = 'person'>Bilderberg</ent> in his
|
||||
autobiography, The Time Of My Life. <ent type = 'person'>Bilderberg</ent> is one of the
|
||||
transnational groups suspected by the European-American far Right
|
||||
of being part of the secret elite power structure. Even the
|
||||
Financial Times column `Lombard' has noted: `If the Bilderberg
|
||||
Financial Times column `Lombard' has noted: `If the <ent type = 'person'>Bilderberg</ent>
|
||||
group is not a conspiracy of some sort, it is conducted in such a
|
||||
way as to give a remarkably good imitation of one.' Believability:
|
||||
way as to give a remarkably good imitation of one.' <ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>:
|
||||
8/10
|
||||
|
||||
C IS FOR CEAUSESCU, who was tried and executed on Christmas Day
|
||||
to hush up the complicity of Romania's new leaders in his crimes.
|
||||
The videotape of the Christmas Day show trial of Nicolae and Elena
|
||||
The videotape of the Christmas Day show trial of <ent type = 'person'>Nicolae</ent> and Elena
|
||||
Ceausescu is an absorbing spectacle. Time and again, Ceausescu and
|
||||
his wife turn on their interrogators and accuse them of knowing the
|
||||
answers to the questions they have posed. Prosecutor: `What do you
|
||||
know about the Securitate?' Elena: `They are sitting across from us
|
||||
here.' The old witch was right, of course, because sitting in the
|
||||
courtroom were secret police chiefs like Colonel Magureanu, who had
|
||||
courtroom were secret police chiefs like Colonel <ent type = 'person'>Magureanu</ent>, who had
|
||||
been party to the attack on civilians in Timisoara which had
|
||||
triggered the revolution. He was later promoted by the leader of
|
||||
the conspirators, Ion Iliescu " a former Ceausescu crony " to head
|
||||
the conspirators, <ent type = 'person'>Ion Iliescu</ent> " a former Ceausescu crony " to head
|
||||
the renamed secret police, the `Romanian Information Service'.
|
||||
Iliescu became and remains president, the tainted hero of a tainted
|
||||
revolution.
|
||||
Believability: 10/10</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 10/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> D IS FOR `DEEP THROAT', the mole in the Nixon administration
|
||||
guiding the Washington Post journalists, Woodward and Bernstein, to
|
||||
<p> D IS FOR `DEEP THROAT', the mole in the <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> administration
|
||||
guiding the Washington Post journalists, <ent type = 'person'>Woodward</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Bernstein</ent>, to
|
||||
the Watergate story. `Throat' remains unidentified. In his book
|
||||
Hidden Agenda (1984) Jim Hougan nominated both Nixon's chief of
|
||||
staff, Alexander Haig, and National Security Agency boss, Admiral
|
||||
Bobby Ray Inman, as candidates; Colodny and Gettlin also fingered
|
||||
Haig in their book Silent Coup (1991). Barbara Newman, for Channel
|
||||
Hidden Agenda (1984) Jim Hougan nominated both <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>'s chief of
|
||||
staff, <ent type = 'person'>Alexander <ent type = 'person'>Haig</ent></ent>, and National Security Agency boss, Admiral
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bobby Ray Inman</ent>, as candidates; Colodny and <ent type = 'person'>Gettlin</ent> also fingered
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Haig</ent> in their book Silent Coup (1991). Barbara Newman, for Channel
|
||||
4's Dispatches, came up with the head of the FBI field office in
|
||||
Washington, the late Bob Kunkle. He was allegedly leaking for the
|
||||
FBI, which was disgruntled by the Nixon cover-up.
|
||||
Believability: 10/10 (Cynics suspect `Deep Throat' was merely a
|
||||
Washington, the late <ent type = 'person'>Bob Kunkle</ent>. He was allegedly leaking for the
|
||||
FBI, which was disgruntled by the <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> cover-up.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 10/10 (Cynics suspect `<ent type = 'person'>Deep Throat</ent>' was merely a
|
||||
dramatic device or a ploy to keep newspaper lawyers quiet.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> E IS FOR ELECTRICITY PYLONS, which fry our brains. A number of
|
||||
@ -144,25 +144,25 @@ physical ill-health. No government ministry has placed much
|
||||
credence on these complaints. The epidemiology of environmental
|
||||
effect is notoriously hard to prove, but all good conspiracists
|
||||
believe there is no smoke without a secret ray.
|
||||
Believability: 7/10</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 7/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> F IS FOR FREEMASONS, who club together to better themselves in
|
||||
the world. The majority of active freemasons have sworn not to
|
||||
divulge the secrets of the craft, on pain of having their tongues
|
||||
`cut out by the root and buried in the sand below low-water mark'.
|
||||
Other masons who have tried to break ranks have come to sticky
|
||||
ends, like `God's Banker' Roberto Calvi, found hanging from
|
||||
ends, like `God's Banker' <ent type = 'person'>Roberto Calvi</ent>, found hanging from
|
||||
Blackfriars Bridge in 1982. So it is hard to determine just how
|
||||
much influence is wielded by the grown men who like to dress in
|
||||
black suits, wear aprons, bare their breasts and roll up their
|
||||
trouser legs. Not very much, say some sceptics, who suspect that
|
||||
the masons have more control over, say, haberdashery in
|
||||
Herefordshire than the British state. But freemasons still hold
|
||||
some sway in the corridors of power. The Rt Hon the Lord Templeman
|
||||
and Rt Hon Lord Justice Balcombe, both freemasons, are two of the
|
||||
some sway in the corridors of power. The Rt Hon the Lord <ent type = 'person'>Templeman</ent>
|
||||
and Rt Hon Lord Justice <ent type = 'person'>Balcombe</ent>, both freemasons, are two of the
|
||||
most senior judges in the land; junior Foreign Office minister Tony
|
||||
Baldry, former Tory MP David Trippier and back bench MPs Sir Peter
|
||||
Emery and Sir Gerard Vaughan are all on the square.
|
||||
Baldry, former Tory MP <ent type = 'person'>David Trippier</ent> and back bench MPs Sir Peter
|
||||
Emery and Sir <ent type = 'person'>Gerard Vaughan</ent> are all on the square.
|
||||
Many police officers, too, remain true to their masonic oaths of
|
||||
secrecy. In 1993 at a Police Federation conference a motion urging
|
||||
police officers to reveal membership of the masonic brotherhood was
|
||||
@ -174,14 +174,14 @@ about freemasonry in the ranks, put a paper bag over his head.
|
||||
Finally a member of the Metropolitan branch came to the rostrum to
|
||||
announce the vote. `I'm not telling,' he said to laughter. `It's a
|
||||
secret.' The opponents of freemasonry lost the vote.
|
||||
Believability: 8/10</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 8/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> G IS FOR THE GEMSTONE FILE, the conspiracy theory which first
|
||||
surfaced in 1975. Originally a precis by American journalist
|
||||
Stephania Caruana of allegations made in letters by American
|
||||
chemist Bruce Roberts, now deceased, Gemstone attributes much of
|
||||
post-war America's ills to the power of Aristotle Onassis, who had
|
||||
the Kennedys and Dr King assassinated, seized the Howard Hughes
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Stephania Caruana</ent> of allegations made in letters by American
|
||||
chemist <ent type = 'person'>Bruce Roberts</ent>, now deceased, Gemstone attributes much of
|
||||
post-war America's ills to the power of <ent type = 'person'>Aristotle Onassis</ent>, who had
|
||||
the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>s and Dr <ent type = 'person'>King</ent> assassinated, seized the <ent type = 'person'>Howard Hughes</ent>
|
||||
empire, did a deal with the Mafia, etc. The subject of a couple of
|
||||
book-length studies to date, Gemstone has appeared in five or six
|
||||
different versions, each one containing new material. Most striking
|
||||
@ -189,87 +189,87 @@ is the `Kiwi Gemstone' in which specifically New Zealand incidents
|
||||
have been embedded in the original American narrative. Authorless,
|
||||
floating round the world in samizdat form, Gemstone is a perfect,
|
||||
small-scale disinformation vehicle for anyone who cares to use it.
|
||||
Believability: 0/10</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 0/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> H IS FOR HESS, locked up in Spandau prison because he knew all
|
||||
about the secret 1941 negotiations between Britain and Nazi
|
||||
Germany. Rudolf Hess's flight in May 1941 remains one of the most
|
||||
Germany. <ent type = 'person'>Rudolf <ent type = 'person'>Hess</ent></ent>'s flight in May 1941 remains one of the most
|
||||
bizarre episodes of the Second World War. Lord James
|
||||
Douglas-Hamilton, son of the Duke of Hamilton, the Scottish
|
||||
landowner to whom Hess presented his plans, said: `Hess's proposals
|
||||
Douglas-<ent type = 'person'>Hamilton</ent>, son of the Duke of <ent type = 'person'>Hamilton</ent>, the Scottish
|
||||
landowner to whom <ent type = 'person'>Hess</ent> presented his plans, said: `<ent type = 'person'>Hess</ent>'s proposals
|
||||
consisted of a limited peace deal under which Germany would have
|
||||
allowed Britain a free hand in her empire in return for Britain
|
||||
allowing Germany a free hand in Europe and Russia. His so-called
|
||||
peace plans would have meant the enslavement of Europe.' Hess was
|
||||
peace plans would have meant the enslavement of Europe.' <ent type = 'person'>Hess</ent> was
|
||||
arrested, tried to commit suicide, went mad, was sentenced to life
|
||||
imprisonment and, at the age of 93, hanged himself in Spandau
|
||||
prison. Or not, as the case may be.
|
||||
One theory has it that the Churchill government, in a hideously
|
||||
clever propaganda campaign against the Nazis, ran a double, `Hess
|
||||
One theory has it that the <ent type = 'person'>Churchill</ent> government, in a hideously
|
||||
clever propaganda campaign against the Nazis, ran a double, `<ent type = 'person'>Hess</ent>
|
||||
Two'. Evidence supporting the double theory emerged when a Dutch TV
|
||||
journalist, Karel Hille, disclosed that he had got the Most Secret
|
||||
file on Hess via an unnamed British historian who had been given it
|
||||
by the late MI6 spymaster Sir Maurice Oldfield. Oldfield had,
|
||||
journalist, <ent type = 'person'>Karel Hille</ent>, disclosed that he had got the Most Secret
|
||||
file on <ent type = 'person'>Hess</ent> via an unnamed British historian who had been given it
|
||||
by the late MI6 spymaster Sir <ent type = 'person'>Maurice <ent type = 'person'>Oldfield</ent></ent>. <ent type = 'person'>Oldfield</ent> had,
|
||||
allegedly, stolen the file from the MI6 archive. That the man,
|
||||
`Hess Two', who killed himself in prison was not the real Hess is
|
||||
backed by Hugh Thomas, a Welsh surgeon, who, in the early 1970s,
|
||||
`<ent type = 'person'>Hess</ent> Two', who killed himself in prison was not the real <ent type = 'person'>Hess</ent> is
|
||||
backed by <ent type = 'person'>Hugh Thomas</ent>, a Welsh surgeon, who, in the early 1970s,
|
||||
was consultant to the British Military Hospital in West Berlin.
|
||||
Thomas examined `Hess Two' and found him to lack the scars the real
|
||||
Hess should have had after a wound he received in 1917. MI6 had
|
||||
`Hess Two' hanged because they didn't want the truth to come out.
|
||||
Thomas examined `<ent type = 'person'>Hess</ent> Two' and found him to lack the scars the real
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hess</ent> should have had after a wound he received in 1917. MI6 had
|
||||
`<ent type = 'person'>Hess</ent> Two' hanged because they didn't want the truth to come out.
|
||||
Then the killers burnt the evidence, including an electrical flex,
|
||||
with which he was murdered.
|
||||
Believability: 5/10 (Hess was mad. His 1917 wound was
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 5/10 (<ent type = 'person'>Hess</ent> was mad. His 1917 wound was
|
||||
pea-sized.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> I IS FOR THE ILLUMINATI, the secret society controlling all the
|
||||
other secret societies. An 18th-century masonic splinter group
|
||||
begun by Adam Weishaupt, the Illimunati were said to be the hidden
|
||||
begun by <ent type = 'person'>Adam <ent type = 'person'>Weishaupt</ent></ent>, the Illimunati were said to be the hidden
|
||||
force behind the French Revolution. After the First World War they
|
||||
were re-launched into the English-speaking world by one Nesta
|
||||
Webster who credited them with organising the Russian October
|
||||
Revolution too. In 1921 the Spectator described Weishaupt as a
|
||||
Revolution too. In 1921 the Spectator described <ent type = 'person'>Weishaupt</ent> as a
|
||||
`Prussian with criminal instincts and lunatic perversions . . .
|
||||
{who} shunted continental freemasonry on to Antinomian and
|
||||
revolutionary lines.' In the demonology of the Anglo-American far
|
||||
Right, the Illuminati largely replaced the Jews as the spider at
|
||||
the centre of the web. These theories were brilliantly parodied in
|
||||
the Illuminatus! trilogy (1976) by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert
|
||||
the Illuminatus! trilogy (1976) by <ent type = 'person'>Robert Anton Wilson</ent> and Robert
|
||||
Shea.
|
||||
Believability: 0/10</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 0/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> J IS FOR JAMES JESUS ANGLETON, the orchid-growing,
|
||||
<p> J IS FOR <ent type = 'person'>JAMES JESUS</ent> ANGLETON, the orchid-growing,
|
||||
poetry-writing, paranoid head of CIA counter intelligence
|
||||
throughout much of the Cold War. Angleton believed the CIA and all
|
||||
throughout much of the Cold War. <ent type = 'person'>Angleton</ent> believed the CIA and all
|
||||
other spy networks to be so much gorgonzola, riddled with KGB
|
||||
moles. In his search for these moles Angleton paralysed large
|
||||
moles. In his search for these moles <ent type = 'person'>Angleton</ent> paralysed large
|
||||
chunks of the CIA for years at a stretch and blighted the careers
|
||||
of many senior officers.
|
||||
It was Angleton who insisted in the 1960s that MI5 investigate
|
||||
Harold Wilson, a task taken up enthusiastically by Peter Wright and
|
||||
his circle in MI5. Angleton's overarching idiocy was to believe the
|
||||
KGB defector Golitsyn, who claimed that the friction between the
|
||||
Soviet Union and Mao's China in the late 1960s was a fake to
|
||||
It was <ent type = 'person'>Angleton</ent> who insisted in the 1960s that MI5 investigate
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Harold Wilson</ent>, a task taken up enthusiastically by <ent type = 'person'>Peter Wright</ent> and
|
||||
his circle in MI5. <ent type = 'person'>Angleton</ent>'s overarching idiocy was to believe the
|
||||
KGB defector <ent type = 'person'>Golitsyn</ent>, who claimed that the friction between the
|
||||
Soviet Union and <ent type = 'person'>Mao</ent>'s China in the late 1960s was a fake to
|
||||
deceive the West. Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union,
|
||||
Golitsyn remains convinced that it is all a black propaganda ploy.
|
||||
However, the confession of top CIA man Aldrich Ames that he was a
|
||||
KGB mole have proved some of Angleton's fears correct.
|
||||
Believability: 6/10</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Golitsyn</ent> remains convinced that it is all a black propaganda ploy.
|
||||
However, the confession of top CIA man <ent type = 'person'>Aldrich Ames</ent> that he was a
|
||||
KGB mole have proved some of <ent type = 'person'>Angleton</ent>'s fears correct.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 6/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> K IS FOR KENNEDY, killed by almost anyone you care to mention.
|
||||
According to Captain James T Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, the
|
||||
According to Captain <ent type = 'person'>James T Kirk</ent> of the Starship Enterprise, the
|
||||
`first rule of assassination is kill the assassins'. The killing of
|
||||
Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby set a hare running that has never
|
||||
stopped. Instead of Oswald's courtroom confession or denial of
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Lee Harvey <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent></ent> by <ent type = 'person'>Jack Ruby</ent> set a hare running that has never
|
||||
stopped. Instead of <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s courtroom confession or denial of
|
||||
guilt providing some explanation of the killing of the president,
|
||||
the assassination of the assassin let conjecture reign.
|
||||
So many had a hand in his murder it is too tedious to name them
|
||||
all. Oliver Stone argued in his film JFK that Lyndon Baines Johnson
|
||||
all. <ent type = 'person'>Oliver Stone</ent> argued in his film <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> that <ent type = 'person'>Lyndon Baines Johnson</ent>
|
||||
was the man behind the conspiracy. The KGB, the Mafia, the Cubans,
|
||||
the FBI and the masons are all contenders. Perhaps the best JFK
|
||||
the FBI and the masons are all contenders. Perhaps the best <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>
|
||||
conspiracy theory is that he is, after all, still alive, but kept a
|
||||
permanent prisoner by the National Security Council.
|
||||
Believability: 1/10</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 1/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> L IS FOR LOCKERBIE. On 21 December 1988, 270 people were
|
||||
murdered when Pan Am 103 exploded over Scotland.
|
||||
@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ investigators on both sides of the Atlantic have consistently
|
||||
pointed the finger at two Libyan intelligence officers who they
|
||||
believe planted the bomb on a plane from Malta before it was
|
||||
transferred at Frankfurt on to the fatal flight. UN sanctions are
|
||||
enforced against Tripoli until Colonel Gadaffi agrees to hand over
|
||||
enforced against Tripoli until Colonel <ent type = 'person'>Gadaffi</ent> agrees to hand over
|
||||
the two for trial.
|
||||
Others are not convinced by the official line. Tales of
|
||||
suitcases of heroin recovered at the crash site by mysterious
|
||||
@ -289,61 +289,61 @@ spooks were running `controlled' deliveries of Lebanese heroin
|
||||
through Frankfurt airport in return for information about the
|
||||
whereabouts of the hostages in Beirut. The terrorists were aware of
|
||||
this and switched the dope-filled Samsonite case with one
|
||||
containing the bomb. Among those killed were Matthew Gannon, the
|
||||
CIA's deputy head of station in Beirut, and Major Charles McKee, a
|
||||
containing the bomb. Among those killed were <ent type = 'person'>Matthew Gannon</ent>, the
|
||||
CIA's deputy head of station in Beirut, and Major <ent type = 'person'>Charles McKee</ent>, a
|
||||
Defence Intelligence Agency officer allegedly in charge of a
|
||||
hostage rescue team. Some students of the tragedy have gone so far
|
||||
as to suggest that McKee was flying home to blow the whistle,
|
||||
disgusted that deals were being struck with dope dealers in order
|
||||
to gain intelligence on the kidnap victims.
|
||||
Believability: 8/10</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 8/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> M IS FOR DAVID MELLOR, got at by Mossad after his
|
||||
pro-Palestinian outburst in 1988 on the West Bank. The Israelis
|
||||
were out to topple Mellor after he became the most prominent critic
|
||||
were out to topple <ent type = 'person'>Mellor</ent> after he became the most prominent critic
|
||||
in the British Government of their conduct in the Occupied
|
||||
Territories.
|
||||
First, they managed to secure his removal as junior Foreign
|
||||
Office minister, threatening to stop passing on intelligence
|
||||
information about the hostages in Beirut unless Mellor was moved.
|
||||
information about the hostages in Beirut unless <ent type = 'person'>Mellor</ent> was moved.
|
||||
Second, they arranged for the clandestine phone-tapping
|
||||
operation which led to the highly embarrassing `toe-sucking'
|
||||
allegations.
|
||||
The result: Mellor was forced to quit the Cabinet.
|
||||
Believability: 5/10
|
||||
The result: <ent type = 'person'>Mellor</ent> was forced to quit the Cabinet.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 5/10
|
||||
|
||||
N IS FOR NOSTRADAMUS, the 16th- century psychic seer who
|
||||
predicted Napoleon, Hitler and the killing of John Kennedy. The
|
||||
seer's muddily-written quatrains have spawned more than 200 books,
|
||||
predicted Napoleon, Hitler and the killing of John <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>. The
|
||||
seer'<ent type = 'person'>s muddily</ent>-written quatrains have spawned more than 200 books,
|
||||
a propaganda war between the Nazis and the Allies during the Second
|
||||
World War, a movie, an American TV spin-off show, Monopoly-style
|
||||
board games, a virtual reality game and even a watch, which ticks
|
||||
down the seconds from 1 January 1995 to the millennium.
|
||||
Whitstable housewife Valerie Hewitt, author of Nostradamus: His
|
||||
Whitstable housewife <ent type = 'person'>Valerie Hewitt</ent>, author of Nostradamus: His
|
||||
Key To The Centuries (Heinemann, 1994), predicts that Prince
|
||||
Charles will be crowned this year. `It will be something sudden
|
||||
that will affect the Queen, an illness " whether it is political or
|
||||
genuine it doesn't matter. And Diana will be offered the chance to
|
||||
become Queen. But Charles's reign will be short and William could
|
||||
be king before he's 18.' In 1993 she predicted that George Bush
|
||||
that will affect the <ent type = 'person'>Queen</ent>, an illness " whether it is political or
|
||||
genuine it doesn't matter. And <ent type = 'person'>Diana</ent> will be offered the chance to
|
||||
become <ent type = 'person'>Queen</ent>. But Charles's reign will be short and <ent type = 'person'>William</ent> could
|
||||
be king before he's 18.' In 1993 she predicted that <ent type = 'person'>George Bush</ent>
|
||||
would stay as president.
|
||||
Rival Nostradamus buff John Hogue is more apocalyptic. He plumps
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Rival Nostradamus</ent> buff <ent type = 'person'>John Hogue</ent> is more apocalyptic. He plumps
|
||||
for nuclear disaster or terrorism in 1996, World War III before the
|
||||
millennium and Aids " `a very great plague . . . with a great scab'
|
||||
" and the ozone hole killing off two-thirds of the world population.
|
||||
He quotes the prophet's vision of the future: `So many {die}
|
||||
that no one will know the true owners of fields and houses. The
|
||||
weeds in the city streets will rise higher than the knees, and
|
||||
there shall be a total desolation of the clergy.' Believability:
|
||||
there shall be a total desolation of the clergy.' <ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>:
|
||||
0/10 (The verses of Nostradamus clearly refer to events and places
|
||||
in the 16th century. For example, nowhere does he mention `Hitler',
|
||||
only `Hister', the contemporary name for the Lower Danube.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> P IS FOR PROMIS SOFTWARE, stolen from a Washington law firm. In
|
||||
1982 a Washington DC computer firm, Inslaw, developed a programme
|
||||
1982 a Washington DC computer firm, <ent type = 'person'>Inslaw</ent>, developed a programme
|
||||
called Promis (Prosecutors' Management Information System) which it
|
||||
supplied to the US Justice Department for $10 million. A year
|
||||
later, Justice stopped all payments and Inslaw went bankrupt. A
|
||||
later, Justice stopped all payments and <ent type = 'person'>Inslaw</ent> went bankrupt. A
|
||||
ruling in 1987 at a bankruptcy court concluded that the Justice
|
||||
Department `took, converted and stole Promis software through
|
||||
trickery, fraud and deceit', which is a little embarrassing for the
|
||||
@ -354,29 +354,29 @@ prompting one investigator to claim that the case `was a lot
|
||||
dirtier for the department than Watergate had been, both in its
|
||||
breadth and depth'.
|
||||
It turns out that (allegedly) the men behind the theft of the
|
||||
software were all Reagan appointees who helped engineer the 1980
|
||||
software were all <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> appointees who helped engineer the 1980
|
||||
`October Surprise', whereby the Republicans struck a deal with the
|
||||
Iranians not to release American Embassy hostages from Tehran until
|
||||
after Reagan was safely in the White House. The software was then
|
||||
after <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> was safely in the White House. The software was then
|
||||
sold on to foreign intelligence agencies across the globe, (a) to
|
||||
generate revenue for covert operations not authorised by Congress;
|
||||
and (b) to make it easier for US operatives to hack into the
|
||||
software.
|
||||
The story was chased by US freelance Danny Casolaro. A year
|
||||
after making himself known to the Inslaw people he was found dead
|
||||
The story was chased by US freelance <ent type = 'person'>Danny <ent type = 'person'>Casolaro</ent></ent>. A year
|
||||
after making himself known to the <ent type = 'person'>Inslaw</ent> people he was found dead
|
||||
in a motel room in West Virginia. The official verdict was suicide,
|
||||
but Elliott Richardson, the Attorney General under Nixon, hired by
|
||||
Inslaw to investigate the case, concluded: `It's hard to come up
|
||||
with any reason for Casolaro's death other than he was deliberately
|
||||
but <ent type = 'person'>Elliott Richardson</ent>, the Attorney General under <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>, hired by
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Inslaw</ent> to investigate the case, concluded: `It's hard to come up
|
||||
with any reason for <ent type = 'person'>Casolaro</ent>'s death other than he was deliberately
|
||||
murdered because he was so close to uncovering sinister elements in
|
||||
what he called `the Octopus'.' Believability: 7/10</p>
|
||||
what he called `the Octopus'.' <ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 7/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Q IS FOR CARROLL QUIGLEY, the granddaddy of all modern American
|
||||
conspiracists. Quigley's 1,340-page volume Tragedy And Hope "
|
||||
conspiracists. <ent type = 'person'>Quigley</ent>'s 1,340-page volume Tragedy And Hope "
|
||||
History Of The World In Our Time (1966) included a dozen pages on
|
||||
the existence of a hitherto unknown secret society, run by Alfred,
|
||||
Lord Milner, Lloyd George's Chef de Cabinet, funded by Cecil
|
||||
Rhodes's estate. The group, said Quigley, who claimed to have
|
||||
Rhodes's estate. The group, said <ent type = 'person'>Quigley</ent>, who claimed to have
|
||||
access to its papers, organised the Round Table groups in the
|
||||
Commonwealth, the Royal Institute For International Affairs in
|
||||
London and its counterpart in the US betwen the wars.
|
||||
@ -384,19 +384,19 @@ London and its counterpart in the US betwen the wars.
|
||||
were proof, from an `insider', of the great conspiracy they had
|
||||
always suspected. Not the communists, not the Jews, not even the
|
||||
Illuminati, but the Perpetual Hidden Government " the PHG!
|
||||
Quigley's revelations are behind much of the recent talk of One
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Quigley</ent>'s revelations are behind much of the recent talk of One
|
||||
Worlders and New World Orders and are part of Republican
|
||||
presidential hopeful Pat Robertson's world view. Among Quigley's
|
||||
students at Georgetown University was Bill Clinton, and the
|
||||
conspiracists got quite excited when President Clinton referred to
|
||||
the impact Quigley made on him in his inauguration speech.
|
||||
Believability: 4/10</p>
|
||||
presidential hopeful Pat Robertson's world view. Among <ent type = 'person'>Quigley</ent>'s
|
||||
students at Georgetown University was <ent type = 'person'>Bill <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent></ent>, and the
|
||||
conspiracists got quite excited when President <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> referred to
|
||||
the impact <ent type = 'person'>Quigley</ent> made on him in his inauguration speech.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 4/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> R IS FOR JAMES RUSBRIDGER, killed and framed as a sex pervert by
|
||||
MI5. Rusbridger was a tremendous irritant to the security services.
|
||||
<p> R IS FOR <ent type = 'person'>JAMES RUSBRIDGER</ent>, killed and framed as a sex pervert by
|
||||
MI5. <ent type = 'person'>Rusbridger</ent> was a tremendous irritant to the security services.
|
||||
His letters to newspapers poured scorn on the Official Secrets Act;
|
||||
his books, such as The Intelligence Game, cast doubt on the
|
||||
official version of events. But where Rusbridger, aged 65 at the
|
||||
official version of events. But where <ent type = 'person'>Rusbridger</ent>, aged 65 at the
|
||||
time of his death, really annoyed the spooks was when he unearthed
|
||||
Britain's code-cracking secrets, in particular the story that the
|
||||
British had cracked Japanese naval codes in advance of the attack
|
||||
@ -409,20 +409,20 @@ His face was covered by a gas mask and he was also wearing a
|
||||
sou'wester. His body was suspended from two ropes, attached to
|
||||
shackles fastened to a piece of wood across the open loft hatch,
|
||||
and was surrounded by pictures of men and mainly black women in
|
||||
bondage. Consultant pathologist Dr Yasai Sivathondan said he died
|
||||
bondage. Consultant pathologist Dr <ent type = 'person'>Yasai Sivathondan</ent> said he died
|
||||
from asphyxia due to hanging `in keeping with a form of sexual
|
||||
strangulation'.
|
||||
His death occasioned a piece by Sunday Times reporter James
|
||||
Adams, whose own books boast of contacts with British intelligence.
|
||||
Adams quoted senior intelligence officials as saying Rusbridger
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Adams</ent>, whose own books boast of contacts with British intelligence.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Adams</ent> quoted senior intelligence officials as saying <ent type = 'person'>Rusbridger</ent>
|
||||
never had any connection with any branch of British intelligence:
|
||||
"His death was as much a fantasy as his life,' said one source . .
|
||||
. Rusbridger's interest in intelligence seems to have coincided
|
||||
. <ent type = 'person'>Rusbridger</ent>'s interest in intelligence seems to have coincided
|
||||
with his conviction for theft in 1977.' Such an extensive
|
||||
posthumous demolition job by intelligence officials would perhaps
|
||||
only be merited by someone who had been a serious thorn in their
|
||||
side.
|
||||
Believability: 7/10</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 7/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> S IS FOR THE SUICIDES OF THE SCIENTISTS WHO WORKED FOR MARCONI.
|
||||
In 1988 a host of brilliant researchers working for the defence
|
||||
@ -442,54 +442,54 @@ employer.
|
||||
When the numbers are crunched, there is no statistical
|
||||
aberration in the number of suicides by Marconi scientists. It is
|
||||
too good a story for a newspaper to kill, however.
|
||||
Believability: 0/10</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 0/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> U IS FOR THE UNIFIED CONSPIRACY THEORY, or the Grand Unified
|
||||
Conspiracy Theory, which knits all the other conspiracy theories
|
||||
into a coherent tapestry.
|
||||
Believability: 1/10</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 1/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> V IS FOR VATICAN, which knocks off the popes it doesn't like.
|
||||
The markedly short reign of John Paul I has given rise to this
|
||||
The markedly short reign of <ent type = 'person'>John Paul</ent> I has given rise to this
|
||||
particular crock of conjecture.
|
||||
Old men can die quite quickly, even if they are popes. However,
|
||||
rumours persist in the Vatican than John Paul I was going to clean
|
||||
rumours persist in the Vatican than <ent type = 'person'>John Paul</ent> I was going to clean
|
||||
out the Augean stables of the pontiff's finances and expose the
|
||||
scandalous links between the Mafia, the freemasons and senior
|
||||
cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church.
|
||||
Believability: 2/10</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 2/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> W IS FOR COLIN WALLACE, who was forced to resign from the
|
||||
Ministry of Defence in 1975 when he leaked information about a
|
||||
covert MI5 operation, `Clockwork Orange'. Wallace, an Ulsterman,
|
||||
covert MI5 operation, `Clockwork Orange'. <ent type = 'person'>Wallace</ent>, an <ent type = 'person'>Ulsterman</ent>,
|
||||
claimed he had been involved in the operation, which had been
|
||||
designed to destabilise paramilitary organisations in the Province
|
||||
through disinformation. Wallace alleged that the scope of the
|
||||
through disinformation. <ent type = 'person'>Wallace</ent> alleged that the scope of the
|
||||
operation had been extended to include mainland politicians viewed
|
||||
as `politically soft or leftist', a list which included Harold
|
||||
Wilson, Edward Heath and Jeremy Thorpe. Wallace claims it was in
|
||||
Wilson, Edward Heath and Jeremy Thorpe. <ent type = 'person'>Wallace</ent> claims it was in
|
||||
his remit to discredit these `targets' using unfounded smear
|
||||
stories about sexual impropriety.
|
||||
He also alleged, in a memo to army chiefs, that a Belfast boys'
|
||||
home named Kincora was being used as a homosexual trap for
|
||||
intelligence gathering against prominent Unionist politicians. In
|
||||
1990 an inquiry conducted by James Calcutt QC found Wallace's
|
||||
1990 an inquiry conducted by <ent type = 'person'>James Calcutt QC</ent> found <ent type = 'person'>Wallace</ent>'s
|
||||
dismissal to be unsafe and ordered the Ministry to award him
|
||||
pounds 30,000 in compensation. The inquiry was not, however,
|
||||
empowered to make any judgment on Wallace's allegations.
|
||||
Believability: 7/10</p>
|
||||
empowered to make any judgment on <ent type = 'person'>Wallace</ent>'s allegations.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 7/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> X IS FOR MR X, the third man who allegedly went to bed with two
|
||||
senior Conservative politicians, now in the Cabinet, all at the
|
||||
same time. This is a conspiracy theory never to be told.
|
||||
Believability: 10/10</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 10/10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Y IS FOR YAKUZA, the Japanese mafia who run the world. The
|
||||
Yakuza are the world's richest and most powerful gangsters. They
|
||||
control many of the big-name Japanese corporations that now have
|
||||
huge leverage in the major western economies. Nothing can be done
|
||||
to loosen the grip of the Yakuza on the world economy.
|
||||
Believability: 8/10
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 8/10
|
||||
|
||||
Z IS FOR THE ZAGREB OPERATION, when the NKVD inducted Robert
|
||||
Maxwell as a Soviet double agent. Maxwell was never clear about how
|
||||
@ -508,5 +508,5 @@ came across the truth when they bought up a senior KGB archivist
|
||||
who sold them the Operation Zagreb file. Maxwell " who Mossad
|
||||
thought had been working for them " was terminated by a crack unit
|
||||
of Israeli frogmen.
|
||||
Believability: 6/10
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Believability</ent>: 6/10
|
||||
</p></xml>
|
@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ malignant. Does this strike you as being a peculiar goal for a health
|
||||
organization?
|
||||
|
||||
Sometimes Americans believe in conspiracies and sometimes the don't.
|
||||
Was there a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy? Twenty five years later
|
||||
Was there a conspiracy to kill President <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>? Twenty five years later
|
||||
the debate still continues, and people keep changing there minds. One day
|
||||
it's yes and the next it's no - depending upon what was served for lunch,
|
||||
or how the stock market did the day before.
|
||||
@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ National Cancer Institute, and the AIDS epidemic.
|
||||
|
||||
But what about the green monkey? Some of the best virologist in the
|
||||
world and many of those directly involved in AIDS research, such as
|
||||
Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier, have said that the green monkey may be
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Robert Gallo</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Luc Montagnier</ent>, have said that the green monkey may be
|
||||
the culprit. You know the story: A green monkey bit a native on the ass
|
||||
and, bam - AIDS all over central Africa.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ drug addicts, and through high multiple partner sexual activity such as
|
||||
takes place in Africa and among homosexuals. After repeated transfer it
|
||||
can become a " natural " infection for man, which it has.
|
||||
|
||||
Dr. Theodore Strecker's research of the literature indicates that
|
||||
Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Theodore <ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent></ent>'s research of the literature indicates that
|
||||
the National Cancer Institute ( NCI ) in collaboration with the WHO,
|
||||
made the AIDS virus in there laboratories at Fort Detrick ( now NCI ).
|
||||
They combined the deadly retro-viruses Bovine-Leukemia Virus and Sheep
|
||||
@ -115,14 +115,14 @@ Detrick, Maryland against the free world, expecially the United States,
|
||||
even using foreign communist agents within the US Army's germ warfare
|
||||
unit euphamistically called the Army Infectious Disease Unit.
|
||||
|
||||
You don't believe it? Carlton Gajdusek, an NIH bigshot at Detrick
|
||||
You don't believe it? <ent type = 'person'>Carlton Gajdusek</ent>, an NIH bigshot at Detrick
|
||||
admits it. " IN THE FACILITY I HAVE A BUILDING WHERE MORE GOOD AND
|
||||
LOYAL COMMUNIST SCIENTISTS FROM THE USSR AND MAINLAND CHINA WORK, WITH
|
||||
FULL PASSKEYS TO ALL THE LABORATORIES, THAN THERE ARE AMERICAN. EVEN THE
|
||||
ARMY'S INFECTIOUS DISEASE UNIT IS LOADED WITH FOREIGN WORKERS NOT ALWAYS
|
||||
FRIENDLY NATIONALS."
|
||||
|
||||
Can you imagine that? A UN-WHO communist trogan horse in our
|
||||
Can you imagine that? A UN-WHO communist <ent type = 'person'>trogan</ent> horse in our
|
||||
biological warfare center with the full blessing of the US government?
|
||||
|
||||
The creation of the AIDS virus by the WHO was not just a diabolical
|
||||
@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ sites chosen in 1972 were Ugunda and other African sites, Haiti, Brazil
|
||||
and Japan. The present and recent past of AIDS epidemiology coincides
|
||||
with these geographical areas.
|
||||
|
||||
Dr. Strecker points out that even if the African green monkey could
|
||||
Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent> points out that even if the African green monkey could
|
||||
transmit AIDS to humans, the present known amount of infection in Africa
|
||||
makes it statistically impossible for a single episode, such as a monkey
|
||||
biting someone, to have brought this epidemic to this point. The doubling
|
||||
@ -162,13 +162,13 @@ etc...In 15 years, from a single source of infection there would be about
|
||||
8000 cases in Africa, not 75 million. We are approaching World War II
|
||||
mortality statistics here - without a shot being fired.
|
||||
|
||||
Dr. Theodore A. Strecker is the courageous doctor who has unraveled
|
||||
Dr. Theodore A. <ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent> is the courageous doctor who has unraveled
|
||||
this conundrum, the greatest murder mystery of all time. He should get
|
||||
the Nobel Prize but he'll be lucky not to get "suicided." ( "Prominent
|
||||
California doctor ties his hands behind his back, hangs himself, and
|
||||
jumps from 20th floor. There was no evidence of foul play." )
|
||||
|
||||
Strecker was employed as a consultant to work on a health proposal
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent> was employed as a consultant to work on a health proposal
|
||||
for Security Pacific Bank. He was to estimate the cost of their health
|
||||
care for the future. Should they form an HMO was the major issue. After
|
||||
investigating the current medical market he advised against the HMO because
|
||||
@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ human cells in a laboratory, did they say it was " bad science " when
|
||||
thats exactly what occurred?
|
||||
|
||||
As early as 1970 the WHO was growing these deadly animal viruses in
|
||||
human tissue cultures. Cedric Mims, in 1981, said in a published article
|
||||
human tissue cultures. <ent type = 'person'>Cedric Mims</ent>, in 1981, said in a published article
|
||||
that there was a bovive virus contaminating the culture media of th WHO.
|
||||
Was this an accident or a "non-accident"? If it was an accident then why
|
||||
did the WHO continue to use the vaccine?
|
||||
@ -198,10 +198,10 @@ did the WHO continue to use the vaccine?
|
||||
It was given to monkeys and they died of pneumocystis carni which is
|
||||
typical of AIDS.
|
||||
|
||||
Dr. R. J. Biggar said in Lancet ( a Brittish journal ) that the AIDS
|
||||
Dr. R. J. <ent type = 'person'>Biggar</ent> said in Lancet ( a Brittish journal ) that the AIDS
|
||||
agent could not have developed de novo. That means in plain english that
|
||||
it didn't come out of thin air. AIDS was engineered in a laboratory by
|
||||
virologists. It couldn't engineer itself. As Dr. Stricker so colorfully
|
||||
virologists. It couldn't engineer itself. As Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Stricker</ent> so colorfully
|
||||
puts it: " If a person has no arms or legs and shows up at a party in a
|
||||
tuxedo, how did he get dressed? Somebody dressed him. "
|
||||
|
||||
@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ experimental animals maybe it is appropriate.
|
||||
The London Times should be congratulated for uncovering the smallpox-
|
||||
AIDS connection. But there expose was very misleading. The article states
|
||||
that the African AIDS epidemic was caused by the smallpox vaccine
|
||||
"triggering" the AIDS in those vaccinated. Dr. Robert Gallo, who has been
|
||||
"triggering" the AIDS in those vaccinated. Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Robert Gallo</ent>, who has been
|
||||
mixed up in some very strange scientific snafus, supports this theory.
|
||||
Whether the infection of 75 million Africians was deliberate or
|
||||
accidental can be debated, but there is no room for debate whether the
|
||||
@ -309,20 +309,20 @@ in 1967 with their deadly AIDS-laced vaccine. The AIDS virus didn't come
|
||||
from Africa, it came from Fort Detrick, Maryland, U.S.A.
|
||||
|
||||
The situation is extremely desperate and the medical profession is
|
||||
too frightened and cowed (as usual) to take any action. Dr. Strecker
|
||||
too frightened and cowed (as usual) to take any action. Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent>
|
||||
attempted to mobilize the doctors through some of the most respected
|
||||
medical journals in the world. The prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine
|
||||
said that his material "appears to be entirely concerned with maters of
|
||||
virology" and so try some other publication.
|
||||
|
||||
In his letter to The Annals, Strecker said, "If correct human
|
||||
In his letter to The Annals, <ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent> said, "If correct human
|
||||
experimental procedures had been followed we would not find half of the
|
||||
world stumbling off on the wrong path to the cure for AIDS with the other
|
||||
half of the world covering up the origination of the dammed disease. It
|
||||
appears to me that your Annals of Internal Medicine is participating in
|
||||
the greatest fraud ever perpetrated."
|
||||
|
||||
I guess they didn't like that so Stricker submitted his sensational
|
||||
I guess they didn't like that so <ent type = 'person'>Stricker</ent> submitted his sensational
|
||||
and mind-boggling letter with all of the proper documentation to the
|
||||
British journal, Lancet. Their reply : " Thank you for that interesting
|
||||
|
||||
@ -331,14 +331,14 @@ publish it. We have no criticism" but their letter section was " over
|
||||
crowded with submissions ".
|
||||
|
||||
They're too crowded to announce the end of western civilization and
|
||||
possibly all mandkind? Doesn't seem reasonable. What can we do? The first
|
||||
possibly all <ent type = 'person'>mandkind</ent>? Doesn't seem reasonable. What can we do? The first
|
||||
thing that should be done is to close down all laboratories in this
|
||||
country that are dealing with these deadly retro-viruses. Then we must
|
||||
sort out the insane, irresponsible and traitorous scientists involved
|
||||
in these experiments and try them for murder. Then maybe, just ,maybe, we
|
||||
can re-populate and re-civilize the world.
|
||||
|
||||
William Campbell Douglass, M.D.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>William Campbell</ent> Douglass, M.D.
|
||||
P.O. Box 38 Lakemont, GA 30552
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -8,40 +8,40 @@ New Dawn, GPO Box 3126FF, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.</p>
|
||||
<p>Shocking Revelations on AIDS Research by Our North American
|
||||
Correspondent</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, national spokesman for Minister Louis
|
||||
Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, dropped a bombshell on the
|
||||
<p>Dr. Abdul <ent type = 'person'>Alim</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent>, national spokesman for Minister Louis
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Farrakhan</ent> and the Nation of Islam, dropped a bombshell on the
|
||||
nation's capital at a mass rally held at All Souls Unitarian
|
||||
Church on September 8. Although the event had been planned for
|
||||
some time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Washington,
|
||||
D.C. ministry of Dr. Muhammad, he turned the event into a report
|
||||
D.C. ministry of Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent>, he turned the event into a report
|
||||
on his recent fact-finding mission to the African nation of Kenya.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Dr. Muhammad startled the standing-room-only audience when he
|
||||
<p>Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> startled the standing-room-only audience when he
|
||||
announced that a research team working out of the Kenyan Medical
|
||||
Research Institute, led by the Harvard-trained immunologist Dr.
|
||||
David Koech, had made dramatic advances in the treatment of AIDS.
|
||||
Dr. Muhammad also charged that the U.S. government was leading a
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>David <ent type = 'person'>Koech</ent></ent>, had made dramatic advances in the treatment of AIDS.
|
||||
Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> also charged that the U.S. government was leading a
|
||||
major effort by the international medical establishment to
|
||||
suppress this groundbreaking research.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Among those who packed the church to hear Dr. Muhammad speak on
|
||||
<p>Among those who packed the church to hear Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> speak on
|
||||
the theme "Can We Survive Genocide," were clergy from several
|
||||
denominations along the East Coast, civil rights leaders,
|
||||
community activists, leaders of the Nation of Islam, elected
|
||||
officials and political leaders from Maryland, Virginia, and the
|
||||
District of Columbia, and hundreds of ordinary citizens. The
|
||||
introduction of Washington's former Mayor Marion Barry - the man
|
||||
on whom the Bush administration spent millions to remove him from
|
||||
introduction of Washington's former Mayor <ent type = 'person'>Marion Barry</ent> - the man
|
||||
on whom the <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> administration spent millions to remove him from
|
||||
office - brought the house to its feet in an extended ovation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A Policy of Genocide</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In his remarks, Dr. Muhammad quoted extensively from a 1985
|
||||
article authored by Lyndon LaRouche, "The Looming Extinction of
|
||||
<p>In his remarks, Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> quoted extensively from a 1985
|
||||
article authored by <ent type = 'person'>Lyndon LaRouche</ent>, "The Looming Extinction of
|
||||
the 'White Race'". In that piece, LaRouche documents that the
|
||||
imperial policies intrinsic to oligarchism have set into motion
|
||||
the self-destruction of the population levels and economies of
|
||||
those "white" nations that have complicitly tolerated oligarchical
|
||||
those "white" nations that have <ent type = 'person'>complicitly</ent> tolerated oligarchical
|
||||
policies - most specifically the United States and Great Britain.
|
||||
LaRouche states that since what the oligarchs call the "Great
|
||||
White Race" is dying out at an accelerating rate, and threatening
|
||||
@ -51,37 +51,37 @@ genocide directed against people of colour; a genocide consciously
|
||||
implemented through the conditionalities policies of the
|
||||
International Monetary Fund (IMF).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"That," Dr. Muhammad charged, "is one of the reasons they've got
|
||||
<p>"That," Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> charged, "is one of the reasons they've got
|
||||
him locked up; because he's got the guts to tell the truth."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Dr. Muhammad went on to present extensive evidence that the policy
|
||||
<p>Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> went on to present extensive evidence that the policy
|
||||
of deliberate genocide is fully operational. He described the
|
||||
CIA's support for the cause of population control during George
|
||||
Bush's tenure as Director of Central Intelligence, and reported
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s tenure as Director of Central Intelligence, and reported
|
||||
the contents of National Security Memorandum 200, written during
|
||||
the Ford administration, which advised that the preservation of
|
||||
U.S. political and commercial interests "will require that the
|
||||
President and Secretary of State treat the subject of population
|
||||
growth control in the third world as a matter of paramount
|
||||
importance...." To the amazement of the audience, Muhammad
|
||||
identified the authors of the internal memo as Henry Kissinger and
|
||||
Gen. Brent Scowcroft, now Bush's national security adviser. (See
|
||||
importance...." To the amazement of the audience, <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent>
|
||||
identified the authors of the internal memo as <ent type = 'person'>Henry Kissinger</ent> and
|
||||
Gen. Brent Scowcroft, now <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s national security adviser. (See
|
||||
The New Dawn Vol.1 No.1, May, 1991)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Dr. Muhammad used the case of Brazil, which has the second largest
|
||||
<p>Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> used the case of Brazil, which has the second largest
|
||||
black population in the world, to prove that the memorandum was
|
||||
being implemented. "Today in Brazil, 40% of the women of
|
||||
childbearing age have been surgically sterilized with funds
|
||||
provided by the USAID," he said, "and 90% of those sterilized
|
||||
women are black."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>He insisted that this genocide was the real agenda of Bush's New
|
||||
<p>He insisted that this genocide was the real agenda of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s New
|
||||
World Order; that it not only motivated the invasion of Panama and
|
||||
the kidnapping of Gen. Manuel Noriega, but also the continuing
|
||||
the kidnapping of Gen. <ent type = 'person'>Manuel Noriega</ent>, but also the continuing
|
||||
murder of the nation of Iraq. He told the audience that these were
|
||||
just the opening battles in the war of the advanced sector nations
|
||||
of the North against the developing nations of the South. Dr.
|
||||
Muhammad denounced George Bush as a wicked man who cherished his
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> denounced George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> as a wicked man who cherished his
|
||||
membership in the satanic secret society Skull and Bones. He
|
||||
reminded the audience that the "skull and bones" was also the
|
||||
emblem on the flag flown by the slave traders who raided Africa,
|
||||
@ -90,30 +90,30 @@ as well as of the latter day pirates.</p>
|
||||
<p>AIDS and 'population control'</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Given the Anglo-American establishment's commitment to mass
|
||||
murder, the effort to suppress the promising research of Dr. Koech
|
||||
murder, the effort to suppress the promising research of Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Koech</ent>
|
||||
and his colleagues should come as no surprise to anyone, the
|
||||
Nation of Islam leader said. In fact, he contended, there is
|
||||
substantial evidence to indicate that AIDS was developed as a
|
||||
race-specific population control measure. Dr. Muhammad ridiculed
|
||||
race-specific population control measure. Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> ridiculed
|
||||
the theory that AIDS originated when the virus made a species jump
|
||||
from the African green monkey to the African population. "We lived
|
||||
with the green monkey for thousands of years and never had any
|
||||
problems. The green monkey isn't our enemy. The IMF is."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Dr. Muhammad, who is a trained surgeon, said he traveled to Kenya
|
||||
<p>Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent>, who is a trained surgeon, said he traveled to Kenya
|
||||
to see for himself what the alpha interferon derivative, which
|
||||
goes under the trade name Kemron, was really all about. Dr.
|
||||
Muhammad reported that he interviewed the research team in their
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> reported that he interviewed the research team in their
|
||||
laboratory, was permitted to review their data, and to examine
|
||||
AIDS patients currently undergoing treatment with Kemron and with
|
||||
a new, more advanced form of Kemron, the drug Immunex, which
|
||||
contains a greater number of alpha interferon components than the
|
||||
original drug. Dr. Muhammad stressed that although the new drug
|
||||
original drug. Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> stressed that although the new drug
|
||||
was only a treatment and not a cure for the deadly HIV virus, he
|
||||
was tremendously hopeful and encouraged by the dramatic
|
||||
improvement in the condition of those undergoing treatment.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Dr. Muhammad introduced Dr. Barbara Justice, a well-known New York
|
||||
<p>Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> introduced Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Barbara Justice</ent>, a well-known New York
|
||||
City-based cancer surgeon who has sent 54 AIDS patients to Kenya
|
||||
for treatment over the past year. Dr. Justice reported that 97% of
|
||||
her patients showed marked improvement within weeks of beginning
|
||||
@ -124,21 +124,21 @@ normalcy in their ability to function.</p>
|
||||
administering Kemron on an experimental basis in the to assess the
|
||||
work of the Kenyan team, which has been treatment of AIDS since
|
||||
1989, since it has been systematically blacked out of the
|
||||
scientific literature. Dr. Koech was to present his data, first at
|
||||
scientific literature. Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Koech</ent> was to present his data, first at
|
||||
the International AIDS Conference in the United States in 1987,
|
||||
and then again at the 1991 AIDS Conference in Italy. On both
|
||||
occasions, his invitation was inexplicably withdrawn.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Last year, Dr. Koech decided to take his data directly to the U.S.
|
||||
<p>Last year, Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Koech</ent> decided to take his data directly to the U.S.
|
||||
medical community, and an extensive U.S. lecture tour was planned.
|
||||
That tour was abruptly cancelled when the State Department refused
|
||||
to issue Dr. Koech the necessary permission to enter the United
|
||||
to issue Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Koech</ent> the necessary permission to enter the United
|
||||
States.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>This is certainly not the first time that important AIDS research
|
||||
has been suppressed. Quite the contrary, it is part of a
|
||||
continuing criminal pattern of lies and cover-up. The importance
|
||||
of a rapid evaluation of Dr. Koech's work with Kemron and Immunex
|
||||
of a rapid evaluation of Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Koech</ent>'s work with Kemron and Immunex
|
||||
is obvious. Currently, the only treatment available to AIDS
|
||||
victims is the drug AZT; however, AZT therapy is prohibitively
|
||||
expensive and carries with it extremely destructive side effects,
|
||||
@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ AZT therapy is not only largely ineffective in the treatment of
|
||||
blacks, but that, in fact, AZT seems to aggravate symptoms in an
|
||||
alarming number of black patients.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Kenya's President Daniel Arap Moi clearly finds the Koech team's
|
||||
<p>Kenya's President <ent type = 'person'>Daniel Arap Moi</ent> clearly finds the <ent type = 'person'>Koech</ent> team's
|
||||
findings to be convincing. He recently announced that his
|
||||
government was building a factory to allow the mass production of
|
||||
alpha interferon.**</p>
|
||||
@ -192,18 +192,18 @@ label, announced "AIDS made in lab. shock." The front-page
|
||||
story said that the virus was created during laboratory
|
||||
experiments which "went disastrously wrong." It added that
|
||||
a massive cover-up had kept the secret from the world. The
|
||||
Sunday Express quoted a British expert, Dr. John Seale,
|
||||
Sunday Express quoted a British expert, Dr. <ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Seale</ent></ent>,
|
||||
who first reported his conclusion that the virus was
|
||||
man-made last August, 1986, in the Royal Society of
|
||||
Medicine Journal. He said that his report was met with a
|
||||
"deadly silence" from the medical profession, and that
|
||||
made him very suspicious. The editor of the Journal
|
||||
agreed, according to Dr. Seale, that "it sounded like a
|
||||
agreed, according to Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Seale</ent>, that "it sounded like a
|
||||
conspiracy of silence." The second expert quoted by the
|
||||
Sunday Express, was Prof. Jacob Segal, retired Director of
|
||||
Sunday Express, was Prof. <ent type = 'person'>Jacob <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent></ent>, retired Director of
|
||||
the Institute of Biology in Berlin. It said, "our
|
||||
investigators have revealed that two U.S. Embassy
|
||||
officials made a two-hour visit to Prof. Segal at his home
|
||||
officials made a two-hour visit to Prof. <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent> at his home
|
||||
two weeks ago questioning him about what he knows, what he
|
||||
thinks, where he got his information, and what he intends
|
||||
doing with his report." The Professor told the reporters,
|
||||
@ -220,13 +220,13 @@ were unaware of the extent of their terrible creation -
|
||||
the AIDS virus.
|
||||
WHO Involvement?
|
||||
The third expert quoted in the Sunday Express was Dr.
|
||||
Robert Strecker, an internist and gastroentarologist from
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Robert <ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent></ent>, an internist and gastroentarologist from
|
||||
Glendale, California, who stated "it must have been
|
||||
genetically engineered." Strecker believes, after years of
|
||||
genetically engineered." <ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent> believes, after years of
|
||||
exhaustive research, that the AIDS virus is indeed
|
||||
man-made. Strecker has alleged that AIDS was engineered at
|
||||
man-made. <ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent> has alleged that AIDS was engineered at
|
||||
the request of the World Health Organisation and other
|
||||
scientific groups who, according to Strecker, injected the
|
||||
scientific groups who, according to <ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent>, injected the
|
||||
disease during preventative vaccines. WHO, he says, along
|
||||
with the International Agency for Research on Cancer and
|
||||
The National Institute on Health, requested the production
|
||||
@ -236,8 +236,8 @@ leukemia (found in cattle) and a sheep brain virus called
|
||||
visna. This new virus was given as vaccinations in Haiti,
|
||||
Brazil, Africa and the Caribbean by WHO in a 13-year
|
||||
campaign against smallpox in Third World nations, reports
|
||||
indicate. Strecker, in his 97-minute videotape, "The
|
||||
Strecker Memorandum," cites specific documentation
|
||||
indicate. <ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent>, in his 97-minute videotape, "The
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent> Memorandum," cites specific documentation
|
||||
supporting theories that AIDS is a result of that direct
|
||||
request. For example, from Volume 47 of Bulletin of the
|
||||
World Health Organisation (1972), page 259: "The effects
|
||||
@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ unsuspected, dormant human immuno defense virus infection
|
||||
(HIV)." Vaccinia was the actual vaccine given as smallpox
|
||||
deterrents during the WHO project. Were the AIDS
|
||||
infections intentional, accidental or coincidence?
|
||||
According to Strecker in his "Memorandum," a key part of
|
||||
According to <ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent> in his "Memorandum," a key part of
|
||||
the actual study "was to be the time relationship between
|
||||
infection and antigen administration," which suggests WHO
|
||||
officials - and other agencies who were directly dependent
|
||||
@ -268,31 +268,31 @@ story (the Sunday Express article) was invented by the
|
||||
Russians "to smear the Americans," and recalled that it
|
||||
had appeared in the Soviet journal, Literary Gazette. It
|
||||
said this paper based its report on the Patriot - and that
|
||||
the Patriot report did not exist! Professor Segal
|
||||
the Patriot report did not exist! Professor <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>
|
||||
describes as "ludicrous and scientifically incredible" the
|
||||
theory that the virus came from African green monkeys. One
|
||||
thing is certain: the controversy surrounding the AIDS
|
||||
virus will not die.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A Weapon Against Black People?
|
||||
Zear Miles, a Black industrial engineer, who has studied
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Zear <ent type = 'person'>Miles</ent></ent>, a Black industrial engineer, who has studied
|
||||
the AIDS virus and its origins for about six years has
|
||||
stated that he has proof from various documentation and
|
||||
letters from other AIDS researchers to prove that the
|
||||
virus was made in an American military lab as a means to
|
||||
suppress Blacks. In his document entitled "Rape Africa",
|
||||
Miles researched the origin of the AIDS virus from 1952,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Miles</ent> researched the origin of the AIDS virus from 1952,
|
||||
when the federal government had enough blood types and
|
||||
characteristics of every nationality in the world up to
|
||||
the King Alfred plan which called for the extinction of
|
||||
Blacks in national security emergencies. Miles learned
|
||||
Blacks in national security emergencies. <ent type = 'person'>Miles</ent> learned
|
||||
that through National Security Council Memorandum 46,
|
||||
dated 1978, which called for a possible way to gauge and
|
||||
control the impact of the growing Black movement, the
|
||||
government was researching possible ways to suppress Black
|
||||
hostility toward the authorities. Later called the King
|
||||
Alfred plan, the scheme called for the extinction of
|
||||
Blacks by the year 2000 with an AIDS-like virus. Miles
|
||||
Blacks by the year 2000 with an AIDS-like virus. <ent type = 'person'>Miles</ent>
|
||||
said he also gauged the increasing number of AIDS cases in
|
||||
which the number of Black contractors have gone up
|
||||
significantly compared with Whites, citing that the AIDS
|
||||
@ -335,12 +335,12 @@ defence." A precise description of AIDS. The British
|
||||
Observer, on June 30, 1968, quoted from an article in the
|
||||
Journal of General Microbiology by W.D. Lawton of Fort
|
||||
Detrick, and R.C. Morris and T.W. Burrows of the British
|
||||
microbiological research station at Porton. One paragraph
|
||||
microbiological research station at <ent type = 'person'>Porton</ent>. One paragraph
|
||||
said, "By engineering the genetics of individual strains,
|
||||
microbiologists aim to produce a single strain containing
|
||||
the most deadly combination of properties." Again, a
|
||||
description of AIDS. The article says that at that time
|
||||
Porton, according to the government, was concerned only
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Porton</ent>, according to the government, was concerned only
|
||||
with defence applications of research, but Fort Detrick
|
||||
was only committed to developing microbiological weapons
|
||||
for offence. The Japanese carried out germ warfare
|
||||
@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ banning biological weapons, and it came into force in
|
||||
1972. In its first review conference in 1980, it was
|
||||
reported that 80 countries had ratified. But there is no
|
||||
provision in the Convention to ban research or for
|
||||
verification. Nichola Sims, who has written a book on
|
||||
verification. <ent type = 'person'>Nichola Sims</ent>, who has written a book on
|
||||
biological disarmament, wrote recently, "the failure of
|
||||
the Convention to impose any restrictions even on
|
||||
'offensive' biological warfare research, has been
|
||||
@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ research on the question in any country." But so far there
|
||||
is no inspection or verification. A much more recent
|
||||
accusation against the United States for the manufacturing
|
||||
of the AIDS virus comes from the Libyan UN Ambassador, Mr.
|
||||
Ali Ahmed Elhouderi. On January 9, 1992, at a press
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Ali Ahmed Elhouderi</ent>. On January 9, 1992, at a press
|
||||
conference, he stated that the AIDS virus was produced in
|
||||
a laboratory probably as a weapon. He said, "We think it
|
||||
is man-made and it was done in laboratories. And it was
|
||||
@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ crime, the military authorities artificially cause a landslide
|
||||
that buries the town and doom chance survivors to lifelong
|
||||
isolation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>This is the plot of Vector, a novel by Henry Sutton, an
|
||||
<p>This is the plot of Vector, a novel by <ent type = 'person'>Henry Sutton</ent>, an
|
||||
American author. This book is based on dramatic events
|
||||
during which the victims were fortunately not people but
|
||||
animals. March 14-20, 1968 was a black week for American
|
||||
@ -451,9 +451,9 @@ one of the tanks (or so the version ran), and besides, the
|
||||
direction of the wind varied, with the result that part of
|
||||
the nerve gas was carried beyond the proving ground. A
|
||||
cloud of aerosol VX allegedly contaminated pasturelands on
|
||||
an area of 400-500 sq. km. Skull Valley was not the only
|
||||
an area of 400-500 sq. <ent type = 'person'>km</ent>. Skull Valley was not the only
|
||||
area where sheep died, for a cloud of aerosol VX reached
|
||||
Res Valley, killing sheep 70 km away from where the poison
|
||||
Res Valley, killing sheep 70 <ent type = 'person'>km</ent> away from where the poison
|
||||
gas had been released. Anyone who has read publications
|
||||
dealing with the accident in Skull Valley and Res Valley
|
||||
is bound to detect a contradiction between the military
|
||||
@ -496,8 +496,8 @@ killed. No such effect is possible where the VX
|
||||
contamination level is 0.02 gram per hectare. A
|
||||
publication put out by the Dugway proving ground said that
|
||||
during the test on March 13, 1968, the greatest distance
|
||||
at which VX drops spilled on the ground had been 5.4 km
|
||||
and not 70 km, as the official version would have it. The
|
||||
at which VX drops spilled on the ground had been 5.4 <ent type = 'person'>km</ent>
|
||||
and not 70 <ent type = 'person'>km</ent>, as the official version would have it. The
|
||||
Pentagon's information on one and the same fact varies
|
||||
from document to document and from period to period.
|
||||
Surely this shows that the version is false. A
|
||||
@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ killed sheep without affecting people. There were also
|
||||
other moot points. Why were the diseased sheep shot dead?
|
||||
Why was no attempt made to save them by evacuating them to
|
||||
an uncontaminated area or by treating them with atropine
|
||||
or other antidotes? Marr Fawcett, a veterinarian of Utah,
|
||||
or other antidotes? <ent type = 'person'>Marr Fawcett</ent>, a veterinarian of Utah,
|
||||
refused to believe that the sheep had been poisoned with
|
||||
VX, for in that case many of them could, in his opinion,
|
||||
have been saved by means of antidotes. Dr. Kent Van
|
||||
@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ later on someone saw to it that a videotape recording
|
||||
allegedly illustrating the Skull Valley accident was
|
||||
projected widely. The tape showed the death of a single
|
||||
sheep shaking with spasms as a group of civilians looked
|
||||
on. One year after the accident, Kent Van Kampen and Marr
|
||||
on. One year after the accident, <ent type = 'person'>Kent Van Kampen</ent> and Marr
|
||||
Fawcett contributed in collaboration with other experts of
|
||||
Utah an article to the Journal of the American Veterinary
|
||||
Medical Association setting out the causes and
|
||||
@ -542,11 +542,11 @@ version tallying with the Pentagon's. There was a footnote
|
||||
saying that in writing their article, the authors had
|
||||
enjoyed expert assistance (it is easy enough to guess what
|
||||
kind of assistance) in particular from Dr. Mortimer
|
||||
Rothenberg, the science director at Dugway, and Dr.
|
||||
Bernard MacNamara of Edgewood Arsenal, the chief U.S. Army
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Rothenberg</ent>, the science director at Dugway, and Dr.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bernard MacNamara</ent> of Edgewood Arsenal, the chief U.S. Army
|
||||
centre for the development of chemical and germ weapons.
|
||||
We might as well note at this point that shortly after the
|
||||
sheep's death in Skull Valley Dr. Rothenberg, trying to
|
||||
sheep's death in Skull Valley Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Rothenberg</ent>, trying to
|
||||
exonerate Dugway from blame for the accident, declared
|
||||
that the symptoms displayed by the sheep had nothing
|
||||
whatever in common with those of nerve gas poisoning. And
|
||||
@ -581,8 +581,8 @@ gas. The death of livestock so far away from the testing
|
||||
ground, as in the case of Skull Valley, could only be
|
||||
caused by a biological agent. Experts could establish
|
||||
without difficulty that nine litres of biological agent is
|
||||
enough to generate a pathogenic aerosol cloud five km
|
||||
long, two km deep and 100 m high. One litre of aerosol
|
||||
enough to generate a pathogenic aerosol cloud five <ent type = 'person'>km</ent>
|
||||
long, two <ent type = 'person'>km</ent> deep and 100 m high. One litre of aerosol
|
||||
cloud could contain several hundred units of pathogen.
|
||||
Such a cloud can sail many dozens of kilometres without
|
||||
losing its casualty effects. Consideration of the death
|
||||
@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ typical in the case of biological agents, for researchers
|
||||
are careful to preclude the disastrous impact of sunrays
|
||||
on pathogens. The year 1968, when the Skull Valley
|
||||
accident occurred, has gone down in history as the peak of
|
||||
U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam, Laos and Kampuchea. In
|
||||
U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam, Laos and <ent type = 'person'>Kampuchea</ent>. In
|
||||
thelate 1960s, the Pentagon worked at a frantic pace to
|
||||
develop new chemical and germ weapons. A report by the
|
||||
House Committee on Science and Astronautics said that in
|
||||
@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ development of germ weapons. No visna-caused diseases have
|
||||
been recorded among humans. This virus hardly affects
|
||||
cattle, horses or other animals. Its properties in this
|
||||
respect coincide entirely with those of the agent
|
||||
responsible for the Skull Valley accident in 1968. Visna
|
||||
responsible for the Skull Valley accident in 1968. <ent type = 'person'>Visna</ent>
|
||||
affects the central nervous system of sheep, robbing their
|
||||
body of immunity. The symptoms are progressive weakness,
|
||||
shortness of breath, a wobbly gait, sagging withers and a
|
||||
@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ explains why the epidemiological service of Utah did the
|
||||
right thing by deciding to slaughter the diseased sheep.
|
||||
No antidotes could have helped the animals in the least
|
||||
and were not used, either. If during the March 1968 tests
|
||||
at Dugway visna was used as a simultant modelling the
|
||||
at <ent type = 'person'>Dugway visna</ent> was used as a simultant modelling the
|
||||
properties of germ weapons, it is clear why the men who
|
||||
buried the dead sheep used no gas masks or protective
|
||||
clothes, since visna is harmless to man. And this invites
|
||||
@ -660,14 +660,14 @@ population of vitally important immunity at the threshold
|
||||
of a major or local armed conflict. The conclusion about
|
||||
the complicity of the U.S. military authorities in the
|
||||
appearance of AIDS, the new dangerous disease which
|
||||
affects humans, is shared by John Seale of Britain, Jacob
|
||||
Segal of Germany, Robert Strecker of the United States and
|
||||
affects humans, is shared by <ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Seale</ent></ent> of Britain, Jacob
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent> of Germany, <ent type = 'person'>Robert <ent type = 'person'>Strecker</ent></ent> of the United States and
|
||||
other noted scientists and experts who have carefully
|
||||
analysed available scientific data. [See New Dawn Vol.2,
|
||||
No.1] For the time being, they have discounted the events
|
||||
and facts connected with the Skull Valley accident.
|
||||
Nevertheless, they have come to the unanimous conclusion
|
||||
that in designing HIV visna was made use of. Dr. Seale has
|
||||
that in designing HIV visna was made use of. Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Seale</ent> has
|
||||
said that a scientist who wanted to evolve a virus capable
|
||||
of destroying man's immunity system and provoking a
|
||||
disease similar to AIDS would have to resort to visna.
|
||||
@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ military bases. Besides, AIDS was contracted in the United
|
||||
States by Australian and European tourists vacationing
|
||||
there. HIV spread to Middle East and other Arab countries
|
||||
which imported blood from donors stricken with AIDS. In
|
||||
October 1986, John Seale quoted during an interview with
|
||||
October 1986, <ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Seale</ent></ent> quoted during an interview with
|
||||
the Guardian an extract from a report prepared by the
|
||||
Pentagon in 1969. It said that in the next five to ten
|
||||
years an infective micro-organism might be evolved that
|
||||
@ -734,8 +734,8 @@ important of these is that it might be refractory to the
|
||||
immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we
|
||||
depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious
|
||||
disease." (See A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story
|
||||
of Chemical and Biological Warfare by R. Harris and J.
|
||||
Paxman, p.266, Hill and Wang, pubs.) The funds were
|
||||
of Chemical and Biological Warfare by R. <ent type = 'person'>Harris</ent> and J.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Paxman</ent>, p.266, Hill and Wang, pubs.) The funds were
|
||||
approved. AIDS appeared within the requested time frame,
|
||||
and has the exact characteristics specified. In 1972, the
|
||||
World Health Organisation published a similar proposal:
|
||||
@ -763,12 +763,12 @@ times as swiftly. And over 80% of the children with AIDS
|
||||
and 90% of infants born with it are among these
|
||||
minorities. "Ethnic weapons" that would strike certain
|
||||
racial groups more heavily than others have been a
|
||||
longstanding U.S. Army BW objective. (Harris and Paxman,
|
||||
longstanding U.S. Army BW objective. (<ent type = 'person'>Harris</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Paxman</ent>,
|
||||
p.265) Under the current U.S. administration biological
|
||||
warfare research spending has increased 500 percent,
|
||||
primarily in the area of genetic engineering of new
|
||||
disease organisms. The "discovery" of the AIDS virus
|
||||
(HTLV3) was announced by Dr. Robert Gallo at the National
|
||||
(HTLV3) was announced by Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Robert Gallo</ent> at the National
|
||||
Cancer Institute, which is on the grounds of Fort Detrick,
|
||||
Maryland, a primary U.S. Army biological warfare research
|
||||
facility. Actually, the AIDS virus looks and acts much
|
||||
@ -808,13 +808,13 @@ following WWII. U.S. military priorities were then
|
||||
reorientated from defeating Nazis to "defeating" communism
|
||||
at any cost, and strengthening military control of
|
||||
economic and foreign policy decisions. (See Project
|
||||
Paperclip by Clarence Lasby, Atheneum 214, NY, and Gehlen:
|
||||
Paperclip by <ent type = 'person'>Clarence Lasby</ent>, Atheneum 214, NY, and Gehlen:
|
||||
Spy of the Century by E.H. Cookridge, Random House.)
|
||||
There's no proof those Nazis ever gave up their longterm
|
||||
goals of conquest and genocide, just because they changed
|
||||
countries. Fascism was and is an international phenomenon.
|
||||
It's not as if this was a total reversal of previous U.S.
|
||||
military policy, however. Hitler claimed to have gotten
|
||||
military policy, however. <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> claimed to have gotten
|
||||
his inspiration for the "final solution" from the
|
||||
extermination of Native Americans in the U.S. For that
|
||||
matter the first example of germ warfare in the U.S. was
|
||||
@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ the Patriot newspaper in New Delhi, India, on July 4,
|
||||
1984. It is hard to say where the investigations of this
|
||||
story in the Indian press might have led, if they had not
|
||||
been sidetracked by two major domestic disasters shortly
|
||||
thereafter: the assassination of Indira Gandhi on Oct. 31
|
||||
thereafter: the assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Indira Gandhi</ent> on Oct. 31
|
||||
and the Bhopal Union Carbide plant "accident" that killed
|
||||
several thousand and injured over 200,000 on Dec. 3.
|
||||
Apparently, homosexuals were an initial target in the U.S.
|
||||
@ -890,38 +890,38 @@ then pretty much have to do something about it.</p>
|
||||
<p>Immunex</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The North American-based Nation of Islam (NOI) led by Minister
|
||||
Louis Farrakhan launched an offensive in its battle against the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Louis <ent type = 'person'>Farrakhan</ent></ent> launched an offensive in its battle against the
|
||||
deadly "man-made" AIDS virus during its recent Saviours' Day
|
||||
weekend. The following report is courtesy of The Final Call.
|
||||
|
||||
From the rostrum of Christ Universal Temple here, the
|
||||
Honorable Louis Farrakhan announced that the NOI has
|
||||
Honorable <ent type = 'person'>Louis <ent type = 'person'>Farrakhan</ent></ent> announced that the NOI has
|
||||
acquired exclusive distribution rights to the AIDS
|
||||
fighting drug Immunex, an oral alpha-interferon treatment
|
||||
developed in Kenya. "I just got a call from our chief of
|
||||
staff 3 minutes before I came on the rostrum," Minister
|
||||
Farrakhan said, regarding the confirmation of the Immunex
|
||||
agreement that came from Leonard Muhammad in Kenya. "The
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Farrakhan</ent> said, regarding the confirmation of the Immunex
|
||||
agreement that came from Leonard <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> in Kenya. "The
|
||||
Nation of Islam is announcing to you that we have the
|
||||
exclusive distribution rights of Immunex throughout the
|
||||
United States of America. "As of this day," he continued,
|
||||
"Min. Alim will still teach, but he is now the Minister of
|
||||
"Min. <ent type = 'person'>Alim</ent> will still teach, but he is now the Minister of
|
||||
Health and Human Services for the Nation of Islam." Dr.
|
||||
Alim told the cheering audience that the war against AIDS
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Alim</ent> told the cheering audience that the war against AIDS
|
||||
is being won but total victory will not come "until we
|
||||
deal with those responsible for making the AIDS virus."
|
||||
Since the early 1970s under the Nixon administration, he
|
||||
Since the early 1970s under the <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> administration, he
|
||||
said, the official policy of this government has been to
|
||||
commit genocide against non-white people around the earth.
|
||||
That policy continues under the administration of
|
||||
President George Bush, he said. Dr. Muhammad and former
|
||||
Final Call Editor-in-Chief Abdul Wali Muhammad were sent
|
||||
to Kenya by Minister Farrakhan last year on a fact-finding
|
||||
President George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>, he said. Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> and former
|
||||
Final Call Editor-in-Chief Abdul Wali <ent type = 'person'>Muhammad</ent> were sent
|
||||
to Kenya by Minister <ent type = 'person'>Farrakhan</ent> last year on a fact-finding
|
||||
tour regarding the drug Kemron. While there, the NOI
|
||||
representatives learned about Immunex. Both drugs have
|
||||
shown remarkable effects in relieving AIDS symptoms, but
|
||||
the drugs have received very little media coverage in the
|
||||
U.S. "We would like FDA approval," said Min. Farrakhan,
|
||||
U.S. "We would like FDA approval," said Min. <ent type = 'person'>Farrakhan</ent>,
|
||||
"however we can't wait. We will take any risk, bear any
|
||||
burden to free our people of a man-made disease designed
|
||||
to kill us all." The Minister added that the drug will be
|
||||
|
@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>
|
||||
Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
|
||||
Taken from <ent type = 'person'>KeelyNet</ent> BBS (214) 324-3501
|
||||
Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
|
||||
PO BOX 1031
|
||||
Mesquite, TX 75150</p>
|
||||
@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> AIDS as a Weapon of War</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> by Dr. William Campbell Douglas, M.D.</p>
|
||||
<p> by Dr. <ent type = 'person'>William Campbell</ent> Douglas, M.D.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Introduction & Comments by Jim Shults</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ABOUT THE AUTHOR</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> William Campbell Douglass, M.D.</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>William Campbell</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Douglass</ent>, M.D.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Age: 62</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
|
||||
Doctor of the
|
||||
Year: National Health Federation, 1985.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Dr. Douglass has studied in England with Dr. Katharina Dalton,
|
||||
<p> Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Douglass</ent> has studied in England with Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Katharina Dalton</ent>,
|
||||
discoverer of the premenstrual syndrome. He was one of the
|
||||
first doctors in the United States to diagnose and treat PMS.
|
||||
He opened his PMS Clinic in 1981.</p>
|
||||
@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> AIDS as a Weapon of War</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> William Campbell Douglass, M.D.</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>William Campbell</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Douglass</ent>, M.D.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The great powers renounced chemical and biological warfare 20
|
||||
years ago -- but kept right on experimenting. The germ warfare
|
||||
@ -178,14 +178,14 @@
|
||||
for over 20 years.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In a burst of brotherly love they were invited in by President
|
||||
Nixon. The astounded communist scientists from Russia, the Eastern
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>. The astounded communist scientists from Russia, the Eastern
|
||||
Bloc and Communist china, who had been trying to penetrate this
|
||||
vital security area for 40 years, quickly accepted.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> They have been snickering in their beakers ever since, while
|
||||
they prepare for our demise.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "It's no secret that they are there," Dr. Carlton Gajdusek,
|
||||
<p> "It's no secret that they are there," Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Carlton Gajdusek</ent>,
|
||||
Nobel Prize winner, a top official at the Fort Detrick Army
|
||||
laboratory in Maryland, said in Onmi Magazine (March 1986): "In
|
||||
the facility I have a building where more good and loyal communist
|
||||
@ -236,9 +236,9 @@
|
||||
<p> 3. Genetically, AIDS (HIV-1) is not even close to the monkey form
|
||||
of immunodeficiency virus.
|
||||
[Ed. Note: For references on the three items above,
|
||||
see: Seale, Dr. John J.,
|
||||
see: <ent type = 'person'>Seale</ent>, Dr. <ent type = 'person'>John J</ent>.,
|
||||
Royal Society of Medicine, Sept. 1987,
|
||||
Seale, Dr. John J.,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Seale</ent>, Dr. <ent type = 'person'>John J</ent>.,
|
||||
The Origin of AIDS -- International
|
||||
Conference on AIDS, Cairo, March 1988.]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
|
||||
Iceland, but no other animal was affected.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The virologists deny that the AIDS virus, HIV-1, is of animal
|
||||
origin. I am sure that you see the paradox here. Aren't monkeys
|
||||
origin. I am sure that you see the paradox here. <ent type = 'person'>Aren</ent>'t monkeys
|
||||
animals?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> They are also united in saying that it's not possible for the
|
||||
@ -303,7 +303,7 @@
|
||||
appearance.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> But the scientists hold fast in their denial of culpability.
|
||||
Professor William Jarrett said, when asked about the possibility of
|
||||
Professor <ent type = 'person'>William Jarrett</ent> said, when asked about the possibility of
|
||||
AIDS arising from animal retroviruses, "That is like someone saying
|
||||
babies come out of cabbages."5</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -325,7 +325,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> research on biological warfare in over 100 federal and private
|
||||
laboratories, including those at many prominent universities.8 Yet,
|
||||
Neil Levitt, who worked for 17 years at the Army Infectious Disease
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Neil Levitt</ent>, who worked for 17 years at the Army Infectious Disease
|
||||
Institute, says, "It's a joke...there's no defense against these
|
||||
kinds of organisms. And if you can't defend against something, then
|
||||
why are we pouring more and more money in it? There's something
|
||||
@ -473,16 +473,16 @@
|
||||
<p> To understand the seeding of AIDS among homosexuals (and
|
||||
eventually to the rest of us through bisexuals unless drastic action
|
||||
is taken), you must know about a character with the strange name of
|
||||
Wolf Szmuness. His life story will seem bizarre to you unless, like
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Wolf</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Szmuness</ent></ent>. His life story will seem bizarre to you unless, like
|
||||
me, you have a conspiratorial turn of mind.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Dr. Szmuness was a Polish Jew who supposedly ended up in a
|
||||
<p> Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Szmuness</ent> was a Polish Jew who supposedly ended up in a
|
||||
Siberian labor camp during World War II. But after the war he
|
||||
somehow became a privileged person, was sent to medical school in
|
||||
Tomsk, Russia, and married a Russian woman. Hardly typical
|
||||
treatment of an enemy of the Soviet state [under Stalin.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Szmuness' biographer said that Wolf was always reluctant to
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Szmuness</ent>' biographer said that <ent type = 'person'>Wolf</ent> was always reluctant to
|
||||
discuss "those dark years in Siberia." Maybe he wasn't in Siberia.
|
||||
If he [actually] was, he certainly wasn't shoveling salt.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -495,7 +495,7 @@
|
||||
physician friends in Hungary, for example. He can go to a meeting
|
||||
anywhere in the world if she stays home. She can go if he stays
|
||||
home. They can both go if the children are left at home. But in
|
||||
1969, the entire Szmuness family was allowed by communist Poland to
|
||||
1969, the entire <ent type = 'person'>Szmuness</ent> family was allowed by communist Poland to
|
||||
go to a medical meeting in Italy. At that time they "defected" and
|
||||
moved to New York City.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -515,11 +515,11 @@
|
||||
as a dignitary, not a defector.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> We tell you this amazing story because in retrospect it is
|
||||
obvious that Wolf Szmuness was a carefully groomed ... agent,
|
||||
obvious that <ent type = 'person'>Wolf</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Szmuness</ent> was a carefully groomed ... agent,
|
||||
planted here after years of preparation, to instigate biological
|
||||
warfare against the American people.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Szmuness, with the full cooperation and financial support of
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Szmuness</ent>, with the full cooperation and financial support of
|
||||
the U.S. Center for Disease Control and the National Institutes of
|
||||
Health,11 masterminded the hepatitis-B vaccine experimental program
|
||||
used on homosexual men.</p>
|
||||
@ -538,10 +538,10 @@
|
||||
Francisco. Eight years later most of the homosexuals in San
|
||||
Francisco are infected, dead or dying.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Szmuness did not live to see the fruition of this larger
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Szmuness</ent> did not live to see the fruition of this larger
|
||||
experiment. He died of cancer in 1982.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In 1986 Dr. Cladd Stevens, one of Szmuness's collaborators,
|
||||
<p> In 1986 Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Cladd Stevens</ent>, one of <ent type = 'person'>Szmuness</ent>'s collaborators,
|
||||
penned an astonishing report that did not make your local newspaper.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> She reported that the majority of the homosexuals in the
|
||||
@ -552,7 +552,7 @@
|
||||
<p> AIDS was not the first germ warfare attack against Americans.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In the early '60s, millions of unsuspecting Americans took
|
||||
either Salk injected polio vaccine or the live Sabin polio vaccine,
|
||||
either <ent type = 'person'>Salk</ent> injected polio vaccine or the live <ent type = 'person'>Sabin</ent> polio vaccine,
|
||||
which was taken by mouth.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> BOTH WERE LACED WITH S.V.-40, A CANCER-CAUSING MONKEY VIRUS.14</p>
|
||||
@ -563,8 +563,8 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Page 10</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Salk didn't like the Sabin vaccine and Sabin didn't like the
|
||||
Salk vaccine. I think they are both right. It is interesting to
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Salk</ent> didn't like the <ent type = 'person'>Sabin</ent> vaccine and <ent type = 'person'>Sabin</ent> didn't like the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Salk</ent> vaccine. I think they are both right. It is interesting to
|
||||
note that polio was rapidly disappearing WITHOUT a vaccine (J. Trop.
|
||||
Pediat, env. Child. Health 21, 11) ....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -579,12 +579,12 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> You don't believe it? Call WHO and ask them who is in charge
|
||||
in Europe. If you want to save your nickel I'll tell you. He's a
|
||||
Russian named Bysencho and he operates out of Copenhagen....</p>
|
||||
Russian named <ent type = 'person'>Bysencho</ent> and he operates out of Copenhagen....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Soviets control the response to AIDS of the entire free
|
||||
world at many levels, including the top. Dr. Sergei Litvinov,
|
||||
world at many levels, including the top. Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Sergei <ent type = 'person'>Litvinov</ent></ent>,
|
||||
the coordinator of all task forces on AIDS at the WHO, is a high
|
||||
official in the Soviet Ministry of Health. Allegedly Litvinov
|
||||
official in the Soviet Ministry of Health. Allegedly <ent type = 'person'>Litvinov</ent>
|
||||
gave out the order to our scientists and medical organizations in
|
||||
the western world not to discuss the real cause of the epidemic.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -605,7 +605,7 @@
|
||||
lockstepped with Lancet and put all references to the man-made
|
||||
origins of AIDS down the memory hole.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Did Comrade Litvinov have a little talk with the
|
||||
<p> Did Comrade <ent type = 'person'>Litvinov</ent> have a little talk with the
|
||||
retrovirologists? They, of course, wouldn't need any encouragement
|
||||
from the Soviet [WHO] bosses to attempt a little coverup of their
|
||||
own heinous crime, but Lancet, the British Medical Journal, and the
|
||||
@ -615,13 +615,13 @@
|
||||
respected publications to cover up the crime of the millennium.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The notable exception to this appalling censorship of mass
|
||||
murder is Professor Harding Rains, Editor of the Journal of the
|
||||
Royal Society of Medicine. Rains refers to "a conspiracy of
|
||||
murder is Professor Harding <ent type = 'person'>Rains</ent>, Editor of the Journal of the
|
||||
Royal Society of Medicine. <ent type = 'person'>Rains</ent> refers to "a conspiracy of
|
||||
silence" covering the allegation that AIDS was man-made. I hope
|
||||
Dr. Rains is watching his backside.</p>
|
||||
Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Rains</ent> is watching his backside.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Dr. Zhores Medvedev, unlike Bysencho and Litvinov, supposedly
|
||||
is a Russian exile. Medvedev operates out of London at the National</p>
|
||||
<p> Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Zhores <ent type = 'person'>Medvedev</ent></ent>, unlike <ent type = 'person'>Bysencho</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Litvinov</ent>, supposedly
|
||||
is a Russian exile. <ent type = 'person'>Medvedev</ent> operates out of London at the National</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Page 11</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -630,12 +630,12 @@
|
||||
Soviet biowarfare laboratories, but we lack the space to catalog all
|
||||
the details [here].</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Medvedev is spreading the disinformation that AIDS is rampant
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Medvedev</ent> is spreading the disinformation that AIDS is rampant
|
||||
in Russia due to the escape of the virus from a laboratory, a sort
|
||||
of biological Chernobyl.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This tends to divert suspicion away from Litvinov, Szmuness and
|
||||
the other reds that President Nixon allowed to penetrate our
|
||||
<p> This tends to divert suspicion away from <ent type = 'person'>Litvinov</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Szmuness</ent> and
|
||||
the other reds that President <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> allowed to penetrate our
|
||||
biological warfare laboratories at Fort Detrick, Maryland.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Having the Soviets "control" the spread of AIDS in the West has
|
||||
@ -659,7 +659,7 @@
|
||||
U.N.-controlled World "Health" Organization, who needs atomic bombs
|
||||
for world conquest?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Cuba, Dr. John Seale informs me, has a strict asylum system for
|
||||
<p> Cuba, Dr. John <ent type = 'person'>Seale</ent> informs me, has a strict asylum system for
|
||||
the AIDS-infected. When their troops come back from "liberating"
|
||||
Africans, they are tested as they get off the boat.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -684,7 +684,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Page 12</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 1 Project Whitecoat, to be published in Health Freedom News,
|
||||
<p> 1 <ent type = 'person'>Project Whitecoat</ent>, to be published in Health Freedom News,
|
||||
P.O. Box 688, Monrovia CA 91016/Subscription $20.00 per year.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 2 Bad Blood, J.H. Jones, MacMillan, NY, 1982.</p>
|
||||
@ -693,7 +693,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 4 First aids Report, March/April 1988.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 5 Private communication, John Seale, M.D., 1988</p>
|
||||
<p> 5 Private communication, John <ent type = 'person'>Seale</ent>, M.D., 1988</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 6 Ibid.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -712,21 +712,21 @@
|
||||
<p> 12 Ibid.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 13 Ibid.
|
||||
14 Salk/Sabin s.v.-40 Proc. Nat'l Acad. Sci., vol. 77, #8,
|
||||
14 <ent type = 'person'>Salk</ent>/<ent type = 'person'>Sabin</ent> s.v.-40 Proc. Nat'l Acad. Sci., vol. 77, #8,
|
||||
p. 4861, and Atlantic Monthly, 2/76.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
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|
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|
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|
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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ the body's ability to fight infection. A disgnosis of AIDS is made when a
|
||||
person develops a life-threatening illness not usually found in a person with a
|
||||
normal ability to fight infection. The two diseases most often found in AIDS
|
||||
patients are a lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and a rare
|
||||
form of cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma. It is these diseases, not the AIDS
|
||||
form of cancer called <ent type = 'person'>Kaposi</ent>'s sarcoma. It is these diseases, not the AIDS
|
||||
virus itself, that can lead to death. To date, more than 50 percent of the
|
||||
persons with AIDS have died.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -12,12 +12,12 @@
|
||||
:: PREFACE ::
|
||||
|
||||
In an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of "Top Secret", Prof
|
||||
J. Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that AIDS is a man-made disease,
|
||||
J. <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent> and Dr. L. <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent> outline their theory that AIDS is a man-made disease,
|
||||
originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
|
||||
Top Secret is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and is
|
||||
Top Secret is the international edition of the German magazine <ent type = 'person'>Geheim</ent> and is
|
||||
considered by many to be a sister publication to the American Covert Action
|
||||
Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names
|
||||
column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and
|
||||
Information Bulletin (<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names
|
||||
column, which <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent> is prevented from doing by the American government, and
|
||||
which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article, named
|
||||
"AIDS: US-Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins," is
|
||||
lengthy, has a lot of professional terminology and is dotted with footnotes.
|
||||
@ -25,14 +25,14 @@ The following is my humble attempt to encapsulate its highlights. It is
|
||||
recommended that all interested read the original, which is available at some
|
||||
bookstores, or can be ordered for $3.50 from:
|
||||
|
||||
Top Secret/Geheim Magazine P.O.Box 270324 5000 Koln 1 Germany
|
||||
Top Secret/<ent type = 'person'>Geheim</ent> Magazine P.O.Box 270324 5000 Koln 1 Germany
|
||||
|
||||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|
||||
|
||||
:: AIDS FACTS ::
|
||||
|
||||
"The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name
|
||||
(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the Segals, "has been traced back
|
||||
(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, "has been traced back
|
||||
to a destruction or a functional failure of the T4-lymphocytes, also called
|
||||
'helper cells`, which play a regulatory role in the production of antibodies in
|
||||
the immune system." In the course of the illness, the number of functional T4-
|
||||
@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ point opportunistic illnesses occur. Parallel to this syndrome, disorders in
|
||||
various organ systems occur, the most severe in the brain, the symptoms of
|
||||
which range from motoric disorders to severe dementia and death.
|
||||
|
||||
This set of symptoms, say the Segals, is identical in every detail with the
|
||||
Visna sickness which occurs in sheep, mainly in Iceland. (Visna means tiredness
|
||||
This set of symptoms, say the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, is identical in every detail with the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Visna</ent> sickness which occurs in sheep, mainly in Iceland. (<ent type = 'person'>Visna</ent> means tiredness
|
||||
in Icelandic). However, the visna virus is not pathogenic for human beings.
|
||||
|
||||
The Segals note that despite the fact that AIDS is transmitted only through
|
||||
The <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s note that despite the fact that AIDS is transmitted only through
|
||||
sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and non- sterile hypodermic needles, the
|
||||
infection has spread dramatically. During the first few years after its
|
||||
discovery, the number of AIDS patients doubled every six months, and is still
|
||||
@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ help those already infected. These and following figures have been reached at
|
||||
by several different mainstream sources, such as the US Surgeon General and the
|
||||
Chief of the medical services of the US Army.
|
||||
|
||||
Say the Segals: "AIDS does not merely bring certain dangers with it; it is
|
||||
Say the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s: "AIDS does not merely bring certain dangers with it; it is
|
||||
clearly a programmed catastrophe for the human race, whose magnitude is
|
||||
comparable only with that of a nuclear war." They later explain what they mean
|
||||
by "programmed," showing that the virus was produced by humans, namely Dr.
|
||||
Robert Gallo of the Bethesda Cancer Research Center in Maryland. When
|
||||
proceeding to prove their claims, the Segals are careful to note that: "We have
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Robert <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent></ent> of the Bethesda Cancer Research Center in Maryland. When
|
||||
proceeding to prove their claims, the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s are careful to note that: "We have
|
||||
given preference to the investigative results of highly renowned laboratories,
|
||||
whose objective contents cannot be doubted. We must emphasize, in this
|
||||
connection, that we do not know of any findings that have been published in
|
||||
@ -91,14 +91,14 @@ professional journals that contradict our hypotheses."
|
||||
The first KNOWN cases of AIDS occurred in New York in 1979. The first
|
||||
DESCRIBED cases were in California in 1979. The virus was isolated in Paris in
|
||||
May 1983, taken from a French homosexual who had returned home ill from a trip
|
||||
to the East Coast of the US. One year later, Robert Gallo and his co-workers at
|
||||
to the East Coast of the US. One year later, <ent type = 'person'>Robert <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent></ent> and his co-workers at
|
||||
the Bethesda Cancer Research Center published their discovery of the same
|
||||
virus, which is cytotoxic, i.e poisonous to cells.
|
||||
|
||||
Shortly after publishing his discovery, Gallo stated to newspapers that the
|
||||
Shortly after publishing his discovery, <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent> stated to newspapers that the
|
||||
virus had developed by a natural process from the Human Adult Leukemia virus,
|
||||
HTLV-1, which he had previously discovered. However, this claim was not
|
||||
published in professional publications, and soon after, Alizon and Montagnier,
|
||||
published in professional publications, and soon after, <ent type = 'person'>Alizon</ent> and Montagnier,
|
||||
two researchers of the Pasteur Institute in Paris published charts of HTLV-1
|
||||
and HIV, showing that the viruses had basically different structures. They also
|
||||
declared categorically that they knew of no natural process by which one of
|
||||
@ -107,25 +107,25 @@ these two forms could have evolved into the other.
|
||||
According to the professional "science" magazine, the fall 1984 annual meeting
|
||||
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was almost
|
||||
entirely devoted to the question of: to what extent new pathogenic agents could
|
||||
be produced via human manipulation of genes. According to the Segals, AIDS was
|
||||
be produced via human manipulation of genes. According to the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, AIDS was
|
||||
practically the sole topic of discussion.
|
||||
|
||||
:: THE AIDS VIRUS ::
|
||||
|
||||
The Segals discuss the findings of Gonda et al, who compared the HIV, visna
|
||||
The <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s discuss the findings of Gonda et al, who compared the HIV, visna
|
||||
and other closely-related viruses and found that the visna virus is the most
|
||||
similar to HIV. The two were, in fact, 60% identical in 1986. According to
|
||||
findings of the Hahn group, the mutation rate of the HIV virus was about a
|
||||
findings of the <ent type = 'person'>Hahn</ent> group, the mutation rate of the HIV virus was about a
|
||||
million times higher than that of similar viruses, and that on the average a
|
||||
10% alteration took place every two years. That would mean that in 1984, the
|
||||
difference between HIV and visna would have been only 30%, in 1982- 20%, 10% in
|
||||
1980 and zero in 1978. "This means," say the Segals, "that at this time visna
|
||||
1980 and zero in 1978. "This means," say the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, "that at this time visna
|
||||
viruses changed into HIV, receiving at the same time the ability to become
|
||||
parasites in human T4-cells and the high genetic instability that is not known
|
||||
in other retroviruses. This is also consistent with the fact that the first
|
||||
cases of AIDS appeared about one year later, in the spring of 1979."
|
||||
|
||||
"In his comparison of the genomes of visna and HIV," add the Segals, "Coffin
|
||||
"In his comparison of the genomes of visna and HIV," add the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, "<ent type = 'person'>Coffin</ent>
|
||||
hit upon a remarkable feature. The env (envelope) area of the HIV genome, which
|
||||
encodes the envelope proteins which help the virus to attach itself to the host
|
||||
cell, is about 300 nucleotides longer than the same area in visna. This
|
||||
@ -137,24 +137,24 @@ biochemically. (emphasis mine)
|
||||
|
||||
The above mentioned work by Gonda et al shows that the HIV virus has a section
|
||||
of about 300 nucleotides, which does not exist in the visna virus. That length
|
||||
corresponds with what Coffin described. That section is particularly unstable,
|
||||
which indicates that it is an alien object. According to the Segals, it
|
||||
"originates in an HTLV-1 genome, (discovered by Gallo-ED) for the likelihood of
|
||||
corresponds with what <ent type = 'person'>Coffin</ent> described. That section is particularly unstable,
|
||||
which indicates that it is an alien object. According to the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, it
|
||||
"originates in an HTLV-1 genome, (discovered by <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent>-ED) for the likelihood of
|
||||
an accidental occurrence in HIV of a genome sequence 60% identical with a
|
||||
section of the HTLV-1 that is 300 nucleotides in length is zero." Since the
|
||||
visna virus is incapable of attaching itself to human T4 receptors, it must
|
||||
have been the transfer of the HTLV-1 genome section which gave visna the
|
||||
capability to do so. In other words, the addition of HTLV-1 to visna made the
|
||||
HIV virus. In addition, the high mutation rate of the HIV genome has been
|
||||
explained by another scientific team, Chandra et al, by the fact that it is "a
|
||||
explained by another scientific team, <ent type = 'person'>Chandra et al</ent>, by the fact that it is "a
|
||||
combination of two genome parts which are alien to each other BY ARTIFICIAL
|
||||
MEANS rather than by a natural process of evolution, because this process would
|
||||
have immediately eliminated, through natural selection, systems that are so
|
||||
replete with disorders."
|
||||
|
||||
"These are the facts of the case," say the Segals. "HIV is essentially a visna
|
||||
"These are the facts of the case," say the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s. "HIV is essentially a visna
|
||||
virus which carries an additional protein monomer of HTLV-1 that has an epitope
|
||||
capable of bonding with T4 receptors. Neither Alizon and Montagnier nor any
|
||||
capable of bonding with T4 receptors. Neither <ent type = 'person'>Alizon</ent> and Montagnier nor any
|
||||
other biologist know of any natural mechanism that would make it possible for
|
||||
the epitope to be transferred from HTLV-1 to the visna virus. For this reason
|
||||
we can come to only one conclusion: that this gene combination arose by
|
||||
@ -166,11 +166,11 @@ artificial means, through gene manipulation."
|
||||
extraordinarily expensive, and it requires a large number of highly qualified
|
||||
personnel, complicated equipment and expensive high security laboratories.
|
||||
Moreover, the product would have no commercial value. Who, then," ask the
|
||||
Segals, "would have provided the resources for a type of research that was
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s, "would have provided the resources for a type of research that was
|
||||
aimed solely at the production of a new disease that would be deadly to human
|
||||
beings?"
|
||||
|
||||
The English sociologist Allistair Hay (as well as Paxman et al in "A Higher
|
||||
The English sociologist <ent type = 'person'>Allistair Hay</ent> (as well as Paxman et al in "A Higher
|
||||
Form of Killing"-ED), published a document whose authenticity has been
|
||||
confirmed by the US Congress, showing that a representative of the Pentagon
|
||||
requested in 1969 additional funding for biological warfare research. The
|
||||
@ -179,29 +179,29 @@ not be susceptible to the immune system, so that the afflicted patient would
|
||||
not be able to develop any defense against it. Ten years later, in the spring
|
||||
of 1979, the first cases of AIDS appeared in New York.
|
||||
|
||||
"Thus began a phase of frantic experimentation," say the Segals.
|
||||
"Thus began a phase of frantic experimentation," say the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s.
|
||||
|
||||
One group was working on trying to cause animal pathogens to adapt themselves
|
||||
to life in human beings. This was done under the cover of searching for a cure
|
||||
for cancer. The race was won by Gallo, who described his findings in 1975. A
|
||||
year later, Gallo described gene manipulations he was conducting. In 1980 he
|
||||
for cancer. The race was won by <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent>, who described his findings in 1975. A
|
||||
year later, <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent> described gene manipulations he was conducting. In 1980 he
|
||||
published his discovery of HTLV.
|
||||
|
||||
In the fall of 1977, a P4 (highest security category of laboratory, in which
|
||||
human pathogens are subjected to genetic manipulations) laboratory was
|
||||
officially opened in building 550 of Fort Detrick, MD, the Pentagon's main
|
||||
biological warfare research center. "In an article in 'Der Spiegel`, Prof.
|
||||
Mollings point out that this type of gene manipulation was still extremely
|
||||
difficult in 1977. One would have had to have a genius as great as Robert Gallo
|
||||
for this purpose, note the Segals."
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Mollings</ent> point out that this type of gene manipulation was still extremely
|
||||
difficult in 1977. One would have had to have a genius as great as <ent type = 'person'>Robert <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent></ent>
|
||||
for this purpose, note the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s."
|
||||
|
||||
Lo and behold. In a supposed compliance with the international accord banning
|
||||
the research, production and storage of biological weapons, part of Fort
|
||||
Detrick was "demilitarized" and the virus section renamed the "Frederick
|
||||
Cancer Research Facility". It was put under the direction of the Cancer
|
||||
Research Institute in neighboring Bethesda, whose director was no other than
|
||||
Robert Gallo. This happened in 1975, the year Gallo discovered HTLV.
|
||||
Explaining how the virus escaped, the Segals note that in the US, biological
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Robert <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent></ent>. This happened in 1975, the year <ent type = 'person'>Gallo</ent> discovered HTLV.
|
||||
Explaining how the virus escaped, the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s note that in the US, biological
|
||||
agents are traditionally tested on prisoners who are incarcerated for long
|
||||
periods, and who are promised freedom if they survive the test. However, the
|
||||
initial HIV infection symptoms are mild and followed by a seemingly healthy
|
||||
@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ exclusively men, many of them having a history of homosexuality and drug abuse,
|
||||
as is often the case in American prisons. 1111
|
||||
|
||||
It is understandable why AIDS broke out precisely in 1979, precisely among men
|
||||
and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the Segals. They
|
||||
and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s. They
|
||||
go on to explain that whereas in cases of infection by means of sexual contact,
|
||||
incubation periods are two years and more, while in cases of massive infection
|
||||
via blood transfusions, as must have been the case with prisoners, incubation
|
||||
@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ beginning of 1978 and if the experiments began without too much delay, then
|
||||
the first cases of full- blown AIDS in 1979 were exactly the result that
|
||||
could have been expected."
|
||||
|
||||
In the next three lengthy chapters, the Segals examine other theories,
|
||||
In the next three lengthy chapters, the <ent type = 'person'>Segal</ent>s examine other theories,
|
||||
"legends" as they call them, of the origins of AIDS. Dissecting each claim,
|
||||
they show that they have no scientific standing, providing also the findings
|
||||
of other scientists. They also bring up the arguments of scientists and
|
||||
|
@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
|
||||
-------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The ultimate responsibility for this thread :-) belongs to George
|
||||
Medhurst (1759-1827), of England. During a period of a few years
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Medhurst</ent> (1759-1827), of England. During a period of a few years
|
||||
about 1810, he invented three distinct forms of air-propelled
|
||||
transport. None of them was implemented during his lifetime;
|
||||
but all of them saw use eventually, reaching their greatest extent
|
||||
in the reverse order of their original invention.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Medhurst's first method involved moving air through a tube a few
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Medhurst</ent>'s first method involved moving air through a tube a few
|
||||
inches in diameter, pushing a capsule along it; this simple idea
|
||||
was the pneumatic dispatch tube. Next he realized that if the same
|
||||
system was built much larger, it could carry passengers (or freight
|
||||
@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ railway (though a distinction between that term and the pneumatic
|
||||
railway was not always observed). The key feature of all versions
|
||||
of the system was a longitudinal valve: some sort of flexible flap
|
||||
running the length of the pipe, which would be held closed by air
|
||||
pressure except when the piston was actually passing. Medhurst
|
||||
pressure except when the piston was actually passing. <ent type = 'person'>Medhurst</ent>
|
||||
did try to raise capital to implement this system, but failed.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Now, while the first operable steam locomotive was built about 1804,
|
||||
@ -65,14 +65,14 @@ of about 3 years. In order of opening, these were:</p>
|
||||
* The Paris a St-Germain, from Bois de Vezinet to St-Germain
|
||||
in Paris, France, 1.4 miles long; operated 1847-60.
|
||||
* The South Devon, from Exeter to Teignmouth in Devonshire,
|
||||
England, 15 miles, then extended to Newton (now Newton Abbot),
|
||||
England, 15 miles, then extended to <ent type = 'person'>Newton</ent> (now <ent type = 'person'>Newton</ent> Abbot),
|
||||
20 miles altogether; operated 1847-48.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I note in passing that while I (as a fan of his) might like Isambard
|
||||
<p>I note in passing that while I (as a fan of his) might like <ent type = 'person'>Isambard</ent>
|
||||
Kingdom Brunel to have invented the atmospheric system used on the
|
||||
South Devon, it is wrong to say that he did so. He did choose it
|
||||
and actively promoted it (well, "actively" is redundant with Brunel).
|
||||
It was actually developed by Samuel Clegg and Joseph and Jacob Samuda.</p>
|
||||
It was actually developed by <ent type = 'person'>Samuel Clegg</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Joseph</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Jacob Samuda</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Both of the longer, if shorter-lived, English lines used atmospheric
|
||||
propulsion in both directions of travel, whereas the French and Irish
|
||||
@ -154,11 +154,11 @@ Metropolitan, District, Circle, and Hammersmith & City Lines.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Now there was no thought of operating the Metropolitan with
|
||||
anything but steam locomotives, despite the line being mostly
|
||||
in tunnel. Sir John Fowler, who later co-designed the Forth Bridge,
|
||||
in tunnel. Sir <ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Fowler</ent></ent>, who later co-designed the Forth Bridge,
|
||||
did have the idea of a steam locomotive where the heat from the fire
|
||||
would be retained in a cylinder of bricks, and therefore the fire
|
||||
could be put out when traveling in the tunnels. One example of
|
||||
this design, later called Fowler's Ghost, was tried in 1862.
|
||||
this design, later called <ent type = 'person'>Fowler</ent>'s Ghost, was tried in 1862.
|
||||
It was thermodynamically absurd: as C. Hamilton Ellis put it,
|
||||
"the trouble was that her boiler not only refrained from producing
|
||||
smoke, it produced very little steam either".</p>
|
||||
@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ but construction was never completed. This was the Waterloo and
|
||||
Whitehall Railway, which planned to connect Waterloo station to Great
|
||||
Scotland Yard, 1/2 mile away, with a 12'9" diameter tunnel passing
|
||||
under the Thames. Considering that the Thames Tunnel project of
|
||||
Sir Marc Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel -- now now part of
|
||||
Sir <ent type = 'person'>Marc Brunel</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Isambard</ent> Kingdom Brunel -- now now part of
|
||||
the Underground's East London Line -- had faced massive technical
|
||||
and financial difficulties before its long-delayed completion only
|
||||
about 20 years previously, this was no mean undertaking.</p>
|
||||
@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ the tube.</p>
|
||||
<p>They were also used within large buildings, and some survive in
|
||||
use to this day.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Finally, in 1990, the Brazilian company Sur Coester stunned the
|
||||
<p>Finally, in 1990, the Brazilian company <ent type = 'person'>Sur Coester</ent> stunned the
|
||||
world by opening at a fair in Djakarta, Indonesia, a demonstration
|
||||
line of their Aeromovel system. This is nothing more nor less
|
||||
than an elevated atmospheric railway. The structure is concrete,
|
||||
@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ is used.</p>
|
||||
Beach's tunnel was depicted, in rather distorted form, in the 1989
|
||||
movie "Ghostbusters II"; the modern form of the New York subway
|
||||
has been depicted in many movies, notably the 1974 one "The Taking
|
||||
of Pelham One Two Three"; but I don't believe the atmospheric or
|
||||
of <ent type = 'person'>Pelham</ent> One Two Three"; but I don't believe the atmospheric or
|
||||
pneumatic systems have ever been depicted at work in any movie.
|
||||
Clearly this needs to be rectified! :-)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -308,8 +308,8 @@ Clearly this needs to be rectified! :-)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Almost all the information in this posting about the pneumatic
|
||||
and atmospheric systems comes from one book... "Atmospheric
|
||||
Railways: A Victorian Venture in Silent Speed" by Charles Hadfield,
|
||||
1967, reprinted 1985 by Alan Sutton Publishing, Gloucester; ISBN
|
||||
Railways: A Victorian Venture in Silent Speed" by <ent type = 'person'>Charles Hadfield</ent>,
|
||||
1967, reprinted 1985 by Alan Sutton Publishing, <ent type = 'person'>Gloucester</ent>; ISBN
|
||||
0-86299-204-4.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>For other topics, I principally consulted "The Pictorial
|
||||
@ -318,14 +318,14 @@ Hamlyn Publishing; ISBN 0-600-37585-4; some details came from other
|
||||
books or my memory.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The information about the Djakarta line comes from two postings in
|
||||
rec.railroad, one last November by Andrew Waugh quoting the November 24
|
||||
issue of "New Scientist" magazine, and the recent one by Russell Day
|
||||
rec.railroad, one last November by <ent type = 'person'>Andrew Waugh</ent> quoting the November 24
|
||||
issue of "New Scientist" magazine, and the recent one by <ent type = 'person'>Russell Day</ent>
|
||||
citing "Towards 2000".</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>--
|
||||
Mark Brader"Great things are not done by those
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Mark Brader</ent>"Great things are not done by those
|
||||
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto who sit down and count the cost
|
||||
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com of every thought and act." -- Daniel Gooch</p>
|
||||
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com of every thought and act." -- <ent type = 'person'>Daniel</ent> Gooch</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>This article is in the public domain.
|
||||
</p></xml>
|
@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
|
||||
<xml><p> -Here's the lowdown on "ALTERNATIVE 3" from a TV-movie compendium.
|
||||
"ALTERNATIVE 3" (GB 1977; 52m, colour)
|
||||
Amusing spoof do commentary about the disappearance of various high-IQ
|
||||
Amusing s<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>of do commentary about the disappearance of various high-IQ
|
||||
citizens, allegedly to form nucleus of a standby civilization on Mars against
|
||||
the coming End of the World. Sly parodies of fashionable breathless TV
|
||||
journalism sweetened the joke, ex- newscaster Tim Brinton held it all
|
||||
together with po-faced gravity and needless to say some supernature fanatics
|
||||
journalism sweetened the joke, ex- newscaster <ent type = 'person'>Tim Brinton</ent> held it all
|
||||
together with <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>-faced gravity and needless to say some supernature fanatics
|
||||
refuse to this day to accept that it was anything but gospel truth, although
|
||||
it was orignally scheduled for April 1st (1977). Written by David Ambrose;
|
||||
directed by Chris Miles; for Anglia. Apparently the TV-movie was spawned by a
|
||||
it was orignally scheduled for April 1st (1977). Written by <ent type = 'person'>David Ambrose</ent>;
|
||||
directed by <ent type = 'person'>Chris Miles</ent>; for Anglia. Apparently the TV-movie was spawned by a
|
||||
book (or assuming the date is accurate, vice versa) of the same name. Written
|
||||
by Leslie Watkins, it was published by Sphere Books Ltd. in 1978.</p>
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Leslie Watkins</ent>, it was published by Sphere Books Ltd. in 1978.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>======================================================================</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>ALTERNATIVE 003
|
||||
by
|
||||
Leslie Watkins</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Leslie Watkins</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>with
|
||||
David Ambrose & Christopher Miles</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>David Ambrose</ent> & <ent type = 'person'>Christopher Miles</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Section 1</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -37,82 +37,82 @@ silence.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On May 3, 1977, the Daily Mirror published this story:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>President Jimmy Carter has joined the ranks of UFO spotters. He sent
|
||||
in two written reports stating he had seen a flying saucer when he was the
|
||||
<p>President <ent type = 'person'>Jimmy <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent></ent> has joined the ranks of UFO s<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>tters. He sent
|
||||
in two written re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rts stating he had seen a flying saucer when he was the
|
||||
Governor of Georgia.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The President has shrugged off the incident since then, perhaps fearing
|
||||
that electors might be wary of a flying saucer freak.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But he was reported as saying after the "sighting"; "I don't laugh at
|
||||
<p>But he was re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rted as saying after the "sighting"; "I don't laugh at
|
||||
people any more when they say they've seen UFOs because I've seen one
|
||||
myself."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Carter described his UFO like this: "Luminous, not solid, at first bluish,
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> described his UFO like this: "Luminous, not solid, at first bluish,
|
||||
then reddish. It seemed to move towards us from a distance, stopped, then
|
||||
moved partially away."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Carter filed two reports on the sighting in 1973, one to the
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> filed two re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rts on the sighting in 1973, one to the
|
||||
International UFO Bureau and the other to the National Investigations
|
||||
Committee on Aerial Phenomena.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Heydon Hewes, who directs the International UFO Bureau from his
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Heydon Hewes</ent>, who directs the International UFO Bureau from his
|
||||
home in Oklahoma City, is making speeches praising the President's
|
||||
"open-mindedness."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But during his presidential campaign last year Carter was cautious. He
|
||||
<p>But during his presidential campaign last year <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> was cautious. He
|
||||
admitted he had seen a light in the sky but declined to call it a UFO.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>He joked: "I think it was a light beckoning me to run in the California
|
||||
primary election."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Why this change in Carter's attitude? Because, by then, he had been
|
||||
<p>Why this change in <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent>'s attitude? Because, by then, he had been
|
||||
briefed on Alternative 3?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A 1966 Gallup Poll showed that five million Americans including several
|
||||
highly experienced airline pilots claimed to have seen Flying Saucers.
|
||||
Fighter pilot Thomas Mantell has already died while chasing one over
|
||||
Fighter pilot <ent type = 'person'>Thomas Mantell</ent> has already died while chasing one over
|
||||
Kentucky his F.51 aircraft having disintegrated in the violent wash of his
|
||||
quarry's engines.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The U.S. Air Force, reluctantly bowing to mounting pressure, asked Dr.
|
||||
Edward Uhler Condon, a professor of astrophysics, to head an investigation
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Edward Uhler <ent type = 'person'>Condon</ent></ent>, a professor of astrophysics, to head an investigation
|
||||
team at Colorado University.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Condon's budget was $500,000. Shortly before his report appeared in
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Condon</ent>'s budget was $500,000. Shortly before his re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rt appeared in
|
||||
1968, this story appeared in the London Evening Standard:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Condon study is making headlines, but for all the wrong reasons. It
|
||||
<p>The <ent type = 'person'>Condon</ent> study is making headlines, but for all the wrong reasons. It
|
||||
is losing some of its outstanding members, under circumstances which are
|
||||
mysterious to say the least. Sinister rumors are circulating. At least four key
|
||||
people have vanished from the Condon team without offering a satisfactory
|
||||
people have vanished from the <ent type = 'person'>Condon</ent> team without offering a satisfactory
|
||||
reason for their departure.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The complete story behind the strange events in Colorado is hard to
|
||||
decipher. But a clue, at last may be found in the recent statements of Dr.
|
||||
James McDonald, the senior physicist at the Institute of Atmospheric
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>James <ent type = 'person'>McDonald</ent></ent>, the senior physicist at the Institute of Atmospheric
|
||||
Physics at the University of Arizona and widely respected in his field. In a
|
||||
wary, but ominous, telephone conversation this week, Dr. McDonald told me
|
||||
that he is "most distressed." Condon's 1,485-page report denied the
|
||||
wary, but ominous, telephone conversation this week, Dr. <ent type = 'person'>McDonald</ent> told me
|
||||
that he is "most distressed." <ent type = 'person'>Condon</ent>'s 1,485-page re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rt denied the
|
||||
existence of Flying Saucers and a panel of the American National Academy of
|
||||
Sciences endorsed the conclusion that "further extensive study probably
|
||||
cannot be justified."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But, curiously, Condon's joint principal investigator, Dr. David Saunders,
|
||||
had not contributed a word to that report. And on January 11, 1969, the
|
||||
Daily Telegraph quoted Dr. Saunders as saying of the report:</p>
|
||||
<p>But, curiously, <ent type = 'person'>Condon</ent>'s joint principal investigator, Dr. <ent type = 'person'>David <ent type = 'person'>Saunders</ent></ent>,
|
||||
had not contributed a word to that re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rt. And on January 11, 1969, the
|
||||
Daily Telegraph quoted Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Saunders</ent> as saying of the re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rt:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"It is inconceivable that it can be anything but a cold stew. No matter
|
||||
how long it is, what it includes, how it is said, or what it recommends, it will
|
||||
lack the essential element of credibility."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Already there were wide-spread suspicions that the Condon
|
||||
<p>Already there were wide-spread suspicions that the <ent type = 'person'>Condon</ent>
|
||||
investigation had been part of an official coverup, that the government knew
|
||||
the truth but was determined to keep it from the public. We now know that
|
||||
those suspicions were accurate. And that the secrecy was all because of
|
||||
Alternative 3.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Only a few months after Dr. Saunders made his "cold stew" statement a
|
||||
<p>Only a few months after Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Saunders</ent> made his "cold stew" statement a
|
||||
journalist with the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch embarrassed the National
|
||||
Aeronautics and Space Agency by photographing a strange craft looking
|
||||
exactly like a Flying Saucer at the White Sands missile range in New Mexico.</p>
|
||||
@ -126,67 +126,67 @@ acknowledged designing several models, some with ten and twelve engines.
|
||||
And a NASA official, faced with this information, said, "Actually the engineers
|
||||
used to call it 'The Flying Saucer."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>That confirmed a statement made by Dr. Garry Henderson, a leading
|
||||
<p>That confirmed a statement made by Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Garry Henderson</ent>, a leading
|
||||
space research scientist: "All our astronauts have seen these objects but have
|
||||
been ordered not to discuss their findings with anyone."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Otto Binder was a member of the NASA space team. He has stated that
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Otto <ent type = 'person'>Binder</ent></ent> was a member of the NASA space team. He has stated that
|
||||
NASA "killed" significant segments of conversation between Mission Control
|
||||
and Apollo 11, the spacecraft which took Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to
|
||||
the Moon and that those segments were deleted from the official record:</p>
|
||||
and A<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>llo 11, the spacecraft which took <ent type = 'person'>Buzz <ent type = 'person'>Aldrin</ent></ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Neil <ent type = 'person'>Armstrong</ent></ent> to
|
||||
the <ent type = 'person'>Moon</ent> and that those segments were deleted from the official record:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"Certain sources with their own VHF receiving facilities that by passed
|
||||
NASA broadcast outlets claim there was a portion of Earth-Moon dialogue
|
||||
NASA broadcast outlets claim there was a <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rtion of Earth-<ent type = 'person'>Moon</ent> dialogue
|
||||
that was quickly cut off by the NASA monitoring staff."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Binder added:</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Binder</ent> added:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"It was presumably when the two moon walkers, Aldrin and Armstrong,
|
||||
were making the round some distance from the LEM that Armstrong
|
||||
clutched Aldrin's arm excitedly and exclaimed 'What was it? What the hell
|
||||
<p>"It was presumably when the two moon walkers, <ent type = 'person'>Aldrin</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Armstrong</ent>,
|
||||
were making the round some distance from the LEM that <ent type = 'person'>Armstrong</ent>
|
||||
clutched <ent type = 'person'>Aldrin</ent>'s arm excitedly and exclaimed 'What was it? What the hell
|
||||
was it? That's all I want to know.' "</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Then, according to Binder, there was this exchange:</p>
|
||||
<p>Then, according to <ent type = 'person'>Binder</ent>, there was this exchange:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>MISSION CONTROL: What's there? malfunction(garble).Mission
|
||||
Control calling Apollo 11.</p>
|
||||
Control calling A<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>llo 11.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>APOLLO 11: These babies were huge, sir. enormous, Oh, God you
|
||||
wouldn't believe it!
|
||||
I'm telling you there are other space-craft out there
|
||||
lined up on the far side of the crater edge.
|
||||
They're on the Moon watching us.</p>
|
||||
They're on the <ent type = 'person'>Moon</ent> watching us.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>NASA, understandably, has never confirmed Binder's story but Buzz
|
||||
Aldrin was soon complaining bitterly about the Agency having used him as a
|
||||
<p>NASA, understandably, has never confirmed <ent type = 'person'>Binder</ent>'s story but Buzz
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Aldrin</ent> was soon complaining bitterly about the Agency having used him as a
|
||||
"traveling salesman."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>And two years after his Moon mission, following reported bouts of heavy
|
||||
<p>And two years after his <ent type = 'person'>Moon</ent> mission, following re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rted bouts of heavy
|
||||
drinking, he was admitted to hospital with "emotional depression."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"Traveling salesman", that's an odd choice of words, isn't it? What, in
|
||||
Aldrin's view, were the NASA authorities trying to sell? And to whom?
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Aldrin</ent>'s view, were the NASA authorities trying to sell? And to whom?
|
||||
Could it be that they were using him, and others like him, to sell their
|
||||
official version of the truth to ordinary people right across the world?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Was Aldrin's Moon walk one of those great spectaculars, presented with
|
||||
maximum publicity, to justify the billions being poured into space research?</p>
|
||||
<p>Was <ent type = 'person'>Aldrin</ent>'s <ent type = 'person'>Moon</ent> walk one of those great spectaculars, presented with
|
||||
maximum publicity, to justify the billions being <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>ured into space research?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Was it part of the American-Russian cover for Alternative 3?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>All men who have travelled to the Moon have given indications of
|
||||
<p>All men who have travelled to the <ent type = 'person'>Moon</ent> have given indications of
|
||||
knowing about Alternative 3 and of the reasons which precipitated it.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In May, 1972, James Irwin, officially the sixth man to walk on the
|
||||
Moon, resigned to become a Baptist missionary. And he said then, "The
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Moon</ent>, resigned to become a Baptist missionary. And he said then, "The
|
||||
flight made me a deeper religious person and more keenly aware of the
|
||||
fragile nature of our planet."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Edgar Mitchell, who landed on the Moon with the Apollo 14 mission in
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Edgar Mitchell</ent>, who landed on the <ent type = 'person'>Moon</ent> with the A<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>llo 14 mission in
|
||||
February, 1971, also resigned in May, 1972 to devote himself to
|
||||
parapsychology. Later, at the headquarters of his Institute for noetic
|
||||
Sciences near San Francisco, he described looking at this world from the
|
||||
Moon: "I went into a very deep pathos, a kind of anguish. That incredibly
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Moon</ent>: "I went into a very deep pathos, a kind of anguish. That incredibly
|
||||
beautiful planet that was Earth, a place no bigger than my thumb was my
|
||||
home.. a blue and white jewel against a velvet black sky...was being killed
|
||||
off."</p>
|
||||
@ -195,8 +195,8 @@ off."</p>
|
||||
that society had only three ways in which to go and that the third was "the
|
||||
most viable but most difficult alternative."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Another of the Apollo Moon walkers, Bob Grodin, was equally specific
|
||||
when interviewed by a Sceptre Television reporter on June 20, 1977;</p>
|
||||
<p>Another of the A<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>llo <ent type = 'person'>Moon</ent> walkers, <ent type = 'person'>Bob <ent type = 'person'>Grodin</ent></ent>, was equally specific
|
||||
when interviewed by a Sceptre Television re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rter on June 20, 1977;</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"You think they need all that crap down in Florida just to put two guys
|
||||
up there on a bicycle? The hell they do! You know why they need us?
|
||||
@ -206,42 +206,42 @@ We're nothing, man! Nothing!"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On July 11, 1977, the Los Angeles Times came near to the heart of
|
||||
the matter, nearer than any other newspaper, when it published a
|
||||
remarkable interview with Dr. Gerard O'Neill.</p>
|
||||
remarkable interview with Dr. Gerard O'<ent type = 'person'>Neill</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Dr. O'Neill is a Princeton professor who served, during a 1976
|
||||
<p>Dr. O'<ent type = 'person'>Neill</ent> is a Princeton professor who served, during a 1976
|
||||
sabbatical, as Professor of Aerospace at the Massachusetts Institute of
|
||||
Technology and who gets nearly $500,000 each year in research grants from
|
||||
NASA. Here is a section from that article:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The United Nations, he says, has conservatively estimated that the
|
||||
world's population, now more than 4 billion people, will grow to about 6.5
|
||||
world's <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>pulation, now more than 4 billion people, will grow to about 6.5
|
||||
billion by the year 2000. Today, he adds, about 30% of the world's
|
||||
population is in developed nations. But, because most of the projected
|
||||
population growth will occur in underdeveloped countries, that will drop to
|
||||
22% by the end of the century. The world of 2000 will be poorer and
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>pulation is in developed nations. But, because most of the projected
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>pulation growth will occur in underdeveloped countries, that will drop to
|
||||
22% by the end of the century. The world of 2000 will be <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>orer and
|
||||
hungrier than the world today, he says.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Dr. O'Neill also explained the problems caused by the earth's 4,000 mile
|
||||
<p>Dr. O'<ent type = 'person'>Neill</ent> also explained the problems caused by the earth's 4,000 mile
|
||||
atmospheric layer, but presumably because the article was comparatively
|
||||
short one, he was not quoted on the additional threat posed by the notorious
|
||||
short one, he was not quoted on the additional threat <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>sed by the notorious
|
||||
"greenhouse" syndrome.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>His solution? He called it Island 3. And he added: "There's no debate
|
||||
about the technology involved in doing it. That's been confirmed by NASA's
|
||||
top people."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But Dr. O'Neill, a family man with three children who like to fly
|
||||
<p>But Dr. O'<ent type = 'person'>Neill</ent>, a family man with three children who like to fly
|
||||
sailplanes in his spare time, did not realize that he was slightly off target.
|
||||
He was right, of course, about the technology.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But he knew nothing of the political ramifications and he would have
|
||||
<p>But he knew nothing of the <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>litical ramifications and he would have
|
||||
been astounded to learn that NASA was feeding his research to the Russians.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Even eminent political specialists, as respected in their sphere as Dr.
|
||||
O'Neill is in his own, have been puzzled by an undercurrent they have
|
||||
<p>Even eminent <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>litical specialists, as respected in their sphere as Dr.
|
||||
O'<ent type = 'person'>Neill</ent> is in his own, have been puzzled by an undercurrent they have
|
||||
detected in East-West relationships.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Professor G. Gordon Broadbent, director of the independently financed
|
||||
<p>Professor G. <ent type = 'person'>Gordon Broadbent</ent>, director of the independently financed
|
||||
Institute of Political Studies in London and author of a major study of
|
||||
U.S.-Soviet diplomacy since the 1950s, emphasized that fact on June 20,
|
||||
1977, when he was interviewed on Sceptre Television:</p>
|
||||
@ -255,41 +255,41 @@ nothing. Now it could just be and I stress the word 'could' that this
|
||||
unknown factor is some kind of massive but covert operation in space. But
|
||||
as for the reasons behind it we are not in the business of speculation."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Washington's acute discomfort over O'Neill's revelations through the Los
|
||||
<p>Washington's acute discomfort over O'<ent type = 'person'>Neill</ent>'s revelations through the Los
|
||||
Angeles Times can be assessed by the urgency with which a "suppression"
|
||||
Bill was rushed to the Statute Book.</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bill</ent> was rushed to the Statute Book.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On July 27, 1977, only sixteen days after publication of the O'Neill
|
||||
interview columnist Jeremy Campbell reported in the London Evening
|
||||
Standard that the Bill would become law that September. He wrote:</p>
|
||||
<p>On July 27, 1977, only sixteen days after publication of the O'<ent type = 'person'>Neill</ent>
|
||||
interview columnist <ent type = 'person'>Jeremy Campbell</ent> re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rted in the London Evening
|
||||
Standard that the <ent type = 'person'>Bill</ent> would become law that September. He wrote:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It prohibits the publishing of an official report without permission,
|
||||
<p>It prohibits the publishing of an official re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rt without permission,
|
||||
arguing that this obstructs the Government's control of its own information.
|
||||
That was precisely the charge brought against Daniel Ellsberg for giving the
|
||||
That was precisely the charge brought against <ent type = 'person'>Daniel Ellsberg</ent> for giving the
|
||||
Pentagon papers to the New York Times.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Most ominous of all, the Bill would make it a crime for any present or
|
||||
<p>Most ominous of all, the <ent type = 'person'>Bill</ent> would make it a crime for any present or
|
||||
former civil servant to tell the Press of Government wrong doing or pass on
|
||||
any news based on information "submitted to the Government in private."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Campbell pointed out that this final clause "has given serious pain to
|
||||
<p>Campbell <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>inted out that this final clause "has given serious pain to
|
||||
guardians of American Press freedom because it creates a brand new crime."
|
||||
Particularly as there was provision in the Bill for offending journalists to be
|
||||
Particularly as there was provision in the <ent type = 'person'>Bill</ent> for offending journalists to be
|
||||
sent to prison for up to six years.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We subsequently discovered that a man called Harman Leonard Harman
|
||||
<p>We subsequently discovered that a man called <ent type = 'person'>Harman</ent> Leonard <ent type = 'person'>Harman</ent>
|
||||
read that item in the newspaper and that later, in a certain television
|
||||
executives' dining room, he expressed regret that a similar Law had not been
|
||||
executives' dining room, he expressed regret that a similar <ent type = 'person'>Law</ent> had not been
|
||||
passed years earlier by the British government.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>He was eating treacle tart with custard at the time and he reflected
|
||||
wistfully that he could then have insisted on such a Law being obeyed. That,
|
||||
wistfully that he could then have insisted on such a <ent type = 'person'>Law</ent> being obeyed. That,
|
||||
when it came to Alternative 3, would have saved him from a great deal of
|
||||
trouble.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>He had chosen treacle tart, not because he particularly liked it, but
|
||||
because it was 2p(ence) cheaper than the chocolate sponge. That was
|
||||
typical of Harman.</p>
|
||||
because it was 2p(ence) cheaper than the chocolate s<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>nge. That was
|
||||
typical of <ent type = 'person'>Harman</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>He was one of the people, as you may have learned already through the
|
||||
Press, who tried to interfere with the publication of this book. We will later
|
||||
@ -297,12 +297,12 @@ be presenting some of the letters received by us from him and his lawyers
|
||||
together with the replies from our legal advisers.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We decided to print these letters in order to give you a thorough insight
|
||||
into our investigation for it is important to stress that we, like Professor
|
||||
into our investigation for it is im<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rtant to stress that we, like Professor
|
||||
Broadbent, are not in the "business of speculation." We are interested only in
|
||||
the facts.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>And it is intriguing to note the pattern of facts relating to astronauts
|
||||
who have been on Moon missions and who have therefore been exposed to
|
||||
who have been on <ent type = 'person'>Moon</ent> missions and who have therefore been ex<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>sed to
|
||||
some of the surprises presented by Alternative 3.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A number, undermined by the strain of being party to such a
|
||||
@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ destroyed what had been secure and successful marriages.</p>
|
||||
<p>Yet these were men originally picked from many thousands precisely
|
||||
because of their stability. Their training and experience, intelligence and
|
||||
physical fitness all these, of course, were prime considerations in their
|
||||
selection. But the supremely important quality was their balanced
|
||||
selection. But the supremely im<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rtant quality was their balanced
|
||||
temperament.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It would need something stupendous, something almost unimaginable
|
||||
@ -324,15 +324,15 @@ perfection of Alternative 3.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We are not suggesting that the President of the United States has had
|
||||
personal knowledge of the terror and clinical cruelties which have been an
|
||||
integral part of the Operation, for that would make him directly responsible
|
||||
integral part of the Operation, for that would make him directly res<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>nsible
|
||||
for murders and barbarous mutilations.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We are convinced, in fact, that this is not the case. The President and
|
||||
the Russian leader, together with their immediate subordinates, have been
|
||||
concerned only with broad sweep of policy.</p>
|
||||
concerned only with broad sweep of <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>licy.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>They have acted in unison to ensure what they consider to be the best
|
||||
possible future for mankind. And the day to day details have been delegated
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>ssible future for mankind. And the day to day details have been delegated
|
||||
to high level professionals.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>These professionals, we have now established, have been classifying
|
||||
@ -358,11 +358,11 @@ prevailing circumstances, they could be justified.</p>
|
||||
documentary, his conscience finally goaded him into action. He knew the
|
||||
appalling risk he was taking, for he was aware of what had happened to
|
||||
others who had betrayed the secrets of Alternative 3, but he made telephone
|
||||
contact with television reporter Colin Benson and offered to provide Benson
|
||||
contact with television re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rter <ent type = 'person'>Colin <ent type = 'person'>Benson</ent></ent> and offered to provide <ent type = 'person'>Benson</ent>
|
||||
with evidence of the most astounding nature.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>He was calling, he said, from abroad but he was prepared to travel to
|
||||
London. They met two days later. And he then explained to Benson that
|
||||
London. They met two days later. And he then explained to <ent type = 'person'>Benson</ent> that
|
||||
copies of most orders and memoranda, together with transcripts prepared
|
||||
from tapes of Policy Committee meetings, were filed in triplicate in
|
||||
Washington, Moscow and Geneva where Alternative 3 had its operational
|
||||
@ -371,31 +371,31 @@ headquarters.</p>
|
||||
<p>The system had been instituted to ensure there was no
|
||||
misunderstanding between the principal partners. He occasionally had
|
||||
access to some of that material although it was often weeks or even months
|
||||
old before he saw it and he was willing to supply what he could to Benson.
|
||||
old before he saw it and he was willing to supply what he could to <ent type = 'person'>Benson</ent>.
|
||||
He wanted no money. He merely wanted to alert the public, to help stop the
|
||||
mass atrocities.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Benson's immediate reaction, after he had assessed the value of this
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Benson</ent>'s immediate reaction, after he had assessed the value of this
|
||||
offer, was that Sceptre should mount a follow up programme, one which
|
||||
would expose the horrors of Alternative 3 in far greater depth.</p>
|
||||
would ex<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>se the horrors of Alternative 3 in far greater depth.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>He argued bitterly with his superiors at Sceptre but they were adamant.
|
||||
The company was already in serious trouble with the government and there
|
||||
was some doubt about whether its licence would be renewed. They refused
|
||||
to consider the possibility of doing another programme. They had officially
|
||||
to consider the <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>ssibility of doing another programme. They had officially
|
||||
disclaimed the Alternative 3 documentary as a hoax and that was where the
|
||||
matter had to rest.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Anyway, they pointed out, this character who'd come forward was
|
||||
<p>Anyway, they <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>inted out, this character who'd come forward was
|
||||
probably a nut$ If you saw the documentary, you will probably realize that
|
||||
Benson is a stubborn man. His friends say he is pig obstinate. They also say
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Benson</ent> is a stubborn man. His friends say he is pig obstinate. They also say
|
||||
he is a first class investigative journalist.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>He was angry about this attempt to suppress the truth and that is why
|
||||
he agreed to co-operate in the preparation of this book. That co-operation
|
||||
has been invaluable.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Through Benson we met the telephone caller who we now refer to as
|
||||
<p>Through <ent type = 'person'>Benson</ent> we met the telephone caller who we now refer to as
|
||||
Trojan. And that meeting resulted in our acquiring documents, which we
|
||||
will be presenting, including transcripts of tapes made at the most secret
|
||||
rendezvous in the world, thirty five fathoms beneath the ice cap of the
|
||||
@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ and that, in breaking his oath of silence, he is prompted by the most
|
||||
honourable of motives.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>He stands in relation to the Alternative 3 conspiracy in much the same
|
||||
position as the anonymous informant "Deep Throat" occupied in the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>sition as the anonymous informant "<ent type = 'person'>Deep Throat</ent>" occupied in the
|
||||
Watergate affair. Most of the "batch consignments" have been taken from the
|
||||
area known as the Bermuda Triangle but numerous other locations have also
|
||||
been used.</p>
|
||||
@ -419,38 +419,38 @@ story: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The disappearance in bizarre circumstances in the past two weeks of
|
||||
20 people from small coastal communities in Oregon was being intensively
|
||||
investigated at the weekend amid reports of an imaginative fraud scheme
|
||||
investigated at the weekend amid re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rts of an imaginative fraud scheme
|
||||
involving a "flying saucer" and hints of mass murder.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Sheriff's officers at Newport, Oregon, said that the 20 individuals had
|
||||
vanished without trace after being told to give away all their possessions,
|
||||
including their children, so that they could be transported in a flying saucer
|
||||
<p>Sheriff's officers at New<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rt, Oregon, said that the 20 individuals had
|
||||
vanished without trace after being told to give away all their <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>ssessions,
|
||||
including their children, so that they could be trans<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rted in a flying saucer
|
||||
"by UFO to a better life."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"Deputies under Mr. Ron Sutton, chief criminal investigator in
|
||||
<p>"Deputies under Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Ron <ent type = 'person'>Sutton</ent></ent>, chief criminal investigator in
|
||||
surrounding Lincoln County, have traced the story back to a meeting on
|
||||
September 14 in a resort hotel, the Bayshore Inn at Waldport, Oregon$
|
||||
Local police have received conflicting reports as to what occurred (at the
|
||||
September 14 in a resort hotel, the Bayshore Inn at Wald<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rt, Oregon$
|
||||
Local <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>lice have received conflicting re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rts as to what occurred (at the
|
||||
meeting).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But while it is clear that the speaker did not pretend to be from outer
|
||||
space, he told the audience how their souls could be "saved through a UFO.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"The hall had been reserved for a fee of $50 by a man and a woman who
|
||||
gave false names. Mr. Sutton said witnesses had described them as "fortyish,
|
||||
gave false names. Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Sutton</ent> said witnesses had described them as "fortyish,
|
||||
well groomed, straight types."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Telegraph said that "selected people would be prepared at a special
|
||||
camp in Colorado for life on another planet" and quoted Investigator Sutton
|
||||
camp in Colorado for life on another planet" and quoted Investigator <ent type = 'person'>Sutton</ent>
|
||||
as adding:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"They were told they would have to give away everything, even their
|
||||
children. I'm checking a report of one family who supposedly gave away
|
||||
children. I'm checking a re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rt of one family who sup<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>sedly gave away
|
||||
150-acre farm and three children."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"We don't know if it's fraud or whether these people might be killed.
|
||||
There are all sorts of rumours, including some about human sacrifice and
|
||||
that this is sponsored by the (Charles) Manson family."</p>
|
||||
that this is s<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>nsored by the (Charles) Manson family."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"Most of the missing 20 were described as being "hippie types"
|
||||
although there were some older people among them."</p>
|
||||
@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ although there were some older people among them."</p>
|
||||
known as "scientifically adjusted" to fit them for a new role as a slave
|
||||
species.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>There have been equally strange reports of animals, particularly farm
|
||||
<p>There have been equally strange re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rts of animals, particularly farm
|
||||
animals, disappearing in large numbers. And occasionally it appears that
|
||||
aspects of the Alternative 3 operation have been bungled, that attempts to
|
||||
lift "batch consignments" of humans or of animals have failed.</p>
|
||||
@ -469,12 +469,12 @@ carried this story:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Men in face masks, using metal detectors and a geiger counter,
|
||||
yesterday scoured a remote Dartmoor valley in a bid to solve a macabre
|
||||
mystery. Their search centred on marshy grassland where 15 wild ponies
|
||||
mystery. Their search centred on marshy grassland where 15 wild <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>nies
|
||||
were found dead, their bodies mangled and torn.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>All appeared to have died at about the same time, and many of the bones
|
||||
have been inexplicably shattered. To add to the riddle, their bodies
|
||||
decomposed to virtual skeletons within only 48 hours.</p>
|
||||
decom<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>sed to virtual skeletons within only 48 hours.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Animal experts confess they are baffled by the deaths at Cherry Brook
|
||||
Valley near Postbridge.</p>
|
||||
@ -484,20 +484,20 @@ Unidentified Flying Objects centre at Torquay who are trying to prove a link
|
||||
with outer space.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>They believe that flying saucers may have flown low over the area and
|
||||
created a vortex which hurled the ponies to their death. Mr. John Wyse,
|
||||
created a vortex which hurled the <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>nies to their death. Mr. <ent type = 'person'>John Wyse</ent>,
|
||||
head of the four-man team, said:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"If a spacecraft has been in the vicinity, there may still be detectable
|
||||
evidence. We wanted to see if there was any sign that the ponies had been
|
||||
evidence. We wanted to see if there was any sign that the <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>nies had been
|
||||
shot but we have found nothing. This incident bears an uncanny
|
||||
resemblance to similar events reported in America."</p>
|
||||
resemblance to similar events re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rted in America."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Mail report concluded with a statement from an official
|
||||
<p>The Mail re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rt concluded with a statement from an official
|
||||
representing The Dartmoor Livestock Protection Society and the Animal
|
||||
Defence Society:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"Whatever happened was violent. We are keeping an open mind. I am
|
||||
fascinated by the UFO theory. There is no reason to reject that possibility
|
||||
fascinated by the UFO theory. There is no reason to reject that <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>ssibility
|
||||
since there is no other rational explanation."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>These, then, were typical of the threads, which inspired the original
|
||||
@ -506,9 +506,9 @@ could be embroidered into a clear picture.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Without the specialist guidance of that person the Sceptre television
|
||||
documentary could never have been produced, and Trojan would never have
|
||||
contacted Colin Benson.</p>
|
||||
contacted <ent type = 'person'>Colin <ent type = 'person'>Benson</ent></ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>And it would have been years, possibly seven years or even longer,
|
||||
<p>And it would have been years, <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>ssibly seven years or even longer,
|
||||
before ordinary people started to suspect the devastating truth about this
|
||||
planet on which we live. That person, of course, is the old man$</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -535,10 +535,10 @@ sanctioned by them.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We have not been able to substantiate these suspicions and allegations
|
||||
so we merely record that an unknown number of people, including
|
||||
distinguished radio astronomer Sir William Ballantine, have been executed
|
||||
because of this astonishing agreement between the super-powers.</p>
|
||||
distinguished radio astronomer Sir <ent type = 'person'>William Ballantine</ent>, have been executed
|
||||
because of this astonishing agreement between the super-<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>wers.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Prominent politicians, including two in Britain, were among those who
|
||||
<p>Prominent <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>liticians, including two in Britain, were among those who
|
||||
tried to prevent the publication of this book. They insisted that it is not
|
||||
necessary for you, and others like you, to be told the unpalatable facts.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ you ought to know. You have a right to know.</p>
|
||||
<p>Attemps were also made to neuter the television programme which first
|
||||
focused public attention on Alternative 3. Those attemps were partially
|
||||
successful. And, of course, after the programme was transmitted, when
|
||||
there was that spontaneous explosion of anxiety, Septre Television was
|
||||
there was that s<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>ntaneous explosion of anxiety, Septre Television was
|
||||
forced to issue a formal denial.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It had all been a hoax. That's what they were told to say. That's what
|
||||
@ -564,14 +564,14 @@ comfortable that way.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In fact, the television researchers did uncover far more disturbing
|
||||
material than they were allowed to transmit. The censored information is
|
||||
now in our possession. And, as we have indicated, there was a great deal
|
||||
that Benson and the rest of the television team did not discover, not until
|
||||
now in our <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>ssession. And, as we have indicated, there was a great deal
|
||||
that <ent type = 'person'>Benson</ent> and the rest of the television team did not discover, not until
|
||||
after their programme had been screened. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>------------------------------------------------------------------------ </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Copies of Alternative 3 are rare. There is a source in ENGLAND which
|
||||
we do not currently know, however, you may purchase an imported copy for
|
||||
we do not currently know, however, you may purchase an im<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rted copy for
|
||||
about $11.00 from Metaphysical Book Store, 9511 E. Colfax, Aurora, CO
|
||||
80010 (303) 341-7562. Please mention that you got the address from VANGARD
|
||||
SCIENCES or the KeelyNet Bulletin Board System. Thanks.</p>
|
||||
@ -586,13 +586,13 @@ KeelyNet (214) 324-3501</p>
|
||||
<p>======================================================================</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Truth about Alternative 3
|
||||
from its author, Leslie Watkins</p>
|
||||
from its author, <ent type = 'person'>Leslie Watkins</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>(This article is taken from the $Windwords$ newsletter)
|
||||
address not available</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In our June issue, we told you about the controversial book Alternative
|
||||
3, by British author Leslie Watkins. In out attempt to find out if the
|
||||
3, by British author <ent type = 'person'>Leslie Watkins</ent>. In out attempt to find out if the
|
||||
shocking theories in the book were true, we called Avon Books, the
|
||||
American publisher; they said the book was out of print in the states. We
|
||||
called Penguin Books in London and found that it was listed on their
|
||||
@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ classified as FICTION BASED ON FACT. The author's agent told us it was
|
||||
most definitely fiction. We wrote to the author himself to try to get the
|
||||
real story, and here is the letter he sent us.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Dear Ms. Dittrich:</p>
|
||||
<p>Dear Ms. <ent type = 'person'>Dittrich</ent>:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Thank you for your letter, which reached me today. Naturally, I am
|
||||
delighted by your interest in Alternative 3 and by the fact that you plan to
|
||||
@ -613,16 +613,16 @@ representative from Penguin Books. The book is based on fact, but uses that
|
||||
fact as a launchpad for a HIGH DIVE INTO FICTION. In answer to your
|
||||
specific questions:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1) There is no astronaut named Grodin.
|
||||
2) There is no Sceptre Television and the reported Benson is also
|
||||
<p>1) There is no astronaut named <ent type = 'person'>Grodin</ent>.
|
||||
2) There is no Sceptre Television and the re<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>rted <ent type = 'person'>Benson</ent> is also
|
||||
fictional.
|
||||
3) There is no Dr. Gerstein.
|
||||
3) There is no Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Gerstein</ent>.
|
||||
4) Yes, a "documentary" was televised in June 1977 on Anglia
|
||||
Television, which went out to the entire national network in Britain.
|
||||
It was called Alternative 3 and was written by David Ambrose and
|
||||
produced by Christopher Miles (whose names were on the book for
|
||||
It was called Alternative 3 and was written by <ent type = 'person'>David Ambrose</ent> and
|
||||
produced by <ent type = 'person'>Christopher Miles</ent> (whose names were on the book for
|
||||
contractual reasons). This original TV version, which I EXPANDED
|
||||
IMMENSELY for the book, was ACTUALLY A HOAX which had been
|
||||
IMMENSELY for the book, was <ent type = 'person'>ACTUALLY</ent> A HOAX which had been
|
||||
scheduled for transmission on April Fools' Day. Because of certain
|
||||
problems in finding the right network slot, the transmission was
|
||||
delayed.</p>
|
||||
@ -633,18 +633,18 @@ basic premise was so way-out, particularly the way I aimed to
|
||||
present it in the book, that no one would regard it as non-fiction.
|
||||
Immediately after publication, I realized I was totally wrong. In fact,
|
||||
the amazing mountains of letters from virtually all parts of the world
|
||||
including vast numbers from highly intelligent people in positions of
|
||||
responsibility-convinced me that I had ACCIDENTALLY trespassed
|
||||
including vast numbers from highly intelligent people in <ent type = 'person'>po</ent>sitions of
|
||||
res<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>nsibility-convinced me that I had <ent type = 'person'>ACCIDENTALLY</ent> trespassed
|
||||
into a range of top-secret truths. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Documentary evidence provided by many of these
|
||||
correspondents decided me to write a serious and COMPLETELY
|
||||
corres<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>ndents decided me to write a serious and COMPLETELY
|
||||
NON-FICTION sequel. Unfortunately, a chest containing the bulk of
|
||||
the letters was among the items which were mysteriously LOST IN
|
||||
TRANSIT some four years when I moved from London, England, to
|
||||
Sydney, Australia, before I moved on to settle in New Zealand. For
|
||||
some time after Alternative 3 was originally published, I have
|
||||
reason to suppose that my home telephone was being tapped and my
|
||||
reason to sup<ent type = 'person'>po</ent>se that my home telephone was being tapped and my
|
||||
contacts who were experienced in such matters were convinced
|
||||
that certain intelligence agencies considered that I probably knew
|
||||
too much.</p>
|
||||
@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ that I inadvertently got VERY CLOSE TO A SECRET TRUTH. I hope this is of
|
||||
some help to you and I look forward to hearing from you again.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>With best wishes,
|
||||
Leslie Watkins</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Leslie Watkins</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Unfortunately, Alternative 3 is no longer available. We (Windwords)
|
||||
bought all the remaining copies from the British publisher and those quickly
|
||||
|
@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
|
||||
<p>From: San Francisco Chronicle, Wed. Dec. 12, 1990 (Briefing Section)
|
||||
----</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The British Zionists were led by Chaim Weizmann, a brilliant chemist who
|
||||
<p>The British Zionists were led by <ent type = 'person'>Chaim Weizmann</ent>, a brilliant chemist who
|
||||
contributed to the war effort by discovering a new process for manufacturing
|
||||
acetone, a substance vital for TNT that was until then only produced in
|
||||
Germany. Weizmann saw a historic opening for Zionism and began to lobby
|
||||
@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Zionists would work for the establishment of a British protectorate there.
|
||||
This suited Britain better than the agreement it had already made with
|
||||
France for an international administration for Palestine.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>So on November 2, 1917, Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour made his famous
|
||||
<p>So on November 2, 1917, Foreign Secretary <ent type = 'person'>Arthur Balfour</ent> made his famous
|
||||
and deeply ambiguous declaration that Britain would "view with favor the
|
||||
establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..."
|
||||
How did the pledge to the Zionists square with what had already been
|
||||
@ -32,19 +32,19 @@ Turks? The Arabs realized that they had been outmaneuvered.</p>
|
||||
Zionists (Jews) were given permission by Great Britain to take
|
||||
over Palestine and keep lands which do not belong to them. And
|
||||
the US has not done anything about it. Why? Because of the
|
||||
better known media, which are all Zionists. (ie. Ted Koppell,
|
||||
Larry King, etc etc etc) Many large corporations are also run
|
||||
better known media, which are all Zionists. (ie. <ent type = 'person'>Ted Koppell</ent>,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Larry King</ent>, etc etc etc) Many large corporations are also run
|
||||
by Jews, including many of the large corporations which make
|
||||
stuff for our military. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Note - The American Anti-Jewish League in no way supports the naked
|
||||
aggression committed by Saddam Hussein against Kuwait. He
|
||||
aggression committed by <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Saddam</ent> Hussein</ent> against Kuwait. He
|
||||
must leave Kuwait, even though Kuwait, contrary to popular
|
||||
opinion, once WAS a PROVINCE of Iraq. There is no doubt about
|
||||
this: just go to your public library and get a good book on
|
||||
Iraq, Kuwait, or British Foreign Policy in the Middle East.
|
||||
Once again, it was the British (and French) who set up the
|
||||
current boundaries which exist today. However, what Saddam
|
||||
current boundaries which exist today. However, what <ent type = 'person'>Saddam</ent>
|
||||
has done must be overruled, exactly as what the Jews have
|
||||
done to Palestine must be stopped. Do you know how much of
|
||||
our TAXES go to Israel every year? Do you know how much
|
||||
@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ TV and at cinemas in which the world is pitted against the Germans, and
|
||||
the Germans always lose. These movies are still shown every day on TV and
|
||||
cable. Just turn on TBS, TNT, etc. Anyway, now it is the Arabs. And
|
||||
now we have and soon will have more movies which bring down the Arabs.
|
||||
(ie. the new Sally Field movie, which is grossly exaggerated) Don't
|
||||
(ie. the new <ent type = 'person'>Sally Field</ent> movie, which is grossly exaggerated) <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>'t
|
||||
forget who runs most of the TV networks and movie studios. So why do
|
||||
so many people hate Jews (also known as Zionists, semitic people (not very
|
||||
correctly though), Israelites, Israelis) The answer to this question
|
||||
@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ doing the same thing, and when successful, suppressing all opposing
|
||||
views. Now they have finally succeeded in turning the whole world
|
||||
against Iraq, the 2nd biggest anti-Zionist country in the world. This
|
||||
of course, has been done in an indirect manner, and has taken them a
|
||||
lot of time. But it has worked. Once Saddam is ousted, thanks to
|
||||
lot of time. But it has worked. Once <ent type = 'person'>Saddam</ent> is ousted, thanks to
|
||||
our soldiers and money, they will then begin to slowly get control of
|
||||
the region. There is still Iran, Syria, and other countries, but they
|
||||
can be taken care of too. It will not be easy for them, because the
|
||||
@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ a barbarian, uncivilized. Just throw a nuke on you, many say. So
|
||||
what do you do? This is exactly what is happening to the Palestinian
|
||||
people. Please, do something about it. Or at least, next time you
|
||||
hear Jews, Jewish propaganda, or some other Jewish views, question
|
||||
them, embarass them. Don't believe everything they say. Become
|
||||
them, embarass them. <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>'t believe everything they say. Become
|
||||
more informed. STOP THEM BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> American Anti-Jewish League
|
||||
@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ more informed. STOP THEM BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!</p>
|
||||
----------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1. Consulate General of Israel
|
||||
220 Bush
|
||||
220 <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>
|
||||
San Francisco, CA.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> (415) 398-8885</p>
|
||||
@ -220,14 +220,14 @@ more informed. STOP THEM BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
(415) 752-4979</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>5. Congregation Beth Israel-Judea
|
||||
<p>5. Congregation <ent type = 'person'>Beth</ent> Israel-Judea
|
||||
Rabbi Herbert Morris
|
||||
625 Brotherhood Way</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> (415) 586-8833</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>6. Congregation Beth Sholom
|
||||
Rabbi Alexander Graubart
|
||||
<p>6. Congregation <ent type = 'person'>Beth</ent> Sholom
|
||||
Rabbi <ent type = 'person'>Alexander Graubart</ent>
|
||||
14th Ave & Clement</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> (415) 221-8736</p>
|
||||
@ -235,14 +235,14 @@ more informed. STOP THEM BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!</p>
|
||||
<p>7. Congregation B'Nai B'Rit Ha Mashiach
|
||||
(415) 992-2079</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>8. Congregation B'Nai Emunah (Conservative Jews - Give 'em HELL!)
|
||||
Rabbi Theodore R. Alexander
|
||||
<p>8. Congregation B'<ent type = 'person'>Nai Emunah</ent> (Conservative Jews - Give 'em HELL!)
|
||||
Rabbi <ent type = 'person'>Theodore</ent> R. Alexander
|
||||
3595 Taraval</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> (415) 664-7373</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>9. Congregation B'Nai Israel (also conservative)
|
||||
Rabbi Malcolm Cohen
|
||||
Rabbi <ent type = 'person'>Malcolm Cohen</ent>
|
||||
1575 Annie</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> (415) 756-5430</p>
|
||||
@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ more informed. STOP THEM BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> UPDATE</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>So, now that Saddam Hussein has fired Scud missiles into Israel, and the
|
||||
<p>So, now that <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Saddam</ent> Hussein</ent> has fired Scud missiles into Israel, and the
|
||||
Jews have shown restraint, they immediately expect something from us. Today
|
||||
they asked for 13 billion more dollars (billion, not million). In addition
|
||||
to this, they have asked for another $10 billion from other countries.
|
||||
@ -314,9 +314,9 @@ on this planet who have none of the above. Instead, we send this money to
|
||||
a country which from its very beginning has caused trouble. Possibly, no
|
||||
other country has ever caused so many problems for humankind in history.
|
||||
These Jewish pigs are now taking advantage of the circumstances to get many
|
||||
of their ideas across, and thanks to Saddam, they are being very success-
|
||||
of their ideas across, and thanks to <ent type = 'person'>Saddam</ent>, they are being very success-
|
||||
ful. All the TV networks (most of which are run by Jews (many of the news
|
||||
directors are Jewish, plus anchormen as well, such as Ted Coppel, Larry
|
||||
directors are Jewish, plus anchormen as well, such as <ent type = 'person'>Ted Coppel</ent>, Larry
|
||||
King, etc etc)) are interviewing Jewish state figures, and asking them
|
||||
favorable questions. CNN itself constantly interviews many Jewish heads
|
||||
of state. But very few Arab leaders/figures are interviews, and if done
|
||||
@ -326,11 +326,11 @@ reflect the majority opinion of Arabs) All the Jewish pigs interviewed
|
||||
have been saying: "Now the world knows what we have had to put up with
|
||||
all these years", when in fact, it is exactly the opposite! It is what
|
||||
the Arab people have had to put up with, especially the Palestinians,
|
||||
who unfortunately supported Saddam's aggression. This is truly sad,
|
||||
who unfortunately supported <ent type = 'person'>Saddam</ent>'s aggression. This is truly sad,
|
||||
because it has given the Palestinians a very bad image, especially in
|
||||
the USA. Many of you are probably saying, "Oh, those poor Israelis,
|
||||
look what they have to put up with. If San Francisco was bombed, I
|
||||
would do the same too." And this is somewhat true; Saddam is a brutal
|
||||
would do the same too." And this is somewhat true; <ent type = 'person'>Saddam</ent> is a brutal
|
||||
dictator, and the only thing he has done is help the Zionist pigs.
|
||||
So here we go again; we've given them Patriot missile systems (each
|
||||
Patriot missile costs $1 million - this is your TAX money!) Now we're
|
||||
|
@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
|
||||
<p>History</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The FBI traces its roots back to the year 1908 when then U.S. Attorney General
|
||||
Charles Bonaparte directed that Department of Justice investigations be handled
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Charles Bonaparte</ent> directed that Department of Justice investigations be handled
|
||||
by a small group of special investigators. The group was formed as the Bureau
|
||||
of Investigation and, in 1935, the present day name was designated by Congress.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -37,17 +37,17 @@ serves as the basis of the arrest warrant.</p>
|
||||
jurisdiction. The FBI will, however, render all possible assistance to the
|
||||
local police through the FBI Laboratory and Identification Division. The FBI
|
||||
LID maintains fingerprint files on approximately 70 million (yes, million)
|
||||
people. The FBI also maintains the National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
|
||||
people. The FBI also maintains the National Crime Information Center (N<ent type = 'person'>CI</ent>C)
|
||||
which keeps records of missing persons, serialized stolen property, wanted
|
||||
persons for whom an arrest warrant is outstanding, and criminal histories on
|
||||
individuals arrested and fingerprinted for serious or significant offenses.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The NCIC is a computerized information system established by the FBI as a
|
||||
<p>The N<ent type = 'person'>CI</ent>C is a computerized information system established by the FBI as a
|
||||
service to all criminal justice agencies- local, state and Federal. The
|
||||
information can be instantly retrieved over a vast communications network
|
||||
through the use of telecommunications equipment in criminal justice centers in
|
||||
various locations in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Many times when
|
||||
monitoring the local or county police/sheriff departments a reference to a NCIC
|
||||
monitoring the local or county police/sheriff departments a reference to a N<ent type = 'person'>CI</ent>C
|
||||
check is heard.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The FBI is involved in criminal investigations and foreign counterintelligence
|
||||
@ -212,8 +212,8 @@ this editor.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The list of Field Offices and RA's is not 100% accurate, updates please. The
|
||||
number of RA's may differ from the call letter assignment block for a given
|
||||
F.O. because many RA's were closed and consolidated during the Carter and early
|
||||
Regan administrations. The call letters were assigned prior to their
|
||||
F.O. because many RA's were closed and consolidated during the <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> and early
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Regan</ent> administrations. The call letters were assigned prior to their
|
||||
administrations.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The F.O. call letters will be the first is an assigned block for a given F.O.
|
||||
@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ same radio traffic. Chicago F.O. also still uses some remote VHF receive/UHF
|
||||
re-transmit link sites, but most are believed to be converted to microwave
|
||||
links.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Also 167.7625 which Randy Strayer and this editor received via skip between KSC
|
||||
<p>Also 167.7625 which <ent type = 'person'>Randy Strayer</ent> and this editor received via skip between KSC
|
||||
210 and KSC 216. Channel identified as Bravo 1.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Detroit "DE" Field Office - RA's</p>
|
||||
@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ Johnson City base call is KEV-243
|
||||
Knoxville Unit Numbers: 99 - Aircraft; mobile units 1 - 69.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Los Angeles F.O.: An excellent complete and detailed listing is available from
|
||||
Mobile Radio Resources (2661 Carol Drive, San Jose, CA 95125). The FBI in LA
|
||||
Mobile Radio Resources (2661 <ent type = 'person'>Carol Drive</ent>, San Jose, CA 95125). The FBI in LA
|
||||
utilizes repeater channels in the 162, 163, 164, and 165 MHZ frequency range.
|
||||
Inputs can be found in the 167 MHz frequencies. The 165 repeater frequencies
|
||||
are 167.5875 and 165.7125.</p>
|
||||
@ -434,22 +434,22 @@ the 167 MHz range. The 165 repeater is on 167.5625 MHz.</p>
|
||||
<p>San Francisco F.O. sampling via MRS GRS directory: Repeaters in the 163 and 167
|
||||
MHz frequency ranges with inputs in the 167 and 162 MHz ranges respectively.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Tampa-St. Petersburg from Blaine Brooks: A-2: 167.725; A-3 167.325; A-5
|
||||
<p>Tampa-St. Petersburg from <ent type = 'person'>Blaine Brooks</ent>: A-2: 167.725; A-3 167.325; A-5
|
||||
167.3875; A-6 167.275; repeater on 163.9875 and 419.250 UHF satellite receiver
|
||||
link.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>CINCINNATI FIELD OFFICE OPERATIONS</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>CI</ent>N<ent type = 'person'>CI</ent>NNATI FIELD OFFICE OPERATIONS</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Cincinnati Field Office originally had nine Resident Agencies which were
|
||||
located in Athens, Chillicothe, Columbus, Dayton, Hamilton, Portsmouth,
|
||||
Springfield, Steubenville and Zanesville. The Springfield office is closed and
|
||||
I am not sure about the Zanesville R.A.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The CI F.O. and R.A.'s radio communication systems are DES (Digital Encryption
|
||||
Standard) capable and are utilized on a regular basis. CI appears to have a 32
|
||||
<p>The <ent type = 'person'>CI</ent> F.O. and R.A.'s radio communication systems are DES (Digital Encryption
|
||||
Standard) capable and are utilized on a regular basis. <ent type = 'person'>CI</ent> appears to have a 32
|
||||
channel DES system in place as testing was monitored during 1988 and 1989. Most
|
||||
of their frequencies remained the same from the previous DES days. Note that
|
||||
the CI radios are VHF/UHF mobiles. Refer to the B channel series in the
|
||||
the <ent type = 'person'>CI</ent> radios are VHF/UHF mobiles. Refer to the B channel series in the
|
||||
frequency list.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The signal numbers do not appear to be squad base (logically grouping by
|
||||
@ -457,14 +457,14 @@ general agent function such as bank robbery squad or drug enforcement, or by
|
||||
R.A.'s), but rather a numeric numbering scheme starting with 1 and into the low
|
||||
100's.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The CI F.O./R.A. operations still need some work from our southern Ohio members
|
||||
as allot of holes and gaps remain. The following profile on CI was mainly made
|
||||
<p>The <ent type = 'person'>CI</ent> F.O./R.A. operations still need some work from our southern Ohio members
|
||||
as allot of holes and gaps remain. The following profile on <ent type = 'person'>CI</ent> was mainly made
|
||||
possible by the efforts of Bill Gillie, Tony Cono, Rick Poorman, another member
|
||||
who desires to named Mr. Anonymous, and this editor.</p>
|
||||
who desires to named Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Anonymous</ent>, and this editor.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>NOTE: ALL OHIO data is confirmed unless noted otherwise.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>CI Call Letter Assignments</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>CI</ent> Call Letter Assignments</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> KQC 390 Cincinnati
|
||||
KQC 391 Dayton
|
||||
@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ who desires to named Mr. Anonymous, and this editor.</p>
|
||||
KQC 398 Stubenville
|
||||
KQC 399 Zanesville</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>CI Frequency Assignments</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>CI</ent> Frequency Assignments</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 167.650 A-1 Operations simplex R.A.'s
|
||||
167.2375 A-2 " " F.O.
|
||||
@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ who desires to named Mr. Anonymous, and this editor.</p>
|
||||
163.8375/167.2375 A-7 Operations Repeater F.O.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The B channels are local option assigned meaning that each office will have a
|
||||
different set of frequencies. The CI F.O. has Cincinnati PD CH 5, 460.275R,
|
||||
different set of frequencies. The <ent type = 'person'>CI</ent> F.O. has Cincinnati PD CH 5, 460.275R,
|
||||
(B-1); Hamilton County Sheriff, 460.500R, (B-2); and several DEA frequencies.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ??? D-6 and D-8 channel designators heard, but not confirmed.</p>
|
||||
@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ different set of frequencies. The CI F.O. has Cincinnati PD CH 5, 460.275R,
|
||||
<p> 163.9875/167.650 ECC-1 (Extended Car-to-Car) repeater R.A.'s
|
||||
163.8375/167.2375 ECC-2 repeater F.O.
|
||||
163.8625/167.5375 ECC-3 SWAT/Special Operations nationwide repeater
|
||||
164.100/? ? Repeater heard with CI units</p>
|
||||
164.100/? ? Repeater heard with <ent type = 'person'>CI</ent> units</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 167.325, 167.600, 167.625, 167.6625, 167.6875 and 167.725: Simplex
|
||||
operations.</p>
|
||||
@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ operations.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 168.000 - possibly a VHF one-way link.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>CI Signal Numbering</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>CI</ent> Signal Numbering</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 390 Signals: 1, 2, 3, 20, 22, 24, 53, 71, 72, 77, 90, 106, 133, 141 and
|
||||
148.
|
||||
@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ a surveillance aircraft.</p>
|
||||
<p>CLEVELAND FIELD OFFICE OPERATIONS</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Cleveland Field Office originally had 10 Resident Agencies located in
|
||||
Akron, Canton, Elyria, Lima, Mansfield, Mentor, Painesville, Sandusky, Toledo
|
||||
Akron, Canton, Elyria, Lima, Mansfield, Mentor, Painesville, <ent type = 'person'>Sandusky</ent>, Toledo
|
||||
and Youngstown. The Mentor R.A. currently is the only R.A. out of service in
|
||||
the CV division.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ is complete.</p>
|
||||
KEX 747 Lima
|
||||
KEX 748 Mansfield
|
||||
KEX 749 Canton
|
||||
KEX 750 Sandusky</p>
|
||||
KEX 750 <ent type = 'person'>Sandusky</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>CV Frequency Assignments</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ is complete.</p>
|
||||
167.2625 " "
|
||||
167.2875 CV simplex; input to 164.100
|
||||
167.3375/162.7375 Canton R.A. Repeater
|
||||
167.3375/? Lima, Sandusky, Toledo R.A. Repeater
|
||||
167.3375/? Lima, <ent type = 'person'>Sandusky</ent>, Toledo R.A. Repeater
|
||||
167.3625/162.7625 Akron, Painesville R.A. Repeater
|
||||
167.3625 Akron, Painesville Simplex
|
||||
167.3875/? Mansfield Operations Repeater
|
||||
@ -641,8 +641,8 @@ in CV. Also try 168.000 as it may be a VHF fixed one-way link.</p>
|
||||
1000 - 1099 Canton and Mansfield R.A.'s
|
||||
Canton - 1000 to 1010; 1030 to 1040
|
||||
Mansfield - 1005, 1032 and 1033
|
||||
1100 - 1199 Sandusky and Toledo R.A.'s
|
||||
Sandusky - 1121 - 1129
|
||||
1100 - 1199 <ent type = 'person'>Sandusky</ent> and Toledo R.A.'s
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Sandusky</ent> - 1121 - 1129
|
||||
Toledo - 1100 - 1119, 1130
|
||||
1200 - 1299 Youngstown R.A. - 1200 to 1209 and 1220 to 1232.
|
||||
1300 - 1399 Radio Technicians and Vehicle Maintenance
|
||||
@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ Bird Dog - Surveillance Aircraft
|
||||
C.I. - Confidential Informant
|
||||
Diaper Change - Changing of battery (bug or trailing transmitter)
|
||||
ECC - Extended Car-to-Car
|
||||
FCI - Foreign Counter Intelligence
|
||||
F<ent type = 'person'>CI</ent> - Foreign Counter Intelligence
|
||||
Half Signal - An Agent's spouse
|
||||
H.T. - Handi-Talkies
|
||||
In-the-Pocket - Subject in surveillance net
|
||||
@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ SWAT - Special Weapons and Tactics
|
||||
Ten Check - Message Check
|
||||
Unit - A vehicle
|
||||
USA - U.S. Attorney
|
||||
Wagon - Surveillance Van
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Wagon</ent> - Surveillance Van
|
||||
Wire - Body Transmitter</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FEDERAL NEWS - FBI</p>
|
||||
@ -747,13 +747,13 @@ microphones or bugs, and if so perhaps others operate on nearby similar
|
||||
frequencies. Give it a listen and let us know.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The FBI Academy, located 40 miles south of Washington, is the host to the most
|
||||
crime ridden town in the United States - Hogan's Alley. Hogan's Alley is a
|
||||
crime ridden town in the United States - <ent type = 'person'>Hogan</ent>'s Alley. <ent type = 'person'>Hogan</ent>'s Alley is a
|
||||
"Hollywood" town with a motel, bank, post office, drug store, laundry and even
|
||||
a theater. It is used as a training ground for FBI agent trainees. Various
|
||||
scenarios are enacted under the careful eyes of supervisors. The trainees
|
||||
performance are evaluated with each exercise.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>One thing about Hogan's Alley - it has a 100% success rate in solving of cases,
|
||||
<p>One thing about <ent type = 'person'>Hogan</ent>'s Alley - it has a 100% success rate in solving of cases,
|
||||
pretty impressive. Something that is not pretty impressive about the FBI is the
|
||||
starting pay agents earn. According to a 8 January 1990 U.S. News and World
|
||||
Report quirk the starting pay of a FBI agent is $26,261. Consider that an agent
|
||||
|
@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>Volume : SIRS 1991 History, Article 56
|
||||
Subject: Keyword(s) : KENNEDY and ASSASSINATION
|
||||
Title : Do Assassinations Alter the Course of History?
|
||||
Author : <person>Simon Freeman</person> and Ronald Payne
|
||||
Author : <ent type = 'person'>Simon Freeman</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Ronald Payne</ent>
|
||||
Source : European
|
||||
Publication Date : May 24-26, 1991
|
||||
Page Number(s) : 9
|
||||
@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ May 24-26, 1991, p. 9
|
||||
"Reprinted courtesy of THE EUROPEAN."
|
||||
|
||||
DO ASSASSINATIONS ALTER THE COURSE OF HISTORY?
|
||||
by <person>Simon Freeman</person> and Ronald Payne
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Simon Freeman</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Ronald Payne</ent>
|
||||
|
||||
India faces collapse with the violent death of Rajiv Gandhi--or
|
||||
does it? <person>Simon Freeman</person> and Ronald Payne analyse the importance of
|
||||
India faces collapse with the violent death of <ent type = 'person'>Rajiv <ent type = 'person'>Gandhi</ent></ent>--or
|
||||
does it? <ent type = 'person'>Simon Freeman</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Ronald Payne</ent> analyse the importance of
|
||||
individuals in the march of events
|
||||
|
||||
They have paid their tributes, expressed their horror and
|
||||
@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ that democracy will triumph in the face of terrorism. Now, in
|
||||
their weekend retreats, with their foreign affairs advisers and
|
||||
their top secret intelligence reports, world leaders will have to
|
||||
judge the true impact on India of the assassination of Rajiv
|
||||
Gandhi.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Gandhi</ent>.
|
||||
|
||||
They will conclude, perhaps a little unhappily for them but
|
||||
fortunately for the rest of us, that Gandhi's death is unlikely
|
||||
fortunately for the rest of us, that <ent type = 'person'>Gandhi</ent>'s death is unlikely
|
||||
to be more than a footnote, if a substantial one, in the history
|
||||
of his country. India will not disintegrate. There will be no
|
||||
civil war. The Indian military will not stage a coup. Pakistan
|
||||
@ -49,18 +49,18 @@ and victim were inexorably drawn together to become the catalyst
|
||||
for inevitable change.
|
||||
|
||||
The most spectacular assassination in modern European
|
||||
history--the shooting of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife
|
||||
at Sarajevo in 1914 by a Serbian student, Gavrilo Princip--was
|
||||
history--the shooting of <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Archduke</ent> Francis Ferdinand</ent> and his wife
|
||||
at Sarajevo in 1914 by a Serbian student, <ent type = 'person'>Gavrilo <ent type = 'person'>Princip</ent></ent>--was
|
||||
undoubtedly the immediate cause of the First World War. But few
|
||||
serious historians today subscribe to the theory that, had
|
||||
Princip not pressed the trigger that late June day in the cause
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Princip</ent> not pressed the trigger that late June day in the cause
|
||||
of Serbian nationalism, the 19th-century order would have
|
||||
survived.
|
||||
|
||||
Dr Christopher Andrew, of Cambridge University, believes
|
||||
Dr <ent type = 'person'>Christopher <ent type = 'person'>Andrew</ent></ent>, of Cambridge University, believes
|
||||
that the assassination merely set the timetable for war. He said:
|
||||
"Even if the Archduke had not been killed then there might have
|
||||
been a great war anyway." Other experts now talk not of Princip
|
||||
"Even if the <ent type = 'person'>Archduke</ent> had not been killed then there might have
|
||||
been a great war anyway." Other experts now talk not of <ent type = 'person'>Princip</ent>
|
||||
but of an explosive cocktail of nationalism straining within
|
||||
decrepit empires and of fatally dangerous alliances built by
|
||||
leaders from an earlier world.
|
||||
@ -73,31 +73,31 @@ stabbed because, so it was thought by the many bands of
|
||||
extremists, that was the only way to force change.
|
||||
|
||||
While there are no precise ways to assess the real
|
||||
importance of an assassination, historians like Andrew reckon
|
||||
importance of an assassination, historians like <ent type = 'person'>Andrew</ent> reckon
|
||||
that there are some general guidelines. In the stable, advanced
|
||||
democracies of today the murder of a top politician is unlikely
|
||||
to cause more than outrage and pain.
|
||||
|
||||
When the Irish Republican Army blew up the Grand Hotel in
|
||||
Brighton in 1984 in an attempt to kill Prime Minister Margaret
|
||||
Thatcher and most of her Cabinet, they hoped that there would be
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Thatcher</ent> and most of her Cabinet, they hoped that there would be
|
||||
such disgust at the murders that the British public would force
|
||||
their leaders to pull out of Northern Ireland. But, even if
|
||||
Thatcher had died this would not have happened. Her death would
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Thatcher</ent> had died this would not have happened. Her death would
|
||||
probably have strengthened her successor's resolve not to bow to
|
||||
terrorism.
|
||||
|
||||
The IRA should have known this from the reaction to the
|
||||
killing five years earlier of Lord Louis Mountbatten,
|
||||
killing five years earlier of Lord <ent type = 'person'>Louis Mountbatten</ent>,
|
||||
distinguished soldier, public servant and pillar of the British
|
||||
Establishment. The murder changed nothing in the province and
|
||||
only demonstrated, as if it was necessary, that determined
|
||||
terrorists often find ways to murder their chosen targets.
|
||||
Similarly, The Red Brigade anarchists who cold-bloodedly killed
|
||||
Aldo Moro, the Italian prime minister, in May, 1978, achieved
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Aldo Moro</ent>, the Italian prime minister, in May, 1978, achieved
|
||||
nothing except to ensure that the Italian authorities would hunt
|
||||
them with even more determination. Nor did the killers of Swedish
|
||||
Prime Minister Olof Palme accomplish anything. The murder--still
|
||||
Prime Minister <ent type = 'person'>Olof Palme</ent> accomplish anything. The murder--still
|
||||
unsolved--drew the usual, but clearly genuine, shocked response
|
||||
from world leaders. But even at the time they were hardpressed to
|
||||
pretend that Palme's murder would fundamentally matter to Sweden.
|
||||
@ -113,11 +113,11 @@ Pakistan since 1977, was blown up in his plane in the summer of
|
||||
stability of the country, his death seemed to be the fated climax
|
||||
to the era of military rule.
|
||||
|
||||
The murder of Egypt's President Sadat in October 1981 seemed
|
||||
The murder of Egypt's President <ent type = 'person'>Sadat</ent> in October 1981 seemed
|
||||
then to herald some new dark age of internal repression and
|
||||
aggression towards Israel. But his successor, Hosni Mubarak,
|
||||
aggression towards Israel. But his successor, <ent type = 'person'>Hosni Mubarak</ent>,
|
||||
merely edged closer to the Arab world without returning to the
|
||||
pre-Sadat hostility towards Israel.
|
||||
pre-<ent type = 'person'>Sadat</ent> hostility towards Israel.
|
||||
|
||||
The killers of kings and dictators in other Arab countries
|
||||
have also discovered that they have murdered in vain. Iraq has
|
||||
@ -132,22 +132,22 @@ remains immovably in power.
|
||||
violence is deeply embedded in the national consciousness, the
|
||||
grand assassination has been part of the political process for
|
||||
more than a century. Beginning with the murder of President
|
||||
Abraham Lincoln in 1865, the list of victims is a long and
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Abraham Lincoln</ent> in 1865, the list of victims is a long and
|
||||
distinguished one. It includes most recently, President John F.
|
||||
Kennedy in 1963; his brother, Robert, heir apparent, shot in
|
||||
1968; Martin Luther King, civil rights campaigner and Nobel Peace
|
||||
Prize winner, gunned down the same year. Ronald Reagan could
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> in 1963; his brother, <ent type = 'person'>Robert</ent>, heir apparent, shot in
|
||||
1968; <ent type = 'person'>Martin Luther King</ent>, civil rights campaigner and Nobel Peace
|
||||
Prize winner, gunned down the same year. <ent type = 'person'>Ronald Reagan</ent> could
|
||||
easily have followed in 1981 when he was shot and badly wounded.
|
||||
|
||||
John Kennedy's death now appears important for different
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent></ent>'s death now appears important for different
|
||||
reasons from those one might have expected at the time. It did
|
||||
not derail any of his vaunted civil rights or welfare programmes;
|
||||
rather his death guaranteed that his successor, Lyndon Johnson,
|
||||
would be able to push the Kennedy blueprint for a New America
|
||||
rather his death guaranteed that his successor, <ent type = 'person'>Lyndon Johnson</ent>,
|
||||
would be able to push the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> blueprint for a New America
|
||||
through Congress. Nor did it end the creeping US involvement in
|
||||
Vietnam.
|
||||
|
||||
But Kennedy has been immortalised by his assassin and the
|
||||
But <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> has been immortalised by his assassin and the
|
||||
mythology of his unfulfilled promise will endure long after his
|
||||
real accomplishments are forgotten.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -160,31 +160,31 @@ and their frailties exposed.
|
||||
|
||||
Few names of hated tyrants appear on the roll-call of world
|
||||
leaders who fall to the assassin's bomb, knife or bullet, writes
|
||||
Ronald Payne. One of the curiosities of the trade in political
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Ronald Payne</ent>. One of the curiosities of the trade in political
|
||||
murder is that those the world generally recognises as bad guys
|
||||
often live to a ripe old age or die quietly in their beds. Few
|
||||
who mourn the passing of Rajiv Gandhi would have shed so many
|
||||
tears had President Saddam Hussein been blown to pieces in Iraq.
|
||||
who mourn the passing of <ent type = 'person'>Rajiv <ent type = 'person'>Gandhi</ent></ent> would have shed so many
|
||||
tears had President <ent type = 'person'>Saddam <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent></ent> been blown to pieces in Iraq.
|
||||
|
||||
There was a time only a few years ago when Americans and
|
||||
Europeans would have celebrated the violent demise of President
|
||||
Muammar Gaddafi. Both the Libyan leader and Hussein live on, as
|
||||
do Idi Amin of Uganda, or Fidel Castro, whom the American Central
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Muammar Gaddafi</ent>. Both the Libyan leader and <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent> live on, as
|
||||
do <ent type = 'person'>Idi Amin</ent> of Uganda, or <ent type = 'person'>Fidel Castro</ent>, whom the American Central
|
||||
Intelligence Agency plotted so imaginatively and ineffectually to
|
||||
remove.
|
||||
|
||||
When academics play the game of what might have been, the
|
||||
consequences of assassinating such monstres sacres as Stalin and
|
||||
Hitler arise.
|
||||
consequences of assassinating such monstres sacres as <ent type = 'person'>Stalin</ent> and
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> arise.
|
||||
|
||||
When the Russian dictator died suddenly of natural causes,
|
||||
the whole Soviet Union was paralysed because no leader dared
|
||||
claim the right to succeed him. That in itself suggests what
|
||||
might have happened had Stalin been shot unexpectedly at a more
|
||||
might have happened had <ent type = 'person'>Stalin</ent> been shot unexpectedly at a more
|
||||
critical moment.
|
||||
|
||||
The timing of a political murder is crucial. Had Adolf
|
||||
Hitler been assassinated before he achieved full power or before
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> been assassinated before he achieved full power or before
|
||||
his invasion of the Soviet Union, the history of Germany, and
|
||||
indeed of Europe, would have been very different.
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>Volume : SIRS 1991 History, Article 02
|
||||
Subject: Keyword(s) : KENNEDY and ASSASSINATION
|
||||
Title : Conspiracy Theories: Doubts Refuse to Die
|
||||
Author : Bob Dudney
|
||||
Author : <ent type = 'person'>Bob Dudney</ent>
|
||||
Source : Dallas Times Herald (Dallas, Texas)
|
||||
Publication Date : Nov. 20, 1983
|
||||
Page Number(s) : Special Sec. 11
|
||||
@ -12,19 +12,19 @@ Nov. 20, 1983, Commemorative Section, pp. 11
|
||||
Reprinted with permission from the author.
|
||||
|
||||
CONSPIRACY THEORIES: DOUBTS REFUSE TO DIE
|
||||
by Bob Dudney
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Bob Dudney</ent>
|
||||
Special to the Times Herald
|
||||
|
||||
Editor's Note: Bob Dudney, a former reporter for the Dallas Times
|
||||
Editor's Note: <ent type = 'person'>Bob Dudney</ent>, a former reporter for the Dallas Times
|
||||
Herald, has written hundreds of articles about the investigation
|
||||
of President Kennedy's assassination. He has covered
|
||||
of President <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s assassination. He has covered
|
||||
congressional inquiries on the subject, has interviewed dozens of
|
||||
people connected with it, and has examined thousands of
|
||||
government documents.
|
||||
|
||||
The shots fired in Dealey Plaza on a sunny Dallas day 20
|
||||
years ago still reverberate in a bizarre way: the belief that
|
||||
President John F. Kennedy's assassination resulted from a
|
||||
President John F. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s assassination resulted from a
|
||||
conspiracy.
|
||||
|
||||
There is a deep, almost theological assumption by some
|
||||
@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ still roam at large. The conclusion is strange because there is
|
||||
no solid evidence to support it--and significant reasons to
|
||||
believe it is false.
|
||||
|
||||
There is no denying the difficulty of accepting the Warren
|
||||
There is no denying the difficulty of accepting the <ent type = 'person'>Warren</ent>
|
||||
Commission's verdict on the events of Nov. 22, 1963--that a
|
||||
down-and-out, 24-year-old ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald, with
|
||||
down-and-out, 24-year-old ex-Marine named <ent type = 'person'>Lee Harvey <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent></ent>, with
|
||||
no outside assistance, murdered the most glamorous, powerful man
|
||||
in the world at the time.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -45,12 +45,12 @@ there was no plot. Undermining the scores of conspiracy theories
|
||||
that have cropped up over the years are three crucial factors:
|
||||
|
||||
- The scientific, eyewitness and medical data establishing
|
||||
that Oswald shot Kennedy.
|
||||
that <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> shot <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>.
|
||||
|
||||
- The absence of uncontroverted evidence linking Oswald to
|
||||
- The absence of uncontroverted evidence linking <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> to
|
||||
other conspirators.
|
||||
|
||||
- The lack of evidence to suggest that Oswald was
|
||||
- The lack of evidence to suggest that <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> was
|
||||
unwittingly manipulated by others.
|
||||
|
||||
So long as these elements remain unshaken, claims that a
|
||||
@ -68,15 +68,15 @@ ago.
|
||||
one might conclude that the possibility of a conspiracy had never
|
||||
been officially probed. The theories discount thousands of
|
||||
documents and millions of investigative man-hours devoted to that
|
||||
question by the Warren panel, the FBI and the CIA in 1963 and
|
||||
question by the <ent type = 'person'>Warren</ent> panel, the FBI and the CIA in 1963 and
|
||||
1964; the Rockefeller Commission in 1975; the Senate Select
|
||||
Committee on Intelligence in 1975 and the House Committee on
|
||||
Assassinations in 1977-1978.
|
||||
|
||||
The list of "suspects" the theories implicate is extensive.
|
||||
Among them: The Soviet KGB; anti-Soviet exiles; Fidel Castro;
|
||||
pro-Castro Cubans in the United States; anti-Castro Cubans;
|
||||
loyalists of slain South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem; right
|
||||
Among them: The Soviet KGB; anti-Soviet exiles; <ent type = 'person'>Fidel <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent></ent>;
|
||||
pro-<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> Cubans in the United States; anti-<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> Cubans;
|
||||
loyalists of slain South Vietnamese leader <ent type = 'person'>Ngo Dinh Diem</ent>; right
|
||||
wing fanatics; left wing Marxists; the Mafia; rogue Texas oilmen;
|
||||
labor unions; Southern white racists; the Dallas Police
|
||||
Department; the CIA; the FBI; the Secret Service; the Chinese
|
||||
@ -86,127 +86,127 @@ communists; reactionary Army officers; and Jewish extremists.
|
||||
benefit from the murder. Theorists must establish participation
|
||||
of two or more people in the murder. This they have not done.
|
||||
|
||||
Each theory alters the nature of Oswald's role in the death,
|
||||
Each theory alters the nature of <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s role in the death,
|
||||
but the possible changes are necessarily limited. The principle
|
||||
theories are:
|
||||
|
||||
Oswald is innocent: Adherents of this contention maintain
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> is innocent: Adherents of this contention maintain
|
||||
that law enforcement officials--cynically or through honest
|
||||
error--settled on Oswald as the assassin even though there was no
|
||||
reliable evidence against him. They say Oswald could have
|
||||
error--settled on <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> as the assassin even though there was no
|
||||
reliable evidence against him. They say <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> could have
|
||||
exonerated himself at a trial had he not been killed by Dallas
|
||||
nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
|
||||
nightclub owner <ent type = 'person'>Jack Ruby</ent>.
|
||||
|
||||
Challenging this theory is an abundance of evidence.
|
||||
Scientific testing and physical evidence found at the scene show
|
||||
that shots were fired at Kennedy's limousine from a sixth-floor
|
||||
that shots were fired at <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s limousine from a sixth-floor
|
||||
window of the Texas School Book Depository building.
|
||||
|
||||
Oswald worked in the building at Elm and Houston. He was
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> worked in the building at Elm and Houston. He was
|
||||
seen leaving it shortly after the shooting. Crates were found
|
||||
stacked by the sixth-floor window as an apparent gun brace.
|
||||
Oswald's fingerprints were on the crates. The morning of the
|
||||
assassination, Oswald was seen carrying a long, paper-wrapped
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s fingerprints were on the crates. The morning of the
|
||||
assassination, <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> was seen carrying a long, paper-wrapped
|
||||
object into the building. Wrapping paper found near the window
|
||||
bore Oswald's fingerprints.
|
||||
bore <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s fingerprints.
|
||||
|
||||
A rifle was found hidden between boxes in the building. A
|
||||
bullet and the bullet fragments removed from Kennedy, Connally
|
||||
and the limousine ballistically matched the rifle. Oswald's palm
|
||||
bullet and the bullet fragments removed from <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Connally</ent>
|
||||
and the limousine ballistically matched the rifle. <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s palm
|
||||
print was found on the rifle. The rifle, purchased from a Chicago
|
||||
mail order house, had been shipped to a Dallas post office box
|
||||
rented by Oswald. A photograph showed Oswald holding a rifle
|
||||
rented by <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>. A photograph showed <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> holding a rifle
|
||||
identical to the one found.
|
||||
|
||||
Proponents of this theory retort that all of the evidence
|
||||
was fabricated and put credence in Oswald's post-arrest
|
||||
was fabricated and put credence in <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s post-arrest
|
||||
declaration that he hadn't killed anyone.
|
||||
|
||||
But claims that the incriminating rifle photo was doctored--
|
||||
with Oswald's head superimposed over another man's body--were
|
||||
dispelled by Marina Oswald's confirmation that she took the
|
||||
picture. And claims that Oswald's rifle was planted in the room
|
||||
with <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s head superimposed over another man's body--were
|
||||
dispelled by Marina <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s confirmation that she took the
|
||||
picture. And claims that <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s rifle was planted in the room
|
||||
after the assassination were refuted by ballistic tests that
|
||||
showed it fired the deadly shots.
|
||||
|
||||
Given the problems with claims of planted evidence, some
|
||||
theorists have argued that there must have been a "planted
|
||||
Oswald," or Oswald impersonator on the scene. This contention,
|
||||
however, has been difficult to reconcile with the Oswald
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>," or <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> impersonator on the scene. This contention,
|
||||
however, has been difficult to reconcile with the <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>
|
||||
fingerprints and palmprints found on the evidence.
|
||||
|
||||
Two years ago, conspiracy theorists, successfully pressed
|
||||
for the opening of Oswald's grave to show it contained an
|
||||
for the opening of <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s grave to show it contained an
|
||||
imposter--probably a Soviet agent. Subsequent examination,
|
||||
however, determined the body was the "real" Lee Harvey Oswald.
|
||||
however, determined the body was the "real" <ent type = 'person'>Lee Harvey <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent></ent>.
|
||||
|
||||
Oswald had accomplices: Faced with the weight of evidence
|
||||
indicating Oswald's guilt, quite a few conspiracy theories have
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> had accomplices: Faced with the weight of evidence
|
||||
indicating <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s guilt, quite a few conspiracy theories have
|
||||
contended he was only one of those involved.
|
||||
|
||||
Some theories assert that a person or persons helped put
|
||||
Oswald in position to shoot the President. They leave unexplained
|
||||
why Oswald would need such help. As an employee of the book
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> in position to shoot the President. They leave unexplained
|
||||
why <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> would need such help. As an employee of the book
|
||||
depository, he had easy access to the building. After the
|
||||
shooting, according to witnesses' testimony, he sought no help in
|
||||
fleeing and left downtown Dallas by city bus and then a taxi.
|
||||
|
||||
Moreover, it would seem unlikely that accomplices could have
|
||||
helped get Oswald a job that put him on the motorcycle route.
|
||||
Oswald got his job at the depository on Oct. 15. White House
|
||||
helped get <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> a job that put him on the motorcycle route.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> got his job at the depository on Oct. 15. White House
|
||||
planning for the President's motorcade route did not begin until
|
||||
Nov. 4, and the map of the route was not published until Nov. 19.
|
||||
Somewhat more credible is the contention others provided
|
||||
secret financing, planning, direction or encouragement for the
|
||||
murder that Oswald carried out.
|
||||
murder that <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> carried out.
|
||||
|
||||
In this scenario, the chief suspect over the years has been
|
||||
the Soviet Union. After all, Oswald defected to Russia in 1959.
|
||||
He married a Russian woman, Marina Prusakova, in 1961. He was a
|
||||
the Soviet Union. After all, <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> defected to Russia in 1959.
|
||||
He married a Russian woman, <ent type = 'person'>Marina Prusakova</ent>, in 1961. He was a
|
||||
vociferous Marxist. Even after he returned to the United States
|
||||
in June 1962, Oswald had several fleeting contacts with Soviet
|
||||
in June 1962, <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> had several fleeting contacts with Soviet
|
||||
diplomats.
|
||||
|
||||
However, no evidence of Soviet complicity has been found.
|
||||
Investigators who combed Oswald's effects discovered no
|
||||
Investigators who combed <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s effects discovered no
|
||||
unexplained funds, no code books, no messages--nothing to suggest
|
||||
a Soviet hand in Oswald's actions. Also, had Oswald been
|
||||
a Soviet hand in <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s actions. Also, had <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> been
|
||||
recruited as a Soviet agent, the Russians would not have been
|
||||
likely to allow him to defect, as he did--thereby exposing his
|
||||
relationship with them.
|
||||
|
||||
The other top suspect has been Cuba. Oswald admired Fidel
|
||||
Castro; he was a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in
|
||||
The other top suspect has been Cuba. <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> admired Fidel
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>; he was a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in
|
||||
the United States; he visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico City a
|
||||
few weeks before the assassination, seeking a travel visa to that
|
||||
country. Because the CIA was backing assassination plots against
|
||||
Castro at the time, some speculate that Castro may have
|
||||
retaliated through Oswald.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> at the time, some speculate that <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> may have
|
||||
retaliated through <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>.
|
||||
|
||||
But, as with the theory of Soviet involvement, there is no
|
||||
evidence. At one point, there did appear to be some. A young
|
||||
Central American informant told U.S. authorities he saw Oswald in
|
||||
Central American informant told U.S. authorities he saw <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> in
|
||||
the Cuban embassy, talking to two other men, one of whom was
|
||||
conversing in Spanish. Later, he said, Oswald supposedly received
|
||||
conversing in Spanish. Later, he said, <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> supposedly received
|
||||
$6,500 to kill an important person. Under questioning, however,
|
||||
the informant admitted he had never seen Oswald and had
|
||||
the informant admitted he had never seen <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> and had
|
||||
fabricated the transaction, wishing to stir up American hatred
|
||||
for Castro's Cuba. Subsequently, he retracted his retraction.
|
||||
Finally, he failed a lie-detector test. Anyway, Oswald did not
|
||||
for <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s Cuba. Subsequently, he retracted his retraction.
|
||||
Finally, he failed a lie-detector test. Anyway, <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> did not
|
||||
speak Spanish.
|
||||
|
||||
Another account suggesting possible Cuban involvement was
|
||||
provided by a Cuban exile who testified before the Warren
|
||||
provided by a Cuban exile who testified before the <ent type = 'person'>Warren</ent>
|
||||
commission. She said two Hispanic men and an Anglo man they
|
||||
identified as "Leon Oswald" came to her Dallas apartment 28 days
|
||||
identified as "Leon <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>" came to her Dallas apartment 28 days
|
||||
before the assassination. She said they spoke vaguely of Cuban
|
||||
revolutionary plans before she turned them away. She identified
|
||||
Oswald in television film as the man she had seen, but federal
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> in television film as the man she had seen, but federal
|
||||
investigators said they do not believe it was him. They said they
|
||||
believe that at that time, Oswald was traveling from his New
|
||||
believe that at that time, <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> was traveling from his New
|
||||
Orleans home to Mexico in his quest for a Cuban entry visa.
|
||||
|
||||
The most publicized theories involving Oswald accomplices
|
||||
The most publicized theories involving <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> accomplices
|
||||
are those that have featured other gunmen.
|
||||
|
||||
These various versions have assassins firing from other
|
||||
@ -217,14 +217,14 @@ Courthouse roof; and firing with silencers or automatic weapons.
|
||||
|
||||
The arguments surrounding these claims:
|
||||
|
||||
- One-man, one-bullet: The first shot that wounded Kennedy
|
||||
in the neck did not also hit John Connally, as the Warren
|
||||
- One-man, one-bullet: The first shot that wounded <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>
|
||||
in the neck did not also hit <ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Connally</ent></ent>, as the <ent type = 'person'>Warren</ent>
|
||||
Commission concluded. Rather they were struck by individual
|
||||
bullets simultaneously, requiring that there be two shooters. A
|
||||
team of experts, including a National Aeronautics and Space
|
||||
Administration engineer, conducted an exhaustive study of this
|
||||
question in 1978. The panel's conclusion: It is not only
|
||||
possible, but almost certain that Kennedy and Connally were hit
|
||||
possible, but almost certain that <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Connally</ent> were hit
|
||||
by the same bullet.
|
||||
|
||||
- Filmed accomplices: Photographs of Dealey Plaza taken at
|
||||
@ -241,14 +241,14 @@ signaling gunmen or that some weapon was hidden in the umbrella.
|
||||
But at a hearing of the House Assassinations Committee in 1978, a
|
||||
mild-mannered Dallas insurance worker identified himself as the
|
||||
mysterious "umbrella man" and said he was only trying to harass
|
||||
Kennedy.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>.
|
||||
|
||||
- Head movement: The famous Zapruder film of the
|
||||
assassination clearly shows President Kennedy's head lurching
|
||||
assassination clearly shows President <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s head lurching
|
||||
backward when it was struck by the fatal gunshot. If the shot had
|
||||
come from behind, conspiracy theorists reason, the impact would
|
||||
have driven the President's head forward. Nonetheless, a panel of
|
||||
medical experts concluded in 1978 that Kennedy's head wounds were
|
||||
medical experts concluded in 1978 that <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s head wounds were
|
||||
caused by a shot from the rear. Moreover, a panel of
|
||||
wound-ballistics scientists concluded that the backward motion
|
||||
was caused by the sudden tightening of the President's neck
|
||||
@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ recorded at Dallas police headquarters, shows four noise
|
||||
"spikes." At the behest of the House Assassinations Committee in
|
||||
1978, three acoustical experts conducted three test gunshot
|
||||
firings in Dealey Plaza, compared the sounds and concluded it was
|
||||
95 percent certain that four shots had been fired. The Warren
|
||||
95 percent certain that four shots had been fired. The <ent type = 'person'>Warren</ent>
|
||||
Commission had concluded that no more than three shots had been
|
||||
fired from the window. The source of the previously unknown one,
|
||||
the acoustical experts said, was the grassy knoll area.
|
||||
@ -272,30 +272,30 @@ Council reviewed the tapes and concluded the "spikes" were
|
||||
actually recorded about a minute after the assassination.
|
||||
|
||||
The Assassinations Committee also grappled futily with the
|
||||
prospect of a likely colleague for Oswald. "The question is with
|
||||
prospect of a likely colleague for <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>. "The question is with
|
||||
who," said one member of the now-defunct committee. "If there's a
|
||||
conspirator, then who could it have been? We asked ourselves over
|
||||
and over: What associates did Oswald have, where was there
|
||||
and over: What associates did <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> have, where was there
|
||||
evidence of conspiracy? We found none."
|
||||
|
||||
Oswald was manipulated: These theories suggest that Oswald,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> was manipulated: These theories suggest that <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>,
|
||||
and perhaps other operatives, were unknowingly influenced in
|
||||
their actions.
|
||||
|
||||
There can be only one reasonable candidate to mastermind
|
||||
such a project--the KGB. It would have been the only organization
|
||||
with the scientific means and the extended access to Oswald. Even
|
||||
some Warren Commission lawyers and CIA members briefly toyed with
|
||||
the possibility. Because Oswald spent some time in a Soviet
|
||||
with the scientific means and the extended access to <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>. Even
|
||||
some <ent type = 'person'>Warren</ent> Commission lawyers and CIA members briefly toyed with
|
||||
the possibility. Because <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> spent some time in a Soviet
|
||||
hospital while residing in Russia, there was the suspicion he
|
||||
might have been brainwashed.
|
||||
|
||||
Once again, the problem is that there is no evidence to
|
||||
suggest Oswald was brainwashed. Moreover, the CIA believes KGB
|
||||
suggest <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> was brainwashed. Moreover, the CIA believes KGB
|
||||
"mind conditioning" techniques at the time were primitive.
|
||||
|
||||
Surely, it is impossible to rule out the prospect of a
|
||||
conspiracy in the assassination. The Warren Commission itself did
|
||||
conspiracy in the assassination. The <ent type = 'person'>Warren</ent> Commission itself did
|
||||
not do so. "Because of the difficulty of providing negatives to a
|
||||
certainty," the panel said, proving there was no conspiracy
|
||||
"cannot be established categorically." However, the panel said,
|
||||
|
@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>Volume : SIRS 1991 History, Article 02
|
||||
Subject: Keyword(s) : KENNEDY and ASSASSINATION
|
||||
Title : The Day John Kennedy Died
|
||||
Title : The Day <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent></ent> Died
|
||||
Author : Bryan Woolley
|
||||
Source : Dallas Times Herald (Dallas, Texas)
|
||||
Publication Date : Nov. 20, 1983
|
||||
@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Suite 850 of Fort Worth's Texas Hotel. He knocked on the door of
|
||||
the master bedroom. It was 7:30 a.m. "Mr. President," he said,
|
||||
"it's raining out."
|
||||
|
||||
President John F. Kennedy, coming out of sleep, replied,
|
||||
President <ent type = 'person'>John</ent> F. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>, coming out of sleep, replied,
|
||||
"That's too bad."
|
||||
|
||||
While he was dressing, he heard the murmur of the crowd
|
||||
@ -34,18 +34,18 @@ lot where they stood. Mounted police officers wearing yellow
|
||||
slickers moved among them. "Gosh, look at the crowd!" the
|
||||
President said to his wife. "Just look! Isn't that terrific."
|
||||
|
||||
In the lobby, he was joined by Vice President Lyndon
|
||||
Johnson, Gov. John Connally, Sen. Ralph Yarborough, several
|
||||
In the lobby, he was joined by Vice President <ent type = 'person'>Lyndon</ent>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>John</ent>son, Gov. <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Connally</ent></ent>, Sen. Ralph <ent type = 'person'>Yarborough</ent>, several
|
||||
members of Congress and the president of the Fort Worth Chamber
|
||||
of Commerce. They crossed Eighth Street and plunged into the
|
||||
crowd, shaking hands, smiling. They mounted the truck that was to
|
||||
serve as the speaker's platform. Kennedy grabbed the microphone
|
||||
serve as the speaker's platform. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> grabbed the microphone
|
||||
and shouted: "There are no faint hearts in Fort Worth!"
|
||||
|
||||
The crowd cheered. Somebody yelled, "Where's Jackie?"
|
||||
|
||||
Kennedy pointed toward his eighth-floor window. "Mrs.
|
||||
Kennedy is organizing herself," he replied. "It takes her a
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> pointed toward his eighth-floor window. "Mrs.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> is organizing herself," he replied. "It takes her a
|
||||
little longer, but, of course, she looks better than we do when
|
||||
she does it."
|
||||
|
||||
@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ $100-a-plate luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart, fly to Austin for
|
||||
a banquet and a reception at the Governor's Mansion, and then go
|
||||
to the LBJ ranch for a weekend of rest.
|
||||
|
||||
Back inside the Texas Hotel, Kennedy accepted the ceremonial
|
||||
Back inside the Texas Hotel, <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> accepted the ceremonial
|
||||
cowboy hat from his hosts, but refused to wear it for
|
||||
photographers and TV cameramen. He would model it later, he said,
|
||||
at the White House. His breakfast speech was the standard
|
||||
@ -71,17 +71,17 @@ fence-mending one-- about the greatness of Texas and Fort Worth
|
||||
and the Democratic Party--and it drew a thunderous ovation.
|
||||
|
||||
The President and the first lady retired to Suite 850 to
|
||||
prepare for the flight to Dallas. Kennedy placed a call to former
|
||||
Vice President John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner in Uvalde, Texas,
|
||||
prepare for the flight to Dallas. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> placed a call to former
|
||||
Vice President <ent type = 'person'>John</ent> Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner in Uvalde, Texas,
|
||||
to wish him a happy 95th birthday, and an aide showed him a
|
||||
black-bordered full-page ad with a sardonic headline in The
|
||||
Dallas Morning News. "Welcome Mr. Kennedy to Dallas," it read. In
|
||||
Dallas Morning News. "Welcome Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> to Dallas," it read. In
|
||||
13 rhetorical questions, something called the "American
|
||||
Fact-Finding Committee" accused the administration of selling out
|
||||
the world to communism.
|
||||
|
||||
"Oh, you know, we're heading into nut country today," the
|
||||
President said. Mrs. Kennedy later told author William Manchester
|
||||
President said. Mrs. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> later told author <ent type = 'person'>William Manchester</ent>
|
||||
that he paced the floor and then stopped in front of her. "You
|
||||
know, last night would have been a hell of a night to assassinate
|
||||
a president," he said. "There was the rain and the night, and we
|
||||
@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ two shots.
|
||||
Not many in the presidential party were looking forward to
|
||||
Dallas. Several Texans--some from Dallas--had warned the
|
||||
President not to include Dallas on his Texas tour, that an ugly
|
||||
incident was likely to occur there. But Kennedy insisted that the
|
||||
incident was likely to occur there. But <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> insisted that the
|
||||
state's second-largest city be placed on the itinerary.
|
||||
|
||||
So the preparations had been made. Dallas civic leaders had
|
||||
@ -102,87 +102,87 @@ turnout for the President.
|
||||
Seven hundred law officers--city police officers and
|
||||
firefighters, sheriff's deputies, Texas Rangers and state highway
|
||||
patrol officers--had been assembled to keep order. About the time
|
||||
that John Kennedy was waking up, Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry
|
||||
that <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent></ent> was waking up, Dallas Police Chief <ent type = 'person'>Jesse <ent type = 'person'>Curry</ent></ent>
|
||||
had gone on TV to warn that his officers would take "immediate
|
||||
action to block any improper conduct." If the police were
|
||||
inadequate, he said, even citizen's arrests were authorized.
|
||||
|
||||
Others were preparing, too, in the early morning. Waiters
|
||||
were setting the places for the Trade Mart luncheon. A warehouse
|
||||
worker named Lee Harvey Oswald sneaked a rifle and a telescopic
|
||||
worker named <ent type = 'person'>Lee Harvey <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent></ent> sneaked a rifle and a telescopic
|
||||
sight into the Texas School Book Depository. Because of forecasts
|
||||
showing that the rain probably would be past Dallas by the time
|
||||
the presidential party arrived, a Kennedy aide told the Secret
|
||||
the presidential party arrived, a <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> aide told the Secret
|
||||
Service not to put the bubble-top on the big blue limousine in
|
||||
which the President and Mrs. Kennedy would ride.
|
||||
which the President and Mrs. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> would ride.
|
||||
|
||||
Air Force One had barely left the runway at Carswell before
|
||||
it began its descent toward Love Field. The flight took only 13
|
||||
minutes. The big plane touched down at 11:38 a.m. Police armed
|
||||
with rifles stood along the roof of the terminal building. A
|
||||
large crowd waited beyond a chain-link fence. Many in the crowd
|
||||
large crowd waited be<ent type = 'person'>yon</ent>d a chain-link fence. Many in the crowd
|
||||
were jumping, screaming, waving placards: "We Love Jack," "Hooray
|
||||
for JFK." Others were less friendly. They held placards, too:
|
||||
"Help Kennedy Stamp Out Democracy," "In 1964 Goldwater and
|
||||
for <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>." Others were less friendly. They held placards, too:
|
||||
"Help <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> Stamp Out Democracy," "In 1964 <ent type = 'person'>Goldwater</ent> and
|
||||
Freedom," "Yankees Go Home And Take Your Equals With You." They
|
||||
booed and hissed when the President and first lady emerged from
|
||||
the plane, smiled, waved and descended the stairs of Air Force
|
||||
One.
|
||||
|
||||
For the fourth time in 24 hours, Lyndon and Lady Bird
|
||||
Johnson were waiting to welcome the Kennedys to a Texas city. The
|
||||
For the fourth time in 24 hours, <ent type = 'person'>Lyndon</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Lady Bird</ent>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>John</ent>son were waiting to welcome the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>s to a Texas city. The
|
||||
presidential couple was introduced to the 12-man official
|
||||
welcoming committee. Mrs. Earle Cabell, wife of the Dallas mayor,
|
||||
presented Mrs. Kennedy with a bouquet of red roses. Then Kennedy
|
||||
welcoming committee. Mrs. <ent type = 'person'>Earle Cabell</ent>, wife of the Dallas mayor,
|
||||
presented Mrs. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> with a bouquet of red roses. Then <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>
|
||||
broke from the official cluster and moved along the chain-link
|
||||
fence, smiling, shaking hands; letting people touch him.
|
||||
|
||||
At 11:55, two motorcycle police officers led the motorcade
|
||||
out of Love Field and turned left on Mockingbird Lane. Police
|
||||
Chief Curry drove the lead car. With him rode Dallas County
|
||||
Sheriff Bill Decker and two Secret Service agents. Then came
|
||||
out of Love Field and turned left on <ent type = 'person'>Mockingbird</ent> Lane. Police
|
||||
Chief <ent type = 'person'>Curry</ent> drove the lead car. With him rode Dallas County
|
||||
Sheriff <ent type = 'person'>Bill Decker</ent> and two Secret Service agents. Then came
|
||||
three more motorcycles. Then the blue limousine with two Secret
|
||||
Service agents in the front, John and Nellie Connally in the jump
|
||||
seats and the Kennedys in the back seat. Two motorcycles flanked
|
||||
Service agents in the front, <ent type = 'person'>John</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Nellie <ent type = 'person'>Connally</ent></ent> in the jump
|
||||
seats and the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>s in the back seat. Two motorcycles flanked
|
||||
the car on each side. Next was another convertible, full of
|
||||
Kennedy aides and Secret Service agents, and four more agents
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> aides and Secret Service agents, and four more agents
|
||||
standing on its running boards.
|
||||
|
||||
Then came the vice presidential convertible, carrying two
|
||||
Secret Service agents, the Johnsons and Yarborough. A Texas
|
||||
Secret Service agents, the <ent type = 'person'>John</ent>sons and <ent type = 'person'>Yarborough</ent>. A Texas
|
||||
highway patrol officer and four Secret Service agents rode in the
|
||||
next car. A press pool car, a press bus, convertibles bearing
|
||||
photographers, and cars carrying lesser dignitaries completed the
|
||||
procession.
|
||||
|
||||
The motorcade would move through a sizable portion of
|
||||
Dallas--along Mockingbird to Lemmon Avenue, right on Lemmon to
|
||||
Dallas--along <ent type = 'person'>Mockingbird</ent> to <ent type = 'person'>Lemmon</ent> Avenue, right on <ent type = 'person'>Lemmon</ent> to
|
||||
Turtle Creek Boulevard, along Turtle Creek and Cedar Springs Road
|
||||
to Harwood Street, down Harwood to Main Street, where, at City
|
||||
to <ent type = 'person'>Harwood</ent> Street, down <ent type = 'person'>Harwood</ent> to Main Street, where, at City
|
||||
Hall, it would turn right and move westward along Main through
|
||||
the downtown business district.
|
||||
|
||||
At the west end of downtown, it would turn right onto
|
||||
Houston Street and then immediately left onto Elm Street and move
|
||||
through the Triple Underpass. A few yards beyond the underpass,
|
||||
it would turn right again onto Stemmons Expressway and move to
|
||||
the Trade Mart at the intersection of Stemmons and Harry Hines
|
||||
through the Triple Underpass. A few yards be<ent type = 'person'>yon</ent>d the underpass,
|
||||
it would turn right again onto <ent type = 'person'>Stemmons</ent> Expressway and move to
|
||||
the Trade Mart at the intersection of <ent type = 'person'>Stemmons</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Harry Hines</ent>
|
||||
Boulevard. After the President's speech, it would proceed out
|
||||
Harry Hines to Mockingbird, turn right, and return to Love Field.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Harry Hines</ent> to <ent type = 'person'>Mockingbird</ent>, turn right, and return to Love Field.
|
||||
The sidewalk crowds were sparse at first. A few people in
|
||||
the factories and offices along Mockingbird came out to have a
|
||||
look. The sun was bright now, and Mrs. Kennedy was regretting
|
||||
the factories and offices along <ent type = 'person'>Mockingbird</ent> came out to have a
|
||||
look. The sun was bright now, and Mrs. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> was regretting
|
||||
that she was wearing the pink wool suit. She had expected woolen
|
||||
weather. It was, after all, late November. She put on sunglasses,
|
||||
but her husband told her to take them off. The people wanted to
|
||||
see her, he said.
|
||||
|
||||
At the corner of Lemmon and Lomo Alto, a group of children
|
||||
At the corner of <ent type = 'person'>Lemmon</ent> and Lomo Alto, a group of children
|
||||
held a long banner reading, "Please Stop and Shake Our Hands."
|
||||
Kennedy ordered his driver to stop. He got out and shook their
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> ordered his driver to stop. He got out and shook their
|
||||
hands. Farther along, he ordered another stop and got out to
|
||||
greet a group of nuns. At Lee Park on Turtle Creek, the crowd
|
||||
began to thicken. And at Harwood and Live Oak, still two blocks
|
||||
began to thicken. And at <ent type = 'person'>Harwood</ent> and Live Oak, still two blocks
|
||||
from the turn onto Main, the people in the motorcade heard the
|
||||
downtown crowd murmuring like a distant tide.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -204,10 +204,10 @@ table. The presidential seal had been mounted on the rostrum.
|
||||
|
||||
As the motorcade neared Houston Street, the size of the
|
||||
crowd diminished, but the cheers and applause were still hearty.
|
||||
Nellie Connally turned in her seat and said, "You can't say
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Nellie <ent type = 'person'>Connally</ent></ent> turned in her seat and said, "You can't say
|
||||
Dallas doesn't love you, Mr. President."
|
||||
|
||||
Kennedy replied, "No, you can't."
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> replied, "No, you can't."
|
||||
|
||||
Workers from the Texas School Book Depository, the Dal-Tex
|
||||
Building and the Dallas County buildings lined the sidewalks at
|
||||
@ -223,19 +223,19 @@ onto Elm, the Hertz rental car time-and-temperature sign on the
|
||||
roof of the depository red 12:30. A Secret Service man in the
|
||||
motorcade radioed the Trade Mart: "Halfback to Base. Five minutes
|
||||
to destination." He wrote in his shift log: "12:35 p.m. President
|
||||
Kennedy arrived at Trade Mart."
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> arrived at Trade Mart."
|
||||
|
||||
Some thought the noises were firecrackers. Others thought a
|
||||
motorcycle was backfiring. Some recognized them as rifle shots.
|
||||
Pigeons flew from the roof of the depository. Kennedy lurched
|
||||
Pigeons flew from the roof of the depository. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> lurched
|
||||
forward and grabbed his neck.
|
||||
|
||||
Sen. Yarborough, in the vice president's car, cried, "My
|
||||
Sen. <ent type = 'person'>Yarborough</ent>, in the vice president's car, cried, "My
|
||||
God! They've shot the President!" Secret Service agent Rufus
|
||||
Youngblood climbed from the front seat to the back, threw Johnson
|
||||
Youngblood climbed from the front seat to the back, threw <ent type = 'person'>John</ent>son
|
||||
to the floorboard and covered him with his own body.
|
||||
|
||||
In the blue limousine, Gov. Connally had been hit, too. He
|
||||
In the blue limousine, Gov. <ent type = 'person'>Connally</ent> had been hit, too. He
|
||||
pitched forward and fell toward his wife. "No, no, no, no, no!"
|
||||
he screamed.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -244,181 +244,181 @@ spattered the occupants of the blue car. The first lady, in
|
||||
shock, tried to climb out over the trunk. A Secret Service agent
|
||||
pushed her back. The car slowed and then lurched out of the
|
||||
motorcade line and sped past the Triple Underpass, with Chief
|
||||
Curry's car and the Secret Service car in pursuit.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Curry</ent>'s car and the Secret Service car in pursuit.
|
||||
|
||||
UPI White House correspondent Merriman Smith was sitting in
|
||||
UPI White House correspondent <ent type = 'person'>Merriman Smith</ent> was sitting in
|
||||
the middle of the front seat of the press pool car. He grabbed
|
||||
the mobile phone. He called the wire service's Dallas bureau and
|
||||
dictated the first bulletin: "Three shots were fired at President
|
||||
Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas."
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s motorcade in downtown Dallas."
|
||||
|
||||
The cheers of greeting in Dealey Plaza rose to screams of
|
||||
horror and fear. "They killed him! They killed him! They killed
|
||||
him!" Parents grabbed children and ran. Men and women lay
|
||||
prostrate on the grass and sidewalks, as if dead. The motorcade
|
||||
was disintegrating, the cars veering hither and yon, trying to
|
||||
was disintegrating, the cars veering hither and <ent type = 'person'>yon</ent>, trying to
|
||||
get through the crowd and follow the limousine. Helmeted police
|
||||
officers leaped from motorcycles, pulled guns, looked wildly
|
||||
about. The Hertz clock still read 12:30.
|
||||
|
||||
The staff at Parkland Memorial Hospital had only five
|
||||
The staff at <ent type = 'person'>Parkland</ent> Memorial Hospital had only five
|
||||
minutes notice of the massive emergency rushing upon them, and
|
||||
many thought the message was a joke. When the blue car arrived,
|
||||
they weren't ready. No one was waiting at the emergency entrance.
|
||||
A Secret Service agent dashed inside to order stretchers.
|
||||
|
||||
Connally--whose wounds were serious but not fatal--was
|
||||
wheeled to Trauma Room No. 2, Kennedy to Trauma Room No. 1. Teams
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Connally</ent>--whose wounds were serious but not fatal--was
|
||||
wheeled to Trauma Room No. 2, <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> to Trauma Room No. 1. Teams
|
||||
of surgeons and nurses went to work. The Secret Service regrouped
|
||||
around the Johnsons and hustled them to seclusion in another part
|
||||
around the <ent type = 'person'>John</ent>sons and hustled them to seclusion in another part
|
||||
of the hospital. Reporters dashed around the halls and offices,
|
||||
searching for phones. Parkland patients heard the news and rushed
|
||||
searching for phones. <ent type = 'person'>Parkland</ent> patients heard the news and rushed
|
||||
to have a look.
|
||||
|
||||
"Gentlemen," a weeping Yarborough told reporters, "this has
|
||||
"Gentlemen," a weeping <ent type = 'person'>Yarborough</ent> told reporters, "this has
|
||||
been a deed of horror. Excalibur has sunk beneath the waves."
|
||||
Mrs. Kennedy insisted on being in the trauma room with her
|
||||
Mrs. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> insisted on being in the trauma room with her
|
||||
husband. A nurse protested, but she was admitted.
|
||||
|
||||
Outside, more of the motorcade vehicles were arriving. Their
|
||||
passengers tumbled out and stared in horror at the blood-soaked
|
||||
convertible.
|
||||
|
||||
At 1 p.m., Dr. Kemp Clark, the senior physician working on
|
||||
At 1 p.m., Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Kemp Clark</ent>, the senior physician working on
|
||||
the President, pronounced him dead. A priest administered last
|
||||
rites. At 1:13, the news was carried to the vice president. At
|
||||
1:26, the Secret Service, fearing the assassination was part of a
|
||||
massive plot against the government, spirited the Johnsons away
|
||||
massive plot against the government, spirited the <ent type = 'person'>John</ent>sons away
|
||||
to unmarked cars and sped to Love Field. They boarded Air Force
|
||||
One at 1:33, while Kennedy press aide Malcolm Kilduff was
|
||||
One at 1:33, while <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> press aide <ent type = 'person'>Malcolm Kilduff</ent> was
|
||||
announcing the President's death to the press.
|
||||
|
||||
Police were still combing the Dealey Plaza area for
|
||||
Kennedy's murderer. Indeed, only a minute after the fatal shot
|
||||
was fired, Marrion Baker, a Dallas motorcycle officer, had
|
||||
pointed his pistol at Lee Harvey Oswald. Baker had been riding by
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s murderer. Indeed, only a minute after the fatal shot
|
||||
was fired, <ent type = 'person'>Marrion <ent type = 'person'>Baker</ent></ent>, a Dallas motorcycle officer, had
|
||||
pointed his pistol at <ent type = 'person'>Lee Harvey <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent></ent>. <ent type = 'person'>Baker</ent> had been riding by
|
||||
the Texas School Book Depository when the killing occurred, and
|
||||
he jumped off his motorcycle and dashed inside with Roy Truly,
|
||||
the building's superintendent. They encountered Oswald in the
|
||||
second-floor lunchroom. Baker drew his gun. "Do you know this
|
||||
he jumped off his motorcycle and dashed inside with <ent type = 'person'>Roy Truly</ent>,
|
||||
the building's superintendent. They encountered <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> in the
|
||||
second-floor lunchroom. <ent type = 'person'>Baker</ent> drew his gun. "Do you know this
|
||||
man?" he asked Truly. "Does he work here?" Truly said he did, and
|
||||
Baker let him go. A minute later, Oswald walked out the front
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Baker</ent> let him go. A minute later, <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> walked out the front
|
||||
door of the depository, where he encountered NBC reporter Robert
|
||||
MacNeil, who was looking for a phone. Oswald told him he could
|
||||
MacNeil, who was looking for a phone. <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> told him he could
|
||||
find one inside. Five minutes later, police sealed off the door.
|
||||
|
||||
At 12:44, Oswald boarded a bus at Elm and Murphy streets,
|
||||
At 12:44, <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> boarded a bus at Elm and <ent type = 'person'>Murphy</ent> streets,
|
||||
seven blocks from the depository, but got off a few minutes later
|
||||
when the bus was caught in a traffic snarl. By 12:45, Dallas
|
||||
police had questioned the witness who had seen the man standing
|
||||
in the depository window with the rifle and had broadcast his
|
||||
description from a radio car in front of the depository. Two
|
||||
minutes later, Oswald caught a taxicab at the Greyhound bus
|
||||
station and rode to Beckley and Neely, a corner near his Oak
|
||||
minutes later, <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> caught a taxicab at the Greyhound bus
|
||||
station and rode to <ent type = 'person'>Beckley</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Neely</ent>, a corner near his Oak
|
||||
Cliff rooming house. He went to his room, got a pistol and left
|
||||
again.
|
||||
|
||||
Meanwhile, Roy Truly had drawn up a list of depository
|
||||
employees and told police that Oswald was missing. At 1:12,
|
||||
Meanwhile, <ent type = 'person'>Roy Truly</ent> had drawn up a list of depository
|
||||
employees and told police that <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> was missing. At 1:12,
|
||||
sheriff's deputies found three empty cartridge cases near the
|
||||
sixth floor corner window. Ten minutes later, they would find the
|
||||
rifle, hidden between boxes of textbooks in the room.
|
||||
|
||||
At 1:15, Dallas officer J.D. Tippett was cruising by a drug
|
||||
store at 10th and Patton, less than a mile from the Oak Cliff
|
||||
rooming house, and spotted Oswald walking along the sidewalk.
|
||||
Tippett, for reasons never determined, pulled over and stopped
|
||||
him. Oswald jerked his pistol from under his jacket, shot four
|
||||
At 1:15, Dallas officer J.D. <ent type = 'person'>Tippett</ent> was cruising by a drug
|
||||
store at 10th and <ent type = 'person'>Patton</ent>, less than a mile from the Oak Cliff
|
||||
rooming house, and spotted <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> walking along the sidewalk.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Tippett</ent>, for reasons never determined, pulled over and stopped
|
||||
him. <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> jerked his pistol from under his jacket, shot four
|
||||
times and ran away. Nine people saw the shooting. A pickup truck
|
||||
driver took the dead officer's radio mike and said, "Hello,
|
||||
driver took the dead officer'<ent type = 'person'>s radio</ent> <ent type = 'person'>mike</ent> and said, "Hello,
|
||||
police operator. We've had a shooting out here."
|
||||
|
||||
On Air Force One, stewards were removing some of the seats
|
||||
in the tail compartment to make room for President Kennedy's
|
||||
coffin. In the plane's stateroom, Lyndon Johnson was watching
|
||||
Walter Cronkite on television and was asking aides and
|
||||
in the tail compartment to make room for President <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s
|
||||
coffin. In the plane's stateroom, <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Lyndon</ent> <ent type = 'person'>John</ent>son</ent> was watching
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Walter Cronkite</ent> on television and was asking aides and
|
||||
congressmen whether he should be sworn in immediately or wait
|
||||
until they had returned to Washington. Some thought he should
|
||||
wait. Others thought it might be dangerous for the country to be
|
||||
without a President while he was en route. Johnson decided he
|
||||
without a President while he was en route. <ent type = 'person'>John</ent>son decided he
|
||||
would assume the office in Dallas. "Now," he said, "What about
|
||||
the oath?"
|
||||
|
||||
The aides and congressmen were embarrassed. They could
|
||||
remember neither the words nor where to find them. They couldn't
|
||||
remember who, besides Supreme Court justices, was authorized to
|
||||
administer the oath. Everyone was in such shock and confusion
|
||||
administer the oath. Ever<ent type = 'person'>yon</ent>e was in such shock and confusion
|
||||
that phone calls were made to several Justice Department
|
||||
officials in Washington and Dallas before someone remembered that
|
||||
a President may be sworn in by any judge and that the oath is in
|
||||
the Constitution. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach
|
||||
the Constitution. Deputy Attorney General <ent type = 'person'>Nicholas Katzenbach</ent>
|
||||
dictated it by phone from Washington, and U.S. District Judge
|
||||
Sarah Hughes, an old friend of Johnson who had been appointed to
|
||||
the North Texas federal bench by Kennedy, was dispatched to Love
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Sarah <ent type = 'person'>Hughes</ent></ent>, an old friend of <ent type = 'person'>John</ent>son who had been appointed to
|
||||
the North Texas federal bench by <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>, was dispatched to Love
|
||||
Field.
|
||||
|
||||
At 1:40, Lee Oswald ran into the Texas Theater on West
|
||||
Jefferson--eight blocks from officer Tippit's body--without
|
||||
At 1:40, Lee <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> ran into the Texas Theater on West
|
||||
Jefferson--eight blocks from officer <ent type = 'person'>Tippit</ent>'s body--without
|
||||
buying a ticket. The box office attendant called the police.
|
||||
Cruisers began converging on the theater. At 1:50, the house
|
||||
lights went up, and officers moved up and down the aisles, looked
|
||||
into the faces of the few patrons. Officer M.N. McDonald stopped
|
||||
at the 10th row and said to a man sitting alone: "Get up."
|
||||
|
||||
"Well, it's all over now," Oswald said, according to
|
||||
witnesses and he stood up. But when McDonald moved closer, Oswald
|
||||
"Well, it's all over now," <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> said, according to
|
||||
witnesses and he stood up. But when McDonald moved closer, <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>
|
||||
struck him in the face and went for his pistol. McDonald struck
|
||||
back and grabbed for the gun. Oswald pulled the trigger, but the
|
||||
back and grabbed for the gun. <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> pulled the trigger, but the
|
||||
web of skin between McDonald's thumb and forefinger was caught
|
||||
under the hammer. The gun didn't fire. Other officers joined the
|
||||
fight. They subdued Oswald and hustled him out of the theater. "I
|
||||
protest this police brutality!" Oswald shouted.
|
||||
fight. They subdued <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> and hustled him out of the theater. "I
|
||||
protest this police brutality!" <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> shouted.
|
||||
|
||||
Twenty-five minutes later, Capt. Will Fritz, chief of
|
||||
Twenty-five minutes later, Capt. Will <ent type = 'person'>Fritz</ent>, chief of
|
||||
homicide, returned to the Police Department and ordered that the
|
||||
missing Texas School Book Depository worker named Lee Harvey
|
||||
Oswald be arrested as a suspect in the presidential killing. An
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> be arrested as a suspect in the presidential killing. An
|
||||
officer pointed to a small young man with a bruised eye who was
|
||||
sitting in a chair. "There he sits," he said.
|
||||
|
||||
At Parkland, a Secret Service agent called Oneal's Funeral
|
||||
At <ent type = 'person'>Parkland</ent>, a Secret Service agent called Oneal's Funeral
|
||||
Home in Oak Lawn to order a casket. The funeral director, Vernon
|
||||
Oneal, arrived with it at 1:30. After the President's body had
|
||||
been placed in the casket, Mrs. Kennedy entered Trauma Room No.
|
||||
been placed in the casket, Mrs. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> entered Trauma Room No.
|
||||
1, took off her wedding ring and placed it on her husband's
|
||||
finger. The casket was closed and placed on a funeral home cart
|
||||
to be moved to the hearse.
|
||||
|
||||
Dr. Earl Rose, the Dallas County medical examiner,
|
||||
protested. Kennedy was a homicide victim, he said, and the body
|
||||
Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Earl Rose</ent>, the Dallas County medical examiner,
|
||||
protested. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> was a homicide victim, he said, and the body
|
||||
couldn't be released legally until after an autopsy had been
|
||||
performed. A quarrel developed between him and the Secret
|
||||
Service. Kennedy aides and the Secret Service agents forced the
|
||||
Service. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> aides and the Secret Service agents forced the
|
||||
casket through the crowd that had gathered at the hospital door
|
||||
and loaded it into the hearse. Mrs. Kennedy rode in the back with
|
||||
and loaded it into the hearse. Mrs. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> rode in the back with
|
||||
it. At 2:20, the dead President was carried up the stairs into
|
||||
Air Force One. Mrs. Kennedy retired to the bedroom.
|
||||
Air Force One. Mrs. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> retired to the bedroom.
|
||||
|
||||
Judge Hughes boarded the plane at 2:35 and was handed a
|
||||
Judge <ent type = 'person'>Hughes</ent> boarded the plane at 2:35 and was handed a
|
||||
small white card with the oath scrawled on it. Capt. Cecil
|
||||
Stoughton, an Army Signal Corps photographer, tried to arrange
|
||||
the crowd in the cramped stateroom so that he could take a
|
||||
picture of the ceremony. "We'll wait for Mrs. Kennedy," Johnson
|
||||
picture of the ceremony. "We'll wait for Mrs. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>," <ent type = 'person'>John</ent>son
|
||||
said. "I want her here."
|
||||
|
||||
Mrs. Kennedy came out of the bedroom still wearing the
|
||||
blood-soaked pink suit. Johnson pressed her hand and said, "This
|
||||
Mrs. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> came out of the bedroom still wearing the
|
||||
blood-soaked pink suit. <ent type = 'person'>John</ent>son pressed her hand and said, "This
|
||||
is the saddest moment of my life." The photographer placed her on
|
||||
Johnson's left, Lady Bird on his right. Judge Hughes, the first
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>John</ent>son's left, <ent type = 'person'>Lady Bird</ent> on his right. Judge <ent type = 'person'>Hughes</ent>, the first
|
||||
woman to administer the presidential oath, was shaking.
|
||||
|
||||
"What about a Bible?" asked one of the witnesses. Someone
|
||||
remembered that President Kennedy had kept a Bible in the bedroom
|
||||
remembered that President <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> had kept a Bible in the bedroom
|
||||
and went to get it.
|
||||
|
||||
"I do solemnly swear..."
|
||||
|
||||
The oath lasted 28 seconds. At 2:38 p.m., Lyndon B. Johnson
|
||||
The oath lasted 28 seconds. At 2:38 p.m., <ent type = 'person'>Lyndon</ent> B. <ent type = 'person'>John</ent>son
|
||||
became the 36th President of the United States. The big jet's
|
||||
engines already were screaming. "Now, let's get airborne," he
|
||||
said.
|
||||
|
@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>Volume : SIRS 1991 History, Article 02
|
||||
Subject: Keyword(s) : KENNEDY and ASSASSINATION
|
||||
Title : A Remembrance of Kennedy
|
||||
Author : Jim Henderson
|
||||
Subject: Keyword(s) : <ent type = 'person'>KENNEDY</ent> and ASSASSINATION
|
||||
Title : A Remembrance of <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>
|
||||
Author : <ent type = 'person'>Jim Henderson</ent>
|
||||
Source : Dallas Times Herald (Dallas, Texas)
|
||||
Publication Date : Nov. 20, 1983
|
||||
Page Number(s) : Special Sec. 1+
|
||||
@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Page Number(s) : Special Sec. 1+
|
||||
(Dallas, Texas)
|
||||
Nov. 20, 1983, Special Section, pp. 1+
|
||||
|
||||
A REMEMBRANCE OF KENNEDY
|
||||
by Jim Henderson
|
||||
A REMEMBRANCE OF <ent type = 'person'>KENNEDY</ent>
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Jim Henderson</ent>
|
||||
Staff Writer
|
||||
|
||||
`Let the word go forth from this time and place...that the torch
|
||||
@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ a slow-moving caisson, a young boy saluting the honor guard
|
||||
carrying his father to Arlington National Cemetery, the lighting
|
||||
of the eternal flame.
|
||||
|
||||
On the day John F. Kennedy was buried, Alistair Cooke wrote:
|
||||
On the day John F. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> was buried, <ent type = 'person'>Alistair Cooke</ent> wrote:
|
||||
"He was snuffed out. In that moment, all the decent grief of a
|
||||
nation was taunted and outraged. So along with the sorrow, there
|
||||
is a desperate and howling note from over the land. We may pray
|
||||
@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ duration, seemed endless.
|
||||
bulletin notified the republic that its President had been shot
|
||||
in Dallas, the city stood motionless and helpless, waiting for
|
||||
the firestorm of scorn. It came in searing, overlapping bursts.
|
||||
"Are these human beings or are these animals?" Adlai Stevenson
|
||||
"Are these human beings or are these animals?" <ent type = 'person'>Adlai Stevenson</ent>
|
||||
had asked moments after he escaped from a violent crowd in Dallas
|
||||
a month earlier.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ cried in public. Rage and shame and guilt and dread melted into
|
||||
one great immobilizing glob of emotional turmoil.
|
||||
|
||||
An eternity, two hours and 20 minutes, passed before the
|
||||
truth would be known. Kennedy's assassin was not of Dallas, was
|
||||
truth would be known. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s assassin was not of Dallas, was
|
||||
far removed from the nation's perception of the city and the
|
||||
city's own worst fears of itself.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -113,12 +113,12 @@ marching into Vietnam and returning in body bags, campus radicals
|
||||
occupying the administration building at Columbia University,
|
||||
rioting outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago,
|
||||
the fires of Watts and Newark and Detroit, Dr. Strangelove,
|
||||
Apollo 11, Woodstock, Charles Manson, the cultural revolution,
|
||||
Apollo 11, Woodstock, <ent type = 'person'>Charles Manson</ent>, the cultural revolution,
|
||||
the counterculture revolution, the sexual revolution, the
|
||||
yippies, the hippies, the peaceniks and the crazies.
|
||||
|
||||
In 1968, Stuart Udall, secretary of interior for both
|
||||
Kennedy and Johnson, was asked his opinion of the times, which
|
||||
In 1968, <ent type = 'person'>Stuart Udall</ent>, secretary of interior for both
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Johnson</ent>, was asked his opinion of the times, which
|
||||
seemed to be reeling out of control. He offered a sober, but
|
||||
startling, observation.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -135,15 +135,15 @@ Wars would be harder to make, nuclear waste harder to conceal,
|
||||
books harder to burn, air harder to pollute, justice harder to
|
||||
deny.
|
||||
|
||||
America was starkly different. Kennedy's presidency and his
|
||||
America was starkly different. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s presidency and his
|
||||
assassination may have been essential to unlocking the passions
|
||||
of the time, but what the land became was neither his legacy, nor
|
||||
Oswald's nor Dallas.'
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s nor Dallas.'
|
||||
|
||||
After the trauma and shame and guilt were gone, the judgment
|
||||
of history would be that Kennedy and Oswald, Edwin Walker and
|
||||
Martin Luther King, George Wallace and Stokely Carmichael, Angela
|
||||
Davis and George Lincoln Rockwell, Dallas and Los Angeles,
|
||||
of history would be that <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>, Edwin Walker and
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Martin Luther King</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>George Wallace</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Stokely Carmichael</ent>, Angela
|
||||
Davis and <ent type = 'person'>George Lincoln Rockwell</ent>, Dallas and Los Angeles,
|
||||
Memphis and Birmingham, Detroit and Da Nang were fragments of the
|
||||
American character, slivers of the dream and the nightmare.
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
|
||||
The Issue Whose Name They Dare Not Speak.
|
||||
========================================= </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Late in June, [the Bush] Administration unleashed a bill that
|
||||
<p> Late in June, [the <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>] Administration unleashed a bill that
|
||||
would gut the Community Reinvestment Act (which requires banks to
|
||||
make loans in their own neighborhoods, including low-income
|
||||
areas), ease restrictions on loans to a bank's own officers and
|
||||
@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
|
||||
=========================================
|
||||
The Issue Whose Name They Dare Not Speak.
|
||||
=========================================
|
||||
By Doug Henwood, _The Nation_, July 20/27, 1992
|
||||
By <ent type = 'person'>Doug Henwood</ent>, _The Nation_, July 20/27, 1992
|
||||
(See below for more about _The Nation_) </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Transcribed by Joseph Woodard </p>
|
||||
@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ solely responsible for this apparent reversal of fortune. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>No, finance owes its recovery mainly to an indulgent government, whose
|
||||
normal generosity has been deepened by election year concerns. The
|
||||
Bush Administration wants to bury the problem, Congress is happy to go
|
||||
along and the media aren't asking any unpleasant questions. Clinton
|
||||
raises the issue with his typical technocratic dullness, and Perot
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Administration wants to bury the problem, Congress is happy to go
|
||||
along and the media aren't asking any unpleasant questions. <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>
|
||||
raises the issue with his typical technocratic dullness, and <ent type = 'person'>Perot</ent>
|
||||
with his usual empty fury -- but neither has made that big a deal of
|
||||
the timely disappearance of the financial crisis. That's odd,
|
||||
considering that, as Bush campaign officials told Lynda Edwards of
|
||||
considering that, as <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> campaign officials told Lynda Edwards of
|
||||
_The Village Voice_, people in their focus groups are obsessed with
|
||||
the savings and loan bailout and wonder why the press isn't covering
|
||||
it. </p>
|
||||
@ -76,13 +76,13 @@ spikes in the 1950s, the gap between long- and short-term rates is the
|
||||
widest it's been since the dislocations of the 1930s and 1940s. This
|
||||
also fattens the banks, which have been buying government bonds
|
||||
(rather than making loans) and pocketing the large spread between what
|
||||
they pay their depositors and what they can get from Uncle Sam. Should
|
||||
they pay their depositors and what they can get from <ent type = 'person'>Uncle Sam</ent>. Should
|
||||
the relation between long-term and short-term rates return to normal,
|
||||
the banks would take a quick turn for the worse. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Fed chairman Alan Greenspan isn't the banks' only friend. The other is
|
||||
<p>Fed chairman <ent type = 'person'>Alan Greenspan</ent> isn't the banks' only friend. The other is
|
||||
the man who has said he will do anything to get re-elected, George
|
||||
Bush. Late in June, his Administration unleashed a bill that would gut
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>. Late in June, his Administration unleashed a bill that would gut
|
||||
the Community Reinvestment Act (which requires banks to make loans in
|
||||
their own neighborhoods, including low-income areas), ease
|
||||
restrictions on loans to a bank's own officers and directors and
|
||||
@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ things are too important to be discussed openly, especially during
|
||||
election season. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>**************************************************************
|
||||
Doug Henwood is Editor of _Left Business Observer_ (see below)
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Doug Henwood</ent> is Editor of _Left Business Observer_ (see below)
|
||||
************************************************************** </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>Article 1577 of misc.activism.progressive:
|
||||
From: dave@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
|
||||
From: <ent type = 'person'>dave</ent>@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com (<ent type = 'person'>dave</ent> "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
|
||||
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
|
||||
Subject: will BCCI happen again? bank on it. (part 1 of 2)
|
||||
<info type="Message-ID"> 1991Nov23.064309.14321@pencil.cs.missouri.edu</info>
|
||||
Date: 23 Nov 91 06:43:09 GMT
|
||||
Sender: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
|
||||
Sender: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (<ent type = 'person'>Rich Winkel</ent>)
|
||||
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
|
||||
Organization: PACH
|
||||
Lines: 586
|
||||
@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
the dollar ....
|
||||
By 1971, however, U.S. corporations had lost their competitive
|
||||
edge to Japan and the U.S. military had wasted hundreds of
|
||||
billions of dollars in Vietnam. Nixon's decision to devalue the
|
||||
billions of dollars in Vietnam. <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>'s decision to devalue the
|
||||
dollar and effectively end the Bretton Woods agreement on fixed
|
||||
exchange rates simply recognized the inevitable--the United States
|
||||
no longer ruled the world ....
|
||||
@ -38,25 +38,25 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
BCCI THE BIG PICTURE
|
||||
A system out of control, not just one bank
|
||||
By George Winslow
|
||||
By <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Winslow</ent></ent>
|
||||
|
||||
This is the first story in a two-part "In These Times" investigation
|
||||
into the broader economic implication of the BCCI affair.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
IN THE EARLY `80S, PAKISTANI IMMIGRANT AZIZ Rehman was overjoyed
|
||||
IN THE EARLY `80S, PAKISTANI IMMIGRANT <ent type = 'person'>AZIZ <ent type = 'person'>Rehman</ent></ent> was overjoyed
|
||||
to find a job in one of the world's fastest growing banks, the
|
||||
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). The pay was
|
||||
good and the perks were even better. His employer gave him a
|
||||
lavish expense account to entertain foreign diplomats--and he got
|
||||
to meet people like Jeb Bush, the U.S. vice president's son.
|
||||
But Rehman soon discovered that international finance had a less
|
||||
to meet people like <ent type = 'person'>Jeb <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent></ent>, the U.S. vice president's son.
|
||||
But <ent type = 'person'>Rehman</ent> soon discovered that international finance had a less
|
||||
glamorous side. Often, he had to lug heavy suitcases filled with
|
||||
cash through the sweltering Miami heat. During the day, he
|
||||
worried about being robbed; at night, he wondered about the
|
||||
bank's strange way of doing business. Bank executives told Rehman
|
||||
bank's strange way of doing business. Bank executives told <ent type = 'person'>Rehman</ent>
|
||||
the bags of cash were from a BCCI branch in the Bahamas. But
|
||||
Rehman knew they were lying. The branch office didn't exist.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Rehman</ent> knew they were lying. The branch office didn't exist.
|
||||
Years later, it s clear that BCCI has misplaced a lot more than
|
||||
a bank office. On July 5 1991, bank regulators from several
|
||||
nations shut down BCCI, charging that top executives had lost or
|
||||
@ -78,26 +78,26 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS: The economic context of the BCCI scandal
|
||||
begins with socialism and ends with the creation of a kind of
|
||||
capitalist utopia.
|
||||
In 1972, BCCI's founder, Agha Hasan Abedi, was under house
|
||||
In 1972, BCCI's founder, <ent type = 'person'>Agha Hasan <ent type = 'person'>Abedi</ent></ent>, was under house
|
||||
arrest in Pakistan. A socialist government had nationalized
|
||||
Abedi's United Bank and was investigating allegations of fraud at
|
||||
the institution. But as police guarded his house, Abedi was
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Abedi</ent>'s United Bank and was investigating allegations of fraud at
|
||||
the institution. But as police guarded his house, <ent type = 'person'>Abedi</ent> was
|
||||
already meeting with some of his powerful friends, plotting the
|
||||
creation of a new bank, BCCI.
|
||||
This bank, Abedi liked to say, would be the world's first
|
||||
This bank, <ent type = 'person'>Abedi</ent> liked to say, would be the world's first
|
||||
"genuinely global bank." Bank of America--then the world's
|
||||
largest bank--was trying to expand its international division.
|
||||
The huge U.S. bank was the first investor to jump on board. Bank
|
||||
of America put up only $2.5 million to acquire a 25 percent stake
|
||||
in BCCI, but its involvement helped Abedi get investment capital
|
||||
in BCCI, but its involvement helped <ent type = 'person'>Abedi</ent> get investment capital
|
||||
from powerful Third-World leaders and financiers. One early
|
||||
investor was Sheik Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahyan, ruler of oil-rich
|
||||
Abu Dhabi. Other major investors would eventually include Kamal
|
||||
investor was <ent type = 'person'>Sheik Zayed</ent> Bin Sultan al-Nahyan, ruler of oil-rich
|
||||
Abu Dhabi. Other major investors would eventually include <ent type = 'person'>Kamal</ent>
|
||||
Adham, former chief of Saudi Arabia's intelligence service; the
|
||||
bin Mahfouz family, which also controls Saudi Arabia's largest
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>bin Mahfouz</ent> family, which also controls Saudi Arabia's largest
|
||||
bank; and other rulers from the United Arab Emirates.
|
||||
BCCI went into operation with only $10 million in capital, but
|
||||
Abedi's timing was perfect. Over the next 18 years, BCCI would
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Abedi</ent>'s timing was perfect. Over the next 18 years, BCCI would
|
||||
grow by leaps and bounds. By no coincidence, so would the
|
||||
international financial system. In 1970, only about $60 billion
|
||||
moved through the international financial system each day. Today
|
||||
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|
||||
UNCLE SAM'S FALL: A dramatic period of political and economic
|
||||
disorder produced the global economic revolution that allowed BCCI
|
||||
to thrive. One year before BCCI was founded, President Richard
|
||||
Nixon announced that the United States would devalue the dollar,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> announced that the United States would devalue the dollar,
|
||||
effectively ending the American government's control over the
|
||||
international financial system.
|
||||
During World War II the United States had emerged as the globe's
|
||||
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|
||||
American corporations. And it could mint money to build up
|
||||
America's military establishment--which, in turn, protected U.S.
|
||||
investments in other countries. It was a "free world based on the
|
||||
dollar and backed by the atomic bomb," according to Richard Barnet
|
||||
and Ronald Muller, authors of "The Global Reach: The Power of
|
||||
dollar and backed by the atomic bomb," according to <ent type = 'person'>Richard Barnet</ent>
|
||||
and <ent type = 'person'>Ronald Muller</ent>, authors of "The Global Reach: The Power of
|
||||
Multinational Corporations."
|
||||
By 1971, however, U.S. corporations had lost their competitive
|
||||
edge to Japan and the U.S. military had wasted hundreds of
|
||||
billions of dollars in Vietnam. Nixon's decision to devalue the
|
||||
billions of dollars in Vietnam. <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>'s decision to devalue the
|
||||
dollar and effectively end the Bretton Woods agreement on fixed
|
||||
exchange rates simply recognized the inevitable--the United States
|
||||
no longer ruled the world.
|
||||
@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
international economic system. Massive military expenditures from
|
||||
Vietnam--along with increased imports--caused billions of dollars
|
||||
to flow out of the United States. In the '60s, banks began
|
||||
loaning these dollars--called "Eurodollars" because they were
|
||||
loaning these dollars--called "<ent type = 'person'>Eurodollars</ent>" because they were
|
||||
often held in European banks--to corporations, thus creating the
|
||||
world's first unregulated, international financial market. In
|
||||
1963, only about $148 million worth of bonds or loans were issued
|
||||
@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
Hong Kong and the Bahamas--operate as a kind of capitalist utopia
|
||||
for transnational corporations. Strict bank-secrecy laws protect
|
||||
depositors from the prying eyes of tax collectors or foreign
|
||||
investigators. Lax local regulations allow foreign banks to carry
|
||||
investigators. <ent type = 'person'>Lax</ent> local regulations allow foreign banks to carry
|
||||
on many activities--such as selling stocks and bonds--that may be
|
||||
illegal or tightly regulated in their home countries. More
|
||||
importantly, taxes are virtually non-existent.
|
||||
@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
illegally shuffled new deposits through various havens to make it
|
||||
look as if hundreds of millions of dollars worth of loans to BCCI
|
||||
executives and large shareholders were being repaid. In fact,
|
||||
they weren't. As Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY) recently stated,
|
||||
they weren't. As Rep. <ent type = 'person'>Charles Schumer</ent> (D-NY) recently stated,
|
||||
"BCCI fell between the international cracks."
|
||||
These cracks are beginning to look more and more like canyons.
|
||||
Law-enforcement experts say that offshore banks provide essential
|
||||
@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
the FBI) and black-market arms traffickers. (Offshore bank
|
||||
accounts were used in the Iran-contra affair, illegal arms sales
|
||||
to Iraq and several recent illegal sales of technology used to
|
||||
make nuclear bombs.) Furthermore, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)
|
||||
make nuclear bombs.) Furthermore, Sen. John <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent> (D-MA)
|
||||
contends that "billions" looted from U.S. savings-and-loans ended
|
||||
up in secret offshore accounts. Such accounts were also used by
|
||||
the perpetrators of Watergate, as well as the recent scandals at
|
||||
@ -243,16 +243,16 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
remembering that some of BCCI's largest crimes were quite legal--
|
||||
at least in the context of the lawless offshore financial system.
|
||||
|
||||
A FREE LUNCH: Consider, for example, taxes. While Aziz Rehman
|
||||
A FREE LUNCH: Consider, for example, taxes. While Aziz <ent type = 'person'>Rehman</ent>
|
||||
was carrying large bags of cash around Miami for BCCI, he noticed
|
||||
that many of the bank's clients weren't interested in drugs or
|
||||
arms or weird CIA plots. They simply wanted to avoid taxes. In
|
||||
one case--uncovered by the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism,
|
||||
Narcotics and International Operations, which is headed by Sen.
|
||||
Kerry--Modern Health Care had BCCI wire $20 million into an
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent>--Modern Health Care had BCCI wire $20 million into an
|
||||
account in the Caribbean.
|
||||
"They got interest over there, and they never showed that
|
||||
interest into the United States [for tax purposes]," Rehman
|
||||
interest into the United States [for tax purposes]," <ent type = 'person'>Rehman</ent>
|
||||
remembers. "That's why people deposit outside the United States.
|
||||
But BCCI is by no means the only bank that has been involved in
|
||||
tax fraud. Using offshore havens to avoid the IRS has become
|
||||
@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
taxes. In this case, Citibank created a series of fictitious
|
||||
transactions that made it look as if its subsidiaries in America
|
||||
and Europe were losing money. Then, the profits were recorded in
|
||||
subsidiaries located in offshore havens. (A Reagan appointee to
|
||||
subsidiaries located in offshore havens. (A <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> appointee to
|
||||
the Securities and Exchange Commission eventually dropped charges
|
||||
against the bank, explaining that he did "not subscribe to the
|
||||
theory that a company that violates tax and exchange-control
|
||||
@ -309,14 +309,14 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
| One major shareholder and a front man for BCCI's |
|
||||
| illegal purchases of various American banks-- |
|
||||
| including First American Bankshares in Washington, |
|
||||
| D.C.--was Sheikh Kamal Adham, the brother-in-law of |
|
||||
| the late Saudi King Faisal. During the `60s and |
|
||||
| `70s, Kamal ran the Saudi equivalent of the FBI and |
|
||||
| D.C.--was Sheikh <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Kamal</ent> Adham</ent>, the brother-in-law of |
|
||||
| the late Saudi King <ent type = 'person'>Faisal</ent>. During the `60s and |
|
||||
| `70s, <ent type = 'person'>Kamal</ent> ran the Saudi equivalent of the FBI and |
|
||||
| CIA. And like many members of the Saudi ruling |
|
||||
| family, he often demanded commissions (a polite way |
|
||||
| of saying bribe) from multinational corporations |
|
||||
| operating around the mideast. |
|
||||
| In the `50s and `60s, Kamal accepted kickbacks from |
|
||||
| In the `50s and `60s, <ent type = 'person'>Kamal</ent> accepted kickbacks from |
|
||||
| the Japanese in return for cheap oil. He also took |
|
||||
| commissions for arms deals set up for Northrup and |
|
||||
| two other U.S. arms dealers. In the '70s, according |
|
||||
@ -324,37 +324,37 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
| millions of dollars in commission" by Boeing to |
|
||||
| persuade the Egyptians to buy its planes. |
|
||||
| Besides his extensive ties to the U.S. arms |
|
||||
| industry, Kamal maintained close ties to Western |
|
||||
| industry, <ent type = 'person'>Kamal</ent> maintained close ties to Western |
|
||||
| intelligence agencies. In 1977, the "Washington |
|
||||
| Post" described Kamal as the CIA's "liason man" in |
|
||||
| the region and noted that Kamal had hired former CIA |
|
||||
| station chief Raymond Close as an adviser. In the |
|
||||
| late `60s, Kamal acted as the CIA's intermediary to |
|
||||
| funnel payments to Anwar Sadat while Sadat was vice |
|
||||
| Post" described <ent type = 'person'>Kamal</ent> as the CIA's "<ent type = 'person'>liason</ent> man" in |
|
||||
| the region and noted that <ent type = 'person'>Kamal</ent> had hired former CIA |
|
||||
| station chief <ent type = 'person'>Raymond Close</ent> as an adviser. In the |
|
||||
| late `60s, <ent type = 'person'>Kamal</ent> acted as the CIA's intermediary to |
|
||||
| funnel payments to <ent type = 'person'>Anwar <ent type = 'person'>Sadat</ent></ent> while <ent type = 'person'>Sadat</ent> was vice |
|
||||
| president of Egypt. According to Larry Gurwin's 1990 |
|
||||
| article in the business magazine "Regardie's," Kamal |
|
||||
| article in the business magazine "Regardie's," <ent type = 'person'>Kamal</ent> |
|
||||
| channeled hundreds of millions of dollars to Egypt |
|
||||
| after Sadat took power. These funds convinced Sadat |
|
||||
| after <ent type = 'person'>Sadat</ent> took power. These funds convinced <ent type = 'person'>Sadat</ent> |
|
||||
| to expel Soviet military advisers in 1973 and to |
|
||||
| establish a closer relationship with the United |
|
||||
| States. |
|
||||
| In Kamal's years as the head of Saudi intelligence, |
|
||||
| In <ent type = 'person'>Kamal</ent>'s years as the head of Saudi intelligence, |
|
||||
| he was responsible for a number of human rights |
|
||||
| abuses, including torture and executions of political |
|
||||
| opponents. Internal BCCI documents show that Kamal |
|
||||
| opponents. Internal BCCI documents show that <ent type = 'person'>Kamal</ent> |
|
||||
| received over $313 million in loans from BCCI, most |
|
||||
| of which have not been repaid. |
|
||||
| Other one-time BCCI shareholders with close |
|
||||
| connections to the CIA and the Western arms industry |
|
||||
| include Iran's now-ousted ruling family. Shah |
|
||||
| include Iran's now-ousted ruling family. <ent type = 'person'>Shah</ent> |
|
||||
| Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, whose family held stock in |
|
||||
| BCCI as late as 1978, was installed in power in 1953 |
|
||||
| by a CIA-backed coup against Mohammed Mossadeq, who |
|
||||
| by a CIA-backed coup against <ent type = 'person'>Mohammed Mossadeq</ent>, who |
|
||||
| had nationalized American oil companies. In the |
|
||||
| `70s, before he was overthrown, the Shah purchased |
|
||||
| `70s, before he was overthrown, the <ent type = 'person'>Shah</ent> purchased |
|
||||
| billions of dollars worth of arms from American |
|
||||
| companies. |
|
||||
| Kuwaiti businessman Faisal Saud al Fulajj was a |
|
||||
| Kuwaiti businessman <ent type = 'person'>Faisal</ent> Saud al Fulajj was a |
|
||||
| small BCCI shareholder. According to the "Wall |
|
||||
| Street Journal," he accepted over $300,000 in bribes |
|
||||
| from Boeing while he was head of the Kuwait Airlines. |
|
||||
@ -362,53 +362,53 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
| million in bribes to illegally act as a frontman for |
|
||||
| BCCI's illegal and secret purchases of various |
|
||||
| American banks, including First American. |
|
||||
| Mohammed Irvani was another frontman with ties to |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Mohammed Irvani</ent> was another frontman with ties to |
|
||||
| Western intelligence. He set up a consulting firm |
|
||||
| with former CIA director Richard Helms in 1977. |
|
||||
| Ali Mohammed Shorafa was a small BCCI shareholder |
|
||||
| with former CIA director <ent type = 'person'>Richard Helms</ent> in 1977. |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Ali Mohammed <ent type = 'person'>Shorafa</ent></ent> was a small BCCI shareholder |
|
||||
| and yet another frontman in the First American |
|
||||
| affair. According to columnist Jack Anderson and |
|
||||
| "Regardie's" magazine, Shorafa financed a company |
|
||||
| affair. According to columnist <ent type = 'person'>Jack Anderson</ent> and |
|
||||
| "Regardie's" magazine, <ent type = 'person'>Shorafa</ent> financed a company |
|
||||
| that received an exclusive contract to ship U.S. arms |
|
||||
| to Egypt right after the Camp David accords. |
|
||||
| Internal BCCI documents show that BCCI gave Fulajj at |
|
||||
| least $113 million in loans and Shorafa $123 million |
|
||||
| least $113 million in loans and <ent type = 'person'>Shorafa</ent> $123 million |
|
||||
| in loans. |
|
||||
| Agha Hasan Abedi, BCCI's founder, kept close ties |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Agha Hasan <ent type = 'person'>Abedi</ent></ent>, BCCI's founder, kept close ties |
|
||||
| to Pakistani military and intelligence officials. |
|
||||
| Abedi hired a number of bank officials with links to |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Abedi</ent> hired a number of bank officials with links to |
|
||||
| the Pakistani military or intelligence services. The |
|
||||
| "Financial Times" of London has reported that the CIA |
|
||||
| used BCCI to funnel payments to the Pakistani |
|
||||
| military. Recently, the "Wall Street Journal |
|
||||
| reported that one top Pakistani official who refused |
|
||||
| to extradite Abedi to the United States to face |
|
||||
| to extradite <ent type = 'person'>Abedi</ent> to the United States to face |
|
||||
| charges of fraud and larceny, "had received (from |
|
||||
| BCCI) a monthly stipend, free travel, a home loan and |
|
||||
| an expensive automobile." |
|
||||
| Abedi was so close to Pakistani Dictator Zia al- |
|
||||
| Haq, that Zia rushed to Abedi's bedside when the |
|
||||
| banker had a heart attack. Zia's term in office |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Abedi</ent> was so close to Pakistani Dictator <ent type = 'person'>Zia</ent> al- |
|
||||
| Haq, that <ent type = 'person'>Zia</ent> rushed to <ent type = 'person'>Abedi</ent>'s bedside when the |
|
||||
| banker had a heart attack. <ent type = 'person'>Zia</ent>'s term in office |
|
||||
| produced massive human rights violations and |
|
||||
| continual allegations that top Kaistani officials |
|
||||
| were involved in the lucrative heroin trade. Zia |
|
||||
| were involved in the lucrative heroin trade. <ent type = 'person'>Zia</ent> |
|
||||
| overthrew the democratically elected government of |
|
||||
| Zulfikav Ali Bhutto and executed Bhutto. |
|
||||
| The U.S. government rewarded Zia's support for the |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Zulfikav Ali Bhutto</ent> and executed Bhutto. |
|
||||
| The U.S. government rewarded <ent type = 'person'>Zia</ent>'s support for the |
|
||||
| Afghan rebels with $2.1 billion worth of U.S. Agency |
|
||||
| for International Development grants and hundreds of |
|
||||
| millions of dollars in military aid. |
|
||||
| The bin Mahfouz family--which owns Saudi Arabia's |
|
||||
| The <ent type = 'person'>bin Mahfouz</ent> family--which owns Saudi Arabia's |
|
||||
| largest bank--sold its 20 percent stake in BCCI in |
|
||||
| 1990. The family also has a long history of |
|
||||
| corruption and financial fraud. In the late `70s, |
|
||||
| for example, the family teamed up with the Hunt |
|
||||
| for example, the family teamed up with the <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> |
|
||||
| brothers, infamous Texas oil barons, in an illegal |
|
||||
| attempt to manipulate the price of silver by |
|
||||
| cornering the world silver market. The operation |
|
||||
| nearly touched off a worldwide financial panic before |
|
||||
| it was halted by U.S. regulators. More recently, the |
|
||||
| bin Mahfouz family used BCCI as a private piggy bank, |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>bin Mahfouz</ent> family used BCCI as a private piggy bank, |
|
||||
| receiving over $176 million in unsecured loans from |
|
||||
| the bank. |
|
||||
| Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the ruler of Abu |
|
||||
@ -420,16 +420,16 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
| development schemes. (Shakbut once justified his |
|
||||
| policies by saying the oil companies needed the money |
|
||||
| more than the citizens of his country did.) |
|
||||
| Sheik Zayed proved to be the more enlightened |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Sheik Zayed</ent> proved to be the more enlightened |
|
||||
| ruler, spending billions to establish a social |
|
||||
| welfare state for the citizens of Abu Dhabi. But he |
|
||||
| still treats Abu Dhabi's oil revenues (about $1 |
|
||||
| billion a month) as personal income, using it to |
|
||||
| build lavish mansions around the world. As a staunch |
|
||||
| U.S. ally, he has spent billions on U.S. and European |
|
||||
| arms. President Bush recently asked Congress to |
|
||||
| arms. President <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> recently asked Congress to |
|
||||
| approve another $648 million U.S. arms deal as a |
|
||||
| reward for Sheik Zayed's staunch support for the U.S. |
|
||||
| reward for <ent type = 'person'>Sheik Zayed</ent>'s staunch support for the U.S. |
|
||||
| during the Iraq war. |
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
@ -443,8 +443,8 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
But, as the average Latin American suffered, wealthy elites used
|
||||
banks like BCCI to take hundreds of billions of dollars out of
|
||||
their homelands. Court documents and Senate hearings show that
|
||||
Panama's Manuel Noriega, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, the Philippines'
|
||||
Ferdinand Marcos, Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier and other dictators
|
||||
Panama's <ent type = 'person'>Manuel <ent type = 'person'>Noriega</ent></ent>, Iraq's <ent type = 'person'>Saddam <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent></ent>, the Philippines'
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Ferdinand Marcos</ent>, Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier and other dictators
|
||||
used BCCI to steal billions of dollars from native countries. The
|
||||
BCCI affair illustrates how large multinational corporations have
|
||||
established close financial and political ties with corrupt
|
||||
@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
The IMF, the World Bank and the U.S. government have supported a
|
||||
number of projects to establish offshore havens. BCCI's most
|
||||
notorious money-laundering operation occurred in Panama, where one
|
||||
BCCI official says he acted as Manuel Noriega's "personal banker."
|
||||
BCCI official says he acted as <ent type = 'person'>Manuel <ent type = 'person'>Noriega</ent></ent>'s "personal banker."
|
||||
This, of course, wouldn't have been possible if a U.S. Agency for
|
||||
International Development official hadn't helped Panama set up an
|
||||
offshore haven in 1970.
|
||||
@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
which BCCI agreed to provide a new $48 million loan to Jamaica.
|
||||
Soon thereafter, Jamaica's central bank agreed to make large
|
||||
deposits with BCCI.
|
||||
One BCCI employee, Amjad Awan, also told Kerry subcommittee
|
||||
One BCCI employee, <ent type = 'person'>Amjad Awan</ent>, also told <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent> subcommittee
|
||||
investigators that the World Bank suggested BCCI provide a loan to
|
||||
Bolivia. After BCCI provided the loan, which was guaranteed by
|
||||
the World Bank, Bolivia's central bank began depositing money in
|
||||
@ -529,11 +529,11 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
BCCI to help solve the debt crisis in several countries, BCCI was
|
||||
engaging in a number of illegal transactions that actually
|
||||
increased the debt various Third-World countries were paying.
|
||||
Jack Blum, a former counsel for the Kerry subcommittee, claims
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Jack <ent type = 'person'>Blum</ent></ent>, a former counsel for the <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent> subcommittee, claims
|
||||
that BCCI became very active in "the business of brokering Third-
|
||||
World debt." Many of these debts, which were in arrears, were
|
||||
nearly worthless or were being sold by banks for about 20 cents on
|
||||
the dollar to outside investors. Blum says that these investors
|
||||
the dollar to outside investors. <ent type = 'person'>Blum</ent> says that these investors
|
||||
would contact BCCI, which would intervene with a Third-World
|
||||
government. Under a scheme promoted by the IMF, the World Bank
|
||||
and the United States, many governments would agree to pay back
|
||||
@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
paid for it), if the debt-purchaser would invest the money in the
|
||||
debtor country or use the money to buy a company the country's
|
||||
government was trying to sell.
|
||||
But according to Blum, many investors made huge profits while
|
||||
But according to <ent type = 'person'>Blum</ent>, many investors made huge profits while
|
||||
investing very little in Third-World nations. An example of such
|
||||
a transaction can be found in Argentina. In the late '80s, BCCI
|
||||
bought Argentinian debt for an unknown discount, then had the
|
||||
@ -559,12 +559,12 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
a $10 million hotel for $2 million. Argentina, on the other hand,
|
||||
spent $38 million to redeem its debt and received only $2 million
|
||||
in new investment money.
|
||||
Jack Blum laid out BCCI's illegal Third-World debt operations in
|
||||
an August 1991 testimony before the Kerry committee. The debt
|
||||
scam, Blum pointed out, "is a very major business. I think it
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Jack <ent type = 'person'>Blum</ent></ent> laid out BCCI's illegal Third-World debt operations in
|
||||
an August 1991 testimony before the <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent> committee. The debt
|
||||
scam, <ent type = 'person'>Blum</ent> pointed out, "is a very major business. I think it
|
||||
runs to billions of dollars."
|
||||
Yet, like many of the other multibillion-dollar economic scams
|
||||
covered by this article, Blum's testimony attracted virtually no
|
||||
covered by this article, <ent type = 'person'>Blum</ent>'s testimony attracted virtually no
|
||||
press attention. Once again, the mainstream media's lack of
|
||||
interest in larger economic issues led it to ignore a scandal that
|
||||
has impoverished many Third-World countries.
|
||||
@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
government authority. BCCI will happen again.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
George Winslow is a New York City freelance writer who regularly
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Winslow</ent></ent> is a New York City freelance writer who regularly
|
||||
covers white-collar crime and international finance.
|
||||
|
||||
In Part II, "In These Times" shows how larger economic issues shed
|
||||
@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
the CIA, drug dealers, sleazy S&Ls, and influence peddlers.
|
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|
||||
--
|
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daveus rattus
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>dave</ent>us rattus
|
||||
|
||||
yer friendly neighborhood ratman
|
||||
|
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|
||||
5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.
|
||||
|
||||
Article 1633 of misc.activism.progressive:
|
||||
From: dave@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
|
||||
From: <ent type = 'person'>dave</ent>@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com (<ent type = 'person'>dave</ent> "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
|
||||
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
|
||||
Subject: will BCCI happen again? bank on it. (part 2 of 2)
|
||||
<info type="Message-ID"> 1991Dec5.000939.15744@pencil.cs.missouri.edu</info>
|
||||
Date: 5 Dec 91 00:09:39 GMT
|
||||
Sender: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
|
||||
Sender: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (<ent type = 'person'>Rich Winkel</ent>)
|
||||
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
|
||||
Organization: PACH
|
||||
Lines: 613
|
||||
@ -613,13 +613,13 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
The following is part two of a two-part series on BCCI.
|
||||
Reprinted with permission of "In These Times."
|
||||
|
||||
Meanwhile, the Reagan and Bush administrations actively
|
||||
Meanwhile, the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> administrations actively
|
||||
obstructed a congressional investigation of the scandal. A Senate
|
||||
subcommittee chaired by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) has been
|
||||
subcommittee chaired by Sen. John <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent> (D-MA) has been
|
||||
investigating BCCI for several years. From the start, the
|
||||
subcommittee encountered resistance from the administration. For
|
||||
example, the Justice Department ordered key witnesses not to
|
||||
cooperate with Kerry. The department also refused to produce
|
||||
cooperate with <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent>. The department also refused to produce
|
||||
documents subpoenaed by the subcommittee.
|
||||
But these machinations are only part of a much larger political
|
||||
scandal--the growing political power of financial institutions
|
||||
@ -632,13 +632,13 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
BCCI THE BIG PICTURE
|
||||
New capitalism: bank fraud, drug trade, espionage
|
||||
By George Winslow
|
||||
By <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Winslow</ent></ent>
|
||||
|
||||
In its October 23 issue, "In These Times" began a two-part
|
||||
series on the broader economic and social issues of the BCCI
|
||||
affair. Author George Winslow argued that the real scandal
|
||||
affair. Author <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Winslow</ent></ent> argued that the real scandal
|
||||
was not a lone wayward bank, but a world financial system
|
||||
out of control. Winslow examined how, during the past two
|
||||
out of control. <ent type = 'person'>Winslow</ent> examined how, during the past two
|
||||
decades, multinational corporations rose to global economic
|
||||
dominance. He then documented the way in which operations
|
||||
like BCCI use "offshore havens" to do these corporations
|
||||
@ -649,38 +649,38 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
leaders loot their own nations, thus increasing those
|
||||
countries debts and putting further strain on the shaky U.S.
|
||||
economy. No matter what happens in the ongoing BCCI
|
||||
investigation, Winslow concluded, the offshore financial
|
||||
investigation, <ent type = 'person'>Winslow</ent> concluded, the offshore financial
|
||||
system that spawned the bank still operates outside of the
|
||||
control of any real government authority. "BCCI will happen
|
||||
again," he wrote.
|
||||
In the following story, Winslow examines how larger economic
|
||||
In the following story, <ent type = 'person'>Winslow</ent> examines how larger economic
|
||||
issues shed new light on BCCI's more notorious operations--
|
||||
the bank's ties to the CIA, drug dealers, sleazy S&Ls and
|
||||
influence peddlers.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
EVEN IN MIAMI, WHERE EXCESS HAS BECOME a fine art, David Paul, the
|
||||
chairman of CenTrust Savings Bank, stood out from the pack. Paul,
|
||||
EVEN IN MIAMI, WHERE EXCESS HAS BECOME a fine art, <ent type = 'person'>David <ent type = 'person'>Paul</ent></ent>, the
|
||||
chairman of CenTrust Savings Bank, stood out from the pack. <ent type = 'person'>Paul</ent>,
|
||||
who raised lots of money for top Democratic Party politicians,
|
||||
used bank funds to buy a $13 million Rubens that he hung in his
|
||||
opulent estate and insisted that his $7 million yacht be built
|
||||
with 14 carat gold nails.
|
||||
But by the late '80s, Paul was in trouble. CenTrust, like many
|
||||
But by the late '80s, <ent type = 'person'>Paul</ent> was in trouble. CenTrust, like many
|
||||
other S&Ls, had suffered huge losses by speculating in securities
|
||||
and junk bonds. For years he had hidden the losses with
|
||||
accounting tricks that were legalized by Congress and the Reagan
|
||||
accounting tricks that were legalized by Congress and the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
administration. But, as the public began howling about fraud in
|
||||
the S&L industry, bank regulators ordered Paul to make the losses
|
||||
the S&L industry, bank regulators ordered <ent type = 'person'>Paul</ent> to make the losses
|
||||
public, a move that threatened to ruin his bank.
|
||||
To buy time, Paul used his political clout to arrange meetings
|
||||
with top regulators in the Reagan administration. At the
|
||||
meetings, Paul introduced Ghaith Pharaon, a wealthy Saudi
|
||||
financier who had already bought 25 percent of CenTrust. Paul
|
||||
To buy time, <ent type = 'person'>Paul</ent> used his political clout to arrange meetings
|
||||
with top regulators in the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> administration. At the
|
||||
meetings, <ent type = 'person'>Paul</ent> introduced <ent type = 'person'>Ghaith Pharaon</ent>, a wealthy Saudi
|
||||
financier who had already bought 25 percent of CenTrust. <ent type = 'person'>Paul</ent>
|
||||
implied that Pharaon and his wealthy Saudi friends planned to save
|
||||
the bank.
|
||||
Impressed with this display of wealth, regulators let CenTrust
|
||||
stay in business. CenTrust lost more money and Paul kept throwing
|
||||
stay in business. CenTrust lost more money and <ent type = 'person'>Paul</ent> kept throwing
|
||||
lavish parties--at one $122,000 affair he flew six famous chefs
|
||||
first class from the United States to France. When bank
|
||||
regulators finally shut down CenTrust in 1990, taxpayers got stuck
|
||||
@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
way around the world from Abu Dhabi, where a number of Bank of
|
||||
Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) executives are now under
|
||||
house arrest. But the CenTrust affair illustrates how the sun
|
||||
never sets on the new world of bank fraud. Ghaith Pharaon--the
|
||||
never sets on the new world of bank fraud. <ent type = 'person'>Ghaith Pharaon</ent>--the
|
||||
wealthy Saudi financier who was supposed to save CenTrust--was
|
||||
simply one of the front men that BCCI used to secretly buy and
|
||||
loot at least four American banks.
|
||||
@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
presidents--convinced the Federal Reserve Board to approve the
|
||||
deal on the condition that BCCI would not control the bank. It
|
||||
was a condition BCCI ignored from the start. Over the next
|
||||
decade, BCCI also used Ghaith Pharaon as a frontman to secretly
|
||||
decade, BCCI also used <ent type = 'person'>Ghaith Pharaon</ent> as a frontman to secretly
|
||||
acquire a minority stake in CenTrust, as well as controlling
|
||||
interests in the National Bank of Georgia and the Independence
|
||||
Bank of Encino, Calif. As with its secret purchase of First
|
||||
@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
Then, BCCI used the same system of offshore finance to loot the
|
||||
banks. For example, soon after BCCI lost over $849 million
|
||||
speculating in U.S. Treasury bonds, BCCI executives had First
|
||||
American Bankshares (FAB) pay $220 million for Ghaith Pharaon's
|
||||
American Bankshares (FAB) pay $220 million for <ent type = 'person'>Ghaith Pharaon</ent>'s
|
||||
shares in National Georgia Bank. According to the "Wall Street
|
||||
Journal," FAB paid between $20 million to $60 million more than
|
||||
any other bank was willing to pay. The deal had the effect of
|
||||
@ -789,56 +789,56 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
ownership or to embezzle millions of dollars.
|
||||
Federal authorities made it easier for investors to buy banks,
|
||||
allowing many shady financiers to move into the industry. Many of
|
||||
these financiers, such as Charles Keating and David Paul, set up
|
||||
these financiers, such as <ent type = 'person'>Charles <ent type = 'person'>Keating</ent></ent> and <ent type = 'person'>David <ent type = 'person'>Paul</ent></ent>, set up
|
||||
elaborate business and political ties with BCCI's clients,
|
||||
advisers and shareholders. These ties show that BCCI was not
|
||||
simply a foreign problem--and that the S&L scandal goes far beyond
|
||||
U.S. borders. In the '80s, high-flying institutions like BCCI and
|
||||
CenTrust became magnets for con artists of all kinds.
|
||||
|
||||
BCCI AND THE S&L SCANDAL: For example, Charles Keating and his
|
||||
BCCI AND THE S&L SCANDAL: For example, <ent type = 'person'>Charles <ent type = 'person'>Keating</ent></ent> and his
|
||||
thrift, Lincoln Savings and Loan, invested millions of dollars in
|
||||
Trendinvest, an offshore company that speculated in foreign
|
||||
currencies. According to the "Wall Street Journal," Lincoln
|
||||
suffered "large losses" from trades made at Trendinvest and
|
||||
"lawyers representing investors ... defrauded by Mr. Keating . .
|
||||
"lawyers representing investors ... defrauded by Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Keating</ent> . .
|
||||
. accuse him of shifting money overseas through such mechanisms as
|
||||
foreign exchange losses."
|
||||
A BCCI executive, Alfred Hartmann, served on Trendinvest's board
|
||||
of directors and advised Keating on the foreign-exchange
|
||||
A BCCI executive, <ent type = 'person'>Alfred Hartmann</ent>, served on Trendinvest's board
|
||||
of directors and advised <ent type = 'person'>Keating</ent> on the foreign-exchange
|
||||
transactions. In 1989, Lincoln Savings and Loan filed for
|
||||
bankruptcy--a move that cost taxpayers over $2.5 billion.
|
||||
Another notorious S&L con artist is Herman Beebe. Beebe had a
|
||||
Another notorious S&L con artist is Herman <ent type = 'person'>Beebe</ent>. <ent type = 'person'>Beebe</ent> had a
|
||||
history of bank fraud as well as alleged business ties to the
|
||||
Mafia--which would normally have prevented him from buying a bank.
|
||||
But in the '80s world of deregulated banking, Beebe was able to
|
||||
But in the '80s world of deregulated banking, <ent type = 'person'>Beebe</ent> was able to
|
||||
secretly buy and loot at least 100 S&Ls.
|
||||
Beebe's exploits are documented in the book, "Inside Job: The
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Beebe</ent>'s exploits are documented in the book, "Inside Job: The
|
||||
Looting of America's Savings and Loans," by Stephen Pizzo, Mary
|
||||
Fricker and Paul Muolo. According to the authors, one of Beebe's
|
||||
closest business associates, Ben Barnes, set up partnership with
|
||||
John Connally, the former governor of Texas. The partnership
|
||||
Fricker and <ent type = 'person'>Paul</ent> Muolo. According to the authors, one of <ent type = 'person'>Beebe</ent>'s
|
||||
closest business associates, <ent type = 'person'>Ben Barnes</ent>, set up partnership with
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Connally</ent></ent>, the former governor of Texas. The partnership
|
||||
borrowed money from at least 17 S&Ls. But the partnership failed
|
||||
to pay back many of the loans, due to the real-estate crash.
|
||||
Connally, a one-time US. treasury secretary, was forced into
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Connally</ent>, a one-time US. treasury secretary, was forced into
|
||||
bankruptcy.
|
||||
In the late '70s, Connally owned a Texas bank with BCCI front
|
||||
In the late '70s, <ent type = 'person'>Connally</ent> owned a Texas bank with BCCI front
|
||||
man Pharaon, according to Stephen Fay's book, "Beyond Greed: The
|
||||
Hunt Family's Bold Attempt to Corner the Silver Market." Connally
|
||||
introduced the bin Mafouze family, BCCI's second-largest
|
||||
shareholder, to the Hunt brothers, the infamous oil barons who
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> Family's Bold Attempt to Corner the Silver Market." <ent type = 'person'>Connally</ent>
|
||||
introduced the <ent type = 'person'>bin Mafouze</ent> family, BCCI's second-largest
|
||||
shareholder, to the <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> brothers, the infamous oil barons who
|
||||
lost their $10 billion fortune trying to illegally manipulate the
|
||||
world's silver market. The bin Mafouze family and Pharaon
|
||||
invested in the Hunt scam and suffered huge losses.
|
||||
world's silver market. The <ent type = 'person'>bin Mafouze</ent> family and Pharaon
|
||||
invested in the <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> scam and suffered huge losses.
|
||||
Through Pharaon and CenTrust, the BCCI connection also leads
|
||||
back to the biggest con artists of the S&L scandal--Michael Milken
|
||||
back to the biggest con artists of the S&L scandal--<ent type = 'person'>Michael Milken</ent>
|
||||
and his firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. The Federal Deposit
|
||||
Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has charged that Milken, Drexel,
|
||||
CenTrust's Paul and BCCI rigged a sale of $150 million worth of
|
||||
CenTrust's <ent type = 'person'>Paul</ent> and BCCI rigged a sale of $150 million worth of
|
||||
junk bonds to make it appear as if CenTrust had raised more
|
||||
capital than it actually had.
|
||||
More importantly, a $6.8 billion suit filed by the FDIC alleges
|
||||
that Milken, Drexel, Keating and Paul set up a network of junk-
|
||||
that Milken, Drexel, <ent type = 'person'>Keating</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Paul</ent> set up a network of junk-
|
||||
bond buyers at CenTrust and other S&Ls who "wilfully, deliberately
|
||||
and systematically plundered certain S&Ls." This network used
|
||||
"illegal and manipulative secretive trading activities" to trade
|
||||
@ -875,18 +875,18 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
drug-cartel deposits helped BCCI hide its losses and keep growing.
|
||||
Naturally, BCCI executives worked very hard to keep their
|
||||
customers happy.
|
||||
Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, for example, received
|
||||
Panamanian dictator <ent type = 'person'>Manuel <ent type = 'person'>Noriega</ent></ent>, for example, received
|
||||
millions of dollars in kickbacks from the Medellin drug cartel.
|
||||
When Noriega set up a $25 million account with BCCI, bank
|
||||
When <ent type = 'person'>Noriega</ent> set up a $25 million account with BCCI, bank
|
||||
executives issued him credit cards for his wife and mistress.
|
||||
They booked him into posh New York City hotels and they took him
|
||||
on shopping sprees at the city's largest department stores where
|
||||
Noriega ran up as much as $100,000 worth of credit-card bills.
|
||||
Noriega is believed to have laundered at least $90 million through
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Noriega</ent> ran up as much as $100,000 worth of credit-card bills.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Noriega</ent> is believed to have laundered at least $90 million through
|
||||
BCCI.
|
||||
In other cases, BCCI actually helped drug dealers set up
|
||||
sophisticated laundering systems. For example, when a U.S.
|
||||
undercover agent, Robert Musella, began depositing money from the
|
||||
undercover agent, <ent type = 'person'>Robert Musella</ent>, began depositing money from the
|
||||
Medellin cartel at BCCI, the bank sent Musella to Europe for a
|
||||
kind of seminar in laundering. Then, BCCI set up a Byzantine
|
||||
system of offshore corporations and banks that Musella used to
|
||||
@ -922,12 +922,12 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
|
||||
DRUGS, GUNS AND IDEOLOGY: BCCI's money-laundering activities also
|
||||
have a political context that has been largely ignored by the
|
||||
mainstream media. Over the last decade, the Reagan and Bush
|
||||
mainstream media. Over the last decade, the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>
|
||||
administrations have attempted to portray the war against drugs as
|
||||
a Cold War crusade. By attacking "narco-terrorists," Reagan
|
||||
a Cold War crusade. By attacking "narco-terrorists," <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
attempted to link Latin American revolutionaries and Latin
|
||||
American drug traffickers--thus justifying, for example, U.S.
|
||||
military intervention in Nicaragua. Likewise, Bush recently sent
|
||||
military intervention in Nicaragua. Likewise, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> recently sent
|
||||
military advisers to Peru to fight left-wing guerrillas involved
|
||||
in the drug trade.
|
||||
But, in fact, billionaires who run the drug cartels are hardly
|
||||
@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
elites who use terror and illegal arms deals to maintain their
|
||||
power.
|
||||
In 1989, for example, Colombian officials raided the farm of
|
||||
Gonzalo Rodriquez Gacha, one of the founders and a top leader of
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Gonzalo Rodriquez Gacha</ent>, one of the founders and a top leader of
|
||||
the Medellin drug cartel. Here they found hundreds of assault
|
||||
rifles that had been imported from the Israel Military Industries,
|
||||
the state-owned arms manufacturers.
|
||||
@ -976,17 +976,17 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
only a small part of BCCI's arms supermarket. BCCI was involved
|
||||
in the sale of guns to the Contras and the CIA-backed Afghan
|
||||
rebels. Gun dealers hired by the National Security Council's
|
||||
Oliver North used the bank to illegally sell tow missiles to Iran
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oliver North</ent> used the bank to illegally sell tow missiles to Iran
|
||||
during the Iran-contra affair. And the banks provided financial
|
||||
services for Silkworm missiles sold to Saudi Arabia, Scud-B
|
||||
missiles bought by Syria, weapons purchased by the Abu Nidal
|
||||
missiles bought by Syria, weapons purchased by the <ent type = 'person'>Abu Nidal</ent>
|
||||
terrorist group, Mirage Jets acquired by India and helicopters
|
||||
sold to Guatemala.
|
||||
Some of the most terrifying deals apparently involved atomic
|
||||
bombs. Sen. Alan Cranston (D-CA), has alleged that BCCI was
|
||||
involved in programs by Argentina, Libya, Pakistan and Iraq to
|
||||
build atomic bombs. In addition, former Senate investigator Jack
|
||||
Blum says that Munther Bilbeisi, an arms dealer "whose brother was
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Blum</ent> says that <ent type = 'person'>Munther Bilbeisi</ent>, an arms dealer "whose brother was
|
||||
a [BCCI] branch bank manager" and a "major" BCCI customer, was
|
||||
involved "in an effort to sell enriched uranium from South Africa
|
||||
to the Middle East."
|
||||
@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
put BCCI's arms sales in a larger context of American foreign
|
||||
policy and covert operations.
|
||||
The congressional Iran-Contra committee noted that then-CIA
|
||||
director William Casey "wanted to establish an offshore entity
|
||||
director <ent type = 'person'>William Casey</ent> "wanted to establish an offshore entity
|
||||
capable of conducting operations in furtherance of U.S. foreign
|
||||
policy that was `stand-alone'--financially independent of
|
||||
appropriated funds, and, in turn, congressional oversight."
|
||||
@ -1031,15 +1031,15 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
other corrupt Third-World elites, BCCI's shareholders also had a
|
||||
long history of ties to Western arms dealers and intelligence
|
||||
agencies.
|
||||
Panama's Manuel Noriega was an important figure in the secret
|
||||
scheme to illegally fund the Contras. Jose Blandon, a former
|
||||
Noriega aide, claims that the CIA advised Noriega to use BCCI as
|
||||
Panama's <ent type = 'person'>Manuel <ent type = 'person'>Noriega</ent></ent> was an important figure in the secret
|
||||
scheme to illegally fund the Contras. <ent type = 'person'>Jose Blandon</ent>, a former
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Noriega</ent> aide, claims that the CIA advised <ent type = 'person'>Noriega</ent> to use BCCI as
|
||||
his bank. Various published sources say that the CIA was
|
||||
depositing as much as $200,000 a year in Noriega's account at
|
||||
BCCI. Noriega, in turn, helped Oliver North set up dummy
|
||||
depositing as much as $200,000 a year in <ent type = 'person'>Noriega</ent>'s account at
|
||||
BCCI. <ent type = 'person'>Noriega</ent>, in turn, helped <ent type = 'person'>Oliver North</ent> set up dummy
|
||||
corporations and secret bank accounts that were used to finance
|
||||
the Contras.
|
||||
Israel also played a key role. Israel shipped Noriega more than
|
||||
Israel also played a key role. Israel shipped <ent type = 'person'>Noriega</ent> more than
|
||||
$500 million worth of arms during the '80s, supplied the Contras
|
||||
with guns and helped sell weapons to Iran in the Iran-Contra
|
||||
affair. BCCI is known to have worked with Israeli officials on
|
||||
@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
Soviet-backed Afghan government with about half of their funds.
|
||||
BCCI's longstanding ties to Pakistan's military and to the Saudi
|
||||
royal family made the bank a logical choice to funnel CIA aid in
|
||||
Afghanistan. Recently, Pakistan's finance minister, Sartaj Aziz,
|
||||
Afghanistan. Recently, Pakistan's finance minister, <ent type = 'person'>Sartaj Aziz</ent>,
|
||||
told the "Financial Times" that BCCI was used by the CIA to direct
|
||||
arms and money to the Afghanistan rebels. The official also said
|
||||
that U.S. intelligence agencies had set up a slush fund for
|
||||
@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
through Pakistan.
|
||||
|
||||
BANKING ON WAR: But getting rid of BCCI won't hinder those
|
||||
government officials who, like William Casey and Oliver North, are
|
||||
government officials who, like <ent type = 'person'>William Casey</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Oliver North</ent>, are
|
||||
determined to undermine American democracy. It's important to
|
||||
remember that the CIA has used banks like BCCI for decades.
|
||||
During the '60s, '70s and '80s, for example, the CIA laundered
|
||||
@ -1088,24 +1088,24 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
market sales have also touched off a terrifying arms race in the
|
||||
Third World.
|
||||
Consider, for example, the role that BCCI and many other banks
|
||||
played in a secret operation to build up Saddam Hussein's military
|
||||
played in a secret operation to build up <ent type = 'person'>Saddam <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent></ent>'s military
|
||||
might. Last summer, a joint investigation by ABC's "Nightline"
|
||||
and the "Financial Times" concluded that "Robert Gates was deeply
|
||||
and the "Financial Times" concluded that "<ent type = 'person'>Robert Gates</ent> was deeply
|
||||
involved as deputy director of the CIA in a major covert operation
|
||||
that funneled weapons and technology to Iraq. ... The CIA's
|
||||
covert shipments put into Saddam Hussein's hand some of the most
|
||||
covert shipments put into <ent type = 'person'>Saddam <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent></ent>'s hand some of the most
|
||||
dangerous battlefield weapons in the world."
|
||||
To carry out these shipments, Gates--now the CIA director-
|
||||
designate--allegedly met with Carlos Cardoen, the head of
|
||||
Industrias Cardoen. This Chilean company, which was the largest
|
||||
designate--allegedly met with <ent type = 'person'>Carlos <ent type = 'person'>Cardoen</ent></ent>, the head of
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Industrias <ent type = 'person'>Cardoen</ent></ent>. This Chilean company, which was the largest
|
||||
private supplier of weapons to Iraq, shipped more than $500
|
||||
million worth of weapons to Iraq in the '80s (see "In These
|
||||
Times," April 17 and Oct. 9).
|
||||
Industrias Cardoen is licensed to build and ship high-tech
|
||||
artillery guns created by arms dealer Gerald Bull and ArmsCor, an
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Industrias <ent type = 'person'>Cardoen</ent></ent> is licensed to build and ship high-tech
|
||||
artillery guns created by arms dealer <ent type = 'person'>Gerald Bull</ent> and ArmsCor, an
|
||||
arms manufacturer owned by the South African government.
|
||||
In 1990, Gerald Bull was assassinated, allegedly by Israeli
|
||||
agents because he was working with Saddam Hussein to build a
|
||||
In 1990, <ent type = 'person'>Gerald Bull</ent> was assassinated, allegedly by Israeli
|
||||
agents because he was working with <ent type = 'person'>Saddam <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent></ent> to build a
|
||||
"supergun" capable of firing nuclear and chemical weapons. Bull,
|
||||
an expert on advanced artillery, had a long history of illegal
|
||||
arms sales. In the late '70s, a congressional staff report found
|
||||
@ -1113,12 +1113,12 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
embargo against South Africa by shipping technology that allowed
|
||||
ArmsCor to develop sophisticated artillery guns.
|
||||
In 1990, the Inter Press news service reported that over 200 of
|
||||
these guns had been sold by Cardoen and ArmsCor to Iraq. At least
|
||||
these guns had been sold by <ent type = 'person'>Cardoen</ent> and ArmsCor to Iraq. At least
|
||||
50 to 70 had been sold to the United Arab Emirates, which is
|
||||
headed by BCCI's largest shareholder.
|
||||
BCCI enters this affair in two ways. In August, Britain's
|
||||
"Independent" newspaper alleged that BCCI had helped Bull's
|
||||
company, Space Research, smuggle propellant for Hussein's supergun
|
||||
company, Space Research, smuggle propellant for <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent>'s supergun
|
||||
from Belgium to Iraq. The story, largely ignored in the United
|
||||
States, also reported that "a former deputy prime minister [Andre
|
||||
Cools] of Belgium was killed days after being given BCCI bank
|
||||
@ -1127,19 +1127,19 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
BCCI also loaned at least $72 million to the Atlanta branch of
|
||||
the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL)--Italy's largest bank. This
|
||||
BNL branch loaned Iraq over $4 billion between 1985 and 1989 and
|
||||
provided financial services that allowed Hussein to illegally buy
|
||||
provided financial services that allowed <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent> to illegally buy
|
||||
hundreds of millions of dollars worth of arms and military
|
||||
supplies. The BNL branch didn't have enough money to take on such
|
||||
large loans, so it illegally financed them by borrowing money from
|
||||
banks like BCCI. The House Banking Committee says that Bull's
|
||||
Space Research Corporation was one of the companies that received
|
||||
illegal financing from BNL for Iraq's weapons program.
|
||||
Such deals helped keep Hussein in power and dramatically
|
||||
Such deals helped keep <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent> in power and dramatically
|
||||
increased the political tensions throughout the Mideast.
|
||||
Confident that the arms would keep flowing, Hussein invaded Iran
|
||||
Confident that the arms would keep flowing, <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent> invaded Iran
|
||||
in 1980 and Kuwait a decade later--conflicts that cost more than a
|
||||
million lives.
|
||||
But in providing financial services to Saddam Hussein, BCCI was
|
||||
But in providing financial services to <ent type = 'person'>Saddam <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent></ent>, BCCI was
|
||||
not alone. In the BNL affair, for example, Bank of America
|
||||
transferred $72 million between BCCI and BNL. J.P. Morgan, a
|
||||
major New York bank, acted as a clearing agent for BNL in the
|
||||
@ -1156,13 +1156,13 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
denied BCCI key regulatory licenses to expand its operations. Yet
|
||||
BCCI marched on, illegally buying American banks and stealing
|
||||
deposits to cover its huge losses.
|
||||
Meanwhile, the Reagan and Bush administrations actively
|
||||
Meanwhile, the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> administrations actively
|
||||
obstructed a congressional investigation of the scandal. A Senate
|
||||
subcommittee chaired by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) has been
|
||||
subcommittee chaired by Sen. John <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent> (D-MA) has been
|
||||
investigating BCCI for several years. From the start, the
|
||||
subcommittee encountered resistance from the administration. For
|
||||
example, the Justice Department ordered key witnesses not to
|
||||
cooperate with Kerry. The department also refused to produce
|
||||
cooperate with <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent>. The department also refused to produce
|
||||
documents subpoenaed by the subcommittee.
|
||||
But these machinations are only part of a much larger political
|
||||
scandal--the growing political power of financial institutions
|
||||
@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
machine has defeated every major attempt to enact tough new U.S.
|
||||
regulations over the financial system.
|
||||
In BCCI's case, the result has been a better cover-up than
|
||||
anything Oliver North ever concocted. Washington's inaction has
|
||||
anything <ent type = 'person'>Oliver North</ent> ever concocted. Washington's inaction has
|
||||
allowed BCCI to continue exploiting an obsolete U.S. regulatory
|
||||
system that was set up in the
|
||||
Some reforms may yet come out of the BCCI scandal--but Congress
|
||||
@ -1209,11 +1209,11 @@ Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
|
||||
that created BCCI under control. Given the current political
|
||||
climate, that is unlikely.
|
||||
|
||||
George Winslow is a New York City freelance writer who regularly
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Winslow</ent></ent> is a New York City freelance writer who regularly
|
||||
covers white-collar crime and international finance.
|
||||
|
||||
--
|
||||
daveus rattus
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>dave</ent>us rattus
|
||||
|
||||
yer friendly neighborhood ratman
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -6,16 +6,16 @@
|
||||
#&% #&%
|
||||
&%# The Kromery Converter/Free Electricity &%#
|
||||
%#& %#&
|
||||
#&% Original articles by John Bedini, Eike Mueller, and Tom Bearden. #&%
|
||||
#&% Original articles by <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Bedini</ent></ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Eike Mueller</ent>, and <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Tom</ent> Bearden</ent>. #&%
|
||||
&%# Retyped Without Permission 07/04/86 by (_>Shadow Hawk 1<_) &%#
|
||||
%#& %#&
|
||||
#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%
|
||||
&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#
|
||||
%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&%#&</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Tom Bearden</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Tom</ent> Bearden</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> John Bedini has a prototype free energy motor.</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Bedini</ent></ent> has a prototype free energy motor.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Imagine having a small D.C. electrical motor sitting on your laboratory bench powered
|
||||
by a common 12 volt battery. Imagine starting with a fully charged battery and
|
||||
@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ by the conventional rules of electric motors and generators, but it is running.
|
||||
<p> And it isn't something complex. It's pretty simple, once one gets the hang of the
|
||||
basic idea.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Impossible, you say. Not at all. That's precisely what John Bedini has done, and the
|
||||
<p> Impossible, you say. Not at all. That's precisely what <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Bedini</ent></ent> has done, and the
|
||||
motor is running now in his workshop.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It's running off the principles of electromagnetics that Nikola Tesla
|
||||
<p> It's running off the principles of electromagnetics that <ent type = 'person'>Nikola Tesla</ent>
|
||||
discovered shortly before 1900 in his Colorado Springs experiments. It's running
|
||||
off the fact that pure empty vacuum - pure "emptiness", so to speak, is filled with riv
|
||||
ers and oceans of seething energy, just as Nikola Tesla pointed out.</p>
|
||||
ers and oceans of seething energy, just as <ent type = 'person'>Nikola Tesla</ent> pointed out.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It's running off the fact that vacuum space-time itself is nothing but pure masless
|
||||
charge. That is, vacuum has a very high electrostatic scalar potential - it is greatly
|
||||
@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ And if we are clever we don't have to furnish any pushing energy to move pure
|
||||
tential around. (For proof that this is possible, see Bearden's Toward a New
|
||||
Electromagnetics; Part IV; Vectors and Mechanisms Clarified, Tesla Book Co., 1983,
|
||||
Slide 19, Page 43, and the accompanying write-up, pages 10, and 11. Also see Y.
|
||||
Aharonov an
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Aharonov</ent> an
|
||||
d V. Bohm, "Significance of Electromagnetic Potentials in the Quantum Theory",
|
||||
Physical Review, Second Series, Vol. 115, No. 3, Aug. 1, 1959, pages 485-491. On page
|
||||
490 you will find that it's possible to have a field-free reigon of space, and
|
||||
@ -88,21 +88,21 @@ still have the potential determine the physical properties of the system.)</p>
|
||||
You don't need big cyclotrons and huge laboratories to do it; you can do it with
|
||||
ordinary D.C. motors, batteries, controllers and trigger circuits.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> And that's exactly what John Bedini has done. It's real. It works. It's running
|
||||
now on John's laboratory bench in prototype form.</p>
|
||||
<p> And that's exactly what <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Bedini</ent></ent> has done. It's real. It works. It's running
|
||||
now on <ent type = 'person'>John</ent>'s laboratory bench in prototype form.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> But that's not all. John is also a humanitarian. He's as concerned as I am for that
|
||||
<p> But that's not all. <ent type = 'person'>John</ent> is also a humanitarian. He's as concerned as I am for that
|
||||
little old widow lady at the end of the lane, stretching her meager Social Security
|
||||
check as far as she can, shivering in the cold winter and not daring to turn
|
||||
up her furnace because she can't afford the frightful utility bills.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> That's simply got to change and John Bedini may well be the fellow who changes it.
|
||||
<p> That's simply got to change and <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Bedini</ent></ent> may well be the fellow who changes it.
|
||||
By openly releasing his work in this paper, he is providing enough information
|
||||
for all the tinkerers and independent inventors around the world to have at it. If
|
||||
he can get a thousand of them to duplicate his device, it simply can't be supressed as
|
||||
so many others have been.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> So here it is. John has deliberately written his paper for the tinkerer and
|
||||
<p> So here it is. <ent type = 'person'>John</ent> has deliberately written his paper for the tinkerer and
|
||||
experimenter, not for the scientist. You must be careful, for the device is a little
|
||||
tricky to adjust in and synchronize all the resonances. You'll have to fiddle with
|
||||
it,
|
||||
@ -120,29 +120,29 @@ at it. Build it. Tinker with it. Fiddle it into resonant operation. Then lets
|
||||
this thing in quantity, sell it widely, and get those home utilities down to where w
|
||||
e can all afford them - including the shivering little old lady at the end of the lane.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> And when we do, lets give John Bedini, and men like him the credit and appreciation
|
||||
<p> And when we do, lets give <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Bedini</ent></ent>, and men like him the credit and appreciation
|
||||
they so richly deserve.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Tom Bearden</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Tom</ent> Bearden</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> April 13,1984</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>John Bedini</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Bedini</ent></ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[Note: John Bedini developed Two kinds of controller devices. One, being very simple,
|
||||
<p>[Note: <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Bedini</ent></ent> developed Two kinds of controller devices. One, being very simple,
|
||||
is the one I will present here. The other is quite a bit more complex, and would be
|
||||
impossible for me to reproduce here... Anyway if you want to see the all electro
|
||||
nic controller, get the book "Bedini's Free Energy Generator" by John C. Bedini,
|
||||
nic controller, get the book "<ent type = 'person'>Bedini</ent>'s Free Energy Generator" by <ent type = 'person'>John</ent> C. <ent type = 'person'>Bedini</ent>,
|
||||
Published by the Tesla Book Co. 1580 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae, CA 94030.]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> For some time man has been looking for different ways to generate electricity. He has
|
||||
used water power, steam power, nuclear power, and solar power. Recent papers written
|
||||
by Tom Bearden make a free energy generator possible. Tom Bearden, rather
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Tom</ent> Bearden</ent> make a free energy generator possible. <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Tom</ent> Bearden</ent>, rather
|
||||
than patent his devices, chose to share them with people who had open ears. I
|
||||
myself have had many conversations with Tom Bearden. He found Tom to be one of
|
||||
myself have had many conversations with <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Tom</ent> Bearden</ent>. He found <ent type = 'person'>Tom</ent> to be one of
|
||||
the most reasonable men he had ever dealt with in this energy field. Most others woul
|
||||
d tell you stories of great machines they had, but would never present the truth
|
||||
with circuit diagrams or a look at the machine in question. Tom, on the other hand,
|
||||
with circuit diagrams or a look at the machine in question. <ent type = 'person'>Tom</ent>, on the other hand,
|
||||
clearly presents his ideas and clearly presents his ideas and discloses the
|
||||
concepts by means of which they work.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ at every turn in our lives, so we jump into our cars, turn on lights, etc. In
|
||||
words, we have been conditioned to waste energy and fuels lavishly, not realizing
|
||||
that someday someone will sky-rocket our energy bills to a point where we will
|
||||
not be able to pay for these fuels. Everything will come to a stand-still. But la
|
||||
ugh as you will, at that time Rube Goldberg machines will power your future. It
|
||||
ugh as you will, at that time <ent type = 'person'>Rube Goldberg</ent> machines will power your future. It
|
||||
probably will not be uncommon to see machines from the size of garbage cans to the
|
||||
size of two story apartment houses powering everything in sight. These machines will </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ energy to get to this point, and gained a lot of resonant energy in return.</p>
|
||||
we must burn up the excess energy to keep the battery cool. The problem now becomes one
|
||||
of embarrassing excess of energy, not a shortage.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The energizer is also a simple machine, but if yu want to, you can make it very
|
||||
<p> The energizer is also a simple machine, but if <ent type = 'person'>yu</ent> want to, you can make it very
|
||||
complex. The simple way is to study the alternator principles. The waves we want to
|
||||
generate are like those that came from old D.C. generators with the exception of
|
||||
armature
|
||||
@ -321,11 +321,11 @@ copper
|
||||
. Provisions should be made to rotate the brushes in relationship to each other in order
|
||||
to secure the required timing.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Eike Mueller</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Eike Mueller</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>John Bedini found that the material generally available concerning Kromery's
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Bedini</ent> found that the material generally available concerning Kromery's
|
||||
Converter had been altered. Rebuilding the Kromery Converter from the patent papers
|
||||
ended up in a non-functioning device. Bedini found the necessary modifications </p>
|
||||
ended up in a non-functioning device. <ent type = 'person'>Bedini</ent> found the necessary modifications </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>which made this machine perform.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -405,8 +405,8 @@ battery voltage had reached 12.41 V. The measurement is depicted in Figure K-3.
|
||||
<p>We wanted to find a correction factor for the Kromery Converter by comparing the
|
||||
same effect, i.e. the charging of the same battery from one specific voltage to
|
||||
another specific voltage. The calculation of this factor is avilable in the book "E
|
||||
xperiments with a Kromery and a Brandt-Tesla converter built by John Bedini" By Eike
|
||||
Mueller, with Comments by Tom Bearden. Table K-1 shows the combined test results.
|
||||
xperiments with a Kromery and a Brandt-Tesla converter built by <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Bedini</ent></ent>" By Eike
|
||||
Mueller, with Comments by <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Tom</ent> Bearden</ent>. Table K-1 shows the combined test results.
|
||||
Because we detected an increase in the speed of the Kromery Converter as well as
|
||||
a
|
||||
decrease in the input energy when we increased the output load, we decided to
|
||||
|
@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>"The Bermuda Triangle and Parapsychology" By Dave Beall</p>
|
||||
<xml><p>"The Bermuda Triangle and Parapsychology" By <ent type = 'person'>Dave Beall</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>. Although not embraced by the parapsychological community, the Bermuda
|
||||
Triangle phenomena is an intriguing topic to the public. Jane Roberts' Seth
|
||||
Triangle phenomena is an intriguing topic to the public. <ent type = 'person'>Jane Roberts</ent>' <ent type = 'person'>Seth</ent>
|
||||
claims the mysterious disappearances of ships and planes is the result of a
|
||||
"coordination point", which is a place where time and space meet. Supposed
|
||||
energy "crystals" from the ancient culture of Atlantis, which Edgar Cayce
|
||||
energy "crystals" from the ancient culture of Atlantis, which <ent type = 'person'>Edgar Cayce</ent>
|
||||
predicted would be discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, are suspected by some to
|
||||
be responsible for the peculiar events in this region. Some individuals
|
||||
consider UFOs as the source of the phenomena.</p>
|
||||
|
@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ No. 4, Rev. 0
|
||||
All rights reserved by the author.
|
||||
Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>by Arthur Kantrowitz</p>
|
||||
<p>by Arthur <ent type = 'person'>Kantrowitz</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Dartmouth College</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of
|
||||
a democracy should be the weapon of openness."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>--Niels Bohr</p>
|
||||
<p>--Niels <ent type = 'person'>Bohr</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Introduction</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ for the making of public decisions. Increased public access (i.e. less
|
||||
secrecy) also gives information to adversaries, thereby increasing
|
||||
their strength. The "weapon of openness" is the net contribution that
|
||||
increased openness (i.e. less secrecy) makes to the survival of a
|
||||
society. Bohr believed that the gain in strength from openness in a
|
||||
society. <ent type = 'person'>Bohr</ent> believed that the gain in strength from openness in a
|
||||
democracy exceeded the gains of its adversaries, and thus openness was
|
||||
a weapon.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -31,14 +31,14 @@ jungle. Thus the strength of the weapon of openness has been tested
|
||||
and proven in battle and in imitation. Technology developed most
|
||||
vigorously in precisely those times, i.e. the industrial revolution,
|
||||
and precisely those places, western Europe and America, where the
|
||||
greatest openness existed. Gorbachev's glasnost is recognition that
|
||||
greatest openness existed. <ent type = 'person'>Gorbachev</ent>'s glasnost is recognition that
|
||||
this correlation is alive and well today.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Let us note immediately that secrecy and surprise are clearly
|
||||
essential weapons of war and that even countries like the U.S., which
|
||||
justifiably prided itself on its openness, have made great and
|
||||
frequently successful efforts to use secrecy as a wartime weapon.
|
||||
Bohr's phrase was coined following WWII when his primary concern was
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bohr</ent>'s phrase was coined following WWII when his primary concern was
|
||||
with living with nuclear weapons. This paper is concerned with the
|
||||
impact of secrecy vs. openness policy on the development of military
|
||||
technology in a long duration peacetime rivalry.</p>
|
||||
@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ understanding of the power of openness would bolster our faith that
|
||||
open societies would continue to be fittest to survive.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Openness is necessary for the processes of trial and the elimination
|
||||
of error, Sir Karl Popper's beautiful description of the mechanism of
|
||||
of error, Sir <ent type = 'person'>Karl Popper</ent>'s beautiful description of the mechanism of
|
||||
progress in science. Let's try to understand what happens to each of
|
||||
these processes in a secret project and perhaps we can shed some light
|
||||
on how the peacetime military was able to justly acquire its
|
||||
@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ international jungle.</p>
|
||||
<p>Secrecy as an Instrument of Corruption</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The other side of the coin is the weakness which secrecy fosters as an
|
||||
instrument of corruption. This is well illustrated in Reagan's 1982
|
||||
instrument of corruption. This is well illustrated in <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>'s 1982
|
||||
Executive Order #12356 on National Security (alarmingly tightening
|
||||
secrecy) which states {Sec. 1.6(a)};</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ time, I am convinced that the results would have been quite different.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Secrecy Exacerbates Divisiveness: the SDI Example</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Reagan's Executive Order, previously referred to, provides another
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>'s Executive Order, previously referred to, provides another
|
||||
clue to the power of openness. The preamble states;</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It [this order] recognizes that it is essential that the public be
|
||||
@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ unprepared.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We can learn something about the efficiency of secret vs. open
|
||||
programs in peacetime from the objections raised by Adm. Bobby R.
|
||||
Inman, former director of the National Security Agency, to open
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Inman</ent>, former director of the National Security Agency, to open
|
||||
programs in cryptography. NSA, which is a very large and very secret
|
||||
agency, claimed that open programs conducted by a handful of
|
||||
matheticians around the world, who had no access to NSA secrets, would
|
||||
@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ other countries could mount, would miss techniques which would be
|
||||
revealed by even a small open uncoupled program. If this is true for
|
||||
other countries is it not possible that it also applies to us?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Inman (1985) asserted that "There is an overlap between technical
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Inman</ent> (1985) asserted that "There is an overlap between technical
|
||||
information and national security which inevitably produces tension.
|
||||
This tension results from the scientists' desire for unrestrained
|
||||
research and publication on the one hand, and the Federal Government's
|
||||
@ -316,10 +316,10 @@ military strength of its enemies.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Weapon of Openness and the Future</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Bohr's phrase which was the keynote of this article was invented in an
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Bohr</ent>'s phrase which was the keynote of this article was invented in an
|
||||
effort to adapt to the demands for social change required to live with
|
||||
advancing military technology. Unfortunately Bohr's effort, to
|
||||
persuade FDR and Churchhill of the desirability of more openness in
|
||||
advancing military technology. Unfortunately <ent type = 'person'>Bohr</ent>'s effort, to
|
||||
persuade <ent type = 'person'>FDR</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Churchhill</ent> of the desirability of more openness in
|
||||
living with nuclear weapons, was a complete failure. There can be no
|
||||
doubt that the future will bring even more rapid rates of progress in
|
||||
science-based technology. Let's just mention three possibilities,
|
||||
@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ our ability to forecast limits.</p>
|
||||
at the Bottom" pointing out that miniaturization could aspire to the
|
||||
huge advances possible with the controlled assembly of individual
|
||||
atoms. When the possibility of the construction of assemblers which
|
||||
could reproduce themselves was added by Eric Drexler in his book
|
||||
could reproduce themselves was added by <ent type = 'person'>Eric Drexler</ent> in his book
|
||||
Engines of Creation, a very large expansion of the opportunities in
|
||||
atomic scale assembly were opened up. This pursuit, today known as
|
||||
nanotechnology, will also be driven by the enormous advantages it
|
||||
@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ satellites and arms control treaties, we have been able to live with
|
||||
nuclear weapons. We will need much more openness to live with the
|
||||
science-based technologies that lie ahead.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Dr. Kantrowitz is a professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at
|
||||
<p>Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Kantrowitz</ent> is a professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at
|
||||
Dartmouth, and former Chairman of Avco-Everett Research Lab. He
|
||||
serves as an Advisor to the Foresight Institute.
|
||||
</p></xml>
|
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ threat (from both civilian power plants and the military weapons complex),
|
||||
ecological destruction, and peaceful conflict resolution through the
|
||||
structures of the United Nations. If you would like to be placed on our
|
||||
mailing list or receive a copy of our new information packet on nuclear
|
||||
power, contact Matthew Freedman at 32 Union Square East, New York, NY
|
||||
power, contact <ent type = 'person'>Matthew Freedman</ent> at 32 Union Square East, New York, NY
|
||||
10003-3295 (Tel: 212-777-6626).
|
||||
|
||||
Contributions are always welcome. All materials may be reproduced without
|
||||
@ -16,68 +16,68 @@ permission.
|
||||
|
||||
BNL - IRAQGATE SCANDAL
|
||||
|
||||
The Chicago Connection - Bush & Saddam Inc.
|
||||
Key documents - sought by Gonzalez - withheld
|
||||
The Chicago Connection - <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> & Saddam Inc.
|
||||
Key documents - sought by <ent type = 'person'>Gonzalez</ent> - withheld
|
||||
|
||||
With George Bush ready to take America into another war with Iraq to
|
||||
destroy the nuclear, chemical, biological and missiles weapons that Bush
|
||||
himself helped Saddam Hussein to build, Congressmen Henry Gonzalez, the
|
||||
With <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent></ent> ready to take America into another war with Iraq to
|
||||
destroy the nuclear, chemical, biological and missiles weapons that <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>
|
||||
himself helped <ent type = 'person'>Saddam <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent></ent> to build, Congressmen Henry <ent type = 'person'>Gonzalez</ent>, the
|
||||
courageous Texas Democrat who heads the House Banking Committee, continues,
|
||||
single-handedly, to peel back layer after layer of cover-up to reveal the
|
||||
monumental proportions of the Iraqgate-BNL (Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro)
|
||||
scandal that now threatens to bring down the Bush regime. But the most
|
||||
scandal that now threatens to bring down the <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> regime. But the most
|
||||
explosive documents have been withheld.
|
||||
|
||||
Over the past several months Gonzalez has shown the Iraqgate-
|
||||
Over the past several months <ent type = 'person'>Gonzalez</ent> has shown the Iraqgate-
|
||||
BNL scandal to be bigger than anyone had imagined. He has uncovered and
|
||||
reported incontestable evidence that Bush and his associates secretly sold
|
||||
reported incontestable evidence that <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> and his associates secretly sold
|
||||
nuclear, biological, chemical and missile-related weapons materials to
|
||||
Saddam Hussein; blocked investigations into the use of such materials by
|
||||
Hussein; suppressed memos warning of the dangers of such sales;
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Saddam <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent></ent>; blocked investigations into the use of such materials by
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent>; suppressed memos warning of the dangers of such sales;
|
||||
deliberately falsified documents on such sales submitted to Congress and
|
||||
interfered illegally to halt investigations into the criminal activities of
|
||||
the BNL bank in secretly diverting American agricultural loans to buy the
|
||||
weapons for Hussein.
|
||||
weapons for <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent>.
|
||||
|
||||
BNL-BCCI Chicago Branches
|
||||
|
||||
Gonzalez has revealed a Bush policy disaster that lead to the first
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Gonzalez</ent> has revealed a <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> policy disaster that lead to the first
|
||||
Gulf War and a blunder that is now costing the Americans $2 billion to pay
|
||||
off the loans Bush guaranteed with U.S. taxpayersU money . Bush repeatedly
|
||||
off the loans <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> guaranteed with U.S. taxpayersU money . <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> repeatedly
|
||||
ignored warnings that Iraq would default on the loans. Now, certain key
|
||||
documents - perhaps the most revealing yet - are being withheld from the
|
||||
Gonzalez investigation. They are said to be the records of the Chicago
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Gonzalez</ent> investigation. They are said to be the records of the Chicago
|
||||
branches of BNL and BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International),
|
||||
through which, some investigators say , George Bush and Saddam Hussein may
|
||||
through which, some investigators say , <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent></ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Saddam <ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent></ent> may
|
||||
have been involved in a joint, private enterprise to skim oil profits
|
||||
arising from Reagan-Bush policies toward Iraq. The documents have been
|
||||
impounded by a Chicago court and Congressman Gonzalez Banking Committee
|
||||
arising from <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>-<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> policies toward Iraq. The documents have been
|
||||
impounded by a Chicago court and Congressman <ent type = 'person'>Gonzalez</ent> Banking Committee
|
||||
has been denied access.
|
||||
|
||||
Bush's Pennzoil Profits
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s Pennzoil Profits
|
||||
|
||||
Between 1980 and 1990 the Gulf region exported a trillion dollars
|
||||
worth of oil to the West. Hundreds of billions of dollars in kickbacks were
|
||||
involved. Some of the kickbacks were said to be handled by the BNL/BCCI
|
||||
banks for Pennzoil, an oil company founded by George Bush The Pennzoil
|
||||
case was (is?) the target of Ross PerotUs much-denied investigation of the
|
||||
Bush family and friends. Investigators believe the Chicago bank records
|
||||
could help explain BushUs massive, covert military support for Iraq in the
|
||||
banks for Pennzoil, an oil company founded by <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent></ent> The Pennzoil
|
||||
case was (is?) the target of <ent type = 'person'>Ross PerotUs</ent> much-denied investigation of the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> family and friends. Investigators believe the Chicago bank records
|
||||
could help explain <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>Us massive, covert military support for Iraq in the
|
||||
years between 1981-1990.
|
||||
|
||||
The Chicago BNL /BCCI records could also provide clues to why the
|
||||
Bush Administration secretly - and possibly illegally - exempted eleven
|
||||
members of the Bush cabinet from conflict of interest restrictions in their
|
||||
handling of the Gulf war policy. Bush simply declared that the law
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Administration secretly - and possibly illegally - exempted eleven
|
||||
members of the <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> cabinet from conflict of interest restrictions in their
|
||||
handling of the Gulf war policy. <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> simply declared that the law
|
||||
regarding conflict of interest would cease to apply to his advisors on the
|
||||
Gulf war policy. He then ordered that his declaration would be not be made
|
||||
public. Congressman Gonzalez is now asking Bush to explain the deal. Bush
|
||||
public. Congressman <ent type = 'person'>Gonzalez</ent> is now asking <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to explain the deal. <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>
|
||||
has not responded.
|
||||
|
||||
According to some investigators, the BNL-BCCI bank documents
|
||||
now impounded by a Chicago judge could shed light not only on the
|
||||
Iraqgate case, but on other illegal transactions including Iran-Contra,
|
||||
October Surprise and the Inslaw case. In all instances monies passed
|
||||
October Surprise and the <ent type = 'person'>Inslaw</ent> case. In all instances monies passed
|
||||
through the BNL/BCCI banking network.
|
||||
|
||||
BNL is an Italian bank now under investigation by Congress for
|
||||
@ -86,47 +86,47 @@ IraqUs pre-war military buildup. Over the past thirty years, BNL is
|
||||
suspected of involvement in a wide range of international criminal
|
||||
activities. (French Intelligence investigators have even linked the bank to
|
||||
large payments to certain individuals in Europe in late 1963, thought to be
|
||||
associated with the John Kennedy assassination.)
|
||||
associated with the <ent type = 'person'>John Kennedy</ent> assassination.)
|
||||
|
||||
On December 28th 1990, when Gonzalez sought the records of the
|
||||
On December 28th 1990, when <ent type = 'person'>Gonzalez</ent> sought the records of the
|
||||
Chicago branch of BNL (Case number 90 C 6863 of the U.S. District Court in
|
||||
Chicago: People of the State of Illinois ex re; William C. Harris v. the
|
||||
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Gonzalez was told by
|
||||
Federal Judge, Brian Duff that he could not have them. Duff, a friend of
|
||||
both Bush and Reagan, works closely with the Federal Reserve Bank. Duff
|
||||
impounded the documents and abused GonzalezU attorney for Rbehaving like an
|
||||
800 -pound gorilla.S That is when Duff impounded the records.
|
||||
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), <ent type = 'person'>Gonzalez</ent> was told by
|
||||
Federal Judge, <ent type = 'person'>Brian <ent type = 'person'>Duff</ent></ent> that he could not have them. <ent type = 'person'>Duff</ent>, a friend of
|
||||
both <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>, works closely with the Federal Reserve Bank. <ent type = 'person'>Duff</ent>
|
||||
impounded the documents and abused <ent type = 'person'>Gonzalez</ent>U attorney for Rbehaving like an
|
||||
800 -pound gorilla.S That is when <ent type = 'person'>Duff</ent> impounded the records.
|
||||
|
||||
Questions abound. Suspicions arise from the fact that among
|
||||
officials involved in the BNL bank is Brent Scowcroft, BushUs National
|
||||
Security advisor who, Gonzalez has now revealed, maintained a million-
|
||||
officials involved in the BNL bank is Brent <ent type = 'person'>Scowcroft</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>Us National
|
||||
Security advisor who, <ent type = 'person'>Gonzalez</ent> has now revealed, maintained a million-
|
||||
dollar financial interest in 40 of the biggest U.S. weapons companies that
|
||||
profited from U.S. policies toward Iraq, including General Electric,
|
||||
General Motors, ITT, and Lockheed. Gonzalez has also revealed that
|
||||
Assistant Secretary of State Laurence Eagleberger worked closely with BNL
|
||||
when he and Scowcroft were part of Henry KissingerUs consulting firm.
|
||||
Kissinger was a member of the board of BNL and his firm represents BNL in
|
||||
General Motors, ITT, and Lockheed. <ent type = 'person'>Gonzalez</ent> has also revealed that
|
||||
Assistant Secretary of State <ent type = 'person'>Laurence Eagleberger</ent> worked closely with BNL
|
||||
when he and <ent type = 'person'>Scowcroft</ent> were part of <ent type = 'person'>Henry <ent type = 'person'>Kissinger</ent>Us</ent> consulting firm.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kissinger</ent> was a member of the board of BNL and his firm represents BNL in
|
||||
the USA.
|
||||
|
||||
BNL, P2 and the Vatican Bank
|
||||
|
||||
The BNL bank was also used for secret arms trade by the outlawed P2
|
||||
Masonic Lodge of Rome, whose Grandmaster, Licio Gelli is thought to have
|
||||
Masonic Lodge of Rome, whose Grandmaster, <ent type = 'person'>Licio <ent type = 'person'>Gelli</ent></ent> is thought to have
|
||||
been the mastermind behind BNLUs illegal, world-wide banking strategies,
|
||||
until his arrest in 1981, for embezzling $1.5 billion from the Vatican
|
||||
Bank. The Vatican Bank had close ties with BNL. Gelli was recently
|
||||
Bank. The Vatican Bank had close ties with BNL. <ent type = 'person'>Gelli</ent> was recently
|
||||
sentenced to 18 years in jail for his role in the case.
|
||||
|
||||
Gelli was involved with the PopeUs banker and bodyguard, Bishop
|
||||
Marcinkus (formerly of Chicago) in the Vatican Bank embezzlement. When the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Gelli</ent> was involved with the PopeUs banker and bodyguard, Bishop
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Marcinkus</ent> (formerly of Chicago) in the Vatican Bank embezzlement. When the
|
||||
Italian government issued a warrant for the BishopUs arrest they were
|
||||
blocked by the Vatican, which claims separate city-state authority. (The
|
||||
Pope is still closely involved with Marcinkus and the Vatican Bank is still
|
||||
Pope is still closely involved with <ent type = 'person'>Marcinkus</ent> and the Vatican Bank is still
|
||||
closely associated with BNL.)
|
||||
|
||||
Bush and Gelli are friends. Gelli was guest of honor at the 1981
|
||||
Reagan-Bush inaugural ball. (N.Y. Times, June 4, 1981, page 7.) Kissinger
|
||||
also knew Gelli. When Gelli was arrested in March, 1981, Kissinger
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Gelli</ent> are friends. <ent type = 'person'>Gelli</ent> was guest of honor at the 1981
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>-<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> inaugural ball. (N.Y. Times, June 4, 1981, page 7.) <ent type = 'person'>Kissinger</ent>
|
||||
also knew <ent type = 'person'>Gelli</ent>. When <ent type = 'person'>Gelli</ent> was arrested in March, 1981, <ent type = 'person'>Kissinger</ent>
|
||||
immediately sent an agent to Rome with $18,000 to try to buy some of the
|
||||
documents in the P2 case to keep them from becoming public ( In These
|
||||
Times, Sept. 1982). It may be of interest that P2 had a lodge in Chicago.
|
||||
@ -144,22 +144,22 @@ The Octopus
|
||||
|
||||
Just as the P2 scandal in Italy brought down the government and
|
||||
destroyed hundred of careers in politics, industry and banking, so too the
|
||||
BNL/BCCI - Penzzoil case could bring down the Bush administration and send
|
||||
BNL/BCCI - Penzzoil case could bring down the <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> administration and send
|
||||
dozens of top administration officials to jail. Indeed the P2 and BNL cases
|
||||
overlap in the October Surprise case, and U.S. investigators would do well
|
||||
to examine the Italian government documents in the P2 case as part of their
|
||||
inquiry into the October Surprise/BNL/BCCI/Penzzoil/Bush/Hussein links. It
|
||||
is beginning to look as though the late journalist, Danny Casselaro was on
|
||||
inquiry into the October Surprise/BNL/BCCI/Penzzoil/<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>/<ent type = 'person'>Hussein</ent> links. It
|
||||
is beginning to look as though the late journalist, <ent type = 'person'>Danny Casselaro</ent> was on
|
||||
the right track at the time of his highly suspicious RsuicideS last year,
|
||||
when he was investigating what he called RThe OctopusS, a vast,
|
||||
interlocking, international criminal conspiracy.
|
||||
|
||||
Bush's Watergate
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s Watergate
|
||||
|
||||
Congress is now calling for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor
|
||||
to investigate the ballooning BNL-Iraqgate case. In his insightful and
|
||||
relentless reporting on the case in The New York Times, William Safire says
|
||||
flatly that BNL will be BushUs Watergate. Saffire is now investigating the
|
||||
relentless reporting on the case in The New York Times, <ent type = 'person'>William Safire</ent> says
|
||||
flatly that BNL will be <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>Us Watergate. Saffire is now investigating the
|
||||
Chicago link to the case. (Updates on the case now appear regularly on the
|
||||
recorded telephone hotlines of controversial Chicago investigator, Sherman
|
||||
Scholnick of the RCommittee to Clean Up the CourtsS, who has spearheaded
|
||||
@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ disarmament.
|
||||
Ironically, as we go to press, joint efforts by both houses of
|
||||
Congress in the wake of the Iraqgate revelations to tighten restrictions on
|
||||
the sale of nuclear weapons-related materials to nations like Iraq, Iran
|
||||
and Syria, have provoked a threat of veto by George Bush, who argues that
|
||||
and Syria, have provoked a threat of veto by <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent></ent>, who argues that
|
||||
such non- proliferation legislation would mean a loss of business for
|
||||
American nuclear exporters!
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ movers and shakers in business and government attend the Bohemian
|
||||
Club's summer encampment. Although highly selective, the club has
|
||||
a national membership and is among the most prestigious of
|
||||
affiliations in neoconservative circles. Its membership is known
|
||||
to include Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Gerald Ford, William F.
|
||||
Buckley, Jr., Frank Borman, Justin Dart, William Randolph Hearst,
|
||||
to include <ent type = 'person'>Ronald <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent></ent>, George Bush, Gerald Ford, William F.
|
||||
Buckley, Jr., Frank Borman, <ent type = 'person'>Justin Dart</ent>, William Randolph Hearst,
|
||||
Jr., Caspar Weinberger, Charles Percy, George Schultz, Edward
|
||||
Teller, Merv Griffin, and a large proportion of the directors and
|
||||
chief executive officers of the Fortune 1000. Daniel Ludwig, the
|
||||
Teller, <ent type = 'person'>Merv Griffin</ent>, and a large proportion of the directors and
|
||||
chief executive officers of the Fortune 1000. <ent type = 'person'>Daniel Ludwig</ent>, the
|
||||
richest private citizen on earth, is a Bohemian. Conspiracy nuts
|
||||
think the Bohemian Club meets each summer to plot to take over the
|
||||
world. These guys ALREADY run the world.
|
||||
@ -23,12 +23,12 @@ over the Russian River and take the second left.
|
||||
the encampment. Visitors must have invitations and sign in and
|
||||
out; cooks and other workers have to wear ID badges. The club (and
|
||||
hired staff) is all male. There are no black Bohemians and just
|
||||
one Asian; the former Philippine president Carlos Romulo.
|
||||
one Asian; the former Philippine president <ent type = 'person'>Carlos Romulo</ent>.
|
||||
The club does a good job of avoiding publicity, although in
|
||||
1980 Rick Clogher, a writer for MOTHER JONES magazine, managed to
|
||||
1980 <ent type = 'person'>Rick <ent type = 'person'>Clogher</ent></ent>, a writer for MOTHER JONES magazine, managed to
|
||||
slip in to the encampment for four days with the help of an
|
||||
unidentified insider. Brooding over the Grove is a giant rock that
|
||||
looks like an owl. Clogher discovered that the rock is concrete,
|
||||
looks like an owl. <ent type = 'person'>Clogher</ent> discovered that the rock is concrete,
|
||||
covered with moss to look natural. The Cremation of Care ritual
|
||||
takes place in front of the owl when, on the first night of camp,
|
||||
robed members burn a doll representing Dull Care.
|
||||
@ -39,14 +39,14 @@ has its own kitchen-bar building -- there is a lot of drinking --
|
||||
and sleeping quarters. The members of some camps sleep in tents;
|
||||
other camps have redwood cabins. Daily "Lakeside Talks" on
|
||||
geopolitical topics are given by prominent speakers, both members
|
||||
and non-members. It is claimed that Richard Nixon and Ronald
|
||||
Reagan conferred during the 1967 encampment, Reagan agreeing not
|
||||
to challenge Nixon for the presidential nomination.
|
||||
and non-members. It is claimed that <ent type = 'person'>Richard <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent></ent> and Ronald
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> conferred during the 1967 encampment, <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> agreeing not
|
||||
to challenge <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> for the presidential nomination.
|
||||
The highlight of camp is the Grove play, which is written
|
||||
exclusively for the club. All the female roles are played by men
|
||||
in drag. The 1980 play was an adaptation of the Greek myth of
|
||||
Cronus and Zeus supplemented with fireworks, smoke bombs, and a
|
||||
light show. (One can only wonder if Reagan ever starred in a Grove
|
||||
light show. (One can only wonder if <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> ever starred in a Grove
|
||||
play. He certainly has more acting experience than most club
|
||||
members.) The polished productions cost the Bohemians as much as
|
||||
$25,000 -- for one performance.</p>
|
||||
|
@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>Path: uuwest!spies!apple!usc!samsung!uunet!isis!jsanders
|
||||
From: jsanders@isis.cs.du.edu (Jim Sanders)
|
||||
From: jsanders@isis.cs.du.edu (<ent type = 'person'>Jim Sanders</ent>)
|
||||
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
|
||||
Subject: BOOK FILE! PROVES CIA-MOB-OIL-DRUG-MURDER WORLD CONSPIRACY!!!!
|
||||
<info type="Message-ID"> 1991Jan21.054207.6954@isis.cs.du.edu</info>
|
||||
Date: 21 Jan 91 05:42:07 GMT
|
||||
Reply-To: jsanders@isis.UUCP (Jim Sanders)
|
||||
Reply-To: jsanders@isis.UUCP (<ent type = 'person'>Jim Sanders</ent>)
|
||||
Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver
|
||||
Lines: 534</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ PARTI=LAWYERS/KILLER BOOKS,PARTII=MOB BOOK,PARTIII=DEA BOOK,PARTIV=ILLUMINATI.</
|
||||
|
||||
<p>PART I:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>LAWYERS/CIA/MOB/BUSH -----> RAPE/MURDER/DRUG SMUGGLE/STEAL </p>
|
||||
<p>LAWYERS/CIA/MOB/<ent type = 'person'>BUSH</ent> -----> RAPE/MURDER/DRUG SMUGGLE/STEAL </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Part A:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -37,25 +37,25 @@ hemp paper was and can put out of business because it grows 20 times faster,
|
||||
makes better paper, and needs fewer chemicals to process into paper! They
|
||||
turned U.S. politics into a morbid game for money. In 1700's our founders
|
||||
warned us of political parties and hired farmers for presidents who did not use
|
||||
CIA hitmen to topple foreign regimes for private business concerns. (Bush's
|
||||
CIA hitmen to topple foreign regimes for private business concerns. (<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s
|
||||
international construction company builds oil refineries in Saudi Arabia!*!*!)
|
||||
Big brother is nothing more than a four eyed wimp called George with a
|
||||
Big brother is nothing more than a four eyed wimp called <ent type = 'person'>George</ent> with a
|
||||
lust for megabucks. Death to all who oppose the villain - ex-head of the CIA -
|
||||
turned US Pres! But he made a terrible mistake. He called a war on drugs,but
|
||||
his CIA has imported Heroin from Asia for half a century and brought Coke into
|
||||
the US on Air Amerika planes coming back from Contra Arms deliveries in Central
|
||||
Amerika!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>IMPEACH BUSH NOW - HE'S A DOPE DEALER BETTER YET HANG HIM HIGH FOR TREASON for
|
||||
working in the Cia when they killed Kennedy so they could escalate the Viet
|
||||
<p>IMPEACH <ent type = 'person'>BUSH</ent> NOW - HE'S A <ent type = 'person'>DOPE</ent> DEALER BETTER YET HANG HIM HIGH FOR TREASON for
|
||||
working in the <ent type = 'person'>Cia</ent> when they killed <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> so they could escalate the Viet
|
||||
Nam War and sell heroin to soldiers and JP4 fuel and military jets/helicopters
|
||||
to U.S. TAXPAYERS! </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>**** SEND THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND CONGRESSMAN/WOMAN AND TELL HER/HIM YOU WANT
|
||||
BUSH IMPEACHED TODAY AND NO EXCUSES !!!
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>BUSH</ent> IMPEACHED TODAY AND NO EXCUSES !!!
|
||||
BESIDES, QUALE WOULD HAVE TROUBLE ESCALATING A BAR FIGHT BY DIALING 911
|
||||
- HE COULDN'T START A WAR!!!
|
||||
(MANY UNCONFIRMED THEORIES FORMULATE THAT IF BUSH WERE TO LOSE HIS LIFE OR GET
|
||||
(MANY UNCONFIRMED THEORIES FORMULATE THAT IF <ent type = 'person'>BUSH</ent> WERE TO LOSE HIS LIFE OR GET
|
||||
ROUND FILED, THE CIA WOULD HAVE TO ASSASINATE QUALE)
|
||||
______________________________________________
|
||||
| |
|
||||
@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ with crimes violent and victimless under a functional measure of control.</p>
|
||||
<p><--REPRINT FROM NOMOS, Vol. 7, #'s 2 & 3, Nomos Press, Inc. 9857 S. Damen Ave.,
|
||||
Chicago, IL 60643, 1 year subscription of 4 issues costs $15 (Never mail cash)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Part C:(Some more facts about lawyers and Mr. CIA dude(G.BUSH!))</p>
|
||||
<p>Part C:(Some more facts about lawyers and Mr. CIA dude(G.<ent type = 'person'>BUSH</ent>!))</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In the early 1800's, the professional politicians took over this country and
|
||||
public office went from "A duty and a privilege" to a profession. A
|
||||
@ -156,18 +156,18 @@ had to go to work in polluted northern factories for pennies a day afterwards
|
||||
(quite handy however for the northern industrial imperialists.) Then the
|
||||
bluecoats killed off the Indians and the buffalo to boot! Then came Korea, Nam,
|
||||
Graneda, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Kuwait.
|
||||
Around 1903 a New York oil baron had Nikolai Tesla thrown out of N.Y.
|
||||
Around 1903 a New York oil baron had <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Nik</ent>olai Tesla</ent> thrown out of N.Y.
|
||||
(Tesla was a super inventer of such things as AC current and the Westinghouse
|
||||
electric motor!) It seems Tesla had discovered a way to transmit electricity
|
||||
without wires around NY city! The oilmen knew it would be an end to their
|
||||
gross profiteering from energy manipulation and tossed Nik outta there!
|
||||
gross profiteering from energy manipulation and tossed <ent type = 'person'>Nik</ent> outta there!
|
||||
A book called "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" documents how hemp was
|
||||
needed to win world wars, but soon after became illegal after oil, logging and
|
||||
chemical companies realized hemp made better paper with less petro-chemicals
|
||||
and converted to alcohol easily with extremely high energy per kilo of biomass!
|
||||
(Cars can run on alcohol just as easily as gas-I know-I raced cars & planes!)
|
||||
"The Origin of Consciousness In the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by
|
||||
Dr. Julian Jaynes of Princeton U., shows in his book how leaders of the world
|
||||
Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Julian <ent type = 'person'>Jayne</ent>s</ent> of Princeton U., shows in his book how leaders of the world
|
||||
have confused us for thousands of years with rhetoric, mysticism, music, &
|
||||
theology, so as to better manipulate and tax the poor masses.
|
||||
Then there was the carburetor invented in the 70's that got 100 MPG. All
|
||||
@ -175,41 +175,41 @@ of a sudden a major U.S. company bought the patent rights to the carb and
|
||||
locked it away. Think of the pollution we now have that we could have avoided
|
||||
if a handful of greedy politicians and oilmen didn't want all of the excess
|
||||
wealth their oil businesses have afforded them at the cost of our health!
|
||||
And Bush is an Oil Refinery Contractor from Texas! Remember, the place
|
||||
where LBJ, Carlos Marcello, and the CIA had Kennedy shot. Oh, but Bush was in
|
||||
the CIA! Oh and Bush became the head of the CIA - the same folks that killed
|
||||
JFK to escalate war and drug profits in NAM. A book "The politics of Heroin in
|
||||
And <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> is an Oil Refinery Contractor from Texas! Remember, the place
|
||||
where LBJ, <ent type = 'person'>Carlos <ent type = 'person'>Marcello</ent></ent>, and the CIA had <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> shot. Oh, but <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> was in
|
||||
the CIA! Oh and <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> became the head of the CIA - the same folks that killed
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> to escalate war and drug profits in NAM. A book "The politics of Heroin in
|
||||
South East Asia" documents the CIA's selling of narcotics to fund operations.
|
||||
So does the Book "The American Heroin Empire". HOT NEW BOOK ON DRUGWAR SCAM &
|
||||
COUNTERINSUGENCY IS CALLED "DEEP COVER" BY MICHAEL LEVINE - GET IT NOW!!!!!!!!!
|
||||
Garrison's book, "On the trail of Assassins" shows how Oswall was indeed also a
|
||||
CIA agent. Lucky for the CIA & FBI that Oswald died soon after, along with over
|
||||
COUNTERINSUGENCY IS CALLED "DEEP COVER" BY <ent type = 'person'>MICHAEL LEVINE</ent> - GET IT NOW!!!!!!!!!
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Garrison</ent>'s book, "On the trail of Assassins" shows how <ent type = 'person'>Oswall</ent> was indeed also a
|
||||
CIA agent. Lucky for the CIA & FBI that <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> died soon after, along with over
|
||||
a dozen very important witnessess and suspects who perished for unexplainably
|
||||
weird reasons within a year of JFK's murder. (And David Scheim's book "Contract
|
||||
On America" provides the evidence showing how Mafia chiefs like Marcello worked
|
||||
together with the CIA to murder JFK, Robert Kennedy(he prosecuted MOB Bosses
|
||||
as JFK's Attorney General), Martin Luther King and Malcom X(these two were
|
||||
weird reasons within a year of <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>'s murder. (And David Scheim's book "Contract
|
||||
On America" provides the evidence showing how Mafia chiefs like <ent type = 'person'>Marcello</ent> worked
|
||||
together with the CIA to murder <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>, Robert <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>(he prosecuted MOB Bosses
|
||||
as <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>'s Attorney General), <ent type = 'person'>Martin Luther King</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Malcom X</ent>(these two were
|
||||
begining to expose the facts that the CIA/MOB drug dealers were taking all the
|
||||
money from the poor people they sold narcotics to!))
|
||||
But Bush wants a drug war? But his CIA sells drugs(hard narcotics). Let
|
||||
us impeach Bush for accessory to a felony to import narcotics(He knew about it)
|
||||
Or impeach him for accessory to JFK's treasonous murder.(It is supreme high
|
||||
But <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> wants a drug war? But his CIA sells drugs(hard narcotics). Let
|
||||
us impeach <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> for accessory to a felony to import narcotics(He knew about it)
|
||||
Or impeach him for accessory to <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>'s treasonous murder.(It is supreme high
|
||||
treason to withhold knowledge of a conspiracy to kill a U.S. President - and
|
||||
treason carries the death penalty!)
|
||||
Hoover ran the FBI at the time the killing and helped the coverup. Such
|
||||
twisted justice can be found described in Turner's book, "Hoover's FBI."
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hoover</ent> ran the FBI at the time the killing and helped the coverup. Such
|
||||
twisted justice can be found described in Turner's book, "<ent type = 'person'>Hoover</ent>'s FBI."
|
||||
Ex-CIA agents have written books like "The CIA File" and "Deadly Deceits" which
|
||||
further documents the ruthless activities of drug smuggling and crime by
|
||||
the CIA abroad and at home. (U.S. law strictly forbids CIA operation in U.S.)
|
||||
"The Cocaine Wars" explains that the CIA now imports South American Cocaine
|
||||
into U.S. The Mafias do too, but then they also work for the CIA in many areas
|
||||
into U.S. The <ent type = 'person'>Mafias</ent> do too, but then they also work for the CIA in many areas
|
||||
like drug smuggling, assassinations, and other clandistine, cloak and dagger
|
||||
dirty work no longer needed in the global world of the nineties!
|
||||
According to the book "Poisoning for Profit," by Block and Scarpitti, the
|
||||
Mafias basically own the nations waste disposal companies and have dumped toxic
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Mafias</ent> basically own the nations waste disposal companies and have dumped toxic
|
||||
waste illegally into U.S. water supplies for decades. If the CIA and the Mafia
|
||||
work together, then who is committing crimes against the U.S. now?
|
||||
I would say that the Bush/Oil/CIA/Mafia connection poses the most threat
|
||||
I would say that the <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>/Oil/CIA/Mafia connection poses the most threat
|
||||
to U.S. national security for choking US with oil pollution in Air and Water,
|
||||
killing our presidents, poisoning our water with toxic waste, and getting our
|
||||
kids hooked on Smack, Coke and Crack - and all for their love of $.
|
||||
@ -219,10 +219,10 @@ loaded with water balloons!
|
||||
of this. But then no one reads non-fiction books any more either! These books
|
||||
are all available at a good college or city library to read for free! Just when
|
||||
Iraq grabbed the headlines months ago, the Gannett news agency reported in a
|
||||
small article that mostly Texans including G.Bush received over 500,000 bucks
|
||||
from failing S&L's. Great smokescreen(sandscreen) George! </p>
|
||||
small article that mostly Texans including G.<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> received over 500,000 bucks
|
||||
from failing S&L's. Great smokescreen(sandscreen) <ent type = 'person'>George</ent>! </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Oh, and Bush is a life member of the "Skull and Crossbones Club" which is
|
||||
<p> Oh, and <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> is a life member of the "Skull and Crossbones Club" which is
|
||||
the American equivalent of the Bavarian Illuminati - the motto of which falls
|
||||
along the lines of "secrecy or death!" These secret sects were formed by
|
||||
Lawyers as far back as 1776 to dominate, manipulate and tax the masses!</p>
|
||||
@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Lawyers as far back as 1776 to dominate, manipulate and tax the masses!</p>
|
||||
We the people could all have 2 day work weeks if $.60 out of every $1.00 we
|
||||
spend did not pay for energy costs they have assessed us soley for their own
|
||||
gains-this alone is multiple felony counts of interstate fraud/mail fraud by
|
||||
Bush & Company. (CIA, & Logging, Oil, Chemical & Financial Industries!)
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> & Company. (CIA, & Logging, Oil, Chemical & Financial Industries!)
|
||||
I propose a new order, not of imperfect, selfish, egotistical humans, but of
|
||||
and through microprocessors. These machines would not rule the world as most
|
||||
would expect, but would just aid in applying logic to the production of
|
||||
@ -260,9 +260,9 @@ to world events and whose "solutions" are now tainted by such events.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>PART II:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>HOW POLITICIANS/ILLUNINATI USE MAFIAS TO DO THERE DIRTY WORK:</p>
|
||||
<p>HOW POLITICIANS/<ent type = 'person'>ILLUNINATI USE MAFIAS</ent> TO DO THERE DIRTY WORK:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"CONTRACT ON AMERICA" =superexpose on mob/cia/illuminati JFK,King,Malcm X hits!</p>
|
||||
<p>"CONTRACT ON AMERICA" =superexpose on mob/cia/illuminati <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>,King,<ent type = 'person'>Malcm X</ent> hits!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Well go to a good bookstore and aquire the book "Contract On America" by
|
||||
David E Scheim. Paperback versions have 624 pages and cost 4.95 US bux.
|
||||
@ -271,21 +271,21 @@ to work with the Mob to take over the U.S.A. and run it for their personal
|
||||
profit.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Chapter 21 "More Assassinations"
|
||||
Documents how the Mob killed Martin Luther/Malcom X because the two had
|
||||
Documents how the Mob killed Martin Luther/<ent type = 'person'>Malcom X</ent> because the two had
|
||||
begun to expose how much the Mob profitted off of ghetto Blacks by
|
||||
selling drugs to the poor People!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Chapter 22 "Richard Nixon and the Mob."
|
||||
This chapter documents a multitude of conections between Nixon and
|
||||
<p>Chapter 22 "<ent type = 'person'>Richard <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent></ent> and the Mob."
|
||||
This chapter documents a multitude of conections between <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> and
|
||||
the Mob/Hoffa/Teamsters/and relatives of such.
|
||||
(in my opinion, Nixon was one of the fuckin greasyest, slimyest, scum
|
||||
(in my opinion, <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> was one of the fuckin greasyest, slimyest, scum
|
||||
buckets who pretended to work for the People as a "politician" -
|
||||
- next to Rea-gun and Bush-wacker of course!)</p>
|
||||
- next to <ent type = 'person'>Rea</ent>-gun and <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>-wacker of course!)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Chapter 23 "The Reagan Administration"</p>
|
||||
<p>Chapter 23 "The <ent type = 'person'>Rea</ent>gan Administration"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Obviously deals with CIA/Mob connections that Reagan and his cronies like
|
||||
G.Bush had in those 8 years of blood sucking!</p>
|
||||
<p>Obviously deals with CIA/Mob connections that <ent type = 'person'>Rea</ent>gan and his cronies like
|
||||
G.<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> had in those 8 years of blood sucking!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>And now for a quote from page 257 of "Contract On America" (read it and weep)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ laundry or dry cleaner; the price you pay for food in the market. I have
|
||||
been involved in and know of bad meat being purchased, unfit for human
|
||||
consumption, that has been converted into salami in delicatessens and
|
||||
forced to be sold through grocery stores...
|
||||
When I testified about Mr DeCarlo, I, too, had the native feel of what
|
||||
When I testified about Mr <ent type = 'person'>DeCarlo</ent>, I, too, had the native feel of what
|
||||
organized crime was.
|
||||
I saw photographs of graves dug in New Jersey, with over 35 bodies over
|
||||
a period of years, melted with lye. I sat and heard the voices at dinner
|
||||
@ -303,12 +303,12 @@ talking over murdering a 12-year-old child and burying bodies in New Jersey...
|
||||
Narcotics, manipulation of businesses that cause prices to spiral, we can
|
||||
go on for a long, long time. . . .It goes on and on.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Mob defector Gerald Zelmanowitz, testifying
|
||||
<p> Mob defector <ent type = 'person'>Gerald Zelmanowitz</ent>, testifying
|
||||
in 1973 before a U.S. Senate committee"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>BUSH & THE MOB:</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>BUSH</ent> & THE MOB:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>page 594 states "Gelli is also "very well aquainted with Vice-President-Bush."
|
||||
<p>page 594 states "<ent type = 'person'>Gelli</ent> is also "very well aquainted with Vice-President-<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>."
|
||||
(in Mobese this translates to "the two fuckin worked together")</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>page367 states "On August 2, 1980, as resort-bound Italian and foreign tourists
|
||||
@ -316,28 +316,28 @@ crowded Italy's Bologna R.R. station, a massive bomb ripped through a waiting
|
||||
room. The explosion left 85 dead and 200 others injured. It was the worst
|
||||
terrorist strike in postwar Europe....
|
||||
....Another defendent in the pending trial(on the bombing) is P2
|
||||
grandmaster Licio Gelli, now a fugitive believed to be hiding in S Amerika.
|
||||
In 1981, shortly before fleeing multiple criminal indictments, Gelli had
|
||||
been an honored guest at Reagan's inaugural ball...
|
||||
...when police raided Gelli's villa in 1981...they found an exchange of
|
||||
letters between Gelli and Guarino discussing ways to help "our brother
|
||||
Michele," refering to Sindona, another P2 member. Sindona, who had curried the
|
||||
Italian-American vote for Nixon as Guarino did for Reagan, was then on trial
|
||||
in New York. Gelli also wrote a letter of support to Reagan offering to ensure
|
||||
grandmaster Licio <ent type = 'person'>Gelli</ent>, now a fugitive believed to be hiding in S Amerika.
|
||||
In 1981, shortly before fleeing multiple criminal indictments, <ent type = 'person'>Gelli</ent> had
|
||||
been an honored guest at <ent type = 'person'>Rea</ent>gan's inaugural ball...
|
||||
...when police raided <ent type = 'person'>Gelli</ent>'s villa in 1981...they found an exchange of
|
||||
letters between <ent type = 'person'>Gelli</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Guarino</ent> discussing ways to help "our brother
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Michele</ent>," refering to <ent type = 'person'>Sindona</ent>, another P2 member. <ent type = 'person'>Sindona</ent>, who had curried the
|
||||
Italian-American vote for <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> as <ent type = 'person'>Guarino</ent> did for <ent type = 'person'>Rea</ent>gan, was then on trial
|
||||
in New York. <ent type = 'person'>Gelli</ent> also wrote a letter of support to <ent type = 'person'>Rea</ent>gan offering to ensure
|
||||
favorable coverage for him in the Italian press. The powerful Italian used his
|
||||
infuence in a major publishing empire to do exactly that....
|
||||
....the president(Reagan-Bush) has countenanced the use of unsavory
|
||||
....the president(<ent type = 'person'>Rea</ent>gan-<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>) has countenanced the use of unsavory
|
||||
partnerships and methods to further a political agenda. Moreover, two policy
|
||||
developments of his presidency find disturbing counterparts in Mob ideology and
|
||||
perhaps reflect traces of the Mob's insidious, post-assassination influence on:
|
||||
1) A classic mob scam is to assume control of a thriving business and drain
|
||||
its wealth through massive loans based on its previoously good finacial
|
||||
standing. During Reagan's 2 terms, Amerikans have been steered along in an orgy
|
||||
standing. During <ent type = 'person'>Rea</ent>gan's 2 terms, Amerikans have been steered along in an orgy
|
||||
of consumption that has tripled the national debt from $645 billion to
|
||||
$2 trillion and turned the world's largest creditor nation into the world's
|
||||
largest debtor.
|
||||
2) Organized crime's "ultimate solution to everything is to kill somebody,"
|
||||
as one defector observed. During the early years of Reagan's presidency,
|
||||
as one defector observed. During the early years of <ent type = 'person'>Rea</ent>gan's presidency,
|
||||
military force became the prime instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Patterned
|
||||
after a percieved Soviet menace and financed by the ballooning deficit, the
|
||||
biggest peacetime weapons buildup in U.S. history was conducted. This obsessive
|
||||
@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ sources!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>*** NEW DRUGWAR COUNTERINSURGENCY MANUAL - "DEEP COVER": ***</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"Deep Cover", by Michael Levine (an expose of the
|
||||
<p>"Deep Cover", by <ent type = 'person'>Michael Levine</ent> (an expose of the
|
||||
phony drug war by a former undercover operative)
|
||||
is out in paperback for $6.00. Seems pretty good
|
||||
reading, and should provide lots of ammunition for
|
||||
@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ World countries from turning to communism ..."</p>
|
||||
<p>"Once lead the American people into war, and they'll forget there
|
||||
ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal
|
||||
and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into
|
||||
every fiber of our national life ..." --- President Woodrow Wilson</p>
|
||||
every fiber of our national life ..." --- President <ent type = 'person'>Woodrow Wilson</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>----</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -387,9 +387,9 @@ every fiber of our national life ..." --- President Woodrow Wilson</p>
|
||||
<p>Hell, I'm Jewish, but it sure as hell to me looks like international
|
||||
banking is a Religious plot to rule the world. After all, the
|
||||
major International Banks are owned by three Jewish families, the
|
||||
Rosenthauls, the Rockefellers, and the Rothschilds! New York City was
|
||||
owned by 'em until the Japs bought them out! Read a book by a former
|
||||
Moussad operative(Israeli SS) called "Moussad" to become more enlightened about
|
||||
Rosenthauls, the Rockefellers, and the <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Rothschild</ent>s</ent>! New York City was
|
||||
owned by 'em until the Japs bought them out! <ent type = 'person'>Rea</ent>d a book by a former
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Moussad</ent> operative(Israeli SS) called "<ent type = 'person'>Moussad</ent>" to become more enlightened about
|
||||
this matter! And order the best single source on the Illuminati for *FREE*
|
||||
by asking for the "Rise and Power of the International Bankers" chart from:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -399,10 +399,10 @@ by asking for the "Rise and Power of the International Bankers" chart from:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>(Summary of just one-hundredth of the chart is found at end of this document.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Jayne's book and I&O Publishing out of Boulder City Nevada will illustrate that
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Jayne</ent>'s book and I&O Publishing out of Boulder City Nevada will illustrate that
|
||||
whenever a bunch of religious fanatics do something, they ruin things for all
|
||||
others. Take the Pope's overpopulation of the earth for example, or the
|
||||
crusades, or the Koran's evil followers in Arabia. Every time We the People
|
||||
crusades, or the <ent type = 'person'>Koran</ent>'s evil followers in Arabia. Every time We the People
|
||||
are left holding the bag naked. I say lets drop the bag in the dumpster. Ditch
|
||||
religion forever and think for yourself damn-it! I only include this church
|
||||
literature cause they are involved with the Freedom Movement who, yes, are a
|
||||
@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ expose the Illuminati and live to talk about it!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>NOW FOR THE SUM OF A MAN'S KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE ILLUMINATI:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>These folks are more secret than Moussad(the Israeli SS) who is the
|
||||
<p>These folks are more secret than <ent type = 'person'>Moussad</ent>(the Israeli SS) who is the
|
||||
undisputed ultimate "secret agent men/women" experts of the world.
|
||||
Therefore, you will find no reliable sources of information on them.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ and note how the Swiss are given International Neutrality to boot so that
|
||||
the Secret accounts will be safe and stable! I would wager a month of Sundays
|
||||
that money in a Swiss account is backed by real gold too!)
|
||||
|
||||
Bush belongs to the "Skull and Crossbones Club" which is the American
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> belongs to the "Skull and Crossbones Club" which is the American
|
||||
Equivalent of the Illuninati. You have to study at Yale and be in a family that
|
||||
is part of the old boy system and then you might get in. It is highly secret,
|
||||
but really is much more well known than the Illuminati. It exists to perpetuate
|
||||
@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ Amazingly, the only reference to the Illuminati that I have ever seen other
|
||||
than in a few paper back books on mysticism called the Trilogy which actually
|
||||
are probably right 50% of the time, was in the Unabridged Webster's Dictionary,
|
||||
where all it dares say is that they were "the members of an anticlerical,
|
||||
deistic, republican society founded in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of
|
||||
deistic, republican society founded in 1776 by <ent type = 'person'>Adam Weishaupt</ent>, professor of
|
||||
law at Ingolstadt in Bavaria. It was suppressed by the Bavarian government in
|
||||
1785: called also the Order of the Illuminati."
|
||||
|
||||
@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ need to know, except their names. Search and destroy! </p>
|
||||
aristocrats to perpetuate its iron grip on the peasants, to maintain the status
|
||||
quo, to keep the rich rich, and the poor masses poor.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>J.Jaynes book, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown Of the Bicameral
|
||||
<p>J.<ent type = 'person'>Jayne</ent>s book, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown Of the Bicameral
|
||||
Mind," explains how for thousands of years, the masses have been hypnotized
|
||||
into not thinking for themselves by Illuminati like leaders who use mysticism,
|
||||
religion, music and propaganda to accomplish this. A person can still do very
|
||||
@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ from being so eager to toss the king's tea taxes overboard!)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>ACCORDING TO THE RISE AND POWER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS CHART:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Beginning in 1795, five of the Rothschild's sons were sent to five different
|
||||
<p>Beginning in 1795, five of the <ent type = 'person'>Rothschild</ent>'s sons were sent to five different
|
||||
European countries, were the Illuminati/World Banker scam started to spread
|
||||
in Germany, Vienna, England, Italy, and France. This put them in the top five
|
||||
countries, where they soon rose to positions of immense power and influence.
|
||||
@ -513,17 +513,17 @@ Thus the manipulation of global affairs began!</p>
|
||||
8 - Equal liability of all to labor.
|
||||
9 - Distribution of the population.
|
||||
10 - Free education to all in "public" schools.
|
||||
(Sounds like bigbro ta me, Booboo!)</p>
|
||||
(Sounds like bigbro ta me, <ent type = 'person'>Booboo</ent>!)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The chart shows that in 1798 the following 3 things occurred:
|
||||
1 - Washington warned of the danger of the Illuminati.
|
||||
2 - Jefferson wrote to John Adams stating that he agreed with
|
||||
2 - Jefferson wrote to <ent type = 'person'>John Adams</ent> stating that he agreed with
|
||||
him that the international bankers were more powerful and
|
||||
dangerous than standing armies.
|
||||
3 - Professor John Robinson exposed it in his book, " PROOFS OF
|
||||
3 - Professor <ent type = 'person'>John Robinson</ent> exposed it in his book, " PROOFS OF
|
||||
A CONSPIRACY."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>And then in 1836, Andrew Jackson abolished the central bank. If this
|
||||
<p>And then in 1836, <ent type = 'person'>Andrew Jackson</ent> abolished the central bank. If this
|
||||
measure had not been taken, America would have fallen to the
|
||||
International bankers at this time.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -540,6 +540,6 @@ International bankers at this time.</p>
|
||||
| __ .__ |
|
||||
| |__| |__| " |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| DON'T TREAD ON ME! |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>DON</ent>'T TREAD ON ME! |
|
||||
|____________________|
|
||||
</p></xml>
|
@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
|
||||
keep my name and this sentence on it.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Bill of Rights, a Status Report
|
||||
by Eric Postpischil</p>
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Eric Postpischil</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 4 September 1990</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -39,25 +39,25 @@
|
||||
Government for a redress of grievances.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ESTABLISHING RELIGION: While campaigning for his first
|
||||
term, George Bush said "I don't know that atheists should
|
||||
term, <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent></ent> said "I don't know that atheists should
|
||||
be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered
|
||||
patriots." Bush has not retracted, commented on, or
|
||||
patriots." <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> has not retracted, commented on, or
|
||||
clarified this statement, in spite of requests to do so.
|
||||
According to Bush, this is one nation under God. And
|
||||
apparently if you are not within Bush's religious beliefs,
|
||||
According to <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>, this is one nation under God. And
|
||||
apparently if you are not within <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s religious beliefs,
|
||||
you are not a citizen. Federal, state, and local
|
||||
governments also promote a particular religion (or,
|
||||
occasionally, religions) by spending public money on
|
||||
religious displays.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION: Robert Newmeyer and Glenn
|
||||
Braunstein were jailed in 1988 for refusing to stand in
|
||||
respect for a judge. Braunstein says the tradition of
|
||||
<p> FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION: <ent type = 'person'>Robert Newmeyer</ent> and Glenn
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Braunstein</ent> were jailed in 1988 for refusing to stand in
|
||||
respect for a judge. <ent type = 'person'>Braunstein</ent> says the tradition of
|
||||
rising in court started decades ago when judges entered
|
||||
carrying Bibles. Since judges no longer carry Bibles,
|
||||
Braunstein says there is no reason to stand -- and his
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Braunstein</ent> says there is no reason to stand -- and his
|
||||
Bible tells him to honor no other God. For this religious
|
||||
practice, Newmeyer and Braunstein were jailed and are now
|
||||
practice, Newmeyer and <ent type = 'person'>Braunstein</ent> were jailed and are now
|
||||
suing.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> FREE SPEECH: We find that technology has given the
|
||||
@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
|
||||
(obscenity, as defined by the Federal Communications
|
||||
Commission [FCC]). The FCC is investigating Boston PBS
|
||||
station WGBH-TV for broadcasting photographs from the
|
||||
Mapplethorpe exhibit.</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Mapplethorpe</ent> exhibit.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> FREE SPEECH: There are also laws to limit political
|
||||
statements and contributions to political activities. In
|
||||
@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
|
||||
corporation from using its general treasury funds to make
|
||||
independent expenditures in a political campaign. In
|
||||
March, the Supreme Court upheld that law. According to
|
||||
dissenting Justice Kennedy, it is now a felony in Michigan
|
||||
dissenting Justice <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>, it is now a felony in Michigan
|
||||
for the Sierra Club, the American Civil Liberties Union, or
|
||||
the Chamber of Commerce to advise the public how a
|
||||
candidate voted on issues of urgent concern to their
|
||||
@ -102,15 +102,15 @@
|
||||
participated in the copying of the document. Also, the
|
||||
person who copied this document from telephone company
|
||||
computers placed a copy on a bulletin board run by Rich
|
||||
Andrews. Andrews forwarded a copy to AT&T officials and
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Andrews</ent>. <ent type = 'person'>Andrews</ent> forwarded a copy to AT&T officials and
|
||||
cooperated with authorities fully. In return, the Secret
|
||||
Service (SS) confiscated Andrews' computer along with all
|
||||
the mail and data that were on it. Andrews was not charged
|
||||
Service (SS) confiscated <ent type = 'person'>Andrews</ent>' computer along with all
|
||||
the mail and data that were on it. <ent type = 'person'>Andrews</ent> was not charged
|
||||
with any crime.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> FREE PRESS: In another incident that would be comical if
|
||||
it were not true, on March 1 the SS ransacked the offices
|
||||
of Steve Jackson Games (SJG); irreparably damaged property;
|
||||
of <ent type = 'person'>Steve Jackson</ent> Games (<ent type = 'person'>SJG</ent>); irreparably damaged property;
|
||||
and confiscated three computers, two laser printers,
|
||||
several hard disks, and many boxes of paper and floppy
|
||||
disks. The target of the SS operation was to seize all
|
||||
@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
|
||||
Cyberpunk game contains fictitious break-ins in a
|
||||
futuristic world, with no technical information of actual
|
||||
use with real computers, nor is it played on computers.
|
||||
The SS never filed any charges against SJG but still
|
||||
The SS never filed any charges against <ent type = 'person'>SJG</ent> but still
|
||||
refused to return confiscated property.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> PEACEABLE ASSEMBLY: The right to assemble peaceably is no
|
||||
@ -132,8 +132,8 @@
|
||||
two years in jail. Consider the scene in jail: "What'd
|
||||
you do?" "I was waiting at a bus stop and gave a guy a
|
||||
cigarette." This is not an impossible occurrence: In
|
||||
Pittsburgh, Eugene Tyler, 15, has been ordered away from
|
||||
bus stops by police officers. Sherman Jones, also 15, was
|
||||
Pittsburgh, <ent type = 'person'>Eugene Tyler</ent>, 15, has been ordered away from
|
||||
bus stops by police officers. <ent type = 'person'>Sherman Jones</ent>, also 15, was
|
||||
accosted with a police officer's hands around his neck
|
||||
after putting the last bit of pizza crust into his mouth.
|
||||
The police suspected him of hiding drugs.</p>
|
||||
@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
|
||||
based upon the presence of some sexually explicit items.
|
||||
Bars, restaurants, or houses are taken from the owners
|
||||
because employees or tenants sold drugs. In Volusia
|
||||
County, Florida, Sheriff Robert Vogel and his officers stop
|
||||
County, Florida, Sheriff <ent type = 'person'>Robert Vogel</ent> and his officers stop
|
||||
automobiles for contrived violations. If large amounts of
|
||||
cash are found, the police confiscate it on the PRESUMPTION
|
||||
that it is drug money -- even if there is no other evidence
|
||||
@ -253,19 +253,19 @@
|
||||
weapons.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Both of the above apply to the warrant the Hudson, New
|
||||
Hampshire, police used when they broke down Bruce Lavoie's
|
||||
Hampshire, police used when they broke down <ent type = 'person'>Bruce Lavoie</ent>'s
|
||||
door at 5 a.m. with guns drawn and shot and killed him.
|
||||
The warrant claimed information from an anonymous
|
||||
informant, and it said, among other things, that guns were
|
||||
to be seized. The mention of guns in the warrant was used
|
||||
as reason to enter with guns drawn. Bruce Lavoie had no
|
||||
guns. Bruce Lavoie was not secure from unreasonable search
|
||||
as reason to enter with guns drawn. <ent type = 'person'>Bruce Lavoie</ent> had no
|
||||
guns. <ent type = 'person'>Bruce Lavoie</ent> was not secure from unreasonable search
|
||||
and seizure -- nor is anybody else.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Other infringements on the fourth amendment include
|
||||
roadblocks and the Boston Police detention of people based
|
||||
on colors they are wearing (supposedly indicating gang
|
||||
membership). And in Pittsburgh again, Eugene Tyler was
|
||||
membership). And in Pittsburgh again, <ent type = 'person'>Eugene Tyler</ent> was
|
||||
once searched because he was wearing sweat pants and a
|
||||
plaid shirt -- police told him they heard many drug dealers
|
||||
at that time were wearing sweat pants and plaid shirts.
|
||||
@ -287,35 +287,35 @@
|
||||
private property be taken for public use without
|
||||
just compensation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> INDICTMENT OF A GRAND JURY: Kevin Bjornson has been
|
||||
<p> INDICTMENT OF A GRAND JURY: <ent type = 'person'>Kevin <ent type = 'person'>Bjornson</ent></ent> has been
|
||||
proprietor of Hydro-Tech for nearly a decade and is a
|
||||
leading authority on hydroponic technology and cultivation.
|
||||
On October 26, 1989, both locations of Hydro-Tech were
|
||||
raided by the Drug Enforcement Administration. National
|
||||
Drug Control Policy Director William Bennett has declared
|
||||
Drug Control Policy Director <ent type = 'person'>William Bennett</ent> has declared
|
||||
that some indoor lighting and hydroponic equipment is
|
||||
purchased by marijuana growers, so retailers and
|
||||
wholesalers of such equipment are drug profiteers and
|
||||
co-conspirators. Bjornson was not charged with any crime,
|
||||
co-conspirators. <ent type = 'person'>Bjornson</ent> was not charged with any crime,
|
||||
nor subpoenaed, issued a warrant, or arrested. No illegal
|
||||
substances were found on his premises. Federal officials
|
||||
were unable to convince grand juries to indict Bjornson.
|
||||
were unable to convince grand juries to indict <ent type = 'person'>Bjornson</ent>.
|
||||
By February, they had called scores of witnesses and
|
||||
recalled many two or three times, but none of the grand
|
||||
juries they convened decided there was reason to criminally
|
||||
prosecute Bjornson. In spite of that, as of March, his
|
||||
prosecute <ent type = 'person'>Bjornson</ent>. In spite of that, as of March, his
|
||||
bank accounts were still frozen and none of the inventories
|
||||
or records had been returned. Grand juries refused to
|
||||
indict Bjornson, but the government is still penalizing
|
||||
indict <ent type = 'person'>Bjornson</ent>, but the government is still penalizing
|
||||
him.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> TWICE PUT IN JEOPARDY OF LIFE OR LIMB: Members of the
|
||||
McMartin family in California have been tried two or three
|
||||
times for child abuse. Anthony Barnaby was tried for
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>McMartin</ent> family in California have been tried two or three
|
||||
times for child abuse. <ent type = 'person'>Anthony Barnaby</ent> was tried for
|
||||
murder (without evidence linking him to the crime) three
|
||||
times before New Hampshire let him go.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> COMPELLED TO BE A WITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF: Oliver North
|
||||
<p> COMPELLED TO BE A WITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF: <ent type = 'person'>Oliver North</ent>
|
||||
was forced to testify against himself. Congress granted
|
||||
him immunity from having anything he said to them being
|
||||
used as evidence against him, and then they required him to
|
||||
@ -336,7 +336,7 @@
|
||||
Federal government, see him during questioning. Police
|
||||
screamed "You better tell us what we want to hear and
|
||||
cooperate or you are going to jail," at 14-year-old Antron
|
||||
McCray, according to Bobby McCray, his father. Antron
|
||||
McCray, according to <ent type = 'person'>Bobby McCray</ent>, his father. Antron
|
||||
McCray "confessed" after his father told him to, so that
|
||||
police would release him. These people were coerced into
|
||||
bearing witness against themselves, and those confessions
|
||||
@ -365,9 +365,9 @@
|
||||
liberty, and property. Incidents including such violations
|
||||
are described elsewhere in this article. Here are two
|
||||
more: On March 26, 1987, in Jeffersontown, Kentucky,
|
||||
Jeffrey Miles was killed by police officer John Rucker, who
|
||||
was looking for a suspected drug dealer. Rucker had been
|
||||
sent to the wrong house; Miles was not wanted by police.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Jeffrey <ent type = 'person'>Miles</ent></ent> was killed by police officer <ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Rucker</ent></ent>, who
|
||||
was looking for a suspected drug dealer. <ent type = 'person'>Rucker</ent> had been
|
||||
sent to the wrong house; <ent type = 'person'>Miles</ent> was not wanted by police.
|
||||
He received no due process. In Detroit, $4,834 was seized
|
||||
from a grocery store after dogs detected traces of cocaine
|
||||
on three one-dollar bills in a cash register.
|
||||
@ -399,9 +399,9 @@
|
||||
counsel for his defence.
|
||||
|
||||
THE RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Surprisingly, the
|
||||
right to a public trial is under attack. When Marion Barry
|
||||
right to a public trial is under attack. When <ent type = 'person'>Marion Barry</ent>
|
||||
was being tried, the prosecution attempted to bar Louis
|
||||
Farrakhan and George Stallings from the gallery. This
|
||||
Farrakhan and <ent type = 'person'>George Stallings</ent> from the gallery. This
|
||||
request was based on an allegation that they would send
|
||||
silent and "impermissible messages" to the jurors. The
|
||||
judge initially granted this request. One might argue that
|
||||
@ -411,34 +411,34 @@
|
||||
|
||||
BY AN IMPARTIAL JURY: The government does not even honor
|
||||
the right to trial by an impartial jury. US District Judge
|
||||
Edward Rafeedie is investigating improper influence on
|
||||
jurors by US marshals in the Enrique Camarena case. US
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Edward <ent type = 'person'>Rafeedie</ent></ent> is investigating improper influence on
|
||||
jurors by US marshals in the <ent type = 'person'>Enrique Camarena</ent> case. US
|
||||
marshals apparently illegally communicated with jurors
|
||||
during deliberations.
|
||||
|
||||
OF THE STATE AND DISTRICT WHEREIN THE CRIME SHALL HAVE BEEN
|
||||
COMMITTED: This is incredible, but Manuel Noriega is being
|
||||
COMMITTED: This is incredible, but <ent type = 'person'>Manuel Noriega</ent> is being
|
||||
tried so far away from the place where he is alleged to
|
||||
have committed crimes that the United States had to invade
|
||||
another country and overturn a government to get him. Nor
|
||||
is this a unique occurrence; in a matter separate from the
|
||||
Camarena case, Judge Rafeedie was asked to dismiss charges
|
||||
against Mexican gynecologist Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain
|
||||
Camarena case, Judge <ent type = 'person'>Rafeedie</ent> was asked to dismiss charges
|
||||
against Mexican gynecologist Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Humberto Alvarez</ent> Machain
|
||||
on the grounds that the doctor was illegally abducted from
|
||||
his Guadalajara office in April and turned over to US
|
||||
authorities.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> TO BE INFORMED OF THE NATURE AND CAUSE OF THE ACCUSATION:
|
||||
Steve Jackson Games, nearly put out of business by the raid
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Steve Jackson</ent> Games, nearly put out of business by the raid
|
||||
described previously, has been stonewalled by the SS. "For
|
||||
the past month or so these guys have been insisting the
|
||||
book wasn't the target of the raid, but they don't say what
|
||||
the target was, or why they were critical of the book, or
|
||||
why they won't give it back," Steve Jackson says. "They
|
||||
why they won't give it back," <ent type = 'person'>Steve Jackson</ent> says. "They
|
||||
have repeatedly denied we're targets but don't explain why
|
||||
we've been made victims." Attorneys for SJG tried to find
|
||||
we've been made victims." Attorneys for <ent type = 'person'>SJG</ent> tried to find
|
||||
out the basis for the search warrant that led to the raid
|
||||
on SJG. But the application for that warrant was sealed by
|
||||
on <ent type = 'person'>SJG</ent>. But the application for that warrant was sealed by
|
||||
order of the court and remained sealed at last report, in
|
||||
July. Not only has the SS taken property and nearly
|
||||
destroyed a publisher, it will not even explain the nature
|
||||
@ -456,7 +456,7 @@
|
||||
some charges against Irangate participants because the
|
||||
government refused to provide information subpoenaed by the
|
||||
defendants. And one wonders if the government would go
|
||||
to the same lengths to obtain witnesses for Manuel Noriega
|
||||
to the same lengths to obtain witnesses for <ent type = 'person'>Manuel Noriega</ent>
|
||||
as it did to capture him.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> TO HAVE THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL: The right to assistance
|
||||
@ -496,7 +496,7 @@
|
||||
Mississippi charges ten dollars a day to each person who
|
||||
spends time in the jail, regardless of the length of stay
|
||||
or the outcome of their trial. This means innocent people
|
||||
are forced to pay. Marvin Willis was stuck in jail for 90
|
||||
are forced to pay. <ent type = 'person'>Marvin Willis</ent> was stuck in jail for 90
|
||||
days trying to raise $2,500 bail on an assault charge. But
|
||||
after he made that bail, he was kept imprisoned because he
|
||||
could not pay the $900 rent Tallahatchie demanded. Nine
|
||||
@ -512,13 +512,13 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS: A life sentence for selling
|
||||
a quarter of a gram of cocaine for $20 -- that is what
|
||||
Ricky Isom was sentenced to in February in Cobb County,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Ricky Isom</ent> was sentenced to in February in Cobb County,
|
||||
Georgia. It was Isom's second conviction in two years, and
|
||||
state law imposes a mandatory sentence. Even the judge
|
||||
pronouncing the sentence thinks it is cruel; Judge Tom
|
||||
Cauthorn expressed grave reservations before sentencing
|
||||
Isom and Douglas Rucks (convicted of selling 3.5 grams of
|
||||
cocaine in a separate but similar case). Judge Cauthorn
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Cauthorn</ent> expressed grave reservations before sentencing
|
||||
Isom and <ent type = 'person'>Douglas Rucks</ent> (convicted of selling 3.5 grams of
|
||||
cocaine in a separate but similar case). Judge <ent type = 'person'>Cauthorn</ent>
|
||||
called the sentences "Draconian."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Amendment IX</p>
|
||||
|
@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
|
||||
<p>NOTE: This is a report on Government and military techniques, notterrorist!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> B R A I N W A S H I N G
|
||||
By <person>Lorenzo Saint Dubois</person></p>
|
||||
By Lorenzo Saint Dubois</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The report that follows is a condensation of a study by training experts of
|
||||
the important information available on this subject.</p>
|
||||
@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ to shoot him. Usually this storm of emotion ceases as suddenly as it began
|
||||
and the interrogator stalks from the room. These surprising changes create
|
||||
doubt in the prisoner as to his very ability to perceive another person's
|
||||
motivations correctly. His next interrogation probably will be marked by
|
||||
impassivity in the interrogator's mien.</p>
|
||||
impassivity in the interrogator'<ent type = 'person'>s mien</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A feeling of uncertainty about what is required of him is likewise carefully
|
||||
engendered within the individual. Pleas of the prisoner to learn specifically
|
||||
@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ understanding of brainwashing.</p>
|
||||
causative agents rather than chemical agents, electrodes or other more
|
||||
exotic techniques applicable, perhaps, to individuals rather than groups.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>C. This new trend, observed in the early Soviet post-Stalin period,
|
||||
<p>C. This new trend, observed in the early Soviet post-<ent type = 'person'>Stalin</ent> period,
|
||||
continues. By 1960 the word cybernetics was used by the Soviets to
|
||||
designate this new trend.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>
|
||||
Wrong Number BBS FILE NAME: BUSHBOMB.TXT
|
||||
Wrong Number BBS FILE NAME: <ent type = 'person'>BUSH</ent>BOMB.TXT
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@ -13,16 +13,16 @@ Wrong Number BBS FILE NAME: BUSHBOMB.TXT
|
||||
is credited, including publisher's address]
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
BUSH LINKED TO TERROR BOMBING;
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>BUSH</ent> LINKED TO TERROR BOMBING;
|
||||
|
||||
WILL U.N. ASK FOR EXTRADITION?:
|
||||
|
||||
Shocking Evidence Revealed
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
The evidence pointing to President Bush's role in the terrorist bombing of
|
||||
The evidence pointing to President <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s role in the terrorist bombing of
|
||||
a Cuban airliner grows stronger with new revelations. Will the UN Security
|
||||
Council demand his extradition to Cuba or the World Court, as Bush and the
|
||||
Council demand his extradition to Cuba or the World Court, as <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> and the
|
||||
UN have done in the case of Libyan suspects in a similar crime?
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@ -30,44 +30,44 @@ UN have done in the case of Libyan suspects in a similar crime?
|
||||
Exclusive to The Spotlight
|
||||
|
||||
Washington, DC, 6/12/92 -- Long-suppressed records have turned up
|
||||
"shattering" new evidence of the role played by President George Bush in
|
||||
"shattering" new evidence of the role played by President George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> in
|
||||
the midair bombing of a Cuban airliner and in its subsequent cover-up,
|
||||
Latin American officials conducting a "preliminary review" of the tragic
|
||||
incident have told the UN Security Council.
|
||||
The secret files reportedly confirm that in mid-1976, while serving as
|
||||
CIA chief, Bush was in "overall command" of a botched sabotage operation
|
||||
CIA chief, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> was in "overall command" of a botched sabotage operation
|
||||
that ended in the crash of a Cuban passenger jet, killing all 73 aboard,
|
||||
The SPOTLIGHT has learned from diplomatic sources close to the
|
||||
investigation.
|
||||
A CIA agent identified as Luis Posada was arrested by Venezuelan
|
||||
A CIA agent identified as <ent type = 'person'>Luis <ent type = 'person'>Posada</ent></ent> was arrested by Venezuelan
|
||||
authorities shortly after the Cuban plane exploded in midair during its
|
||||
takeoff from a Caribbean stopover, these sources say. Posada, a member of
|
||||
takeoff from a Caribbean stopover, these sources say. <ent type = 'person'>Posada</ent>, a member of
|
||||
a sizable CIA contingent conducting covert operations from Venezuelan bases
|
||||
at the time, was charged with having smuggled an explosive device aboard
|
||||
the flight, and held for trial.
|
||||
Bush, anxious to disclaim all responsibility for such an atrocious
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>, anxious to disclaim all responsibility for such an atrocious
|
||||
terrorist outrage, ordered a "no-holds-barred" cover-up of the crime, the
|
||||
record suggests.
|
||||
"In order to take the heat off Posada, the CIA targeted another
|
||||
suspect, Dr. Orlando Bosch, a militant Cuban exile activist who advocated
|
||||
`armed action' against the Castro dictatorship," recounted Felipe Rivero,
|
||||
"In order to take the heat off <ent type = 'person'>Posada</ent>, the CIA targeted another
|
||||
suspect, Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Orlando Bosch</ent>, a militant Cuban exile activist who advocated
|
||||
`armed action' against the <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> dictatorship," recounted <ent type = 'person'>Felipe <ent type = 'person'>Rivero</ent></ent>,
|
||||
the popular Miami broadcaster who is The SPOTLIGHT's correspondent in the
|
||||
region."
|
||||
Venezuela's secret police, known after its Spanish initials as DISIP,
|
||||
maintained close relations with the CIA and followed its lead. Bosch was
|
||||
imprisoned and charged with complicity in the bombing in Venezuela.
|
||||
|
||||
BUSH ORCHESTRATION
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>BUSH</ent> ORCHESTRATION
|
||||
|
||||
The next move in the cover-up reportedly orchestrated by Bush was to
|
||||
"recover" Posada, these sources day. In a well-organized and lavishly
|
||||
The next move in the cover-up reportedly orchestrated by <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> was to
|
||||
"recover" <ent type = 'person'>Posada</ent>, these sources day. In a well-organized and lavishly
|
||||
financed jailbreak, the alleged aerial bomber was spirited from Venezuela
|
||||
to Panama, where the CIA issued him a new set of identity documents under
|
||||
the name of Ramon Medina, a Guatemalan businessman.
|
||||
In the concluding move of the cover-up, Posada, now known as "Medina,"
|
||||
was handed over to Felix Rodriguez, a senior CIA field agent with whom Bush
|
||||
had a personal working relationship, the record shows. Rodriguez gave
|
||||
Posada a series of covert jobs with CIA teams stationed in Central America,
|
||||
the name of <ent type = 'person'>Ramon Medina</ent>, a Guatemalan businessman.
|
||||
In the concluding move of the cover-up, <ent type = 'person'>Posada</ent>, now known as "Medina,"
|
||||
was handed over to <ent type = 'person'>Felix <ent type = 'person'>Rodriguez</ent></ent>, a senior CIA field agent with whom <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>
|
||||
had a personal working relationship, the record shows. <ent type = 'person'>Rodriguez</ent> gave
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Posada</ent> a series of covert jobs with CIA teams stationed in Central America,
|
||||
largely in order to protect him and "keep him happy," these sources
|
||||
related.
|
||||
"I, for my part, spent 11 years in various maximum security Venezuelan
|
||||
@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ airplane bombing. My case was heard by military, civilian and appellate
|
||||
courts. I was found innocent each time. But after each acquittal, the CIA
|
||||
came up with new `suggestions' about my guilt."
|
||||
|
||||
PALE AND FRAIL
|
||||
PALE AND <ent type = 'person'>FRAIL</ent>
|
||||
|
||||
Finally the Venezuelan government told Washington it could no longer
|
||||
hold Bosch. Pale and in frail health, the falsely accused "terrorist" was
|
||||
@ -91,16 +91,16 @@ SPOTLIGHT. "If I engage in any political activity, or even if I talk too
|
||||
much, I can be tossed back into jail. I am in no position to comment on
|
||||
controversial questions -- not even in my own cause."
|
||||
Living under the assumed name and a small CIA paycheck in Central
|
||||
America also proved difficult for Posada, SPOTLIGHT correspondent Rivero
|
||||
reports. "A couple of years ago, two men walked up to Posada in a
|
||||
Guatemalan restaurant and shot him five times," Rivero related. "He
|
||||
America also proved difficult for <ent type = 'person'>Posada</ent>, SPOTLIGHT correspondent <ent type = 'person'>Rivero</ent>
|
||||
reports. "A couple of years ago, two men walked up to <ent type = 'person'>Posada</ent> in a
|
||||
Guatemalan restaurant and shot him five times," <ent type = 'person'>Rivero</ent> related. "He
|
||||
survived the shooting by a sheer miracle. Badly injured -- he lives
|
||||
largely on liquefied food and walks with a crutch, I hear -- he has
|
||||
vanished into the `protective custody' of the CIA."
|
||||
The reason for Posada's attempted assassination is known, however. He
|
||||
The reason for <ent type = 'person'>Posada</ent>'s attempted assassination is known, however. He
|
||||
"drank a bit and began to talk too much," U.N. sources said. "The CIA
|
||||
needed an airtight cover-up of that airline bombing. When Posada turned
|
||||
talkative, his usefulness to Bush was at an end -- and, but for an iron
|
||||
needed an airtight cover-up of that airline bombing. When <ent type = 'person'>Posada</ent> turned
|
||||
talkative, his usefulness to <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> was at an end -- and, but for an iron
|
||||
physique and that miraculous survival, he would have been, too."
|
||||
Now the U.N. Security Council, having assumed jurisdiction over such
|
||||
international terrorist crimes when it clamped harsh sanctions on Libya
|
||||
|
@ -6,17 +6,17 @@ _______________________________________________________________________________<
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Nothing has been more effective in establishing the authenticity of the Holocaust in the minds of Americans than the terrible scenes U.S. GI's discovered when they entered the German concentration camps at the close of World War II.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> At Dachau, Buchenwald, Dora, Mauthausen, and other work and detention camps, horrified American infantrymen encountered heaps of dead and dying inmates, emaciated and diseased. Survivors told them hair-raising stories of torture and slaughter, a
|
||||
<p> At Dachau, <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>, Dora, Mauthausen, and other work and detention camps, horrified American infantrymen encountered heaps of dead and dying inmates, emaciated and diseased. Survivors told them hair-raising stories of torture and slaughter, a
|
||||
d backed up their claims by showing the GI's crematory ovens, alleged gas chambers, supposed implements of torture, even shrunken heads and lampshades, gloves, and handbags purportedly made from skin flayed from dead inmates.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> U.S. government authorities, mindful that most Americans, who remembered the atrocity stories fed them during World War I, still doubted the Allied propaganda directed against the Hitler regime, resolved to "document" what the GI's had found in
|
||||
<p> U.S. government authorities, mindful that most Americans, who remembered the atrocity stories fed them during World War I, still doubted the Allied propaganda directed against the <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> regime, resolved to "document" what the GI's had found in
|
||||
he camps. Prominent newsmen and politicians were flown in to see the harrowing evidence, while the U.S. Army Signal Corps filmed and photographed the scenes for posterity. The famous journalist Edward R. Murrow reported, in tones of horror, but no lo
|
||||
ger of disbelief, what he had been told and shown, and Dachau and Buchenwald were branded on the hearts and minds of the American populace as names of infamy unmatched in the sad and bloody history of this planet.</p>
|
||||
ger of disbelief, what he had been told and shown, and Dachau and <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent> were branded on the hearts and minds of the American populace as names of infamy unmatched in the sad and bloody history of this planet.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> For Americans, what was "discovered" at the camps - the dead and the diseased, the terrible stories of the inmates, all the props of torture and terror - became the basis not simply of a transitory propaganda campaign but of the conviction that
|
||||
es, it was true: the Germans DID exterminate six million Jews, most of them in lethal gas chambers. What the GI's found was used, by way of films which were mandatory viewing for the vanquished populace of Germany, to "re-educate" the German people b
|
||||
destroying their national pride and their will to a united, independant national state, imposing in their place overwhelming feelings of collective guilt and political impotence. And when the testimony, and the verdict, at Nuremberg incorporated mos
|
||||
, if not all, of the horror stories Americans were told about Dachau, Buchenwald, and other places captured by the U.S. Army, the Holocaust could pass for one of the most documented, one of the most authenticated, one of the most proven historical ep
|
||||
, if not all, of the horror stories Americans were told about Dachau, <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>, and other places captured by the U.S. Army, the Holocaust could pass for one of the most documented, one of the most authenticated, one of the most proven historical ep
|
||||
sodes in the human record.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A Different Reality</p>
|
||||
@ -27,23 +27,23 @@ sodes in the human record.</p>
|
||||
* public information officers, government spokesmen, politicians, *
|
||||
* journalists, and other mouthpieces. *</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> When American and British forces overran western and central Germany in the spring of 1945, they were followed by troops charged with discovering and securing any evidence of German war crimes. Among them was Dr. Charles Larson, one of America's
|
||||
<p> When American and British forces overran western and central Germany in the spring of 1945, they were followed by troops charged with discovering and securing any evidence of German war crimes. Among them was Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Charles Larson</ent>, one of America's
|
||||
leading forensic pathologists, who was assigned to the Judge Advocate General's Department. Dr. Larson performed autopsies at Dachau and some twenty other German camps, examining on some days more than 100 corpses. After his grim work at Dachau, he w
|
||||
s questioned for three days by U.S. Army prosecutors.^1</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Dr. Larson's findings? According to an interview he gave to an American journalist in 1980, "What we've heard is that six million Jews were exterminated. Part of that is a hoax."^2 And what part was the hoax? Dr. Larson, who told his biographer
|
||||
hat to his knowledge he "was the only forensic pathologist on duty in the entire European Theater,"^3 informed "Wichita Eagle" reporter Jan Floerchinger that "never was a case of poison gas uncovered."^4 Neither Dr. Larson nor any other forensic spec
|
||||
hat to his knowledge he "was the only forensic pathologist on duty in the entire European Theater,"^3 informed "Wichita Eagle" reporter <ent type = 'person'>Jan Floerchinger</ent> that "never was a case of poison gas uncovered."^4 Neither Dr. Larson nor any other forensic spec
|
||||
alist has ever been cited by any Holocaust historian to substantiate a single case of death by poison gas, whether Zyklon-B or any other variety.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Typhus, Not Poison Gas</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> If not by gassing, how did the unfortunate victims at Dachau, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen perish? Were they tortured to death? Deliberately starved? The answers to these questions are known as well. As Dr. Larson and other Allied medical men d
|
||||
<p> If not by gassing, how did the unfortunate victims at Dachau, <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>, and Bergen-Belsen perish? Were they tortured to death? Deliberately starved? The answers to these questions are known as well. As Dr. Larson and other Allied medical men d
|
||||
scovered, the chief cause of death at Dachau, Belsen, and the other camps was disease, above all typhus, an old and terrible scourge of mankind which until recently flourished in places where populations were crowded together in circumstances where p
|
||||
blic health measures were unknown or had broken down. Such was the case in the overcrowded internment camps in Germany at war's end, where, despite such measures as systematic delousing, quarantine of the sick, and cremation of the dead, the virtual
|
||||
ollapse of Germany's food, transport, and public health systems led to catastrophe.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Perhaps the most authoritative statement of the facts as to typhus and mortality in the camps has been made by Dr. John E. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of preventive medicine and epidemiology at the Harvard University School of Public Health
|
||||
who was with U.S. forces in Germany in 1945. Dr. Gordon reported in 1948 that "The outbreaks in concentration camps and prisons made up the great bulk of typhus infection encountered in Germany." Dr. Gordon summarized the causes for the outbreaks as
|
||||
<p> Perhaps the most authoritative statement of the facts as to typhus and mortality in the camps has been made by Dr. John E. <ent type = 'person'>Gordon</ent>, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of preventive medicine and epidemiology at the Harvard University School of Public Health
|
||||
who was with U.S. forces in Germany in 1945. Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Gordon</ent> reported in 1948 that "The outbreaks in concentration camps and prisons made up the great bulk of typhus infection encountered in Germany." Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Gordon</ent> summarized the causes for the outbreaks as
|
||||
follows:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> * * *</p>
|
||||
@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ follows:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> * * *</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Dr. Gordon's findings are corroborated by Dr. Russel Barton, today a psychiatrist of international repute, who entered Bergen-Belsen with British forces as a young medical student in 1945. Barton, who volunteered to care for the diseased survivo
|
||||
s, testified under sworn oath in a Toronto courtroom in 1985 that "Thousands of prisoners who died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II weren't deliberately starved to death but died from a rash of diseases."^6 Dr. Barton furth
|
||||
<p> Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Gordon</ent>'s findings are corroborated by Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Russel <ent type = 'person'>Barton</ent></ent>, today a psychiatrist of international repute, who entered Bergen-Belsen with British forces as a young medical student in 1945. <ent type = 'person'>Barton</ent>, who volunteered to care for the diseased survivo
|
||||
s, testified under sworn oath in a Toronto courtroom in 1985 that "Thousands of prisoners who died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II weren't deliberately starved to death but died from a rash of diseases."^6 Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Barton</ent> furth
|
||||
r testified that on entering the camp he had credited stories of deliberate starvations but had decided such stories were untrue after inspecting the well-equipped kitchens and the meticulously maintained ledgers, dating back to 1942, of food cooked
|
||||
nd dispensed each day. Despite noisily publicized claims and widespread popular notions to the contrary, no researcher has been able to document a German policy of extermination through starvation in the German camps.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -63,15 +63,15 @@ nd dispensed each day. Despite noisily publicized claims and widespread popular
|
||||
<p> What of the ghoulish stories of concentration camp inmates skinned for their tattoos, flayed to make lampshades and handbags, or other artifacts? What of the innumerable "torture racks," "meathooks," whipping posts, gallows, and other tools of t
|
||||
rment and death that are reported to have abounded at every German camp? These allegations, and even more grotesque ones profferred by Soviet prosecutors, found their way into the record at Nuremberg.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The lampshade and tattooed-skin charges were made against Ilse Koch, dubbed by journalists the "Bitch of Buchenwald," who was reported to have furnished her house with objects manufactured from the tanned hides of luckless inmates. But General L
|
||||
cius Clay, military governor of the U.S. zone of occupied Germany, who reviewed her case in 1948, told his superiors in Washington: "There is no convincing evidence that she [Ilse Koch] selected inmates for extermination in order to secure tattooed s
|
||||
ins or that she possessed any articles made of human skin."^7 In an interview General Clay gave years later, he stated about the material for the infamous lampshades: "Well, it turned out actually that it was goat flesh. But at the trial it was still
|
||||
human flesh. It was almost impossible for her to have gotten a fair trial."^8 Ilse Koch hanged herself in a West German jail in 1967.</p>
|
||||
<p> The lampshade and tattooed-skin charges were made against <ent type = 'person'>Ilse Koch</ent>, dubbed by journalists the "Bitch of <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>," who was reported to have furnished her house with objects manufactured from the tanned hides of luckless inmates. But General L
|
||||
cius <ent type = 'person'>Clay</ent>, military governor of the U.S. zone of occupied Germany, who reviewed her case in 1948, told his superiors in Washington: "There is no convincing evidence that she [<ent type = 'person'>Ilse Koch</ent>] selected inmates for extermination in order to secure tattooed s
|
||||
ins or that she possessed any articles made of human skin."^7 In an interview General <ent type = 'person'>Clay</ent> gave years later, he stated about the material for the infamous lampshades: "Well, it turned out actually that it was goat flesh. But at the trial it was still
|
||||
human flesh. It was almost impossible for her to have gotten a <ent type = 'person'>fai</ent>r trial."^8 <ent type = 'person'>Ilse Koch</ent> hanged herself in a West German jail in 1967.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It would be tedius to itemize and refute the thousands of bizarre claims as to Nazi atrocities. That there were instances of German cruelty, however, is clear from the testimony of Dr. Konrad Morgen, a legal investigator attached to the Reich Cr
|
||||
minal Police, whose statements on the witness stand at Nuremberg have never been challenged by believers in the Jewish Holocaust. Dr. Morgen informed the court that he had been given full authority by Heinrich Himmler, commander of Hitler's SS and th
|
||||
dread Gestapo, to enter any German concentration camp and investigate instances of cruelty and corruption on the part of the camp staffs. According to Dr. Morgen's sworn testimony at Nuremberg, he investigated 800 such cases, in which over 200 convi
|
||||
tions resulted.^9 Punishments included the death penalty for the worst offenders, including Hermann Karl Koch, Ilse's husband, commandant of Buchenwald.</p>
|
||||
<p> It would be tedius to itemize and refute the thousands of bizarre claims as to Nazi atrocities. That there were instances of German cruelty, however, is clear from the testimony of Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Konrad <ent type = 'person'>Morgen</ent></ent>, a legal investigator attached to the Reich Cr
|
||||
minal Police, whose statements on the witness stand at Nuremberg have never been challenged by believers in the Jewish Holocaust. Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Morgen</ent> informed the court that he had been given full authority by <ent type = 'person'>Heinrich Himmler</ent>, commander of <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>'s SS and th
|
||||
dread Gestapo, to enter any German concentration camp and investigate instances of cruelty and corruption on the part of the camp staffs. According to Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Morgen</ent>'s sworn testimony at Nuremberg, he investigated 800 such cases, in which over 200 convi
|
||||
tions resulted.^9 Punishments included the death penalty for the worst offenders, including Hermann Karl Koch, Ilse's husband, commandant of <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In reality, while camp commandants in certain cases did inflict physical punishment, such acts had to be approved by authorities in Berlin, and it was required that a camp physician first certify the good health of the prisoner to be disciplined
|
||||
and then be on hand at the actual beating.^10 After all, the camps were throughout most of the war important centers of industrial activity. The good health and morale of the prisoners was critical to the German war effort, as is evidenced by a 1942
|
||||
@ -79,22 +79,22 @@ order issued by SS-Brigadefuhrer Richard Glucks, chief of the office which contr
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Concentration Camp Survivors - Merely Victims?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> U.S. Army investigators, working at Buchenwald and other camps, quickly ascertained what was common knowledge among veteran inmates: that the worst offenders, the cruelest denizens of the camps were not the guards but the prisoners themselves. C
|
||||
<p> U.S. Army investigators, working at <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent> and other camps, quickly ascertained what was common knowledge among veteran inmates: that the worst offenders, the cruelest denizens of the camps were not the guards but the prisoners themselves. C
|
||||
mmon criminals of the same stripe as those who populate U.S. prisons today committed many villainies, particularly when they held positions of authority, and fanatical Communists, highly organized to combat their many political enemies among the inma
|
||||
es, eliminated their foes with Stalinist ruthlessness.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Two U.S. Army investigators at Buchenwald, Egon W. Fleck and Edward A. Tenenbaum, carefully investigated circumstances in the camp before its liberation. In a detailed report submitted to their superiors, they revealed, in the words of Alfred To
|
||||
<p> Two U.S. Army investigators at <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>, Egon W. <ent type = 'person'>Fleck</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Edward A</ent>. <ent type = 'person'>Tenenbaum</ent>, carefully investigated circumstances in the camp before its liberation. In a detailed report submitted to their superiors, they revealed, in the words of Alfred To
|
||||
mbs, their commander, who wrote a preface to the report, "how the prisoners themselves organized a deadly terror within the Nazi terror."^12</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Fleck and Tenenbaum described the power exercised by criminals and Communists as follows:
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Fleck</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Tenenbaum</ent> described the power exercised by criminals and Communists as follows:
|
||||
* * *</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>. . . The trusties, who in time became almost exclusively Communist Germans, had the power of life and death over all other inmates. They could sentence a man or a group to almost certain death . . . The Communist trusties were directly responsible f
|
||||
r a large part of the brutalities at Buchenwald.</p>
|
||||
r a large part of the brutalities at <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> * * *</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Colonel Donald B. Robinson, chief historian of the American military government in Germany, summarized the Fleck-Tenenbaum report in an article which appeared in "The American Mercury" shortly after the war. Colonel Robinson wrote succinctly of
|
||||
<p> Colonel <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>ald B. <ent type = 'person'>Robinson</ent>, chief historian of the American military government in Germany, summarized the <ent type = 'person'>Fleck</ent>-<ent type = 'person'>Tenenbaum</ent> report in an article which appeared in "The American Mercury" shortly after the war. Colonel <ent type = 'person'>Robinson</ent> wrote succinctly of
|
||||
he American investigators' findings: "It appeared that the prisoners who agreed with the Communists ate; those who didn't starved to death."^13</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Additional corroboration of inmate brutality has been provided by Ellis E. Spackman, who, as Chief of Counter-Intelligence Arrests and Detentions for the Seventh U.S. Army, was involved in the liberation of Dachau. Spackman, later a professor of
|
||||
@ -102,41 +102,41 @@ history at San Bernardino Valley College in California, wrote in 1966 that at Da
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "Gas Chambers"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> On December 9, 1944 Col. Paul Kirk and Lt. Col. Edward J. Gully inspected the German concentration camp at Natzweiler in Alsace. They reported their findings to their superiors at the headquarters of the U.S. 6th Army Group, which subsequently f
|
||||
rwarded Kirk and Gully's report to the War Crimes Division. While, significantly, the full text of their report has never been published, it has been revealed, by an author supportive of Holocaust claims, that the two investigators were careful to ch
|
||||
<p> On December 9, 1944 Col. <ent type = 'person'>Paul Kirk</ent> and Lt. Col. Edward J. <ent type = 'person'>Gully</ent> inspected the German concentration camp at <ent type = 'person'>Natzweiler</ent> in Alsace. They reported their findings to their superiors at the headquarters of the U.S. 6th Army Group, which subsequently f
|
||||
rwarded Kirk and <ent type = 'person'>Gully</ent>'s report to the War Crimes Division. While, significantly, the full text of their report has never been published, it has been revealed, by an author supportive of Holocaust claims, that the two investigators were careful to ch
|
||||
racterize equipment exhibited to them by French informants as a "SO-CALLED lethal gas chamber," and claim it was "ALLEGEDLY used as a lethal gas chamber"^15 [emphasis added].</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Both the careful phraseology of the Natzweiler report, and its effective suppression, stand in stark contrast to the credulity, the confusion, and the blaring publicity which accompanied official reports of alleged gas chambers at Dachau. At fir
|
||||
t, a U.S. Army photo depicting a GI gazing mournfully at a steel door marked with a skull and crossbones and the German words for: "Caution! Gas! Mortal danger! Don't open!" was identified as showing the murder weapon. Later, however, it was evidentl
|
||||
<p> Both the careful phraseology of the <ent type = 'person'>Natzweiler</ent> report, and its effective suppression, stand in stark contrast to the credulity, the confusion, and the blaring publicity which accompanied official reports of alleged gas chambers at Dachau. At fir
|
||||
t, a U.S. Army photo depicting a GI gazing mournfully at a steel door marked with a skull and crossbones and the German words for: "Caution! Gas! Mortal danger! <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>'t open!" was identified as showing the murder weapon. Later, however, it was evidentl
|
||||
decided that the apparatus in question was merely a standard delousing chamber for clothing, and another alleged gas chamber, this one cunningly disguised as a shower room, was exhibited to American congressmen and journalists as the site where thou
|
||||
ands breathed their last. While there exist numerous reports in the press as to the operation of this second "gas chamber," no official report by trained Army investigators has yet surfaced to reconcile such problems as the function of the shower hea
|
||||
s: Were they "dummies," or did lethal cyanide gas stream through them? (Each theory has appreciable support in journalistic and historiographical literature.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> As with Dachau, so with Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, and the other camps captured by the Allies. There was no end of propaganda about "gas chambers," "gas ovens," and the like, but so far not a single detailed description of the murder weapon and
|
||||
<p> As with Dachau, so with <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>, Bergen-Belsen, and the other camps captured by the Allies. There was no end of propaganda about "gas chambers," "gas ovens," and the like, but so far not a single detailed description of the murder weapon and
|
||||
ts function, not a single report of the kind that is mandatory for the successful prosecution of any assault or murder case in America at the time and today, has come to light.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Furthermore, a number of Holocaust authorities have now publicly decreed that there were no gassings, no extermination camps in Germany after all! All these things, we are told, were located in what is now Poland, in areas captured by the Soviet
|
||||
Red Army and off-limits to Western investigators. In 1960 Dr. Martin Broszat, who is now director of the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History, which is funded by the West German government to SUPPORT the Holocaust story, wrote a letter to
|
||||
he German weekly "Die Zeit" in which he stated categorically: "Neither in Dachau nor in Bergen-Belsen nor in Buchenwald were Jews or other prisoners gassed."^16 Professional Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal wrote in 1975 that "there were no extermination
|
||||
Red Army and off-limits to Western investigators. In 1960 Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Martin Broszat</ent>, who is now director of the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History, which is funded by the West German government to SUPPORT the Holocaust story, wrote a letter to
|
||||
he German weekly "Die Zeit" in which he stated categorically: "Neither in Dachau nor in Bergen-Belsen nor in <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent> were Jews or other prisoners gassed."^16 Professional Nazi-hunter <ent type = 'person'>Simon Wiesenthal</ent> wrote in 1975 that "there were no extermination
|
||||
camps on German soil."^17 And Dachau "gas chamber" No. 2, which was once presented to a stunned and grieving world as a weapon which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, is now described in the brochure issued to tourists at the modern Dachau "mem
|
||||
rial site" in these words: "This gas chamber, camouflaged as a shower room, was not used."^18</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Propaganda Intensifies</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> More than forty years after American troops entered Dachau, Buchenwald, and the other German camps, and trained American investigators established the facts as to what had gone on in them, the government in Washington, the entertainment media in
|
||||
<p> More than forty years after American troops entered Dachau, <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>, and the other German camps, and trained American investigators established the facts as to what had gone on in them, the government in Washington, the entertainment media in
|
||||
Hollywood, and the print media in New York continue to churn out millions of words and images annually on the horrors of the camps and the infamy of the Holocaust. Despite the fact that, with the exception of the defeated Confederacy, no enemy of Ame
|
||||
ica has ever so suffered so complete and devestating defeat as did Germany in 1945, the mass media and the politicians and bureaucrats behave as if Hitler, his troops, and his concentration camps continue to exist in an eternal present, and our opini
|
||||
ica has ever so suffered so complete and devestating defeat as did Germany in 1945, the mass media and the politicians and bureaucrats behave as if <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>, his troops, and his concentration camps continue to exist in an eternal present, and our opini
|
||||
n makers continue to distort, through ignorance or malice, the facts about the camps.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Time for the Truth</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It is time that the government and the professional historians revealed the facts about Dachau, Buchenwald, and the other camps. It is time that they let the American public know how the inmates died, and how they didn't die. It is time that the
|
||||
<p> It is time that the government and the professional historians revealed the facts about Dachau, <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>, and the other camps. It is time that they let the American public know how the inmates died, and how they didn't die. It is time that the
|
||||
claims as to mass murder by gassing were clarified and investigated in the same manner as any other claims of murder are dealt with. It is time that the free ride certain groups have enjoyed as the result of unchallenged Holocaust claims be terminate
|
||||
, just as it is time that other groups, including Germans, eastern Europeans, the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and the wartime leadership of America and Britain stop being scapegoated, either for their alleged role in the Holocaust or their supposed fai
|
||||
, just as it is time that other groups, including Germans, eastern Europeans, the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and the wartime leadership of America and Britain stop being scapegoated, either for their alleged role in the Holocaust or their supposed <ent type = 'person'>fai</ent>
|
||||
ure to stop it.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Above all, it is time that the citizens of this great democratic Republic have the facts about the camps, facts which they possess a right to know, a right that is fundamental to the exercise of their authority and their will in the governance o
|
||||
their country. As citizens and as taxpayers, Americans of all ethnic backgrounds, of all faiths, have a basic right and an overriding interest in determining the facts of incidents which are deemed by those in positions of power to be determinative
|
||||
their country. As citizens and as taxpayers, Americans of all ethnic backgrounds, of all <ent type = 'person'>fai</ent>ths, have a basic right and an overriding interest in determining the facts of incidents which are deemed by those in positions of power to be determinative
|
||||
n America's foreign policy, in its educational policy, in its selection of past events to be memorialized in our civic life. The alleged facts of the Holocaust are today at issue all over the civilized world: in Germany, in France, in Italy, in Brita
|
||||
n, in the Low Countries and Scandinavia, in Japan, across our border in Canada and in the United States of America itself. The truth will be decided only by recourse to the facts, in the public forum: not by concealing the facts, denying the truth, s
|
||||
onewalling reality. The truth will out, and it is time the government of this country, and governments and international bodies throughout the world, made public and patent the evidence of what actually transpired in the German concentration camps in
|
||||
@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ r than on guns, barbed wire, prisons, and lies.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 4. _Wichita Eagle_, April 1, 1980, p. 4C.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 5. John E. Gordon, "Louse-Borne Typhus Fever in the European Theater of
|
||||
Operations, U.S. Army, 1945," in Forest Ray Moulton, Ed., _Rickettsial
|
||||
<p> 5. John E. <ent type = 'person'>Gordon</ent>, "Louse-Borne Typhus Fever in the European Theater of
|
||||
Operations, U.S. Army, 1945," in Forest <ent type = 'person'>Ray Moulton</ent>, Ed., _Rickettsial
|
||||
Diseases of Man_, Am. Acad. for the Advancement of Science, Washington D.C.
|
||||
1948.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -163,23 +163,23 @@ r than on guns, barbed wire, prisons, and lies.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 7. _New York Times_, 24 September 1948, p. 3.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 8. Interview with Lucius Clay, _Official Proceeding of the George C. Marshall
|
||||
Research Foundation,_ cited in "Buchenwald: Legend and Reality," Mark
|
||||
<p> 8. Interview with Lucius <ent type = 'person'>Clay</ent>, _Official Proceeding of the George C. Marshall
|
||||
Research Foundation,_ cited in "<ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>: Legend and Reality," Mark
|
||||
Weber, _The Journal of Historical Review_, Vol. 7, no. 4.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 9. International Military Tribunal, Vol. XVII, p. 556; IMT, Vol. XX, pp. 489,
|
||||
438.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>10. Cited in _The Theory and Practice of Hell_, Eugen Kogon, Berkley Books, New
|
||||
<p>10. Cited in _The Theory and Practice of Hell_, <ent type = 'person'>Eugen Kogon</ent>, Berkley Books, New
|
||||
York, pp. 108-109.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>11. Nuremberg document NO-1523.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>12. _Buchenwald: A Preliminary Report_, Egon W. Fleck and Edward A. Tenenbaum,
|
||||
<p>12. _<ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>: A Preliminary Report_, Egon W. <ent type = 'person'>Fleck</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Edward A</ent>. <ent type = 'person'>Tenenbaum</ent>,
|
||||
U.S. Army, 12th Army Group, 24 April 1945. National Archives, Record Group
|
||||
331, SHAEF, G-5, 17.11, Jacket 10, Box 151 (8929/163-8929/180).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>13. "Communist Atrocities at Buchenwald," Donald B. Robinson, in _American
|
||||
<p>13. "Communist Atrocities at <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>," <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>ald B. <ent type = 'person'>Robinson</ent>, in _American
|
||||
Mercury_, October 1946.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>14. _San Bernardino Sun-Telegram_, March 13, 1966 (cited in _The Man Who
|
||||
@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ _______________________________________________________________________________<
|
||||
| commanders and guards. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 3. On the other hand, the representations of the newly liberated inmates |
|
||||
| to have been saints and martyrs of Hitlerism were quite often very far |
|
||||
| to have been saints and martyrs of <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>ism were quite often very far |
|
||||
| from the truth; indeed, most of the brutalities inflicted on camp |
|
||||
| detainees were the work of their fellow prisoners, in contravention of |
|
||||
| German policy and German orders. |
|
||||
@ -229,8 +229,8 @@ _______________________________________________________________________________<
|
||||
| had been used to murder Jews or other human beings is a contemptible |
|
||||
| fabrication. Orthodox, Establishment historians and professional "Nazi- |
|
||||
| hunters" have quietly dropped claims that inmates were gassed at Dachau, |
|
||||
| Buchenwald, and other camps in Germany. They continue, however, to keep |
|
||||
| silent regarding the lies about Dachau and Buchenwald, as well as to |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>, and other camps in Germany. They continue, however, to keep |
|
||||
| silent regarding the lies about Dachau and <ent type = 'person'>Buchenwald</ent>, as well as to |
|
||||
| evade an open discussion of the evidence for homicidal gassing at |
|
||||
| Auschwitz and the other camps captured by the Soviets. |
|
||||
|_____________________________________________________________________________|</p>
|
||||
|
@ -7,19 +7,19 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Washington, DC -- While many frown when they think of the high interest
|
||||
rates, U.S. hostages held abroad and foreign policy giveaways associated
|
||||
with the Carter administration, former President Jimmy Carter's true legacy
|
||||
with the <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> administration, former President Jimmy <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent>'s true legacy
|
||||
may be even more shocking than imagined.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Carter seemingly ran an end run around a law passed in the wake of
|
||||
Watergate and signed before Carter took office, which limited White House
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> seemingly ran an end run around a law passed in the wake of
|
||||
Watergate and signed before <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> took office, which limited White House
|
||||
powers, when he formed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> FEMA was based on Richard Nixon's Executive Order (EO) 11490.</p>
|
||||
<p> FEMA was based on <ent type = 'person'>Richard <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent></ent>'s Executive Order (EO) 11490.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The legislation contained nearly 200,000 words on 32 pages. It
|
||||
pertained to every executive order ever issued unless specifically revoked.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> When Carter took office, EO 11490 was incorporated into a new order
|
||||
<p> When <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> took office, EO 11490 was incorporated into a new order
|
||||
allowing a president to assume dictatorial powers during any self-
|
||||
proclaimed "emergency" situation; these powers will remain with a president
|
||||
until specifically revoked by Congress.</p>
|
||||
@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ executive orders, which he could write into law in a moment's notice. No
|
||||
group, neither elected officials, business leaders, nor private citizens,
|
||||
had the power to void these laws.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Franklin Roosevelt invoked a national emergency in 1933 to deal with
|
||||
the banking crisis, and Harry Truman responded to the Korean War with an
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Franklin Roosevelt</ent> invoked a national emergency in 1933 to deal with
|
||||
the banking crisis, and <ent type = 'person'>Harry Truman</ent> responded to the Korean War with an
|
||||
emergency act in 1950.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Richard Nixon declared a pair of crises. In March 1970 he declared a
|
||||
national emergency to deal with the post office strike. The Nixon White
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Richard <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent></ent> declared a pair of crises. In March 1970 he declared a
|
||||
national emergency to deal with the post office strike. The <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> White
|
||||
House was at it again 16 months later when it implemented currency
|
||||
restriction in August of 1971 in order to control foreign trade.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -71,14 +71,14 @@ learned from the investigation completed, the passage of the National
|
||||
Emergencies Act and the termination today of emergency powers."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Church's warning fell on deaf ears. Less than one year later,
|
||||
President Jimmy Carter ordered into being an entire apparatus --
|
||||
President Jimmy <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> ordered into being an entire apparatus --
|
||||
unprecedented in American history -- designed to seize and exercise all
|
||||
political, economic and military power in the United States.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush or any future president could
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent>, Ronald Reagan, <ent type = 'person'>George Bush</ent> or any future president could
|
||||
establish himself as total dictator.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Carter did this with an executive order -- EO 12148.</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> did this with an executive order -- EO 12148.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> An executive order has never been defined by Congress. The validity
|
||||
of such directives has been questioned many times, but there has never been
|
||||
@ -95,10 +95,10 @@ has that prerogative. Undoubtedly it would be exercised in the event of an
|
||||
attack on the United States.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> An attempt was made to incorporate all the "national emergency" powers
|
||||
into one law under Nixon. However, in the wake of the Watergate scandal,
|
||||
into one law under <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>. However, in the wake of the Watergate scandal,
|
||||
he was unable to pull off the presidential coup.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Carter, a Trilateralist, did.</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent>, a Trilateralist, did.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>-----------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
|
||||
<xml>
|
||||
<p>CUBA, CASTRO, and the UNITED STATES
|
||||
or How One Man With A Cigar Dominated American Foreign Policy</p>
|
||||
<p> In 1959, a rebel, Fidel Castro, overthrew the reign of
|
||||
<p> In 1959, a rebel, <ent type = 'person'>Fidel <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent></ent>, overthrew the reign of
|
||||
|
||||
Fulgencia Batista in Cuba; a small island 90 miles off the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Fulgencia Batista</ent> in Cuba; a small island 90 miles off the
|
||||
|
||||
Florida coast. There have been many coups and changes of
|
||||
|
||||
government in the world since then. Few if any have had the
|
||||
|
||||
effect on Americans and American foreign policy as this one.</p>
|
||||
<p>In 1952, Sergeant Fulgencia Batista staged a successful
|
||||
<p>In 1952, Sergeant <ent type = 'person'>Fulgencia Batista</ent> staged a successful
|
||||
|
||||
bloodless coup in Cuba . </p>
|
||||
<p>Batista never really had any cooperation and rarely
|
||||
@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ regime was an odious type of government. It killed its own
|
||||
|
||||
citizens, it stifled dissent. (1)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing
|
||||
<p> At this time <ent type = 'person'>Fidel <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent></ent> appeared as leader of the growing
|
||||
|
||||
rebellion. Educated in America he was a proponent of the
|
||||
|
||||
@ -55,21 +55,21 @@ Marxist-Leninist philosophy. He conducted a brilliant guerilla
|
||||
campaign from the hills of Cuba against Batista. On January
|
||||
|
||||
1959, he prevailed and overthrew the Batista government.</p>
|
||||
<p>Castro promised to restore democracy in Cuba, a feat
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> promised to restore democracy in Cuba, a feat
|
||||
|
||||
Batista had failed to accomplish. This promise was looked
|
||||
|
||||
upon benevolently but watchfully by Washington. Castro was
|
||||
upon benevolently but watchfully by Washington. <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> was
|
||||
|
||||
believed to be too much in the hands of the people to stretch
|
||||
|
||||
the rules of politics very far. The U.S. government supported
|
||||
|
||||
Castro's coup. It professed to not know about Castro's
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s coup. It professed to not know about <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s
|
||||
|
||||
Communist leanings. Perhaps this was due to the ramifications
|
||||
|
||||
of Senator Joe McCarty's discredited anti-Communist diatribes.</p>
|
||||
of Senator <ent type = 'person'>Joe McCarty</ent>'s discredited anti-Communist diatribes.</p>
|
||||
<p>It seemed as if the reciprocal economic interests of the
|
||||
|
||||
U.S. and Cuba would exert a stabilizing effect on Cuban
|
||||
@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ flow of sugar. (2)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
relations. According to American Ambassador to Cuba, Phillip
|
||||
|
||||
Bonsal, "From the very beginning of his rule Castro and his
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bonsal</ent>, "From the very beginning of his rule <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> and his
|
||||
|
||||
sycophants bitterly and sweepingly attacked the relations of
|
||||
|
||||
@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ the United States government with Batista and his regime".(3)
|
||||
|
||||
He accused us of supplying arms to Batista to help overthrow
|
||||
|
||||
Castro's revolution and of harboring war criminals for a
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s revolution and of harboring war criminals for a
|
||||
|
||||
resurgence effort against him. For the most part these were
|
||||
|
||||
@ -102,15 +102,15 @@ not true: the U.S. put a trade embargo on Batista in 1957
|
||||
stopping the U.S. shipment of arms to Cuba. (4) However, his
|
||||
|
||||
last accusation seems to have been prescient.</p>
|
||||
<p>With the advent of Castro the history of U.S.- Cuban
|
||||
<p>With the advent of <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> the history of U.S.- Cuban
|
||||
|
||||
relations was subjected to a revision of an intensity and
|
||||
|
||||
cynicism which left earlier efforts in the shade. This
|
||||
|
||||
downfall took two roads in the eyes of Washington: Castro's
|
||||
downfall took two roads in the eyes of Washington: <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s
|
||||
|
||||
incessant campaign of slander against the U.S. and Castro's
|
||||
incessant campaign of slander against the U.S. and <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s
|
||||
|
||||
wholesale nationalization of American properties.</p>
|
||||
<p>These actions and the U.S. reaction to them set the stage
|
||||
@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ wholesale nationalization of American properties.</p>
|
||||
for what was to become the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the end of
|
||||
|
||||
U.S.- Cuban relations.</p>
|
||||
<p>Castro promised the Cuban people that he would bring land
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> promised the Cuban people that he would bring land
|
||||
|
||||
reform to Cuba. When he took power, the bulk of the nations
|
||||
|
||||
@ -128,11 +128,11 @@ plots of land were to be taken from the monopolistic owners and
|
||||
|
||||
distributed evenly among the people. Compensation was to be
|
||||
|
||||
paid to the former owners. According to Phillip Bonsal, "
|
||||
paid to the former owners. According to <ent type = 'person'>Phillip <ent type = 'person'>Bonsal</ent></ent>, "
|
||||
|
||||
Nothing Castro said, nothing stated in the agrarian reform
|
||||
Nothing <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> said, nothing stated in the agrarian reform
|
||||
|
||||
statute Castro signed in 1958, and nothing in the law that was
|
||||
statute <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> signed in 1958, and nothing in the law that was
|
||||
|
||||
promulgated in the Official Gazzette of June 3, 1959, warranted
|
||||
|
||||
@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ agricultural land to state ownership would take place".(5) Such
|
||||
|
||||
a notion then would have been inconsistent with many of the
|
||||
|
||||
Castro pronouncements, including the theory of a peasant
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> pronouncements, including the theory of a peasant
|
||||
|
||||
revolution and the pledges to the landless throughout the
|
||||
|
||||
@ -153,11 +153,11 @@ independent farmers or members of cooperatives in the operation
|
||||
of which they would have had a voice are now laborers on the
|
||||
|
||||
state payroll. (6) </p>
|
||||
<p>After secretly drawing up his Land Reform Law, Castro used
|
||||
<p>After secretly drawing up his Land Reform Law, <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> used
|
||||
|
||||
it to form the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA)
|
||||
|
||||
with broad and ill defined powers. Through the INRA Castro
|
||||
with broad and ill defined powers. Through the INRA <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>
|
||||
|
||||
methodically seized all American holdings in Cuba. He promised
|
||||
|
||||
@ -170,45 +170,45 @@ in the meantime, and then never divulging the results or giving
|
||||
back the control. (7)</p>
|
||||
<p>These seizures were protested. On January 11 Ambassador
|
||||
|
||||
Bonsal delivered a note to Havana protesting the Cuban
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bonsal</ent> delivered a note to Havana protesting the Cuban
|
||||
|
||||
government seizure of U.S. citizens property. The note was
|
||||
|
||||
rejected the same night as a U.S. attempt to keep economic
|
||||
|
||||
control over Cuba. (8)</p>
|
||||
<p>As this continued Castro was engineering a brilliant
|
||||
<p>As this continued <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> was engineering a brilliant
|
||||
|
||||
propaganda campaign aimed at accusing the U.S. of "conspiring
|
||||
|
||||
with the counter revolutionaries against the Castro regime"(9).
|
||||
with the counter revolutionaries against the <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> regime"(9).
|
||||
|
||||
Castro's ability to whip the masses into a frenzy with wispy
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s ability to whip the masses into a frenzy with wispy
|
||||
|
||||
fallacies about American "imperialist" actions against Cuba was
|
||||
|
||||
his main asset. He constantly found events which he could work
|
||||
|
||||
the "ol Castro magic " on, as Nixon said , to turn it into
|
||||
the "ol <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> magic " on, as <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> said , to turn it into
|
||||
|
||||
another of the long list of grievances, real or imagined, that
|
||||
|
||||
Cuba had suffered.</p>
|
||||
<p>Throughout Castro's rule there had been numerous minor
|
||||
<p>Throughout <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s rule there had been numerous minor
|
||||
|
||||
attacks and disturbances in Cuba. Always without any
|
||||
|
||||
investigation whatsoever, Castro would blatantly and publicly
|
||||
investigation whatsoever, <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> would blatantly and publicly
|
||||
|
||||
blame the U.S.. </p>
|
||||
<p>Castro continually called for hearings at the Organization
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> continually called for hearings at the Organization
|
||||
|
||||
of American States and the United Nations to hear charges
|
||||
|
||||
against the U.S. of "overt aggression". These charges were
|
||||
|
||||
always denied by the councils. (10)</p>
|
||||
<p>Two events that provided fuel for the Castro propaganda
|
||||
<p>Two events that provided fuel for the <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> propaganda
|
||||
|
||||
furnace stand out. These are the "bombing" of Havana on
|
||||
|
||||
@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Coubre on March 4, 1960.(11)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
rebel air force, Captain Dian-Lanz, flew over Havana and
|
||||
|
||||
dropped a quantity of virulently anti-Castro leaflets. This was
|
||||
dropped a quantity of virulently anti-<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> leaflets. This was
|
||||
|
||||
an American failure to prevent international flights in
|
||||
|
||||
@ -229,13 +229,13 @@ truth or good faith, the Cuban authorities distorted the
|
||||
|
||||
facts of the matter and accused the U.S. of a responsibility
|
||||
|
||||
going way beyond negligence. Castro, not two days later,
|
||||
going way beyond negligence. <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>, not two days later,
|
||||
|
||||
elaborated a bombing thesis, complete with "witnesses", and
|
||||
|
||||
launched a propaganda campaign against the U.S. Ambassador
|
||||
|
||||
Bonsal said, "This incident was so welcome to Castro for his
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bonsal</ent> said, "This incident was so welcome to <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> for his
|
||||
|
||||
purposes that I was not surprised when, at a later date, a
|
||||
|
||||
@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ somewhat similar flight was actually engineered by Cuban secret
|
||||
agents in Florida."(12)</p>
|
||||
<p> This outburst constituted "the beginning of the end " in
|
||||
|
||||
U.S.- Cuban relations. President Eisenhower stated ,"Castro's
|
||||
U.S.- Cuban relations. President <ent type = 'person'>Eisenhower</ent> stated ,"<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s
|
||||
|
||||
performance on October 26 on the "bombing" of Havana spelled
|
||||
|
||||
@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ when, on March 4, the French munitions ship La Coubre arrived
|
||||
at Havana laden with arms and munitions for the Cuban
|
||||
|
||||
government. It promptly blew up with serious loss of life. (14)</p>
|
||||
<p>Castro and his authorities wasted no time venomously
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> and his authorities wasted no time venomously
|
||||
|
||||
denouncing the U.S. for an overt act of sabotage. Some
|
||||
|
||||
@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ way the Cubans unloaded the cargo. (15) Sabotage was possible
|
||||
but it was preposterous to blame the U.S. without even a
|
||||
|
||||
pretense of an investigation. </p>
|
||||
<p>Castro's reaction to the La Coubre explosion may have been
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s reaction to the La Coubre explosion may have been
|
||||
|
||||
what tipped the scales in favor of Washington's abandonment of
|
||||
|
||||
@ -286,21 +286,21 @@ government to its representations regarding the cases of
|
||||
Americans victimized by the continuing abuses of the INRA.</p>
|
||||
<p>The American posture of moderation was beginning to become,
|
||||
|
||||
in the face of Castro's insulting and aggressive behavior, a
|
||||
in the face of <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s insulting and aggressive behavior, a
|
||||
|
||||
political liability. (16)</p>
|
||||
<p>The new American policy, not announced as such, but
|
||||
|
||||
implicit in the the actions of the United States government was
|
||||
|
||||
one of overthrowing Castro by all means available to the U.S.
|
||||
one of overthrowing <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> by all means available to the U.S.
|
||||
|
||||
short of open employment of American armed forces in Cuba.</p>
|
||||
<p>It was at this time that the controversial decision was
|
||||
|
||||
taken to allow the CIA to begin recruiting and training of
|
||||
|
||||
ex-Cuban exiles for anti-Castro military service. (17)</p>
|
||||
ex-Cuban exiles for anti-<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> military service. (17)</p>
|
||||
<p>Shortly after this decision, following in quick steps,
|
||||
|
||||
aggressive policies both on the side of Cuba and the U.S. led
|
||||
@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ machines seems to be an excuse to cover up the attempted
|
||||
economic strangulation of Cuba. (The crude worked just fine as
|
||||
|
||||
is soon to be shown)</p>
|
||||
<p>Upon receiving the refusal Che Gueverra, the newly
|
||||
<p>Upon receiving the refusal <ent type = 'person'>Che Gueverra</ent>, the newly
|
||||
|
||||
appointed head of the National Bank,and known anti-American,
|
||||
|
||||
@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ stone towards increasing the soon to be controversial alliance
|
||||
with Russia.</p>
|
||||
<p>On July 6, a week after the intervention of the refineries,
|
||||
|
||||
President Eisenhower announced that the balance of Cuba's 1960
|
||||
President <ent type = 'person'>Eisenhower</ent> announced that the balance of Cuba's 1960
|
||||
|
||||
sugar quota for the supply of sugar to the U.S. was to be
|
||||
|
||||
@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ suspended. (18). This action was regarded as a reprisal to
|
||||
|
||||
the intervention of the refineries. It seems obvious that it
|
||||
|
||||
was a major element in the calculated overthrow of Castro.</p>
|
||||
was a major element in the calculated overthrow of <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>.</p>
|
||||
<p>In addition to being an act of destroying the U.S. record
|
||||
|
||||
for statesmanship in Latin America, this forced Cuba into
|
||||
@ -379,24 +379,24 @@ Russians not come to the rescue it would have been a serious
|
||||
|
||||
blow to Cuba. But come to the rescue they did, cementing the
|
||||
|
||||
Soviet-Cuban bond and granting Castro a present he could have
|
||||
Soviet-Cuban bond and granting <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> a present he could have
|
||||
|
||||
never given himself. As Ernest Hemingway put it,"I just hope to
|
||||
never given himself. As <ent type = 'person'>Ernest Hemingway</ent> put it,"I just hope to
|
||||
|
||||
Christ that the United States doesn't cut the sugar quota. That
|
||||
|
||||
will really tear it. It will make Cuba a gift to the
|
||||
|
||||
Russians." (20) And now the gift had been made.</p>
|
||||
<p>Castro had announced earlier in a speech that action
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> had announced earlier in a speech that action
|
||||
|
||||
against the sugar quota would cost Americans in Cuba "down to
|
||||
|
||||
the nails in their shoes" (21) Castro did his best to carry
|
||||
the nails in their shoes" (21) <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> did his best to carry
|
||||
|
||||
that out. In a decree made as the Law of Nationalization, he
|
||||
|
||||
authorized expropriation of American property at Che Gueverra's
|
||||
authorized expropriation of American property at <ent type = 'person'>Che Gueverra</ent>'s
|
||||
|
||||
discretion. The compensation scheme was such that under
|
||||
|
||||
@ -409,13 +409,13 @@ economic welfare gave the Russians a politico-military stake in
|
||||
|
||||
Cuba. Increased arms shipments from the U.S.S.R and
|
||||
|
||||
Czechoslovakia enabled Castro to rapidly strengthen and expand
|
||||
Czechoslovakia enabled <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> to rapidly strengthen and expand
|
||||
|
||||
his forces. On top of this Cuba now had Russian military
|
||||
|
||||
support. On July 9, three days after President Eisenhowers
|
||||
support. On July 9, three days after President <ent type = 'person'>Eisenhower</ent>s
|
||||
|
||||
sugar proclamation, Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev announced,
|
||||
sugar proclamation, Soviet Premier <ent type = 'person'>Nikita Kruschev</ent> announced,
|
||||
|
||||
"The U.S.S.R is raising its voice and extending a helpful hand
|
||||
|
||||
@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ to the people of Cuba.....Speaking figuratively in case of
|
||||
|
||||
necessity Soviet artillerymen can support the Cuban people with
|
||||
|
||||
rocket fire. (22) Castro took this to mean direct commitment
|
||||
rocket fire. (22) <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> took this to mean direct commitment
|
||||
|
||||
made by Russia to protect the Cuban revolution in case of U.S.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -437,14 +437,14 @@ supplies. Even these were to be banned within a few months.
|
||||
|
||||
Other than causing the revolutionaries some inconvenience, all
|
||||
|
||||
the embargo accomplished was to give Castro a godsend. For the
|
||||
the embargo accomplished was to give <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> a godsend. For the
|
||||
|
||||
past 25 years Castro has blamed the shortages, rationings,
|
||||
past 25 years <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> has blamed the shortages, rationings,
|
||||
|
||||
breakdowns and even some of the unfavorable weather conditions
|
||||
|
||||
on the U.S. blockade.</p>
|
||||
<p>On January 6, 1961, Castro formally broke relations with
|
||||
<p>On January 6, 1961, <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> formally broke relations with
|
||||
|
||||
the United States and ordered the staff of the U.S. embassy to
|
||||
|
||||
@ -456,19 +456,19 @@ invasion from the United States, which he correctly asserted
|
||||
|
||||
was imminent. For at this time the Washington administration,
|
||||
|
||||
under new President-elect Kennedy was gearing up for the Cuban
|
||||
under new President-elect <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> was gearing up for the Cuban
|
||||
|
||||
exile invasion of Cuba. The fact that this secret was ill kept
|
||||
|
||||
led to increased arms being shipped to Cuba by Russia in late
|
||||
|
||||
1960.</p>
|
||||
<p>President Kennedy inherited from the Eisenhower-Nixon
|
||||
<p>President <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> inherited from the <ent type = 'person'>Eisenhower</ent>-<ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>
|
||||
|
||||
administration the operation that became the Bay of Pigs
|
||||
|
||||
expedition. The plan was ill conceived and a fiasco.</p>
|
||||
<p>Both Theodore Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger describe the
|
||||
<p>Both <ent type = 'person'>Theodore Sorensen</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Arthur <ent type = 'person'>Schlesinger</ent></ent> describe the
|
||||
|
||||
President as the victim of a process set in motion before his
|
||||
|
||||
@ -476,14 +476,14 @@ inauguration and which he, in the first few weeks of his
|
||||
|
||||
administration, was unable to arrest in spite of his
|
||||
|
||||
misgivings. Mr. Schlesinger writes -"Kennedy saw the project
|
||||
misgivings. Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Schlesinger</ent> writes -"<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> saw the project
|
||||
|
||||
in the patios of the bureaucracy as a contingency plan. He did
|
||||
|
||||
not yet realize how contingency planning could generate its own
|
||||
|
||||
reality." (23)</p>
|
||||
<p>The fact is that Kennedy had promised to pursue a more
|
||||
<p>The fact is that <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> had promised to pursue a more
|
||||
|
||||
successful policy towards Cuba. I fail to see how the proposed
|
||||
|
||||
@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ inherited called for 1500 patriots to seize control over their
|
||||
|
||||
seven million fellow citizens from over 100,000 well trained,
|
||||
|
||||
well armed Castroite militia!</p>
|
||||
well armed <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>ite militia!</p>
|
||||
<p>As if the plan wasn't doomed from the start, the
|
||||
|
||||
information the CIA had gathered about the strength of the
|
||||
@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ uprising in Cuba was outrageously misleading. If we had won,
|
||||
|
||||
it still would have taken prolonged U.S. intervention to make
|
||||
|
||||
it work. This along with Kennedys decision to rule out
|
||||
it work. This along with <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>s decision to rule out
|
||||
|
||||
American forces or even American officers or experts, whose
|
||||
|
||||
@ -518,25 +518,25 @@ sank, codes for communication were wrong, the ammunition was
|
||||
|
||||
the wrong kind - everything that could go wrong, did. As could
|
||||
|
||||
be imagined the anti-Castro opposition achieved not one of its
|
||||
be imagined the anti-<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> opposition achieved not one of its
|
||||
|
||||
permanent goals. Upon landing at the Bay of Pigs on April 17,
|
||||
|
||||
1961, the mission marked a landmark failure in U.S. foreign
|
||||
|
||||
politics. By April 20, only three days later, Castro's forces
|
||||
politics. By April 20, only three days later, <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s forces
|
||||
|
||||
had completely destroyed any semblance of the mission: they
|
||||
|
||||
killed 300 and captured the remaining 1,200!</p>
|
||||
<p>Many people since then have chastised Kennedy for his
|
||||
<p>Many people since then have chastised <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> for his
|
||||
|
||||
decision to pull U.S. military forces. I feel that his only
|
||||
|
||||
mistake was in going ahead in the first place, although, as
|
||||
|
||||
stated earlier, it seems as if he may not have had much choice.</p>
|
||||
<p>I feel Kennedy showed surer instincts in this matter than
|
||||
<p>I feel <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> showed surer instincts in this matter than
|
||||
|
||||
his advisors who pleaded with him not to pull U.S. forces. For
|
||||
|
||||
@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ if the expedition had succeeded due to American armed forces
|
||||
|
||||
rather than the strength of the exile forces and the anti-
|
||||
|
||||
Castro movement within Cuba, the post Castro government would
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> movement within Cuba, the post <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> government would
|
||||
|
||||
have been totally unviable: it would have taken constant
|
||||
|
||||
@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ power, ground forces, and prestige in Vietnam.</p>
|
||||
<p>Cuban troops have been a major presence as Soviet
|
||||
|
||||
surrogates all over the world, notably in Angola.</p>
|
||||
<p>The threat of exportation of Castro's revolution permeates
|
||||
<p>The threat of exportation of <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s revolution permeates
|
||||
|
||||
U.S.-Central and South American policy. (Witness the invasion
|
||||
|
||||
@ -598,9 +598,9 @@ U.S. has urged support for government of El Salvador and the
|
||||
|
||||
right wing Contras in Nicaragua. The major concern underlying
|
||||
|
||||
American policy in the area is Castro's influence. The fear of
|
||||
American policy in the area is <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s influence. The fear of
|
||||
|
||||
a Castro influenced regime in South and Central America had
|
||||
a <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> influenced regime in South and Central America had
|
||||
|
||||
such control of American foreign policy as to almost topple the
|
||||
|
||||
@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ handled. American intervention should have been held to a
|
||||
|
||||
minimum. In an atmosphere of concentration on purely Cuban
|
||||
|
||||
issues, opposition to Castro's personal dictatorship could be
|
||||
issues, opposition to <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s personal dictatorship could be
|
||||
|
||||
expected to grow. Admittedly, even justified American
|
||||
|
||||
@ -651,11 +651,11 @@ revolutionary fervor, leaving the Russians no choice but to
|
||||
|
||||
give massive support to the Revolution and fortifying the
|
||||
|
||||
belief among anti-Castro Cubans that the United States was
|
||||
belief among anti-<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> Cubans that the United States was
|
||||
|
||||
rapidly moving to liberate them. The economic pressures
|
||||
|
||||
available to the United States were not apt to bring Castro to
|
||||
available to the United States were not apt to bring <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> to
|
||||
|
||||
his knees, since the Soviets were capable of meeting Cuban
|
||||
|
||||
@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ disorganization and incompetence and by the growing
|
||||
|
||||
disaffection of an increasing number of the Cuban people. Left
|
||||
|
||||
to its own devices, the Castro regime would have withered on
|
||||
to its own devices, the <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> regime would have withered on
|
||||
|
||||
the vine.
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
|
||||
<xml><p> CELINE'S LAWS
|
||||
by Hagbard Celine</p>
|
||||
by Hagbard <ent type = 'person'>Celine</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> As every thinking person has noticed, our national life has
|
||||
become increasingly weird and surrealistic. The waiting lines at
|
||||
banks and post offices are growing longer all the time, even
|
||||
though demographers tell us US population is no longer rising.
|
||||
The street signs more often than not say WALK on the red and
|
||||
DON"T WALK on the green. You can't get a plumber on the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>DON</ent>"T WALK on the green. You can't get a plumber on the
|
||||
weekends. Nobody has been able to explain the cattle mutilations
|
||||
yet. Every survey shows that the price of consumer goods, the
|
||||
number of violent crimes, and the eerie popularity of THE GONG
|
||||
number of violent crimes, and the eerie popularity of T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent> GONG
|
||||
SHOW are ominously accelerating.
|
||||
I believe I have found the explanation these distressing
|
||||
trends. Needless to say, I cannot present, in a short article,
|
||||
@ -20,16 +20,16 @@ Bonkers." Here I can only mention the thousands of depth
|
||||
interviewws, the innumerable flowcharts and helix-matrix
|
||||
equations, the vast files of computer readouts, the I CHING
|
||||
divinations, and other rigorous scientific techniques used in
|
||||
developing what I modestly call Celine's Laws of Chaos, Discord
|
||||
developing what I modestly call <ent type = 'person'>Celine</ent>'s Laws of Chaos, Discord
|
||||
and Confusion.
|
||||
Celine's First Law is that National Security is the chief
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Celine</ent>'s First Law is that National Security is the chief
|
||||
cause of national insecurity!
|
||||
That may sound like a paradox, but I will explain it at one.
|
||||
Every secret police agency must be monitored by an elite corps
|
||||
of secret-police-of-the-second-order. There are numerous reasons
|
||||
for this, but three are especially noteworthy.
|
||||
********************************************************************************************
|
||||
NATIONAL SECURITY IS THE CHIEF CAUSE OF NATIONAL INSECURITY!!!
|
||||
NATIONAL SECURITY IS T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent> CHIEF CAUSE OF NATIONAL INSECURITY!!!
|
||||
*******************************************************************************</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1). Infiltration of the secret police, for the purpose of
|
||||
@ -50,28 +50,28 @@ alarming...yet. Nonetheless, the seeds of Chaos, Discord,
|
||||
Confusion, and Paranoia are already here, for the simple reason
|
||||
that once a human being develops the habits of worry and
|
||||
suspicion, he or she finds increasing justifications for more
|
||||
worry and more suspicion. For instance, Richard Q. (not his real
|
||||
worry and more suspicion. For instance, <ent type = 'person'>Richard</ent> Q. (not his real
|
||||
initial), one of my interview subjects, became concerned, after
|
||||
ten years in the CIA, with the possibility of infiltration by
|
||||
"extraterrestrial" agents. He was eventually retired when he
|
||||
began to claim that demons in the form of dogs wanted him to
|
||||
assassinate Laverne and Shirley. </p>
|
||||
assassinate <ent type = 'person'>Laverne</ent> and Shirley. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>3). Secret-police officials acquire fantastic capacities to
|
||||
blackmail and intimidate others in goverment.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Stalin executed three chiefs of his secret police in a row,
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Stalin</ent> executed three chiefs of his secret police in a row,
|
||||
because of this danger. One of my informants claims that every
|
||||
president since the National Security Act was passed in 1947 has
|
||||
learned how to have sexual intercourse without making a single
|
||||
audible sound, because of the possible electronic eavesdroppers.
|
||||
As Nixion says so wistfully on the Watergate transcripts, "Well,
|
||||
Hoover performed. He would have fought. That was the point. He
|
||||
As <ent type = 'person'>Nixion</ent> says so wistfully on the Watergate transcripts, "Well,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hoover</ent> performed. He would have fought. That was the point. He
|
||||
would have defied a few people. He would have scared them to
|
||||
death. HE HAS A FILE ON EVERYBODY!" <special>Caps added</special>. Thus, those
|
||||
death. <ent type = 'person'>HE</ent> HAS A FILE ON EVERYBODY!" <special>Caps added</special>. Thus, those
|
||||
who employ secret-police organizations MUST monitor them th be
|
||||
sure they are not acquiring too much power.
|
||||
In the United States today, the superelite that monitors the
|
||||
In the United States today, the <ent type = 'person'>superelite</ent> that monitors the
|
||||
CIA is the National Security Agency. ( And a group called "The
|
||||
Store" monitors the NSA).
|
||||
Here is where a sinister infinite regress enters the game.
|
||||
@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ Any such elite, second or third order secret-police agency must
|
||||
be, according to the above pragmatic and necessary rules, subject
|
||||
to infiltration by native subversives or hostile foreign powers,
|
||||
or to acquiring "too much power" in the opinion of its masters.
|
||||
(It may even be subject, if Richard Q. was correct in his
|
||||
(It may even be subject, if <ent type = 'person'>Richard</ent> Q. was correct in his
|
||||
anxieties, to extraterrestrial manipulation). And so, it, too,
|
||||
must be monitored by a secret police of the third order.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> But this third-order secret-police (such as Nixon's notorious
|
||||
<p> But this third-order secret-police (such as <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>'s notorious
|
||||
"plumbers", or more currently, "The Store"). is also subject to
|
||||
infiltration or to acquiring too much power...and thus, with
|
||||
relentless logic, the infinite regress builds. Once a goverment
|
||||
@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ potentially suspect, and to be safe a secret police of order n+1
|
||||
must be created. And so on, forever.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>******************************************
|
||||
* THUS WHO EMPLOY SECRET *
|
||||
* POLICE MUST MONITOR THEM TO *
|
||||
* BE SURE THEY ARE NOT ACQUIRING *
|
||||
* THUS WHO <ent type = 'person'>EMPLOY</ent> SECRET *
|
||||
* POLICE MUST MONITOR T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent>M TO *
|
||||
* BE SURE T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent>Y ARE NOT ACQUIRING *
|
||||
* TOO MUCH POWER. *
|
||||
****************************************** </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ the logically ideal infinite regress which we have shown is
|
||||
necessary to the achievement of its goal. In that gap between
|
||||
the ideal of "One nation under survillance, with wiretaps and
|
||||
mail covers for all" andthe strictly limited real situation of
|
||||
finite funding, there is ample encouragement for paranoias of all
|
||||
finite funding, there is ample encouragement for <ent type = 'person'>paranoi</ent>as of all
|
||||
sorts to flourish. In short, every government that employs
|
||||
secret-police agencies must grow more insecure, not more secure,
|
||||
as the strength, versatility, and power of the secret-police
|
||||
@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ form of anarchist humor; but they can't be sure.</p>
|
||||
<p> What usually happens in such cases is this: an official
|
||||
receives one of these mystery calls, saying perhaps "Pawn to
|
||||
queen rook five. No wife, no horse, no mustache. A boy has never
|
||||
wept nor dashed a thousand kim." He knows immediately that
|
||||
wept nor dashed a thousand <ent type = 'person'>kim</ent>." He knows immediately that
|
||||
surveillance upon him will be increased tenfold. In the next few
|
||||
days, while memories of all his mistakes, small bribes,
|
||||
incautious remarks, and other incriminating events haunt his
|
||||
@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ sanctuary, and the secret-police net closes on him.</p>
|
||||
<p> By the same process of worry leading to more worry and
|
||||
suspicion leading to more suspicion, the very act of joining a
|
||||
ecret-police organization will eventually turn a man or woman
|
||||
into a clinical paranoi; in layman's terms, "bananas" or "wigged
|
||||
out." THE AGENT KNOWS WHOM HE IS SPYING ON; BUT HE NEVER KNOWS
|
||||
into a clinical <ent type = 'person'>paranoi</ent>; in <ent type = 'person'>layman</ent>'s terms, "bananas" or "wigged
|
||||
out." T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent> AGENT KNOWS WHOM <ent type = 'person'>HE</ent> IS SPYING ON; BUT <ent type = 'person'>HE</ent> NEVER KNOWS
|
||||
WHO IS SPYING ON HIM! Could it be his wife, his girl friend, his
|
||||
secretary, the newsboy, the Good Humor man?
|
||||
For these reasons, secret-police agents develop elaborate and
|
||||
@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ shown in table 1.</p>
|
||||
Agents and Underground-Press Readers.
|
||||
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
|
||||
:: :: :: UNDERGROUND PRESS ::
|
||||
::CONSPIRACY THEORY :: CIA :: READERS ::
|
||||
::CONSPIRACY T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent>ORY :: CIA :: READERS ::
|
||||
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
|
||||
::The Yankees (Eastern :: :: ::
|
||||
::millionaires) run :: 25% :: 30% ::
|
||||
@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ somehow with the alligators in New York's sewers.
|
||||
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>************************************
|
||||
* IN RUSSIA, THE GOVERMENT IS *
|
||||
* IN RUSSIA, T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent> GOVERMENT IS *
|
||||
* TERRIFIED OF PAINTERS AND POETS! *
|
||||
************************************</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ you care to imagine, every branch and department of that
|
||||
country's government becomes suspect, in the eyes of cautious and
|
||||
intelligent people, as a possible front or funnel to the secret
|
||||
police. (That is, the more shrewd citizens will recognize that
|
||||
something titled a branch of the HEW or even PTA might actually
|
||||
something titled a branch of the <ent type = 'person'>HE</ent>W or even PTA might actually
|
||||
be run by the CIA). Inevitably, the government as a whole, and
|
||||
many nongovernmental agencies, will be regarded by reasonable
|
||||
persons with fear and trepidation. Proverbs like "One can't be
|
||||
@ -241,8 +241,8 @@ context of the secret-police game.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>******************************
|
||||
* SOMETHING PASSING AS A *
|
||||
* BRANCH OF HEW MIGHT BE A *
|
||||
* FRONT FOR THE CIA! *
|
||||
* BRANCH OF <ent type = 'person'>HE</ent>W MIGHT BE A *
|
||||
* FRONT FOR T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent> CIA! *
|
||||
****************************** </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> (The only alternative was once suggested sarcastically by
|
||||
@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ trust the people, why does'nt it dissovle them and elect new
|
||||
people?" No way has yet been invented to elect a new people; so
|
||||
the police state will instead spy on the existing people even
|
||||
more vigorously).
|
||||
This, of course, creates additional paranoia in both the
|
||||
This, of course, creates additional <ent type = 'person'>paranoi</ent>a in both the
|
||||
governors and the citizens, because a suffciently pugnacious
|
||||
secret police will eventually "have a file on everybody,"
|
||||
including its own creators. This leads to another infinite
|
||||
@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ power will be given to the secret police.
|
||||
Thus, whether any of the hypothetical conspiracies mentioned
|
||||
earlier really exist or not, a system of clandestine goverment
|
||||
inevitably produces, in both the rulers and the ruled, a mood of
|
||||
paranoia in which such conspiracy theories flourish.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>paranoi</ent>a in which such conspiracy theories flourish.
|
||||
This escalating sense of suspiciousness is accelerated by the
|
||||
fact that every secret-police organization engages in both the
|
||||
collection of information and the production misinformation.
|
||||
@ -271,23 +271,23 @@ information units) on the other players. This creates the
|
||||
situation which I call Optimum Fuckup, in which every participant
|
||||
has rational (not neurotic) cause to suspect that every other
|
||||
player may be attempting to deceive him, gull him, con him, dupe
|
||||
him, and generally misinform him. As Henry Kissinger is rumored
|
||||
him, and generally misinform him. As <ent type = 'person'>Henry Kissinger</ent> is rumored
|
||||
to have said, "Anybody in Washington these days who isn't
|
||||
paranoid is crazy!"
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>paranoi</ent>d is crazy!"
|
||||
One could generalize the remark: anyone in the United States
|
||||
today who isn't paranoid must be crazy!!!</p>
|
||||
today who isn't <ent type = 'person'>paranoi</ent>d must be crazy!!!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>**********************************
|
||||
* "IF THE GOVERMENT DOESN'T *
|
||||
* TRUST THE PEOPLE, WHY DOESN'T *
|
||||
* IT DISSOLVE THEM AND ELECT A *
|
||||
* "IF T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent> GOVERMENT DOESN'T *
|
||||
* TRUST T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent> PEOPLE, WHY DOESN'T *
|
||||
* IT DISSOLVE T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent>M AND ELECT A *
|
||||
* NEW PEOPLE?" *
|
||||
**********************************</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The deliberate production of misinformation (or, as
|
||||
intelligence agencies more euphemistically call it,
|
||||
disinformation) creates a situation profoundly disorienting to
|
||||
the philosopher, the scientist, and the ordinary Joe who wants to
|
||||
the philosopher, the scientist, and the ordinary <ent type = 'person'>Joe</ent> who wants to
|
||||
know the best time to go to the bank. The desire to discover
|
||||
"what-the-hell-is-really-going-on" (the definition of science
|
||||
offered by physicist Saul-Paul Sirag) is totally incompatible
|
||||
@ -299,29 +299,29 @@ told were there.
|
||||
phenomenon is a cover for an intelligence operation. Maybe there
|
||||
are black holes where space and time implode---or maybe the
|
||||
entire black-hole cosmology was created to befuddle and mislead
|
||||
Russian scientists. Maybe Jimmy Carter really exists---or maybe
|
||||
Russian scientists. Maybe <ent type = 'person'>Jimmy Carter</ent> really exists---or maybe
|
||||
he is, as the National Lampoon claims, an actor named Sidney
|
||||
Goldfarb specially trained to project the down-home virtues that
|
||||
the American people nostalgically seek. Perhaps only three men
|
||||
at the top of the National Security Angency REALLY know the
|
||||
answers to these questions---or perhaps those three are being
|
||||
deceived by certain subordinates (as Lyndon Johnson was deceived
|
||||
deceived by certain subordinates (as <ent type = 'person'>Lyndon Johnson</ent> was deceived
|
||||
by the CIA about Vietnam) and are as disoriented as the rest of
|
||||
us. Such is the logic of a Disinformation Matrix.
|
||||
Personally, I find it easier to believe in UFO's than in black
|
||||
holes or Jimmy Carter; but that may just indicate the damage to
|
||||
holes or <ent type = 'person'>Jimmy Carter</ent>; but that may just indicate the damage to
|
||||
my own brain caused by the Optimum Fuckup of the Disinformation
|
||||
Matrix.
|
||||
According to a recent survey 19 per cent of the population
|
||||
believe the moon landings were faked by Stanley Kubrick and a
|
||||
believe the moon landings were faked by <ent type = 'person'>Stanley Kubrick</ent> and a
|
||||
gang of special effects experts. Perhaps these archskeptics are
|
||||
the sanest ones left among us. Who among the readers of this
|
||||
file has a security clearance high enough to be ABSOLUTELY sure
|
||||
that these ultraparanoids are wrong?</p>
|
||||
that these ultra<ent type = 'person'>paranoi</ent>ds are wrong?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This general tendency toward chaos discord, and confusion,
|
||||
once a secret police has been established, is complicated and
|
||||
accelerated by Celine's Second Law, to wit: "Accurate
|
||||
accelerated by <ent type = 'person'>Celine</ent>'s Second Law, to wit: "Accurate
|
||||
communication is only possible in a nonpunishing situation."
|
||||
This is a very simple statement of the obvious, and means no more
|
||||
than that everybody tends to lie a little, to flatter or to
|
||||
@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ reality.</p>
|
||||
* BETWEEN EQUALS. *
|
||||
*************************</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> For instance, in the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the agent had
|
||||
<p> For instance, in the FBI under J. Edgar <ent type = 'person'>Hoover</ent>, the agent had
|
||||
to develop the capacity to see godless communists everywhere.
|
||||
Any agent whose perceptions indicated that there were actually
|
||||
very few godless communists anywhere in this country wold
|
||||
@ -388,11 +388,11 @@ reality becomes unspeakable.
|
||||
(unspeakable) soon becomes subjectively repressed (unthinkable).
|
||||
Nobody likes to feel like a coward and a liar constantly. It is
|
||||
easier to cease to notice where the official reality grid differs
|
||||
from sensed experience. Thus Optimun Fuckup gradually becomes
|
||||
from sensed experience. Thus <ent type = 'person'>Optimun Fuckup</ent> gradually becomes
|
||||
Terminal Fuckup, and rigiditus bureaucraticus sets in; this is
|
||||
the last stage before all brain activity ceases, and the society
|
||||
is intellectually dead.
|
||||
Celine's Third Law is like unto the first two, and holds that
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Celine</ent>'s Third Law is like unto the first two, and holds that
|
||||
AN HONEST politician is a national calamity.
|
||||
At first glance, this seems preposterous. People of all
|
||||
shades of opinion agree that at least on the axiom that we need
|
||||
@ -408,8 +408,8 @@ it.
|
||||
|
||||
********************************
|
||||
* NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, OR IF *
|
||||
* THEY DO, THEY ARE CAREFUL TO *
|
||||
* HIDE THE FACT! *
|
||||
* T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent>Y DO, T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent>Y ARE CAREFUL TO *
|
||||
* HIDE T<ent type = 'person'>HE</ent> FACT! *
|
||||
********************************</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> An honest politician (bocca grande giganticus) is far more
|
||||
@ -476,10 +476,10 @@ miscommunication and eventual idiocy; and that honest politicians
|
||||
are a plague upon society---will be found to fully explain the
|
||||
Decline and Fall of Rome, the Decline and Fall of the British
|
||||
Empire, and the Decline and Fall of any country you care to name.
|
||||
They are as universal as Newton's laws of motion and apply to
|
||||
They are as universal as <ent type = 'person'>Newton</ent>'s laws of motion and apply to
|
||||
ALL cases. Of course, the American Sociological Association says
|
||||
I am mad. Mad, am I? They said the Wright Brothers were mad.
|
||||
They said Edison was mad. They said Baron Frankenstein was
|
||||
They said <ent type = 'person'>Edison</ent> was mad. They said Baron <ent type = 'person'>Frankenstein</ent> was
|
||||
mad...</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>HABARD CELINE was trained in contract law and naval engineering
|
||||
|
@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ to the pearly gates:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Applicant: Oh! No, that wasn't me. That was the
|
||||
politicians and bureaucrats. I just voted for them, just
|
||||
like other patriotic Americans. Don't blame me for the
|
||||
like other patriotic Americans. <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>'t blame me for the
|
||||
stealing. Just give me credit for all the good that was
|
||||
done with the loot.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -90,10 +90,10 @@ to do so.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>One of the best examples of this wide ambit of freedom is
|
||||
found in the story of "The Danger of Riches" in the New
|
||||
Testament. A rich man approached Jesus and asked, "Teacher,
|
||||
Testament. A rich man approached <ent type = 'person'>Jesus</ent> and asked, "Teacher,
|
||||
what good must I do to possess everlasting life?" After the
|
||||
man advised Jesus that he already kept all of the
|
||||
commandments, Jesus told him, "If you seek perfection, go,
|
||||
man advised <ent type = 'person'>Jesus</ent> that he already kept all of the
|
||||
commandments, <ent type = 'person'>Jesus</ent> told him, "If you seek perfection, go,
|
||||
sell your possessions, and give to the poor. You will then
|
||||
have treasure in heaven. Afterward, come back and follow me."
|
||||
Unable to let go of his material wealth, however, the man went
|
||||
@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ away sad.</p>
|
||||
dangers of spiritual or psychological attachment to material
|
||||
things. But the lesson it teaches is important in another way:
|
||||
After the young man chose to reject the suggestion to give
|
||||
everything he had to the poor, Jesus did not ask the political
|
||||
everything he had to the poor, <ent type = 'person'>Jesus</ent> did not ask the political
|
||||
authorities to seize the man's possessions and redistribute
|
||||
them to the poor. In other words, he did not force the man to
|
||||
comply with the suggestion. Since the man had been given the
|
||||
@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ the Welfare State by recapturing the vision of freedom,
|
||||
private property, and limited government which guided our
|
||||
American ancestors.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of
|
||||
<p>Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Hornberger</ent> is founder and president of The Future of
|
||||
Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
|
@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>
|
||||
CHRONOLOGY OF SECRET SOCIETIES
|
||||
Excerpted from THE OCCULT CONSPIRACY
|
||||
by Michael Howard
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Michael Howard</ent>
|
||||
Published by Destiny Books
|
||||
Pages 179 - 183
|
||||
------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 40,000 BCE
|
||||
<p> 40,000 <ent type = 'person'>BCE</ent>
|
||||
Early establishment of Mystery schools, as depicted in the Lascaux
|
||||
cave paintings.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 30,000 BCE
|
||||
<p> 30,000 <ent type = 'person'>BCE</ent>
|
||||
According to some occult traditions this period saw the
|
||||
colonization of Asia and Australasia by the inhabitants of the
|
||||
lost continent of Lemuria or Mu. Goddess worship and matriaarchal
|
||||
cultures established worldwide.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 10,000 BCE
|
||||
<p> 10,000 <ent type = 'person'>BCE</ent>
|
||||
Evidence suggestive of early contact between extraterrestials and
|
||||
Stone Age tribes in Tibet.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 9,000 - 8,000 BCE
|
||||
<p> 9,000 - 8,000 <ent type = 'person'>BCE</ent>
|
||||
Estimated date of the destruction of Atlantis, according to some
|
||||
occult traditions. The Atlantean priesthood flee to establish
|
||||
colonies in the British Isles, Western Europe, North Africa and
|
||||
@ -28,36 +28,36 @@
|
||||
the island of Thule and the Aryan culture. Invention of the runic
|
||||
alphabet.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 5,000 BCE
|
||||
<p> 5,000 <ent type = 'person'>BCE</ent>
|
||||
First primitive cities established in the Middle East.
|
||||
Agriculture begins with domestication of animals such as sheep and
|
||||
goats. Possible contact between extraterrestials and early
|
||||
Sumerian culture.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 5,000 - 3,000 BCE
|
||||
<p> 5,000 - 3,000 <ent type = 'person'>BCE</ent>
|
||||
Formation of the two lands in pre-dynastic Egypt ruled by
|
||||
outsiders (Isis and Osiris). The Egyptian pantheon of gods
|
||||
outsiders (<ent type = 'person'>Isis</ent> and Osiris). The Egyptian pantheon of gods
|
||||
established including Horus, Thoth, Set, Ra, Ptah and Hathor.
|
||||
Pharoahs regarded as the divine representatives of the Gods.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 3,000 - 2,000 BCE
|
||||
<p> 3,000 - 2,000 <ent type = 'person'>BCE</ent>
|
||||
Building of burial mounds and chambered tombs in Western Europe
|
||||
and the Mediterranean area; the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids of
|
||||
Giza and Cheops of Egypt; and the ziggurat (Towers of Babel) in
|
||||
Giza and <ent type = 'person'>Cheops</ent> of Egypt; and the ziggurat (Towers of Babel) in
|
||||
Ur. Sarmoung Brotherhood founded in Babylon.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 2,000 - 1,000 BCE
|
||||
<p> 2,000 - 1,000 <ent type = 'person'>BCE</ent>
|
||||
Reign of Thothmes III in Egypt (c. 1480). Foundation of the
|
||||
Rosicrucian Order. Reign of Akhenaton (c. 1370) who establishes
|
||||
Rosicrucian Order. Reign of <ent type = 'person'>Akhenaton</ent> (c. 1370) who establishes
|
||||
the mystical Brotherhood of Aton dedicated to the worship of the
|
||||
Sun as a symbol of the Supreme Creator. Erection of Stonehenge
|
||||
and other megalithic stone circles in the British Isles. Reign of
|
||||
Ankhenaton's son Tutankhamun who re-establishes the old pantheon
|
||||
of Egyptian gods and goddesses. Moses leads Children of Israel
|
||||
out of slavery in Egypt during the reign of Ramses II to the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Ankhenaton</ent>'s son <ent type = 'person'>Tutankhamun</ent> who re-establishes the old pantheon
|
||||
of Egyptian gods and goddesses. <ent type = 'person'>Moses</ent> leads Children of Israel
|
||||
out of slavery in Egypt during the reign of <ent type = 'person'>Ramses</ent> II to the
|
||||
promised land of Canaan.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 1,000 - 500 BCE
|
||||
<p> 1,000 - 500 <ent type = 'person'>BCE</ent>
|
||||
Foundation of the Dionysian Artificers. The building of Solomon's
|
||||
temple (c. 950). Establishment of the city states of Greece and
|
||||
the Olympic pantheon of gods to replace earlier Nature worship.
|
||||
@ -66,12 +66,12 @@
|
||||
of patriarchal sky gods personified by priest-kings. Rome founded
|
||||
in 750.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 500 BCE - 001 CE
|
||||
<p> 500 <ent type = 'person'>BCE</ent> - 001 CE
|
||||
Celtic culture established in Britain. The foundation of Druidic
|
||||
wisdom colleges in Gaul and the British Isles. Odin recognized as
|
||||
wisdom colleges in Gaul and the British Isles. <ent type = 'person'>Odin</ent> recognized as
|
||||
major god in the Northern Mysteries replacing the Mother Goddess
|
||||
and is credited with inventing the runes. Buddha, Lao Tze,
|
||||
Confucius, Pythagoras, Plato and Zoroaster preach their new
|
||||
Confucius, Pythagoras, Plato and <ent type = 'person'>Zoroaster</ent> preach their new
|
||||
religions and philosophies. Maya culture in South America.
|
||||
Establishment of Eleusinian mystery cults. Rise of the Essene
|
||||
sect in Palestine and Judea. Birth of Jesus of Nazareth.</p>
|
||||
@ -80,22 +80,22 @@
|
||||
Jesus possibly travels to India, Tibet and Britain to be initiated
|
||||
into the esoteric traditions of East and West. Crucified for his
|
||||
radical political and religious ideas (c. 33). Joseph of
|
||||
Arimanthea establishes first Celtic Church at Glastonbury (c. 37).
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Arimanthea</ent> establishes first Celtic Church at Glastonbury (c. 37).
|
||||
Invasion of Britain by Roman legions and suppression of the Druids
|
||||
(40 - 60). Paul travels to Asia Minor and Greece preaching his
|
||||
version of the gospel (50). Jewish revolt against Roman rule led
|
||||
by Zealots (66). Essenes suppressed and Dead Sea Scrolls hidden
|
||||
in caves. Temple in Jerusalem destroyed by Romans (70). New
|
||||
testament written. The Nazarenes break away from Judasim to found
|
||||
testament written. The Nazarenes break away from <ent type = 'person'>Judasim</ent> to found
|
||||
the Christian Church (c. 80). Ormus is converted to Esoteric
|
||||
Christianity by Mark. Mithrasim and the Mysteries of Isis compete
|
||||
Christianity by Mark. Mithrasim and the Mysteries of <ent type = 'person'>Isis</ent> compete
|
||||
with Christianity in the Roman Empire. Mani, a Persian high
|
||||
priest of Zoroastrianism, is crucified (276). Emperor Constantine
|
||||
priest of Zoroastrianism, is crucified (276). Emperor <ent type = 'person'>Constantine</ent>
|
||||
declares Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
|
||||
The Council of Nicea defines heresy, condemns paganism and lays
|
||||
the theological foundation for the Catholic or Universal Church
|
||||
(325). Constantine's successor Julian the Apostate (361 - 363)
|
||||
briefly re-establishes the pagan old religion. Emperor Theodosius
|
||||
(325). <ent type = 'person'>Constantine</ent>'s successor <ent type = 'person'>Julian the Apostate</ent> (361 - 363)
|
||||
briefly re-establishes the pagan old religion. Emperor <ent type = 'person'>Theodosius</ent>
|
||||
outlaws the worship of the pagan gods in Rome and closes the pagan
|
||||
temples (378). Invasion of Rome, Greece and Europe by the
|
||||
barbarians led by Atilla the Hun (395-480). Withdrawal of the
|
||||
@ -123,11 +123,11 @@
|
||||
fight heresy (1215). Massacre of the Cathars at Montsegur in
|
||||
Southern France (1241). Troubadours practising their cult of
|
||||
courtly love. Occult schools teaching the Cabbala and alchemy
|
||||
established in Spain by the Moors. Count Rudolf von Hapsburg
|
||||
established in Spain by the Moors. Count <ent type = 'person'>Rudolf von</ent> Hapsburg
|
||||
crowned as Holy Roman Emperor (1273). Knights Templars arrested
|
||||
by King Philip of France on charges of devil worship, heresy and
|
||||
sexual perversion (1307). Last official Grand Master of the
|
||||
Templars, Jacques de Molay, burnt at the stake and the Order goes
|
||||
Templars, <ent type = 'person'>Jacques de Molay</ent>, burnt at the stake and the Order goes
|
||||
underground (1314).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 1400 - 1600 CE
|
||||
@ -135,21 +135,21 @@
|
||||
of the Order of the Garter by Edward III (1348). First
|
||||
publication of the Corpus Heremeticum by the Medici family in
|
||||
Italy (1460). Publication of Malleus Malifiracum and the papal
|
||||
bull of Pope Innocent which began the medieval witch hunting
|
||||
hysteria (1484 and 1486). Martin Luther begins Reformation
|
||||
(1521). Henry Agrippa refers to the Templars as Gnostics and
|
||||
bull of <ent type = 'person'>Pope Innocent</ent> which began the medieval witch hunting
|
||||
hysteria (1484 and 1486). <ent type = 'person'>Martin Luther</ent> begins Reformation
|
||||
(1521). <ent type = 'person'>Henry Agrippa</ent> refers to the Templars as Gnostics and
|
||||
worshippers of the phallic god Priapus (1530). Life of Dr John
|
||||
Dee (1527-1608). Foundation of the British Secret Service by Sir
|
||||
Francis Walsingham. Birth of Johann Valenti Andrea (1586). Life
|
||||
of Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626). Defeat of the Spanish Armada,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Francis Walsingham</ent>. Birth of Johann Valenti Andrea (1586). Life
|
||||
of Sir <ent type = 'person'>Francis Bacon</ent> (1561-1626). Defeat of the Spanish Armada,
|
||||
with magical help from the New Forest Witches (1588).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 1600 - 1700 CE
|
||||
Foundation of the Virginia Company by James I (1606). The
|
||||
Romanovs become Czars of Russia (1613). Publication of
|
||||
Foundation of the Virginia Company by <ent type = 'person'>James I</ent> (1606). The
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Romanovs</ent> become <ent type = 'person'>Czars</ent> of Russia (1613). Publication of
|
||||
Rosicrucian manifesto (1614). Life of Elias Ashmole (1617-1692).
|
||||
Voyage of the Mayflower to New England and the publication of Sir
|
||||
Francis Bacon's novel The New Atlantis (1620). Establishment of
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Francis Bacon</ent>'s novel The New Atlantis (1620). Establishment of
|
||||
the pagan community of Merrymount in Massachusetts by Thomas
|
||||
Morton. English Civil War begins (1642). First English Mason
|
||||
guild accepts non-stonemasons into its meetings (c. 1646).
|
||||
@ -162,17 +162,17 @@
|
||||
<p> 1700 - 1800 CE
|
||||
Birth of the Comte de Saint-Germain (1710). Masonic Grand Lodge
|
||||
of England and Druid Order founded (1717). First Masonic lodge
|
||||
founded in France (1721)> Benjamin Franklin initiated as Mason
|
||||
founded in France (1721)> <ent type = 'person'>Benjamin Franklin</ent> initiated as Mason
|
||||
(1731). Chevalier Alexander Ramsey informs French Masons that
|
||||
they are heirs to the Templar tradition (1736). Roman Church
|
||||
condemns Masonry (1738). Birth of Count Cagliostro. Comte de
|
||||
Saint-Germain involved in Jacobite plot to restore Stuart dynasty
|
||||
to the English Throne (1743). Society of Flagellants and Skopski
|
||||
founded in Russia (1750). George Washington initiated as a Mason
|
||||
(1752). Sir Francis Dashwood founds the Hell Fire Club. Franklin
|
||||
to the English Throne (1743). Society of Flagellants and <ent type = 'person'>Skopski</ent>
|
||||
founded in Russia (1750). <ent type = 'person'>George Washington</ent> initiated as a Mason
|
||||
(1752). Sir <ent type = 'person'>Francis Dashwood</ent> founds the Hell Fire Club. Franklin
|
||||
visits England to discuss the future of American colonies with
|
||||
Dashwood (1758). Foundation of the Rite of the Strict Observance
|
||||
by Baron von Hund based on the Templar tradition. Frederick of
|
||||
by Baron <ent type = 'person'>von Hund</ent> based on the Templar tradition. Frederick of
|
||||
Prussia founds Order of the Architects of Africa and uses the
|
||||
title Illuminati to describe his neo-Masonic lodges (1768).
|
||||
Franklin elected Grand Master of the Nine Sisters lodge in Paris
|
||||
@ -189,58 +189,58 @@
|
||||
<p> 1800 - 1900 CE
|
||||
Count Grabinka founds secret society in St. Petersburg based on
|
||||
Martinism and Rosicrucianism (1803). French republican plot to
|
||||
assassinate Napoleon by placing a bomb under his coach, led by
|
||||
occultist Fabre d'Olivet. Emperor Napoleon takes control of
|
||||
assassinate <ent type = 'person'>Napoleon</ent> by placing a bomb under his coach, led by
|
||||
occultist <ent type = 'person'>Fabre</ent> d'Olivet. Emperor <ent type = 'person'>Napoleon</ent> takes control of
|
||||
French Masonry (1805). Revived Templar Order in France celebrates
|
||||
the martyrdom of Jacques de Molay with public requiem (1808).
|
||||
Foundation of the Order of Sublime Perfects (1809). Eliphas Levi
|
||||
the martyrdom of <ent type = 'person'>Jacques de Molay</ent> with public requiem (1808).
|
||||
Foundation of the Order of Sublime Perfects (1809). <ent type = 'person'>Eliphas Levi</ent>
|
||||
(1810-1875) reveals the secret symbolism of the Templar idol
|
||||
Baphomet. Czar Alexander I and Emperor Francis von Hapsburg unite
|
||||
Baphomet. <ent type = 'person'>Czar Alexander</ent> I and Emperor <ent type = 'person'>Francis von</ent> Hapsburg unite
|
||||
to defeat Italian revolution incited by secret societies. John
|
||||
Quincy Adams, initiate of the Dragon Society, is elected US
|
||||
President (1820). Czar Alexander outlaws Masonry in Russia
|
||||
President (1820). <ent type = 'person'>Czar Alexander</ent> outlaws Masonry in Russia
|
||||
(1822). Decembrist secret society attempts coup when Czar
|
||||
Alexander allegedly dies (1825). AntiMasonic Party founded in US
|
||||
to combat secret societies in American politics (1828). Wagner
|
||||
to combat secret societies in American politics (1828). <ent type = 'person'>Wagner</ent>
|
||||
joins the Vaterlandsverein, a secret society dedicated to the
|
||||
formation of a pan-European federation of nations. Masonic
|
||||
convention at Strasbourg allegedly plots second French Revolution
|
||||
(1848). Napoleon III condemns Grand Orient for dabbling in
|
||||
radical politics (1850). Paschal Randolph founds Hermetic
|
||||
(1848). <ent type = 'person'>Napoleon</ent> III condemns Grand Orient for dabbling in
|
||||
radical politics (1850). <ent type = 'person'>Paschal Randolph</ent> founds Hermetic
|
||||
Brotherhood of the Light (1858). Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
|
||||
(1865). Klu Klux Klan founded (1866). Society of Rosicrucians in
|
||||
Anglia founded (1867). Foundation of the Theosophical Society by
|
||||
Madame Blavasky on instructions of the Great White Brotherhood.
|
||||
Birth of Aleister Crowley (1875). Mysterious suicide of ArchDuke
|
||||
Birth of <ent type = 'person'>Aleister Crowley</ent> (1875). Mysterious suicide of ArchDuke
|
||||
Rudolph von Hapsburg at a hunting lodge at Mayerling (1889).
|
||||
Foundation of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1888).
|
||||
Assassination of Empress Elizabeth von Hapsburg by anarchist
|
||||
Assassination of Empress <ent type = 'person'>Elizabeth von</ent> Hapsburg by anarchist
|
||||
(1898).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 1900 - 1897 CE
|
||||
Foundation of the Ordo Templi Orientis (1900). International
|
||||
Order of CoFreemasonry founded in 1902. Publication of The
|
||||
Order of <ent type = 'person'>CoFreemasonry</ent> founded in 1902. Publication of The
|
||||
Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion in Russia (1905). Foundation of
|
||||
the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rose Crucis (1909). Black
|
||||
Hand Society founded in 1911. Aleister Crowley accepted as head
|
||||
Hand Society founded in 1911. <ent type = 'person'>Aleister Crowley</ent> accepted as head
|
||||
of the British OTO. Order of the Temple of the Rosy Cross founded
|
||||
in 1912. Assassination of ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand and
|
||||
Archduchess Sophia von Hapsberg. Attempted murder of Rasputin.
|
||||
in 1912. Assassination of <ent type = 'person'>ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand</ent> and
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Archduchess Sophia von Hapsberg</ent>. Attempted murder of Rasputin.
|
||||
WWI begins in 1914. Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates. Hapsburg dynasty
|
||||
is overthrown. Bolshevik Revolution in Russia (1917-1918).
|
||||
Foundation of German Workers Party by Thule Society (1919).
|
||||
Hitler joins GWP and changes its name to the National Socialist
|
||||
Party (1920). Crowley employed by MI6. Cardinal Roncalli, later
|
||||
Pope John XXIII, allegedly joins Rosicrucian Order. Hitler
|
||||
Pope <ent type = 'person'>John XXIII</ent>, allegedly joins Rosicrucian Order. Hitler
|
||||
becomes first chancellor of the Third Reich (1933). Roosevelt
|
||||
places Illuminist symbol of eye in triangle on the dollar bill
|
||||
(1935). Nazi invasion of England prevented by New Forest Witches
|
||||
(1940). Rudolf Hess lured to Britain on peace mission by fake
|
||||
(1940). <ent type = 'person'>Rudolf Hess</ent> lured to Britain on peace mission by fake
|
||||
astrological data (1941). Order of the Temple revived in France
|
||||
(1952). First Bilderberg meeting in 1954. Foundation of the P2
|
||||
Lodge (1960). Death of Pope Paul VI, election and alleged murder
|
||||
of Pope John Paul I, and election of Pope John Paul II (1978).
|
||||
Exposure of P2 conspiracy. Attempt to assassinate John Paul II
|
||||
Lodge (1960). Death of Pope <ent type = 'person'>Paul VI</ent>, election and alleged murder
|
||||
of Pope <ent type = 'person'>John Paul</ent> I, and election of Pope <ent type = 'person'>John Paul</ent> II (1978).
|
||||
Exposure of P2 conspiracy. Attempt to assassinate <ent type = 'person'>John Paul</ent> II
|
||||
(1981). L'Ordre Internationale Chevelresque Tradition Solaire
|
||||
founded on instructions of the revived Order of the Temple in
|
||||
France (1984).</p>
|
||||
|
@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Lines: 321</p>
|
||||
<p> the following is taken from the June, 1978 issue of "Gallery" magazine:
|
||||
__________________________________________________________________________
|
||||
THE CIA'S SECRET WEAPONS SYSTEMS
|
||||
by Andrew Stark</p>
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Andrew Stark</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Exploding wine bottles, guns constructed out of pipes,
|
||||
bullets made of teeth, aspirin explosives: they sound like
|
||||
@ -48,15 +48,15 @@ Lines: 321</p>
|
||||
weapons in the CIA arsenal.
|
||||
"The New York Times" of September 26, 1975 revealed the
|
||||
existence of guns that shoot cobra-venom darts. Then there was the
|
||||
shoe polish compound intended to make Fidel Castro's beard fall
|
||||
shoe polish compound intended to make Fidel <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s beard fall
|
||||
out, so that he would lose his "charisma." And CIA laboratories in
|
||||
Fort Monmouth, New Jersey developed the famous rifle that shoots
|
||||
around corners.
|
||||
Some CIA weapons are designed to kill many people--deadly germs
|
||||
can be released in subways; others are intended to kill a single,
|
||||
specific individual--the Borgia ring contains deadly poison to be
|
||||
specific individual--the <ent type = 'person'>Borgia</ent> ring contains deadly poison to be
|
||||
slipped into a victim's drink; and still others are standard
|
||||
weapons supplied for such missions as overthrowing the Allende
|
||||
weapons supplied for such missions as overthrowing the <ent type = 'person'>Allende</ent>
|
||||
government in Chile in 1973.
|
||||
The information about CIA weapons that you will read in this
|
||||
article generally has not been made public before. It was not
|
||||
@ -95,11 +95,11 @@ Lines: 321</p>
|
||||
want to disrupt a nation's economy in the hope that the resulting
|
||||
chaos will lead to civil unrest and the overthrow of the existing
|
||||
government (some of this actually happened in Chile). The original
|
||||
John Rockefeller used such tactics against his competitors. He
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>John Rockefeller</ent> used such tactics against his competitors. He
|
||||
simply had their refineries blown up.
|
||||
Another pamphlet the CIA would not like you to see is titled
|
||||
"How to Kill," written by John Minnery, edited by Robert Brown and
|
||||
Peder Lund, and published by Paladin Press, Box 1307, Boulder,
|
||||
"How to Kill," written by <ent type = 'person'>John Minnery</ent>, edited by <ent type = 'person'>Robert Brown</ent> and
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Peder <ent type = 'person'>Lund</ent></ent>, and published by Paladin Press, Box 1307, Boulder,
|
||||
Colorado 80306. The reason the CIA would prefer that you not see
|
||||
this eighty-eight-page pamphlet, which is unavailable at bookstores
|
||||
and newsstands, is because it contains a number of "ingenious"
|
||||
@ -114,10 +114,10 @@ Lines: 321</p>
|
||||
conversation:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "How could you publish the "OSS Sabotage and Demolition Manual,"
|
||||
I asked Peter Lund, editor and publisher of Paladin Press, "if your
|
||||
I asked <ent type = 'person'>Peter <ent type = 'person'>Lund</ent></ent>, editor and publisher of Paladin Press, "if your
|
||||
organization, at the least, was not dealing with former OSS agents?
|
||||
And what about "How to Kill?"
|
||||
"I don't talk to journalists," Lund said.
|
||||
"I don't talk to journalists," <ent type = 'person'>Lund</ent> said.
|
||||
"You're called the Paladin Press. You must publish books. Can
|
||||
I order them?"
|
||||
"No."
|
||||
@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Lines: 321</p>
|
||||
"What are the right hands?" I asked.
|
||||
"I don't talk to journalists."
|
||||
"Have you ever heard of Desert Publications?" I asked.
|
||||
"A fine outfit," Lund said. "If they recommend you, I'll send
|
||||
"A fine outfit," <ent type = 'person'>Lund</ent> said. "If they recommend you, I'll send
|
||||
you our material."
|
||||
"That's my problem," I said. "They don't seem to have a phone
|
||||
number."
|
||||
@ -149,18 +149,18 @@ Lines: 321</p>
|
||||
euphemistically described as "eliminating the Viet Cong
|
||||
infrastructure." In reality, it was a rampant reign of terror run
|
||||
out of CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia. Former CIA director
|
||||
William Colby later termed the program "effective." The Phoenix
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>William Colby</ent> later termed the program "effective." The Phoenix
|
||||
Program was a naked murder campaign, as proved by every realistic
|
||||
report, ranging from the Bertrand Russell Tribunal to the Dellums
|
||||
Committee to admissions by CIA agents themselves. The program
|
||||
killed--and *none* of these killings occurred in combat--18,000
|
||||
people, mostly women and children.
|
||||
But what about Peder Lund, editor and publisher of Paladin
|
||||
But what about <ent type = 'person'>Peder <ent type = 'person'>Lund</ent></ent>, editor and publisher of Paladin
|
||||
Press? The book he edited and published, "How to Kill," outlined a
|
||||
surfeit of murder methods, horrific techniques of causing people to
|
||||
die. For example:
|
||||
"Without getting too deeply into the realm of the bizarre,"
|
||||
wrote John Minnery, the author of "How to Kill" as he proceeded to
|
||||
wrote <ent type = 'person'>John Minnery</ent>, the author of "How to Kill" as he proceeded to
|
||||
just that, "a specially loaded bullet made from a human tooth
|
||||
(bicuspid) could be fired under the jaw or through the mouth into
|
||||
the head. The tooth is a very hard bone, and its enamel shell
|
||||
@ -216,17 +216,17 @@ Lines: 321</p>
|
||||
materials."
|
||||
Being a contract killer for the CIA is not all roses. You
|
||||
cannot kill in just any way. A number of attempts have been made
|
||||
on Fidel Castro's life--some with the CIA and the Mafia
|
||||
on Fidel <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s life--some with the CIA and the Mafia
|
||||
cooperating--and some of them may have failed because of
|
||||
restrictions imposed on the potential assassins. It would be
|
||||
unacceptable for Castro's murder to be laid at the door of the CIA.
|
||||
This would make Castro a martyr in the eyes of his countrymen.
|
||||
unacceptable for <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s murder to be laid at the door of the CIA.
|
||||
This would make <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> a martyr in the eyes of his countrymen.
|
||||
Thus, a method that would suggest death by natural causes must be
|
||||
found.
|
||||
Abundant speculation and considerable evidence suggest that the
|
||||
CIA or some other government agency arranged for the "natural"
|
||||
deaths of David Ferrie, Jack Ruby, George De Mohrenschildt, and
|
||||
other potential witnesses into the assassination of John Kennedy.
|
||||
deaths of David Ferrie, Jack Ruby, <ent type = 'person'>George De Mohrenschildt</ent>, and
|
||||
other potential witnesses into the assassination of <ent type = 'person'>John Kennedy</ent>.
|
||||
Some methods of killing, like the injection of an air bubble into
|
||||
the bloodstream, will often go unnoticed by medical examiners.
|
||||
Another hard-to-trace method of killing is to mail a snake to
|
||||
@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ Lines: 321</p>
|
||||
intended to `corner the market' on LSD so that other countries
|
||||
would not be ahead of the U.S. in their potential for `LSD
|
||||
warfare.'"
|
||||
Dr. Albert Hoffman, an early researcher into the uses of LSD,
|
||||
Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Albert Hoffman</ent>, an early researcher into the uses of LSD,
|
||||
was horrified by what the CIA was doing: "I had perfected LSD for
|
||||
medical use, not as a weapon. It can make you insane or even kill
|
||||
you if it is not properly used under medical supervision. In any
|
||||
@ -283,10 +283,10 @@ Lines: 321</p>
|
||||
through the CIA, employed germ warfare during the Korean War. A
|
||||
number of captured pilots testified that germ warfare was used, but
|
||||
their testimony was dismissed as brainwashing. A Marine Corps
|
||||
colonel named Frank H. Schwable signed a germ warfare confession
|
||||
colonel named Frank H. <ent type = 'person'>Schwable</ent> signed a germ warfare confession
|
||||
and, according to W.H. Bowart, "named names, cited missions,
|
||||
described meetings and strategy conferences."
|
||||
Schwable later repudiated his confession. But the charges of
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Schwable</ent> later repudiated his confession. But the charges of
|
||||
germ warfare were taken up in front of the United Nations, and a
|
||||
number of countries believed them.
|
||||
The United States, incidentally, was later charged with using
|
||||
@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ Lines: 321</p>
|
||||
"higher good," can even the President of the United States consider
|
||||
himself safe?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Andrew Stark is a pseudonym for a specialist on weaponry.</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Andrew Stark</ent> is a pseudonym for a specialist on weaponry.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>--
|
||||
daveus rattus </p>
|
||||
|
@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ entirety. Full Disclosure, Box 8275, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48107. $15/yr.</p>
|
||||
<p>Full Disclosure: I'd like to start out by talking about your well-known book,
|
||||
`The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence.' What edition is that in today?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: The latest edition came out last summer. Its the Laurel edition,
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: The latest edition came out last summer. Its the Laurel edition,
|
||||
Dell paperback.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: Its gone through a couple of printings?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: Yes. It was originally published by Alfred Knopf in hardback and
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: Yes. It was originally published by Alfred Knopf in hardback and
|
||||
by Dell in paperback. That was in 1974 with Knopf and 1975 with Dell. Then a
|
||||
few years later we got some more of the deletions back from the government,
|
||||
so Dell put out a second printing. That would have been about 1979. Then
|
||||
@ -40,13 +40,13 @@ Richmond some months later, and again the Supreme Court did not hear the
|
||||
case. Two years later we sued the CIA on the grounds that they had been
|
||||
arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable in making deletions and were in
|
||||
violation of the injunction they had won in 1972. We went before Judge Albert
|
||||
V. Bryan Jr., and in that case, he decided in our favor. Bryan was the same
|
||||
V. <ent type = 'person'>Bryan</ent> Jr., and in that case, he decided in our favor. <ent type = 'person'>Bryan</ent> was the same
|
||||
fourth district judge in Alexandria who heard the original case. He said that
|
||||
there was nothing in the book that was harmful to national security or that
|
||||
was logically classifiable. Bryan said the CIA was being capricious and
|
||||
was logically classifiable. <ent type = 'person'>Bryan</ent> said the CIA was being capricious and
|
||||
arbitrary. They appealed, and a few months later down in Richmond the
|
||||
appellate court for the fourth district decided in the government's favor,
|
||||
and overturned Bryan's decision. Again, the Supreme Court did not hear the
|
||||
and overturned <ent type = 'person'>Bryan</ent>'s decision. Again, the Supreme Court did not hear the
|
||||
case. It chose not to hear it, and the appellate court's decision stood.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>By this time, we had grown weary of the legal process. The book was published
|
||||
@ -61,17 +61,17 @@ don't make the national security argument because that is too untenable these
|
||||
days. They say that they have a right to classify anything that they want to,
|
||||
and only they know what is classifiable. They are establishing a precedent,
|
||||
and have established a precedent in this case that has been used subsequently
|
||||
against ex-CIA people like Frank Snepp and John Stockwell and others, and in
|
||||
particular against Ralph McGee. They've also used it against (laughing), its
|
||||
kind of ironic, two former CIA directors, one of whom was William Colby.
|
||||
Colby was the guy behind my case when he was director. In fact, he was sued
|
||||
against ex-CIA people like <ent type = 'person'>Frank Snepp</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>John Stockwell</ent> and others, and in
|
||||
particular against <ent type = 'person'>Ralph McGee</ent>. They've also used it against (laughing), its
|
||||
kind of ironic, two former CIA directors, one of whom was William <ent type = 'person'>Colby</ent>.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Colby</ent> was the guy behind my case when he was director. In fact, he was sued
|
||||
by the CIA and had to pay a fine of I think, about $30,000 for putting
|
||||
something in that they wanted out about the Glomar Explorer. He thought they
|
||||
something in that they wanted out about <ent type = 'person'>the Glomar Explorer</ent>. He thought they
|
||||
were just being, as I would say, ``arbitrary and capricious,'' so he put it
|
||||
in anyway, was sued, and had to pay a fine. Admiral Stansfield Turner was
|
||||
another who, like Colby when he was director, was the great defender of
|
||||
in anyway, was sued, and had to pay a fine. Admiral <ent type = 'person'>Stansfield <ent type = 'person'>Turner</ent></ent> was
|
||||
another who, like <ent type = 'person'>Colby</ent> when he was director, was the great defender of
|
||||
keeping everything secret and only allowing the CIA to reveal anything. When
|
||||
Turner got around to writing his book he had the same problems with them and
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Turner</ent> got around to writing his book he had the same problems with them and
|
||||
is very bitter about it and has said so. His book just recently came out and
|
||||
he's been on a lot of TV shows saying, ``Hells bells, I was director and I
|
||||
know what is classified and what isn't but these guys are ridiculous,
|
||||
@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ that they helped to establish.</p>
|
||||
eventually becoming declassified so that they are available to the American
|
||||
people?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: If I have a publisher, and am willing to go back at the CIA every
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: If I have a publisher, and am willing to go back at the CIA every
|
||||
year or two years forcing a review, little by little, everything would come
|
||||
out eventually. I can't imagine anything they would delete. There might be a
|
||||
few items that the CIA would hold onto for principle's sake. Everything that
|
||||
@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ you know its really a big joke.</p>
|
||||
<p>FD: Looking back on it, what effect did the publication of the `The CIA and
|
||||
the Cult of Intelligence' have on your life?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: It had a tremendous effect on my life. The book put me in a
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: It had a tremendous effect on my life. The book put me in a
|
||||
position where I would forever be persona non grata with the bureaucracy in
|
||||
the federal government, which means, that I cannot get a job anywhere, a job
|
||||
that is, specific to my background and talents. Particularly if the company
|
||||
@ -117,14 +117,14 @@ in that area I am frequently penalized because of who I worked for.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: The government views you as a troublemaker or whistleblower?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: As a whistleblower, and, I guess, troublemaker. In the
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: As a whistleblower, and, I guess, troublemaker. In the
|
||||
intelligence community, as one who violated the code.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: The unspoken code?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: Right. And this has been the fate of all those CIA whistleblowers.
|
||||
They've all had it hard. Frank Snepp, Stockwell, McGee, and others, have all
|
||||
suffered the same fate. Whistleblowers in general, like Fitzgerald in the
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: Right. And this has been the fate of all those CIA whistleblowers.
|
||||
They've all had it hard. <ent type = 'person'>Frank Snepp</ent>, Stockwell, McGee, and others, have all
|
||||
suffered the same fate. Whistleblowers in general, like <ent type = 'person'>Fitzgerald</ent> in the
|
||||
Department of Defense, who exposed problems with the C-5A, overruns, have
|
||||
also suffered the same kind of fate. But since they were not dealing in the
|
||||
magical area of national security they have found that they have some leeway
|
||||
@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ these problems to the American public.</p>
|
||||
writing of `Inside The Company' both before and after publication. Have you
|
||||
run into similar problems with extralegal CIA harassment?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: Yes. I was under surveillance. Letters were opened. I am sure our
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: Yes. I was under surveillance. Letters were opened. I am sure our
|
||||
house was burglarized. General harassment of all sorts, and the CIA has
|
||||
admitted to some of these things. One or two cases, because the Church
|
||||
Committee found out. For example, the CIA admitted to working with the IRS to
|
||||
@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ period.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: About your time with the CIA?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: No, about my case. I only want the information on me after leaving
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: No, about my case. I only want the information on me after leaving
|
||||
the agency and they just refuse to do it. They've told me through friends
|
||||
``You can sue until you're blue in the face but you're not going to get
|
||||
this'' because they know exactly what would happen. It would be a terrible
|
||||
@ -177,14 +177,14 @@ a lot of attention to it through their attempts to prevent it from being
|
||||
written and their attempts at censorship, which simply increased the appetite
|
||||
of the public, media, and Congress, to see what they were trying to hide and
|
||||
why. All of this was happening at a time when other events were occurring.
|
||||
Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers had come out about the same time I announced I was
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Ellsberg</ent>'s Pentagon Papers had come out about the same time I announced I was
|
||||
doing my book. Some big stories were broken by investigative journalists. All
|
||||
of these things together, my book was part of it, did lead ultimately to
|
||||
congressional investigations of the CIA. I spent a lot of time behind the
|
||||
scenes on the Hill with senators and congressman lobbying for these
|
||||
investigations and they finally did come to pass.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It took awhile. President Ford tried to sweep everything under the rug by
|
||||
<p>It took awhile. President <ent type = 'person'>Ford</ent> tried to sweep everything under the rug by
|
||||
creating the Rockefeller Commission, which admitted to a few CIA mistakes but
|
||||
swept everything under the rug. It didn't wash publicly. By this time, the
|
||||
public didn't buy the government's lying. So we ultimately did have the Pike
|
||||
@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ murder. There were some changes and I think they were all for the better.</p>
|
||||
<p>FD: So instead of some of the more harsher critics of the CIA who would want
|
||||
to see it abolished you would want to reform it?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: Yes. Its one of these things where you can't throw out the baby
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: Yes. Its one of these things where you can't throw out the baby
|
||||
with the bathwater. The CIA does do some very good and valuable and
|
||||
worthwhile and legal things. Particularly in the collection of information
|
||||
throughout the world, and in the analysis of events around the world. All of
|
||||
@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ the public, and in particular the American public, from knowing what they're
|
||||
doing. This is done so that the President can deny that we were responsible
|
||||
for sabotaging some place over in Lebanon where a lot of people were killed.
|
||||
So that the President can deny period. Here is a good example: President
|
||||
Eisenhower denied we were involved in attempts to overthrow the Indonesian
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Eisenhower</ent> denied we were involved in attempts to overthrow the Indonesian
|
||||
government in 1958 until the CIA guys got caught and the Indonesians produced
|
||||
them. He looked like a fool. So did the N.Y. Times and everybody else who
|
||||
believed him. That is the real reason for secrecy.</p>
|
||||
@ -259,16 +259,16 @@ deep cover for the CIA. So it develops into a self-feeding circle.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: Spreading disinformation is done through the newsmedia.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: Yes. Its done through the newsmedia. The fallacy is that the CIA
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: Yes. Its done through the newsmedia. The fallacy is that the CIA
|
||||
says the real reason they do this is to con the Soviets. Now I'll give you
|
||||
some examples. One was a fellow by the name of Colonel Oleg Penkovsky.</p>
|
||||
some examples. One was a fellow by the name of Colonel <ent type = 'person'>Oleg <ent type = 'person'>Penkovsky</ent></ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: Penkovsky Papers?</p>
|
||||
<p>FD: <ent type = 'person'>Penkovsky</ent> Papers?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: Yes. I wrote about that in `The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence.
|
||||
The Penkovsky Papers was a phony story. We wrote the book in the CIA. Now,
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: Yes. I wrote about that in `The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence.
|
||||
The <ent type = 'person'>Penkovsky</ent> Papers was a phony story. We wrote the book in the CIA. Now,
|
||||
who in the hell are we kidding? The Soviets? Do we think for one minute that
|
||||
the Soviets, who among other things captured Penkovsky, interrogated him, and
|
||||
the Soviets, who among other things captured <ent type = 'person'>Penkovsky</ent>, interrogated him, and
|
||||
executed him, do you think for one minute they believe he kept a diary like
|
||||
that? How could he have possibly have done it under the circumstances? The
|
||||
whole thing is ludicrous. So we're not fooling the Soviets. What we're doing
|
||||
@ -280,15 +280,15 @@ secret intelligence so that they will continue to get money to continue to
|
||||
operate. Thats the real reason. The ostensible reason is that we were trying
|
||||
to confuse the Soviets. Well that's bullshit because they're not confused.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>One of the ones I think is really great is `Khruschev Remembers.' If anybody
|
||||
in his right mind believes that Nikita Khruschev sat down, and dictated his
|
||||
memoirs, and somebody -- Strobe Talbot sneaked out of the Soviet Union with
|
||||
<p>One of the ones I think is really great is `<ent type = 'person'>Khruschev</ent> Remembers.' If anybody
|
||||
in his right mind believes that <ent type = 'person'>Nikita <ent type = 'person'>Khruschev</ent></ent> sat down, and dictated his
|
||||
memoirs, and somebody -- <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Strobe</ent> Talbot</ent> sneaked out of the Soviet Union with
|
||||
them they're crazy. That story is a lie. That book was a joint operation
|
||||
between the CIA and the KGB. Both of them were doing it for the exact same
|
||||
reasons. They both wanted to influence their own publics. We did it our way
|
||||
by pretending that Khruschev had done all of this stuff and we had lucked out
|
||||
by pretending that <ent type = 'person'>Khruschev</ent> had done all of this stuff and we had lucked out
|
||||
and somehow gotten a book out of it. The Soviets did it because they could
|
||||
not in their system allow Khruschev to write his memoirs. Thats just against
|
||||
not in their system allow <ent type = 'person'>Khruschev</ent> to write his memoirs. Thats just against
|
||||
everything that the Communist system stands for. But they did need him to
|
||||
speak out on certain issues. Brezhnev particularly needed him to
|
||||
short-circuit some of the initiatives of the right wing, the Stalinist wing
|
||||
@ -308,9 +308,9 @@ book.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: How was this operation initially set up?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: I don't know all of the ins and outs of it. I imagine what
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: I don't know all of the ins and outs of it. I imagine what
|
||||
happened is that it probably started with somebody in the Soviet Politburo
|
||||
going to Khruschev and saying, ``Hey, behind the scenes we're having lots of
|
||||
going to <ent type = 'person'>Khruschev</ent> and saying, ``Hey, behind the scenes we're having lots of
|
||||
trouble with the right-wing Stalinist types. They're giving Brehznev a bad
|
||||
time and they're trying to undercut all of the changes you made and all of
|
||||
the changes Brehznev has made and wants to make. Its pretty hard to deal with
|
||||
@ -323,18 +323,18 @@ then it will get back to the Soviet Union in a variety of forms. It will get
|
||||
back in summaries broadcast by the Voice of America and Radio Liberty, and
|
||||
copies of the book will come back in, articles written about it will be
|
||||
smuggled in, and this in turn will be a big influence on the intelligentsia
|
||||
and the party leaders and it will undercut Suslov and the right wingers.''
|
||||
Khruschev said okay. The KGB then went to the CIA and explained things to
|
||||
and the party leaders and it will undercut <ent type = 'person'>Suslov</ent> and the right wingers.''
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Khruschev</ent> said okay. The KGB then went to the CIA and explained things to
|
||||
them and the CIA said, Well that sounds good, we'll get some friends of ours
|
||||
here, the TIME magazine bureau in Moscow, Jerry Schecter would later have a
|
||||
job in the White House as a press officer. We'll get people like Strobe
|
||||
here, the TIME magazine bureau in Moscow, <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Jerry</ent> Schecter</ent> would later have a
|
||||
job in the White House as a press officer. We'll get people like <ent type = 'person'>Strobe</ent>
|
||||
Talbot, who is working at the bureau there, we'll get these guys to act as
|
||||
the go-betweens. They'll come and see you for the memoirs and everyone will
|
||||
play dumb. You give them two suitcases full of tapes (laughs) or something
|
||||
like that and let them get out of the Soviet Union. Which is exactly what
|
||||
happened.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Strobe brought all of this stuff back to Washington and then TIME-LIFE began
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Strobe</ent> brought all of this stuff back to Washington and then TIME-LIFE began
|
||||
to process it and put a book together. They wouldn't let anybody hear the
|
||||
tapes, they didn't show anybody anything. A lot of people were very
|
||||
suspicious. You know you can tell this to the public or anybody else who
|
||||
@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ newspaperman and let him walk out of the country with them. That cannot be
|
||||
done in a closed society, a police state, like the Soviet Union.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The book was eventually published but before it was published there was
|
||||
another little interesting affair. Strobe Talbot went to Helsinki with the
|
||||
another little interesting affair. <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Strobe</ent> Talbot</ent> went to Helsinki with the
|
||||
manuscript, where he was met by the KGB who took it back to Leningrad, looked
|
||||
at it, and then it was finally published by TIME-LIFE. None of that has ever
|
||||
been explained in my book. A couple of other journalists have made references
|
||||
@ -359,25 +359,25 @@ they thought the KGB...</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: Had duped TIME?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: Exactly. Once they learned this was a deal they quieted down and
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: Exactly. Once they learned this was a deal they quieted down and
|
||||
ceased their objections and complaints, and even alibied and lied afterwards
|
||||
as part of the bigger game. Victor Lewis, who was apparently instrumental in
|
||||
as part of the bigger game. <ent type = 'person'>Victor <ent type = 'person'>Lewis</ent></ent>, who was apparently instrumental in
|
||||
all of these negotiations, later fit into one little footnote to this story
|
||||
that I've often wondered about. Lewis is (was)... After all of this happened
|
||||
that I've often wondered about. <ent type = 'person'>Lewis</ent> is (was)... After all of this happened
|
||||
and when the little furor that existed here in official Washington began
|
||||
dying down, Victor Lewis went to Tel Aviv for medical treatment. He came into
|
||||
dying down, <ent type = 'person'>Victor <ent type = 'person'>Lewis</ent></ent> went to Tel Aviv for medical treatment. He came into
|
||||
the country very quietly but somebody spotted him and grabbed him and said,
|
||||
``What are you doing here in Israel?'' ``Well I'm here for medical treatment,
|
||||
'' Lewis said. They said, ``What?! You're here in Israel for medical
|
||||
'' <ent type = 'person'>Lewis</ent> said. They said, ``What?! You're here in Israel for medical
|
||||
treatment?'' He said, ``Yes.'' They said, ``Well whats the problem?'' ``I've
|
||||
got lumbago, a back problem, and they can't fix it in the Soviet Union. but
|
||||
there's a great Jewish doctor here I knew in the Soviet Union and I came to
|
||||
see him.'' That sounds like the craziest story you ever wanted to hear. But
|
||||
then another individual appeared in Israel at the same time and some reporter
|
||||
spotted him. He happened to be Richard Helms, then-director of the CIA. He
|
||||
asked Helms what he was doing in Israel, and he had some kind of a lame
|
||||
excuse which started people wondering whether this was the payoff. Helms
|
||||
acting for the CIA, TIME-LIFE, and the U.S. government, and Lewis acting for
|
||||
spotted him. He happened to be <ent type = 'person'>Richard <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent></ent>, then-director of the CIA. He
|
||||
asked <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent> what he was doing in Israel, and he had some kind of a lame
|
||||
excuse which started people wondering whether this was the payoff. <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent>
|
||||
acting for the CIA, TIME-LIFE, and the U.S. government, and <ent type = 'person'>Lewis</ent> acting for
|
||||
the KGB, Politburo, and the Soviet government. Its really a fascinating
|
||||
story. I wrote about briefly in the book and it was very short. You'll find
|
||||
it if you look through the book in the section we're talking about.
|
||||
@ -387,27 +387,27 @@ analysis.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Around the time my book came out, TIME magazine decided that they would do a
|
||||
two-page spread in their news section and give it a boost. Suddenly I started
|
||||
getting calls from Jerry Schecter and Strobe Talbot about cutting that part
|
||||
getting calls from <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Jerry</ent> Schecter</ent> and <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Strobe</ent> Talbot</ent> about cutting that part
|
||||
out. I said I would not cut it out unless they could look me in the eye and
|
||||
say I was wrong. If it wasn't true I would take the book and cut the material
|
||||
out. But neither of them chose to do that. Right before the article appeared
|
||||
in TIME I got a call from one of the editors telling me that some people
|
||||
wanted to kill the article. I asked why and he said one of the reasons is
|
||||
what you had to say about TIME magazine being involved in the Khruschev
|
||||
Remembers book. I asked him, ``Thats it?'' I had talked to Jerry and Strobe
|
||||
what you had to say about TIME magazine being involved in the <ent type = 'person'>Khruschev</ent>
|
||||
Remembers book. I asked him, ``Thats it?'' I had talked to <ent type = 'person'>Jerry</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Strobe</ent>
|
||||
and this was their backstab. This editor asked me if I could find somebody
|
||||
who could trump the people who were trying to have the article killed.
|
||||
Somebody who could verify my credentials in telling the story. I said why
|
||||
don't you call Richard Helms, who by that time had been eased out of office
|
||||
by Kissinger and Nixon, and was now an ambassador in Teheran. So this editor
|
||||
called Helms to verify my credentials (laughing) and Helms said, ``Yeah, he's
|
||||
don't you call <ent type = 'person'>Richard <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent></ent>, who by that time had been eased out of office
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Kissinger</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>, and was now an ambassador in Teheran. So this editor
|
||||
called <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent> to verify my credentials (laughing) and <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent> said, ``Yeah, he's
|
||||
a good guy. He just got pissed off and wanted to change the CIA.'' So the
|
||||
article ran in TIME. I think you're one of the very few people I've explained
|
||||
this story to in depth.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: Did this operation have a name?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: It probably did but I was already out of the agency and I don't
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: It probably did but I was already out of the agency and I don't
|
||||
know what it was. But I do know it was a very sensitive activity and that
|
||||
people very high up in the White House and State Department who you would
|
||||
have thought would have been aware of it were not aware of it. But then
|
||||
@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ and were no longer critics and doubters and in fact became defenders of it.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: Let me make sure I am clear about the CIA's motivation...</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: The CIA's motivation was that here we have a former Soviet premier
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: The CIA's motivation was that here we have a former Soviet premier
|
||||
talking out about the events of his career and revealing some pretty
|
||||
interesting things about his thinking and the thinking of others. All of
|
||||
which shows that the Soviet Union is run by a very small little clique. A
|
||||
@ -425,13 +425,13 @@ Stalinisn and turn to Stalinism but some of the cooler heads, the more
|
||||
moderate types, are trying to make changes. Its good stuff from the CIA's
|
||||
point of view and from the U.S. government's point of view. This is what
|
||||
we're dealing with. This is our primary rival. Look at how they are. And
|
||||
Khruschev had to dictate these things in secrecy and they had to be smuggled
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Khruschev</ent> had to dictate these things in secrecy and they had to be smuggled
|
||||
out of the Soviet Union.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Things like this are very subtle in their consistency. It's not a black and
|
||||
white thing on the surface. You might say, ``Well, what's wrong with that?''
|
||||
What's wrong with that is that it is a lie. The truth would have been much
|
||||
more effective. Nikita Khruschev was approached by the KGB and Soviet
|
||||
more effective. <ent type = 'person'>Nikita <ent type = 'person'>Khruschev</ent></ent> was approached by the KGB and Soviet
|
||||
Politburo to dictate his memoirs, which he did under their supervision, which
|
||||
means we don't know if he is telling the whole story or the complete truth
|
||||
because they had an opportunity to edit it. The Russians were so anxious to
|
||||
@ -453,10 +453,10 @@ Hebrides under a concept known as the condominium, and before independence,
|
||||
the British and the labor movement in Australia threw their support behind
|
||||
the ubiquitous socialist faction, in this case, the Vanaaka Party. The French
|
||||
offered some behind-the-scenes support to the second faction, which was
|
||||
basically pro-free market and pro-West. The U.S. under Jimmy Carter went
|
||||
basically pro-free market and pro-West. The U.S. under <ent type = 'person'>Jimmy <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent></ent> went
|
||||
along with the British. Do you have any idea why this might have been done?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: Offhand, I don't. The CIA has learned over the years that you
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: Offhand, I don't. The CIA has learned over the years that you
|
||||
sometimes cannot support the people you would prefer to support, because they
|
||||
just do not have the popular power to gain control or maintain control
|
||||
without a revolution and things of that sort. The classic example is West
|
||||
@ -465,19 +465,19 @@ in Berlin. This was at a time when the Russians and East Germans were putting
|
||||
tremendous pressure on to have West Berlin go almost voluntarily into the
|
||||
Soviet bloc. The United States was struggling mightily to keep West Berlin
|
||||
free. At that point in time the strong power in West Germany were the
|
||||
Christian Democrats under Konrad Adenauer, and these were the people that we
|
||||
Christian Democrats under <ent type = 'person'>Konrad Adenauer</ent>, and these were the people that we
|
||||
were supporting.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Christian Democrats, however, just did not have the wherewithal to save
|
||||
West Berlin. The situation was such that the Social Democrats were the ones
|
||||
who could save West Berlin. Not getting into all of the whys and wherefores
|
||||
and policy positions, the Social Democrats also had a very charismatic person
|
||||
named Willy Brandt. So by backing Willy Brandt and the Social Democrats,
|
||||
named <ent type = 'person'>Willy <ent type = 'person'>Brandt</ent></ent>. So by backing <ent type = 'person'>Willy <ent type = 'person'>Brandt</ent></ent> and the Social Democrats,
|
||||
instead of putting all of our eggs in the Christian Democratic Party basket,
|
||||
Brandt and the Social Democrats were able to maintain a free West Berlin and
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Brandt</ent> and the Social Democrats were able to maintain a free West Berlin and
|
||||
we were able to achieve our goal. There were some people in the CIA who
|
||||
thought this was terrible, we were not being ideologically pure, and one of
|
||||
them happens to be E. Howard Hunt, who actually considered Willy Brandt a KGB
|
||||
them happens to be E. <ent type = 'person'>Howard <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent></ent>, who actually considered <ent type = 'person'>Willy <ent type = 'person'>Brandt</ent></ent> a KGB
|
||||
spy. So there are times when you have to, I guess you would call it, choose
|
||||
the lesser of two evils.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -485,55 +485,55 @@ the lesser of two evils.</p>
|
||||
maybe the thinking was that if we left the pro-West faction in power we may
|
||||
end up with a goddamned civil war.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: In retrospect, the Carter administration's decision seems even more
|
||||
<p>FD: In retrospect, the <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> administration's decision seems even more
|
||||
tragic and mistaken. Since coming to power the Vanaaka Party has consolidated
|
||||
power in the new country, now known as Vanuatu, and established diplomatic
|
||||
relations with governments like Cuba and Vietnam. Socialist Vanuatu has now
|
||||
come to serve as a beacon of sorts for other independence movements in that
|
||||
part of the world, such as the Kanaks in New Caledonia, who have subsequently
|
||||
adopted socialism as their ideology. When I asked Jimmy Carter about this
|
||||
adopted socialism as their ideology. When I asked <ent type = 'person'>Jimmy <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent></ent> about this
|
||||
during an interview recently he said he was sorry, but he did not remember
|
||||
the episode. Is it possible that this may have been an incompetent blunder on
|
||||
the part of the U.S. government? That somebody didn't do their homework, and
|
||||
as a result those responsible for the decision didn't have all of the facts?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. Its not the kind of an issue that
|
||||
draws the most attention in Washington. As you just pointed out, Jimmy Carter
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. Its not the kind of an issue that
|
||||
draws the most attention in Washington. As you just pointed out, <ent type = 'person'>Jimmy <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent></ent>
|
||||
doesn't even remember it. I'm sure that decision was made pretty far down the
|
||||
line. If Carter ever had to make a decision he probably doesn't even remember
|
||||
line. If <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> ever had to make a decision he probably doesn't even remember
|
||||
it because it was probably staffed down because it was considered so
|
||||
inconsequential at the time by Carter and everyone involved. They considered
|
||||
inconsequential at the time by <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> and everyone involved. They considered
|
||||
it so inconsequential that they don't even remember it. It's something they
|
||||
signed off on. My guess from what you have told me is that it was a mistake.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: You mentioned E. Howard Hunt earlier. I understand that you wrote an
|
||||
<p>FD: You mentioned E. <ent type = 'person'>Howard <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent></ent> earlier. I understand that you wrote an
|
||||
article for a Washington-based publication about the assassination of John F.
|
||||
Kennedy and Hunt sued the publication, charging libel. Could you give us some
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> sued the publication, charging libel. Could you give us some
|
||||
background on this matter?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: The article was written in the summer of 1978 and published by
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: The article was written in the summer of 1978 and published by
|
||||
SPOTLIGHT, a weekly newspaper that advertises itself as `The Voice of the
|
||||
American Populist Party.' At the time I wrote the article for SPOTLIGHT the
|
||||
House Select Committee on Assassinations was getting ready to hold its
|
||||
hearings reviewing the Kennedy and King assassinations. I had picked up some
|
||||
hearings reviewing the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> and King assassinations. I had picked up some
|
||||
information around town that a memo had recently been uncovered in the CIA,
|
||||
and that the CIA was concerned about it. I believe the memo was from James
|
||||
Angleton, who at the time was chief of counterintelligence for Richard Helms.
|
||||
Angleton, who at the time was chief of counterintelligence for <ent type = 'person'>Richard <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent></ent>.
|
||||
I forget the exact date, but this memo was something like six years old,
|
||||
while Helms was still in office as director.</p>
|
||||
while <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent> was still in office as director.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The memo said that at some point in time the CIA was going to have to deal
|
||||
with the fact that Hunt was in Dallas the day of the Kennedy assassination or
|
||||
with the fact that <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> was in Dallas the day of the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> assassination or
|
||||
words to that effect. There was some other information in it, such as did you
|
||||
know anything about it, he wasn't doing anything for me, and back and forth.
|
||||
I had that piece of information, along with information that the House Select
|
||||
Committee was going to come out with tapes that indicated there was more than
|
||||
one shooter during the Kennedy assassination and that the FBI, or at least
|
||||
one shooter during the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> assassination and that the FBI, or at least
|
||||
certain people in the FBI, believed these tapes to be accurate and had always
|
||||
believed that there was more than one shooter.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I was in contact with the House Select Committee, and they were probing real
|
||||
deeply into things and they were very suspicious of the Kennedy
|
||||
deeply into things and they were very suspicious of the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>
|
||||
assassination. There were some other reporters working on the story at the
|
||||
time, one in particular who has a tremendous reputation, and he felt there
|
||||
was something to it. So we rushed into print at SPOTLIGHT with a story
|
||||
@ -544,15 +544,15 @@ information that there was more than one shooter and probably come up with
|
||||
this memo, this internal CIA memorandum, and there will be some other things.
|
||||
Then the CIA will conduct a limited hangout, and will admit to some error or
|
||||
mistake, but then sweep everything else under the rug, and in the process
|
||||
they may let a few people dangle in the wind like E. Howard Hunt, Frank
|
||||
Sturgis, Jerry Hemming, and other people who have been mentioned in the past
|
||||
as being involved in something related to the Kennedy assassination. It was
|
||||
they may let a few people dangle in the wind like E. <ent type = 'person'>Howard <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent></ent>, Frank
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Sturgis</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Jerry</ent> Hemming, and other people who have been mentioned in the past
|
||||
as being involved in something related to the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> assassination. It was
|
||||
that kind of speculative piece.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>What happened is that about a week after my article appeared in SPOTLIGHT the
|
||||
Wilmington News-Journal published an article by Joe Trento. This was a longer
|
||||
Wilmington News-Journal published an article by <ent type = 'person'>Joe Trento</ent>. This was a longer
|
||||
and more far-ranging article, in which he discussed the memo too but in
|
||||
greater detail. A couple of weeks after that Hunt informed SPOTLIGHT that he
|
||||
greater detail. A couple of weeks after that <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> informed SPOTLIGHT that he
|
||||
wanted a retraction. I checked with my sources and said I don't think we
|
||||
should retract. I said we should do a follow-up article. Now by this time
|
||||
some CIA guy was caught stealing pictures in the committee, some spy, so
|
||||
@ -560,11 +560,11 @@ things were really hot and heavy at the time. There was a lot of expectation
|
||||
that the committee was going to do something, some really good work to bring
|
||||
their investigation around. So I said to SPOTLIGHT let's do a follow-up
|
||||
piece, but the publisher chickened out and said, nah, what we'll do is tell
|
||||
Hunt we'll give him equal space. He can say whatever he wants to in the same
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> we'll give him equal space. He can say whatever he wants to in the same
|
||||
amount of space.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Hunt ignored the offer. A couple of months later Hunt comes to town for
|
||||
secret hearings with the committee, and was heard in executive session. Hunt
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> ignored the offer. A couple of months later <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> comes to town for
|
||||
secret hearings with the committee, and was heard in executive session. <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent>
|
||||
was suing the publisher of the book `Coup D'Etat in America,' and deposed me
|
||||
in relation to that case, and then he brought in, he tried to slip in, this
|
||||
SPOTLIGHT article. I was under instructions from my lawyer not to comment. My
|
||||
@ -573,42 +573,42 @@ privilege, and also on the grounds of my relationship with the CIA. My lawyer
|
||||
had on his own gone to the CIA before I gave my deposition and asked them
|
||||
about this, and they said to tell me to just hide behind my injunction. I
|
||||
told my lawyer I don't understand it, and he told me all that the CIA said is
|
||||
that they hate Hunt more than they hate you and they're not going to give
|
||||
Hunt any help. So that's what I did, and that was the end of it. We thought.</p>
|
||||
that they hate <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> more than they hate you and they're not going to give
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> any help. So that's what I did, and that was the end of it. We thought.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Two years after it ran Hunt finally sued SPOTLIGHT over my article. SPOTLIGHT
|
||||
<p>Two years after it ran <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> finally sued SPOTLIGHT over my article. SPOTLIGHT
|
||||
thought it was such a joke, all things considered, that they really didn't
|
||||
pay any attention. I never even went to the trial. I never even submitted an
|
||||
affidavit. I was not deposed or anything. The Hunt people didn't even try to
|
||||
call me as a witness or anything. I was left out of everything. Hunt ended up
|
||||
affidavit. I was not deposed or anything. The <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> people didn't even try to
|
||||
call me as a witness or anything. I was left out of everything. <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> ended up
|
||||
winning a judgment for $650,000. Now SPOTLIGHT got worried. They appealed and
|
||||
the Florida Appellate Court overturned the decision on certain technical
|
||||
grounds, and sent it back for retrial. The retrial finally occurred earlier
|
||||
this year. When it came time for the retrial, which we had close to a year to
|
||||
prepare for, SPOTLIGHT got serious, and went out and hired themselves a good
|
||||
lawyer, Mark Lane, who is something of an expert on the Kennedy
|
||||
lawyer, <ent type = 'person'>Mark Lane</ent>, who is something of an expert on the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>
|
||||
assassination. They got me to become involved in everything, and we ended up
|
||||
going down there and just beating Hunt's pants off. The jury came in, I
|
||||
going down there and just beating <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent>'s pants off. The jury came in, I
|
||||
think, within several hours with a verdict in our favor. The interesting
|
||||
thing was the jury said we were clearly not guilty of libel and actual
|
||||
malice, but they were now suspicious of Hunt and everything he invoked
|
||||
because we brought out a lot of stuff on Hunt.</p>
|
||||
malice, but they were now suspicious of <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> and everything he invoked
|
||||
because we brought out a lot of stuff on <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Hunt lost, and was ordered to pay our court costs in addition to everything
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> lost, and was ordered to pay our court costs in addition to everything
|
||||
else. He has subsequently filed an appeal and that's where its at now. It's
|
||||
up for appeal. I imagine it will probably be another six months to a year
|
||||
before we hear anything further on it. Based on everything I have seen, Hunt
|
||||
before we hear anything further on it. Based on everything I have seen, <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent>
|
||||
doesn't have a leg to stand on because the deeper he gets into this the more
|
||||
he runs the risk of exposing himself. We had just all kinds of material on
|
||||
Hunt. We had a deposition from Joe Trento saying, yes, he saw the internal
|
||||
CIA memo. We produced one witness in deposition, Marita Lorenz, who was
|
||||
Castro's lover at one point, and she said that Hunt was taking her and people
|
||||
like Sturgis and Jerry Hemmings and others and running guns into Dallas.
|
||||
Lorenz said that a couple of days before the assassination Hunt met them in
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent>. We had a deposition from <ent type = 'person'>Joe Trento</ent> saying, yes, he saw the internal
|
||||
CIA memo. We produced one witness in deposition, <ent type = 'person'>Marita Lorenz</ent>, who was
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>'s lover at one point, and she said that <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> was taking her and people
|
||||
like <ent type = 'person'>Sturgis</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Jerry</ent> Hemmings and others and running guns into Dallas.
|
||||
Lorenz said that a couple of days before the assassination <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> met them in
|
||||
Dallas and made a payoff. What they all were doing, whether it was connected
|
||||
to the assassination, we don't know.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I think if Hunt keeps pursuing this, all that he's doing is setting the stage
|
||||
<p>I think if <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> keeps pursuing this, all that he's doing is setting the stage
|
||||
for more and more people to come forward and say bad things about him, and
|
||||
raise more evidence that he was in Dallas that day and that he must have been
|
||||
involved in something. If it wasn't the assassination it must have been some
|
||||
@ -617,93 +617,93 @@ assassination and the wires just got crossed and it was a coincidence at the
|
||||
time.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>One of the key points in the mind of the jury as far as we`ve been able to
|
||||
tell at SPOTLIGHT is that Hunt to this day still cannot come up with an alibi
|
||||
for where he was the day of the assassination. Hunt comes up with the
|
||||
tell at SPOTLIGHT is that <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> to this day still cannot come up with an alibi
|
||||
for where he was the day of the assassination. <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> comes up with the
|
||||
weakest, phoniest stories that he can't corroborate. Some guy who was drunk
|
||||
came out of a bar and waved at him. His story doesn't match with that guy's
|
||||
story. Hunt says he can produce his children to testify he was in Washington.
|
||||
story. <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> says he can produce his children to testify he was in Washington.
|
||||
None of his children appeared at the trial. It's a very, very strange thing.
|
||||
Hunt clearly was, in my mind, not in Washington doing what he says he was
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> clearly was, in my mind, not in Washington doing what he says he was
|
||||
doing Nov. 22, 1963. He was certainly not at work that day at the CIA. This
|
||||
subject has come up before, whether he was on sick leave, an annual leave, or
|
||||
where the hell he was. Hunt just cannot come up with a good alibi.</p>
|
||||
where the hell he was. <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> just cannot come up with a good alibi.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Hunt has gone before committees. The Rockefeller Committee, I believe he was
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> has gone before committees. The Rockefeller Committee, I believe he was
|
||||
before the Church Committee, and before the House Select Committee. Nobody
|
||||
will give Hunt a clean bill of health. They always weasel words. Their
|
||||
comment on Hunt is always some sort of a way that can be interpreted anyway
|
||||
will give <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> a clean bill of health. They always weasel words. Their
|
||||
comment on <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> is always some sort of a way that can be interpreted anyway
|
||||
that you want. You can say this indicates the committee looked into it and
|
||||
they feel he wasn't involved. Or you can look at it and say the committee
|
||||
looked into it and they have a lot of doubts about Hunt, and they're just
|
||||
being very careful about what they are saying. Hunt himself will not tell you
|
||||
looked into it and they have a lot of doubts about <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent>, and they're just
|
||||
being very careful about what they are saying. <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> himself will not tell you
|
||||
what happened before these committees. He says that his testimony is
|
||||
classified information. Well, if the testimony vindicates Hunt and provides
|
||||
classified information. Well, if the testimony vindicates <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> and provides
|
||||
him with an alibi then why can't he tell us? The mystery remains.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: Do you believe it possible that the CIA knows where Hunt was Nov. 22,
|
||||
<p>FD: Do you believe it possible that the CIA knows where <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> was Nov. 22,
|
||||
1963, but just do not want to release that information?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: That's my guess. I think that subsequently, by now, the CIA may
|
||||
not have known where Hunt was at the time, and they may not have even
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: That's my guess. I think that subsequently, by now, the CIA may
|
||||
not have known where <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> was at the time, and they may not have even
|
||||
realized what he was up to until years after and years later when his name
|
||||
started to be commonly mentioned in connection with the assassination. I
|
||||
think by now the CIA probably knows where Hunt was and what he was doing or
|
||||
think by now the CIA probably knows where <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> was and what he was doing or
|
||||
have some very strong feelings about that, and they're not too happy about
|
||||
it. But whatever it was, and is, that Hunt was involved in, it seems to be,
|
||||
it. But whatever it was, and is, that <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> was involved in, it seems to be,
|
||||
or would appear, that he was in or around Dallas about the time of the
|
||||
assassination, involved in some kind of clandestine activity. It may have
|
||||
been an illegal clandestine activity, even something the CIA was unaware of.
|
||||
The CIA acts very strangely about this. The CIA will not give Hunt any help.
|
||||
The CIA acts very strangely about this. The CIA will not give <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> any help.
|
||||
He got no help at all from the CIA in the preparation of his case against us
|
||||
or in the presentation of his case. They just left him out there. Hunt
|
||||
or in the presentation of his case. They just left him out there. <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent>
|
||||
managed to scrounge up a couple of his CIA friends who on their own were
|
||||
willing to give some help, but caved in right away. One guy didn't testify.
|
||||
Another guy gave a stupid deposition in the middle of the night to us
|
||||
(laughs) which wasn't worth the paper it was written on.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Helms gave a deposition which said nothing. No way would he go out on a limb
|
||||
for Hunt. In my own mind, I have a feeling that the CIA knows where Hunt was
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent> gave a deposition which said nothing. No way would he go out on a limb
|
||||
for <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent>. In my own mind, I have a feeling that the CIA knows where <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent> was
|
||||
and what he was doing, and while they're not going to prosecute him for a lot
|
||||
of reasons, they're involved in the cover-up themselves and don't want to
|
||||
bring any embarrassment upon the agency. On the other hand, they feel if he
|
||||
screws around and gets his own mit in the ringer, that's his own fault, and
|
||||
we can cover our ass. Hunt, for his own part, apparently feels he has some
|
||||
we can cover our ass. <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent>, for his own part, apparently feels he has some
|
||||
sort of pressure on the CIA that while it might not be strong enough to bring
|
||||
them forward to defend him before any committee or in a court of law, its at
|
||||
least strong enough for them not to take any overt action against him. So it
|
||||
seems to me to be some kind of double graymail. Hunt's graymailing the CIA on
|
||||
seems to me to be some kind of double graymail. <ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent>'s graymailing the CIA on
|
||||
one hand and they're graymailing him on the other hand. Its a very, very
|
||||
strange thing.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: Did Jerry Hemmings give a deposition? I understand he is still in prison.</p>
|
||||
<p>FD: Did <ent type = 'person'>Jerry</ent> Hemmings give a deposition? I understand he is still in prison.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: I think Jerry might still be in. He asked not to give a deposition
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: I think <ent type = 'person'>Jerry</ent> might still be in. He asked not to give a deposition
|
||||
or be called as a witness unless it was absolutely necessary, because he was
|
||||
either coming toward the end of his term, or he was up for parole. He
|
||||
preferred not to get involved. This was pretty much the attitude of another
|
||||
individual who was mentioned, but I was left with the feeling that if push
|
||||
really came to shove, these people could be brought forward. Now what they
|
||||
know, or whether they were going to risk perjury, which is a pretty big
|
||||
gamble when you`re dealing with Mark Lane, particularly on this subject. He's
|
||||
gamble when you`re dealing with <ent type = 'person'>Mark Lane</ent>, particularly on this subject. He's
|
||||
not only a brilliant lawyer, but this is a subject he has a lot of background
|
||||
in.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: Did Gordon Novel fit into this at all?</p>
|
||||
<p>FD: Did <ent type = 'person'>Gordon Novel</ent> fit into this at all?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: No.</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: No.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: You mentioned that it is possible the CIA is withholding information on
|
||||
Hunt's whereabouts Nov. 22, 1963. The CIA has been accused many times in the
|
||||
past of engaging in a cover-up of the JFK assassination. Do you believe they
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hunt</ent>'s whereabouts Nov. 22, 1963. The CIA has been accused many times in the
|
||||
past of engaging in a cover-up of the <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> assassination. Do you believe they
|
||||
are still covering up in a lot of ways?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: Oh yeah, I think so, I'd think not only they and the FBI, I think
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: Oh yeah, I think so, I'd think not only they and the FBI, I think
|
||||
everybody is covering up.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: Are they covering up necessarily to just keep the American people in the
|
||||
dark about the episode, or cover-up because of their own guilt and complicity?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: I think its both. I think it all started with when it happened. I
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: I think its both. I think it all started with when it happened. I
|
||||
don't think anybody was really sure in Washington who was behind the
|
||||
assassination. I think they were very fearful that if they didn't come up
|
||||
with a lone nut theory, and in this case a lone nut who was removed from the
|
||||
@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ institutions. They might begin to point fingers at all kinds of people. The
|
||||
Russians. The Cubans. Other elements of our society like the right wing and
|
||||
organized crime and so on. I think there was a consensus in the minds of the
|
||||
establishmentarians in our government which was that we should put this to
|
||||
bed as quickly and as quietly as possible. We'll make a hero out of Kennedy
|
||||
bed as quickly and as quietly as possible. We'll make a hero out of <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>
|
||||
and let's forget about it. And then of course they did have to have a Warren
|
||||
Commission, a blue-ribbon panel which would have the right people on it and
|
||||
then we'll lay the thing to rest officially. Which is essentially what
|
||||
@ -721,17 +721,17 @@ happened. They didn't hear a lot of evidence. They ignored evidence. Evidence
|
||||
was hidden. Evidence was destroyed. I think it was pretty much clear that
|
||||
nobody was being absolutely forthcoming.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The former head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, even said he would lie to the
|
||||
people about anything he considered to pertain to national security. Dulles
|
||||
said he would lie to the people if he had to. I think the Kennedy
|
||||
<p>The former head of the CIA, <ent type = 'person'>Allen <ent type = 'person'>Dulles</ent></ent>, even said he would lie to the
|
||||
people about anything he considered to pertain to national security. <ent type = 'person'>Dulles</ent>
|
||||
said he would lie to the people if he had to. I think the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>
|
||||
assassination was laid to rest by the establishment and it became just a
|
||||
suspicion in the minds of the people. Then came the revelations. I think by
|
||||
now everybody involved was deeply involved in the coverup, that that maybe
|
||||
became even more paramount than the question of who did kill Kennedy and why.
|
||||
became even more paramount than the question of who did kill <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> and why.
|
||||
To admit that we covered up from the very begining, and that we've been
|
||||
covering up ever since, I think, would be more devastating than it would have
|
||||
been a few years ago to say O.K., we've looked into it, and figured it out,
|
||||
it was CIA renegades, or whoever was responsible for murdering Kennedy. I
|
||||
it was CIA renegades, or whoever was responsible for murdering <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>. I
|
||||
think by now there are just too many people that feel they may have started
|
||||
out originally for the most noble of motives but they cannot adjust to it. We
|
||||
saw it with the Watergate affair, and see it every day in life. Once somebody
|
||||
@ -744,9 +744,9 @@ answer, frankly. I don't think we're every going to get the answer to the
|
||||
story.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: You're pessimistic about the American people discovering the real truth
|
||||
about the JFK assassination?</p>
|
||||
about the <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> assassination?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: This is not to say that 50 years from now that some historian may
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: This is not to say that 50 years from now that some historian may
|
||||
get access to some material when everybody is dead and buried, and might be
|
||||
able to put together a pretty accurate story. But even then, with all of the
|
||||
time that has gone by, the myth will have been established. You have those
|
||||
@ -754,18 +754,18 @@ people that will say, ``Ugh. Conspiracy theorists,'' while other people will
|
||||
say, ``I never believe the government.'' But it will have no effect.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: So you believe it will only be time that will reveal the full truth about
|
||||
the JFK assassination? The truth won't be revealed because of another big
|
||||
the <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> assassination? The truth won't be revealed because of another big
|
||||
government scandal like Watergate, or a president who is committed to seeing
|
||||
that the case is solved?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: One of the presidents who might have unearthed all this, actually
|
||||
a potential president was Bobby Kennedy, but he got rubbed out.</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: One of the presidents who might have unearthed all this, actually
|
||||
a potential president was Bobby <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>, but he got rubbed out.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: Bobby Kennedy made a statement three days before he was murdered that he
|
||||
<p>FD: Bobby <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> made a statement three days before he was murdered that he
|
||||
felt only the office of the presidency could get at the truth.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: I'm not sure if thats possible. I wonder in my own mind if, let's
|
||||
say, Teddy Kennedy would be elected president. I wonder if he, one, would
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: I'm not sure if thats possible. I wonder in my own mind if, let's
|
||||
say, Teddy <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> would be elected president. I wonder if he, one, would
|
||||
have the courage to reopen the case at this point in time knowing everything
|
||||
he knows about it probably. And two, if he had the courage, would he have the
|
||||
muscle to be able to resolve it completely and fully to the satisfaction of
|
||||
@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ difficult until it is impossible.</p>
|
||||
government. Is this true, or is it the invisible state within a state, the
|
||||
intelligence community?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: I don't think the intelligence community, although it is an
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: I don't think the intelligence community, although it is an
|
||||
invisible arm of the government, runs it. I think the people who run the
|
||||
country are the same people who usually run things not only here but all over
|
||||
the world. The powerful economic interests, whether they are bankers, or
|
||||
@ -789,20 +789,20 @@ it. Generally speaking, they have more influence on the government than the
|
||||
other people do. Its manifested itself in all sorts of ways. There are all of
|
||||
these forces at work.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: One last question: PSI. Both the CIA and the KGB had a great interest in
|
||||
<p>FD: One last question: <ent type = 'person'>PSI</ent>. Both the CIA and the KGB had a great interest in
|
||||
this area. One of the things I know the CIA did, attempt to recruit KGB
|
||||
agents in the afterlife. Are you familiar with this?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marchetti: I do know there was great interest in this whole area of
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>: I do know there was great interest in this whole area of
|
||||
parapsychology, for whatever benefit may have been achieved. Not only the
|
||||
CIA, but the Pentagon was involved, and for that matter, the KGB. Everybody
|
||||
has apparently examined it. There were a lot of stories floating around the
|
||||
CIA that they had tried to contact old agents like Penkovsky, who had been
|
||||
CIA that they had tried to contact old agents like <ent type = 'person'>Penkovsky</ent>, who had been
|
||||
captured and killed, executed by the Soviet Union, in the hope that they
|
||||
could derive additional information. To my knowledge none of this stuff
|
||||
really worked.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FD: Thank you, Victor Marchetti.
|
||||
<p>FD: Thank you, Victor <ent type = 'person'>Marchetti</ent>.
|
||||
|
||||
could derive additional information. To my knowledge none of this stuff
|
||||
really worked.</p>
|
||||
|
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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
|
||||
<p> OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR 25 APR 1956
|
||||
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable J. Edgar Hoover
|
||||
<p> MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable J. <ent type = 'person'>Edgar Hoover</ent>
|
||||
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> SUBJECT : Brainwashing</p>
|
||||
@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ available on this subject.</p>
|
||||
<p> Brainwashing, as a technique, has been used for centuries and
|
||||
is no mystery to psychologists. In this sense, brainwashing means
|
||||
involuntary re-education of basic beliefs and values. All people
|
||||
are being re-educated continually. New information changes one's
|
||||
are being re-educated contin<ent type = 'person'>ually</ent>. New information changes one's
|
||||
beliefs. Everyone has experienced to some degree the conflict that
|
||||
ensues when new information is not consistent with prior belief.
|
||||
The experience of the brainwashed individual differs in that the in-
|
||||
@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ lightly can change them easily. Since the brainwasher-interrogators
|
||||
aim to have the individuals undergo profound emotional change, they
|
||||
force their victims to seek out painfully what is desired by the
|
||||
controlling individual. During this period the victim is likely to
|
||||
have a mental breakdown characterized by delusions and hallucinat-
|
||||
have a mental breakdown characterized by delusions and <ent type = 'person'>hallucinat</ent>-
|
||||
ions.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 4. Discovery that there is an acceptable solution to his prob-
|
||||
@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ states in the brainwashed adult are</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>pitiful. His new value-system, his manner of perceiving,organizing,and
|
||||
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
giving meaning to events, is virtually independent of his former value-
|
||||
giving meaning to events, is virt<ent type = 'person'>ually</ent> independent of his former value-
|
||||
system.He is no longer capable of thinking or speaking in concepts other
|
||||
than those he has adopted. He tends to identify by expressing thanks to
|
||||
his captors for helping him see the light.Brainwashing can be achieved
|
||||
@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ getfulness, and decreased ability to maintain orderly thought processes.</p>
|
||||
<p> 6. Control of Food,Water and Tobacco. The controlled individual
|
||||
is made intensely aware of his dependence upon his interrogator for the
|
||||
quality and quantity of his food and tobacco. The exercise of this con-
|
||||
trol usually follows a pattern. No food and little or no water is per-
|
||||
trol us<ent type = 'person'>ually</ent> follows a pattern. No food and little or no water is per-
|
||||
mitted the individual for several days prior to interrogation.When the
|
||||
prisoner first complains of this to the interrogator, the latter expresses
|
||||
surprise at such inhumane treatment. He makes a demand of the prisoner.
|
||||
@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ approaches the main interrogator with mixed feelings of relief and
|
||||
fright.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Surprise is commonly used in the brainwashing process. The prisoner
|
||||
is rarely prepared for the fact that the interrogators are usually friendly
|
||||
is rarely prepared for the fact that the interrogators are us<ent type = 'person'>ually</ent> friendly
|
||||
and considerate at first. They make every effort to demonstrate that
|
||||
they are reasonable human beings. Often they apologize for bad treatment
|
||||
received by the prisoner and promise to improve his lot if he, too, is
|
||||
@ -411,11 +411,11 @@ The first occasion he balks at satisfying a request of the interrogator ,
|
||||
however, he is in for another surprise. The formerly reasonable inter-
|
||||
rogator unexpectedly turns into a furious maniac. The interrogator is
|
||||
likely to slap the prisoner or draw his pistol and threaten to shoot him.
|
||||
Usually this storm of emotion ceases as suddenly as it began and the in-
|
||||
Us<ent type = 'person'>ually</ent> this storm of emotion ceases as suddenly as it began and the in-
|
||||
terrogator stalks from the room. These surprising changes create doubt
|
||||
in the prisoner as to his very ability to perceive another person's moti-
|
||||
vations correctly. His next interrogation probably will be marked by im-
|
||||
passivity in the interrogator 's mien.</p>
|
||||
passivity in the interrogator '<ent type = 'person'>s mien</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A feeling of uncertainty about what is required of him is likewise
|
||||
carefully engendered within the individual . Pleas of the prisoner to
|
||||
@ -430,8 +430,8 @@ learn specifically of what he is accused and by whom are side-stepped by</p>
|
||||
he is held and what he feels he is guilty of. If the prisoner fails to
|
||||
come up with anything, he is accused in terms of broad generalities (e.g.,
|
||||
espionage, sabotage,acts of treason against the "people"). This us-
|
||||
ually provokes the prisoner to make some statement about his activities.
|
||||
If this take the form of a denial, he is usually sent to isolation on
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>ually</ent> provokes the prisoner to make some statement about his activities.
|
||||
If this take the form of a denial, he is us<ent type = 'person'>ually</ent> sent to isolation on
|
||||
further decreased food rations to "think over" his crimes. This process
|
||||
can be repeated again and again. As soon as the prisoner can think of
|
||||
something that might be considered self-incriminating, the interrogator
|
||||
@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ depression when the interrogator is being kind and becomes euphoric when
|
||||
the interrogator is threatening the direst penalties. Then the cycle is
|
||||
reversed. The prisoner finds himself in a constant state of anxiety
|
||||
which prevents him from relaxing even when he is permitted to sleep.
|
||||
Short periods of isolation now bring on visual and auditory hallucinations.
|
||||
Short periods of isolation now bring on visual and auditory <ent type = 'person'>hallucinat</ent>ions.
|
||||
The prisoner feels himself losing his objectivity. It is in this state
|
||||
that the prisoner must keep up an endless argument with the interrogator .
|
||||
He may be faced with the confessions of other individuals who "collabo-
|
||||
@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ willingness to write a confession.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> If this were truly the end, no brainwashing would have occurred.
|
||||
The individual would simply have given in to intolerable pressure. Ac-
|
||||
tually, the final stage of the brainwashing process has just begun. No
|
||||
t<ent type = 'person'>ually</ent>, the final stage of the brainwashing process has just begun. No
|
||||
matter what the prisoner writes in his confession the interrogator is
|
||||
not satisfied. The interrogator questions every sentence of the confes-
|
||||
sion. He begins to edit it with the prisoner. The prisoner is forced
|
||||
@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ tions. Practice in being the victim of interrogation is a sound train-
|
||||
ing device.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Torture. The trainee should learn something about the principles of
|
||||
pain and shock. There is a maximum to the amount of pain that can actually
|
||||
pain and shock. There is a maximum to the amount of pain that can act<ent type = 'person'>ually</ent>
|
||||
be felt. Any amount of pain can be tolerated for a limited period of
|
||||
time. In addition, the trainee can be fortified by the knowledge that there
|
||||
are legal limitations upon the amount of torture that can be inflicted
|
||||
@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ always be enough to maintain survival. Sometimes the victim gets unex-
|
||||
pected opportunities to supplement his diet with special minerals,vitamins
|
||||
and other nutrients (e.g.,"iron" from the rust of prison bars). In some
|
||||
instances, experience has shown that individuals could exploit refusal to
|
||||
eat. Such refusal usually resulted in the transfer of the individual to
|
||||
eat. Such refusal us<ent type = 'person'>ually</ent> resulted in the transfer of the individual to
|
||||
a hospital where he received vitamin injections and nutritious food. Evi-
|
||||
dently attempts of this kind to commit suicide arouse the greatest concern
|
||||
in communist officials. If deprivation of tobacco is the control being
|
||||
@ -636,13 +636,13 @@ overcome them insofar as possible. For example, mild physical exercise
|
||||
<p> Writing Personal Accounts and Self-Criticism. Experience has in-
|
||||
dicated that one of the most effective ways of combatting these pressures
|
||||
is to enter into the spirit with an overabundance of enthusiasm. Endless
|
||||
written accounts of inconsequential material have virtually "smothered"
|
||||
written accounts of inconsequential material have virt<ent type = 'person'>ually</ent> "smothered"
|
||||
some eager interrogators. In the same spirit, sober, detailed self-
|
||||
criticisms of the most minute "sins" has sometimes brought good results.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Guidance as to the priority of positions he should defend. Perfectly
|
||||
compatible responsibilities in the normal execution of an individual's
|
||||
duties may become mutually incompatible in this situation. Take the ex-
|
||||
duties may become mut<ent type = 'person'>ually</ent> incompatible in this situation. Take the ex-
|
||||
ample of a senior grade military officer. He has the knowledge of sensitive
|
||||
strategic intelligence which it is his duty to protect. He has the respon-
|
||||
sibility of maintaining the physical fitness of his men and serving as
|
||||
@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ ward thwarting the techniques themselves.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> (SIGNED)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> (DECLASSIFIED) Richard Helms
|
||||
<p> (DECLASSIFIED) <ent type = 'person'>Richard <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent></ent>
|
||||
(By C.I.A.) Deputy Director for Plans
|
||||
(letter of ___________)
|
||||
(---------------------)</p>
|
||||
@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ ward thwarting the techniques themselves.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> a. The adoption of a multidisciplinary approach integrating
|
||||
biological,social and physical-mathematical research in attempts
|
||||
better to understand, and eventually, to control human behavior in a
|
||||
better to understand, and event<ent type = 'person'>ually</ent>, to control human behavior in a
|
||||
manner consonant with national plans.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> b. The outstanding feature, in addition to the inter-
|
||||
@ -845,17 +845,17 @@ ward thwarting the techniques themselves.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The second letter and attachment are from the Warren
|
||||
Commission documents. Notice should be paid to the different
|
||||
tone Helms gives to his letter, keeping in mind he was found
|
||||
tone <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent> gives to his letter, keeping in mind he was found
|
||||
guilty of lying to Congress. He places greater emphasis on
|
||||
"Soviet" practices and tries to diminish breakthroughs gained
|
||||
by Americans. Some thought should be given as to WHY the
|
||||
Warren Commission sought such documents (remembering that
|
||||
ALLEN DULLES was a member of that Commission). They were
|
||||
ALLEN <ent type = 'person'>DULLES</ent> was a member of that Commission). They were
|
||||
exploring the Manchurian candidate theory. It was revealed
|
||||
during the Church Committee hearings of 1975 that Helms had
|
||||
during the Church Committee hearings of 1975 that <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent> had
|
||||
been in charge of Project AMLASH, a program to assassinate
|
||||
Castro (Cuba),Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Diem (RVN),
|
||||
Schneider (Chile) using MAFIA figures John Roselli and Santos
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> (Cuba),Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Diem (RVN),
|
||||
Schneider (Chile) using MAFIA figures <ent type = 'person'>John Roselli</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Santos</ent>
|
||||
Trafficante to do the job. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Care was used to insure lines appear in same length and order.
|
||||
@ -866,10 +866,10 @@ ward thwarting the techniques themselves.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Another file downloaded from: NIRVANAnet(tm)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> & the Temple of the Screaming Electron Jeff Hunter 510-935-5845
|
||||
<p> & the Temple of the Screaming Electron <ent type = 'person'>Jeff Hunter</ent> 510-935-5845
|
||||
Salted Slug Systems Strange 408-454-9368
|
||||
Burn This Flag Zardoz 408-363-9766
|
||||
realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 415-567-7043
|
||||
realitycheck <ent type = 'person'>Poindexter Fortran</ent> 415-567-7043
|
||||
Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 415-583-4102
|
||||
Tomorrow's 0rder of Magnitude Finger_Man 408-961-9315
|
||||
My Dog Bit Jesus Suzanne D'Fault 510-658-8078</p>
|
||||
|
@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
works from the bottom, using all of its guile with security and
|
||||
"need to know"--a euphemism for "keep the scheme away from anyone
|
||||
at any level of government who might stand in its way." Hand and
|
||||
Lansdale, among others, were almost always able to line up enough
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Lansdale</ent>, among others, were almost always able to line up enough
|
||||
support in the right places to make it possible for the CIA to get
|
||||
a favorable reading from the "Forty Committee" on any subject,
|
||||
legal or not. In fact, this is the great weakness of such a
|
||||
@ -28,37 +28,37 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> the following appeared in the 7/75 issue of "Genesis:"
|
||||
_____________________________________________________________________
|
||||
How the CIA Controls President Ford
|
||||
By L. Fletcher Prouty
|
||||
How the CIA Controls President <ent type = 'person'>Ford</ent>
|
||||
By L. <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Fletch</ent>er <ent type = 'person'>Prouty</ent></ent>
|
||||
reprinted here with permission of the author</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In this monstrous U.S. government today, it's not so much what
|
||||
comes down from the top that matters as what you can get away with
|
||||
from the bottom or from the middle--the least scrutinized level.
|
||||
(Contrary to the current CIA propaganda as preached by William
|
||||
Colby, Ray Cline, Victor Marchetti and Philip Agee, who say,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Colby</ent>, Ray Cline, <ent type = 'person'>Victor Marchetti</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Philip Agee</ent>, who say,
|
||||
incorrectly, "What the Agency does is ordered by the President.")
|
||||
As with the Mafia, crime is a cinch if you know the cops and the
|
||||
courts have been paid off. With the Central Intelligence Agency,
|
||||
anything goes when you have a respected boss to sanctify and bless
|
||||
your activities and to shield them from outside eyes.
|
||||
Such a boss in the CIA was old Allen Dulles, who ran the Agency
|
||||
Such a boss in the CIA was old <ent type = 'person'>Allen Dulles</ent>, who ran the Agency
|
||||
like a mother superior running a whorehouse. He knew the girls
|
||||
were happy, busy, and well fed, but he wasn't quite sure what they
|
||||
were doing. His favorites, all through the years of his prime as
|
||||
Director of Central Intelligence, were such stellar performers as
|
||||
Frank Wisner, Dick Bissell, George Doole, Sheffield Edwards, Dick
|
||||
Helms, Red White, Tracy Barnes, Desmond Fitzgerald, Joe Alsop, Ted
|
||||
Shannon, Ed Lansdale and countless others. They were the great
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Wisner</ent></ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Dick Bissell</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>George Doole</ent>, Sheffield <ent type = 'person'>Edwards</ent>, Dick
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent>, Red White, <ent type = 'person'>Tracy Barnes</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Desmond Fitzgerald</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Joe Alsop</ent>, Ted
|
||||
Shannon, Ed <ent type = 'person'>Lansdale</ent> and countless others. They were the great
|
||||
operators. He just made it possible for them to do anything they
|
||||
came up with.
|
||||
When Wisner and Richard Nixon came up with the idea of mounting
|
||||
When <ent type = 'person'>Wisner</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Richard Nixon</ent> came up with the idea of mounting
|
||||
a major rebellion in Indonesia in 1958, Dulles saw that they got
|
||||
the means and the wherewithal. When General Cabell and his Air
|
||||
Force friends plugged the U-2 project for Kelly Johnson of
|
||||
Lockheed, Dulles tossed it into the lap of Dick Bissell. When Dick
|
||||
Helms and Des Fitzgerald figured they could play fun and games in
|
||||
Tibet, Dulles talked to Tom Gates, then Secretary of Defense, and
|
||||
the means and the wherewithal. When General <ent type = 'person'>Cabell</ent> and his Air
|
||||
Force friends plugged the U-2 project for <ent type = 'person'>Kelly Johnson</ent> of
|
||||
Lockheed, Dulles tossed it into the lap of <ent type = 'person'>Dick Bissell</ent>. When Dick
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Des Fitzgerald</ent> figured they could play fun and games in
|
||||
Tibet, Dulles talked to <ent type = 'person'>Tom Gates</ent>, then Secretary of Defense, and
|
||||
the next we knew CIA agents were spiriting the Dalai Lama out of
|
||||
Lhasa, CIA undercover aircraft were clandestinely dropping tons of
|
||||
arms, ammunitions, and supplies deep into Tibet and other planes
|
||||
@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
leaders, Dulles dropped off minor miracles along the way to
|
||||
titillate those in high places. If you win the heart of the queen
|
||||
and convert her to your faith, you can control the king. This
|
||||
works for the Jesuits. It worked well for the CIA. Allen Dulles
|
||||
works for the Jesuits. It worked well for the CIA. <ent type = 'person'>Allen Dulles</ent>
|
||||
was no casual student and practitioner of the ancient art of
|
||||
religion. He was an expert in the art of mind-control. He learned
|
||||
how to operate his disciples and his Agency in the ways of the
|
||||
@ -78,14 +78,14 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
hundreds of faceless, nameless minions whose only satisfaction was
|
||||
the job well done and the furtherance of the cause. One of the
|
||||
most remarkable--and surely the best--of these was an agent named
|
||||
Frank Hand.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent>.
|
||||
In my book, "The Secret Team," written during 1971 and 1972, I
|
||||
mentioned that the most important agent in the CIA was an almost
|
||||
unknown individual who spent most of his time in the Pentagon. At
|
||||
that time I did not reveal his name; but a small item in a recent
|
||||
obituary column stated that:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "Frank Hand, 61, a former senior official of the CIA, died in
|
||||
<p> "<ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent>, 61, a former senior official of the CIA, died in
|
||||
Marshall, Minn. . . . (he was) a graduate of Harvard Law
|
||||
School. He had served with the CIA from 1950 until
|
||||
retirement in 1971."</p>
|
||||
@ -93,19 +93,19 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
<p> After a life devoted to quiet, effective, skillful performance
|
||||
of one of the most important jobs in the worldwide structure of
|
||||
that unparalleled agency, all that the CIA would publicly say of
|
||||
Frank Hand was that he was a "senior official."
|
||||
Ask Dick Helms, Ed Lansdale, Bob McNamara, Tom Gates or Allen
|
||||
Dulles or John Foster Dulles, if they were with us today, and they
|
||||
all would tell us stories about Frank Hand. They would do more to
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent> was that he was a "senior official."
|
||||
Ask <ent type = 'person'>Dick <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent></ent>, Ed <ent type = 'person'>Lansdale</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Bob <ent type = 'person'>McNamara</ent></ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Tom Gates</ent> or Allen
|
||||
Dulles or <ent type = 'person'>John Foster Dulles</ent>, if they were with us today, and they
|
||||
all would tell us stories about <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent>. They would do more to
|
||||
characterize the nature and the sources of power which make use of
|
||||
and control the CIA than has ever been told before. He was that
|
||||
superior operative who made big things work unobtrusively.
|
||||
You might have been one of the grass-green McNamara "whiz kids,"
|
||||
You might have been one of the grass-green <ent type = 'person'>McNamara</ent> "whiz kids,"
|
||||
lost in the maze of the Pentagon Puzzle Palace, who came upon a
|
||||
short, Hobbit-like, pleasant man who knew the Pentagon so well that
|
||||
you got the feeling he was brought in with the original load of
|
||||
concrete. Thousands of career men to this day will never realize
|
||||
that Frank Hand was a "Senior Official" of the CIA and not one of
|
||||
that <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent> was a "Senior Official" of the CIA and not one of
|
||||
their civilian cohorts. To my knowledge he never worked anywhere
|
||||
else. I was there in 1955 and he was there. I left in December
|
||||
1963, and he was at my farewell party. He must have spent some of
|
||||
@ -114,17 +114,17 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
Pentagon and the CIA he would have died a very wealthy man. He
|
||||
popularized the Agency term "across the river" and the "Acme
|
||||
Plumbers" nickname for agents of the CIA. (A term later to be
|
||||
confused by Colson and John Ehrlichman, among others, with the use
|
||||
confused by <ent type = 'person'>Colson</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>John Ehrlichman</ent>, among others, with the use
|
||||
of the term "White House Plumbers" of Watergate fame. Someone knew
|
||||
that Hunt, McCord, the Cubans, Haig, Butterfield and others all had
|
||||
CIA backgrounds and connections and therefore were "Plumbers."
|
||||
Only the insiders knew about the real "Acme Plumbers.")
|
||||
Frank was as much at home with Allen Dulles as he was with the
|
||||
famous old supersleuth, General Graves B. Erskine, and as he was
|
||||
with Helms, Colby, or Fitzgerald. Ian Fleming may have popularized
|
||||
the spy and the undercover agent as a flashing James Bond type;
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> was as much at home with <ent type = 'person'>Allen Dulles</ent> as he was with the
|
||||
famous old supersleuth, General Graves B. <ent type = 'person'>Erskine</ent>, and as he was
|
||||
with <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Colby</ent>, or Fitzgerald. Ian Fleming may have popularized
|
||||
the spy and the undercover agent as a flashing <ent type = 'person'>James Bond</ent> type;
|
||||
but in the reality of today's world the great ones are more in the
|
||||
mold of Frank Hand and "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold."
|
||||
mold of <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent> and "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold."
|
||||
There has long existed a "golden key" group of agency and
|
||||
agency-related supermen. They came from the CIA, the Pentagon, the
|
||||
Department of State, the White House and other places in government
|
||||
@ -144,13 +144,13 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
going into action when the price of petroleum and wheat is doubled
|
||||
or tripled by avaricious international monopolies.
|
||||
Some of these "gold key" members have surfaced and have accepted
|
||||
publicity, as did Des Fitzgerald, Allen Dulles, Tracy Barnes and
|
||||
others. Frank never did. He was so anonymous that even his
|
||||
publicity, as did <ent type = 'person'>Des Fitzgerald</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Allen Dulles</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Tracy Barnes</ent> and
|
||||
others. <ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> never did. He was so anonymous that even his
|
||||
friends could not find him.
|
||||
The Agency covered for Frank Hand as it did for few others. The
|
||||
James Bonds of this world may be the idols of the Intelligence
|
||||
coterie; but if you are a Bill Colby, Dick Helms, or Allen Dulles,
|
||||
you know the real value of an indispensable agent. Frank was their
|
||||
The Agency covered for <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent> as it did for few others. The
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>James Bond</ent>s of this world may be the idols of the Intelligence
|
||||
coterie; but if you are a Bill <ent type = 'person'>Colby</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Dick <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent></ent>, or <ent type = 'person'>Allen Dulles</ent>,
|
||||
you know the real value of an indispensable agent. <ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> was their
|
||||
man in the Pentagon, and the Pentagon was always the indispensable
|
||||
prime target of the CIA. When the chips are down, the CIA could
|
||||
care less about overturning "Communism" in Cuba or Chile. What
|
||||
@ -175,24 +175,24 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
being able to move heavy war-making equipment into Vietnam. The
|
||||
helicopters were actually U.S. Marine Corps property on "loan" from
|
||||
Okinawa to the CIA for clandestine operations in Laos.
|
||||
At that time my immediate superior was General Graves Erskine,
|
||||
At that time my immediate superior was General <ent type = 'person'>Graves <ent type = 'person'>Erskine</ent></ent>,
|
||||
the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special (Clandestine)
|
||||
Operations, and the man then responsible for all military support
|
||||
of clandestine operations of the CIA. Also at that time, Frank
|
||||
Hand, "worked for" Erskine. Of course, this was a cover
|
||||
of clandestine operations of the CIA. Also at that time, <ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent>
|
||||
Hand, "worked for" <ent type = 'person'>Erskine</ent>. Of course, this was a cover
|
||||
assignment--"cover slot" as it was known to us and to the CIA.
|
||||
Frank had a regular office in the Pentagon.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> had a regular office in the Pentagon.
|
||||
No sooner had the CIA request been turned down than someone near
|
||||
the top of the agency called Frank and told him about it. In his
|
||||
the top of the agency called <ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> and told him about it. In his
|
||||
smiling and friendly way he came into my office, carrying two cups
|
||||
of coffee, and began some talk about music, travel, or golf. Then,
|
||||
as was his practice, he would get the subject around to his point
|
||||
with such a comment as, "Fletch, who do you suppose took a call
|
||||
with such a comment as, "<ent type = 'person'>Fletch</ent>, who do you suppose took a call
|
||||
here about the choppers in Laos?" and we would be off.
|
||||
The special ability he possessed was best evidenced by the
|
||||
process he would set in motion once he discovered a problem that
|
||||
affected the ambitions of the agency. He would talk about the
|
||||
choppers with Erskine. Then he would drop in to see the Chief of
|
||||
choppers with <ent type = 'person'>Erskine</ent>. Then he would drop in to see the Chief of
|
||||
Naval Operations and perhaps the Commandant of the Marine Corps.
|
||||
He would talk with some of the other civilian Assistant
|
||||
Secretaries. In other words, he would go from office to office
|
||||
@ -208,11 +208,11 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
officers had been with the CIA.
|
||||
Then he would drop out of the picture for awhile to travel back
|
||||
to the old CIA headquarters, on the hill that overlooks what is now
|
||||
the Watergate complex, for a long talk with Allen Dulles or the
|
||||
Deputy Director, General Cabell. On matters involving the
|
||||
the Watergate complex, for a long talk with <ent type = 'person'>Allen Dulles</ent> or the
|
||||
Deputy Director, General <ent type = 'person'>Cabell</ent>. On matters involving the
|
||||
clandestine services he would also stop by the old headquarters
|
||||
buildings, that lined the reflecting pool near the Lincoln
|
||||
Memorial, to talk with Dick Helms, Desmond Fitzgerald, and other
|
||||
Memorial, to talk with <ent type = 'person'>Dick <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent></ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Desmond Fitzgerald</ent>, and other
|
||||
operators. Within a day or two he would have them fully briefed on
|
||||
the steps to be taken in order to win over the Defense Department;
|
||||
or failing that, how to overpower and outmaneuver the Pentagon in
|
||||
@ -230,38 +230,38 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
beneath and behind the White House to effect policies that could
|
||||
influence the survival of the nation and the world. "Gold Key"
|
||||
operatives are, at this very moment, carrying out CIA game plans
|
||||
entirely outside the power of President Ford's ability to affect
|
||||
entirely outside the power of President <ent type = 'person'>Ford</ent>'s ability to affect
|
||||
their activities. He is totally without knowledge of most of them,
|
||||
and therefore powerless to stop or alter them.
|
||||
In the case of the helicopters, Frank Hand was able to convince
|
||||
Allen Dulles that the disapproval from the Secretary of Defense,
|
||||
In the case of the helicopters, <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent> was able to convince
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Allen Dulles</ent> that the disapproval from the Secretary of Defense,
|
||||
via my office, was real and that the Secretary would, at that time,
|
||||
be unlikely to change his mind. Frank also could report that the
|
||||
be unlikely to change his mind. <ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> also could report that the
|
||||
position of other top-level assistants was so cool to stepping up
|
||||
the hardware *involvement* of the military in Vietnam, in 1960,
|
||||
that none of them would likely attempt to persuade the Secretary to
|
||||
change his policy of limited involvement.
|
||||
Fortified with the information gleaned by Frank Hand, Allen
|
||||
Fortified with the information gleaned by <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent>, Allen
|
||||
Dulles would have two primary options: drop the idea of moving
|
||||
helicopters into Vietnam, or bypass the Secretary of Defense for
|
||||
the time being by going to the White House for support. In 1960
|
||||
this was a crucial decision. The huge attempt to support a
|
||||
rebellion in Indonesia had failed utterly, the U-2 operations had
|
||||
been curtailed because of the Gary Powers incident, the far-
|
||||
been curtailed because of the <ent type = 'person'>Gary Powers</ent> incident, the far-
|
||||
reaching operations into Tibet had come to a halt by Presidential
|
||||
directive and anti-Castro activities were limited to minor forays.
|
||||
directive and anti-<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> activities were limited to minor forays.
|
||||
And at that time the large-scale (large for CIA) war in Laos had
|
||||
become such a disaster that the CIA wanted no more of it. Dick
|
||||
Bissell, the chief of the Clandestine Services, had written strong,
|
||||
personal letters to Tom Gates, the Secretary of Defense, wondering
|
||||
openly what to do about the 50,000 or more miserable Laotian Meo
|
||||
personal letters to <ent type = 'person'>Tom Gates</ent>, the Secretary of Defense, wondering
|
||||
openly what to do about the 50,000 or more miserable Laotian <ent type = 'person'>Meo</ent>
|
||||
tribesmen the CIA had moved into the battle zones of Laos and then
|
||||
had deserted with no plans for their protection, resupply, care or
|
||||
feeding. The CIA badly wanted to be relieved of the war that they
|
||||
had started and then found they could not handle. They wanted to
|
||||
transfer and thus preserve the agency's assets, including the
|
||||
helicopters, to the bigger prospects in Vietnam.
|
||||
So, in 1960, if Allen Dulles dropped the idea of moving his
|
||||
So, in 1960, if <ent type = 'person'>Allen Dulles</ent> dropped the idea of moving his
|
||||
assets from Laos, he would not only have lost those helicopters
|
||||
back to the Marine Corps but he would have seriously jeopardized
|
||||
the CIA's undercover leadership role in the development of the war
|
||||
@ -280,21 +280,21 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
important in that decade.
|
||||
Typically, in his unwitting Mother Superior-style, which
|
||||
included bulldog tenacity, Dulles chose the route to the White
|
||||
House. Here again he could rely strongly on Frank Hand. Working
|
||||
with Hand in Erskine's office was the CIA's other best agent, Major
|
||||
General Edward G. Lansdale, who had long served in the CIA. Like
|
||||
House. Here again he could rely strongly on <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent>. Working
|
||||
with Hand in <ent type = 'person'>Erskine</ent>'s office was the CIA's other best agent, Major
|
||||
General Edward G. <ent type = 'person'>Lansdale</ent>, who had long served in the CIA. Like
|
||||
Hand, he had unequalled contacts in the Department of State and in
|
||||
the White House. In support of Dulles, they contacted their
|
||||
friends there and began a subtle and powerful move destined to
|
||||
prepare the way for what would appear to be a decision by President
|
||||
Eisenhower. This was an important feature of the "case study":
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Eisenhower</ent>. This was an important feature of the "case study":
|
||||
The *apparent* Presidential decision.
|
||||
When the CIA wants to do something for which it does not have
|
||||
prior approval and for which it does not have legal sanction, it
|
||||
works from the bottom, using all of its guile with security and
|
||||
"need to know"--a euphemism for "keep the scheme away from anyone
|
||||
at any level of government who might stand in its way." Hand and
|
||||
Lansdale, among others, were almost always able to line up enough
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Lansdale</ent>, among others, were almost always able to line up enough
|
||||
support in the right places to make it possible for the CIA to get
|
||||
a favorable reading from the "Forty Committee" on any subject,
|
||||
legal or not. In fact, this is the great weakness of such a
|
||||
@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
fact it did not.
|
||||
Thus it was that, about two weeks from the day that I received
|
||||
that first call requesting the movement of the squadron of
|
||||
helicopters, received word from General Erskine that he had been
|
||||
helicopters, received word from General <ent type = 'person'>Erskine</ent> that he had been
|
||||
"officially" informed that the White House (Forty Committee) had
|
||||
approved the secret operation. The helicopters were moved into
|
||||
Vietnam. They were the first of thousands.
|
||||
@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
of our government to get anything it wants done. But the anecdote
|
||||
shows only the surface coating of the application of the CIA
|
||||
apparatus.
|
||||
One year earlier, in 1959, Frank Hand had directed a Boston
|
||||
One year earlier, in 1959, <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent> had directed a Boston
|
||||
banker to my office. At that time I worked in the Directorate of
|
||||
Plans in Air Force headquarters and my work was top secret. Few of
|
||||
my contemporaries in the Pentagon knew that I was in charge of a
|
||||
@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
now was, "What would be the future of the military helicopter, and
|
||||
would the use of helicopters in South East Asia escalate if given a
|
||||
little boost--such as moving a squadron from Laos to Vietnam?" The
|
||||
CIA could tell them about that, and Frank Hand would be the man who
|
||||
CIA could tell them about that, and <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent> would be the man who
|
||||
could get them to the right people in the Pentagon.
|
||||
The banker from Boston phrased his questions as though he
|
||||
believed that the helicopters in Laos were somehow operating under
|
||||
@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
who instructs the CIA. The CIA is a great, monstrous machine with
|
||||
tremendous and terrible power. It can be set in motion from the
|
||||
outside like a programmer setting a computer in operation, and then
|
||||
it covers up what it is doing when men like Frank Hand--the real
|
||||
it covers up what it is doing when men like <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent>--the real
|
||||
movers--put grease on the correct gears. And in a majority of
|
||||
cases, the power behind it all is big business, big banks, big law
|
||||
firms and big money. The agency exists to be used by them.
|
||||
@ -380,36 +380,36 @@ Lines: 573</p>
|
||||
knowledge has been recently confirmed by Defense Secretary James
|
||||
Schlesinger (who is a former head of the CIA) and others by their
|
||||
admission that they told the agency to end all "terminations." But
|
||||
Lyndon Johnson was powerless to do anything about it. This is an
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Lyndon Johnson</ent> was powerless to do anything about it. This is an
|
||||
astounding admission from a President, the very man from whom, the
|
||||
CIA says, it always gets its instructions.
|
||||
The present concern over "domestic surveillance" and such other
|
||||
lean tidbits--most important to you and me as they are--is not
|
||||
important to the CIA. It can easily dispense with a James Angleton
|
||||
or even a Helms or a Colby (just look at the list of CIA bigwigs
|
||||
who have been fired--Allen Dulles, Frank Wisner, Dick Bissell, Dick
|
||||
Helms, and now perhaps Colby); but the great machine will live on
|
||||
important to the CIA. It can easily dispense with a <ent type = 'person'>James Angleton</ent>
|
||||
or even a <ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent> or a <ent type = 'person'>Colby</ent> (just look at the list of CIA bigwigs
|
||||
who have been fired--<ent type = 'person'>Allen Dulles</ent>, <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Wisner</ent></ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Dick Bissell</ent>, Dick
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Helms</ent>, and now perhaps <ent type = 'person'>Colby</ent>); but the great machine will live on
|
||||
while Congress digs away at the Golden Apples tossed casually aside
|
||||
by the CIA--the supreme Aphrodite of them all. Notice that the
|
||||
agency cares little about giving away "secrets" in the form of
|
||||
cleverly written insider books such as those by Victor Marchetti
|
||||
and Philip Agee. The CIA just makes it look as though it cared
|
||||
cleverly written insider books such as those by <ent type = 'person'>Victor Marchetti</ent>
|
||||
and <ent type = 'person'>Philip Agee</ent>. The CIA just makes it look as though it cared
|
||||
with some high-class window dressing. Actually the real harm to
|
||||
the American public from those books is to make people believe that
|
||||
certain carefully selected propaganda is true.
|
||||
In the story of Frank Hand we come much closer to seeing exactly
|
||||
In the story of <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent> Hand</ent> we come much closer to seeing exactly
|
||||
how the CIA operates to control this government and other foreign
|
||||
governments. It is still operating that way. Today it is
|
||||
President Ford who is the unwitting accessory.</p>
|
||||
President <ent type = 'person'>Ford</ent> who is the unwitting accessory.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> * * * * * * * *</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> the following is taken from an article Fletcher Prouty wrote
|
||||
<p> the following is taken from an article <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Fletch</ent>er <ent type = 'person'>Prouty</ent></ent> wrote
|
||||
for the February 1986 issue of "Freedom" magazine, entitled,
|
||||
"Why Vietnam? The Selection and Preparation of the
|
||||
Battlefield For America's Entry into the Indochina War," Part
|
||||
7 in a Series on the Central Intelligence Agency. i include
|
||||
it to amplify on the curious visit Colonel Prouty received in
|
||||
it to amplify on the curious visit Colonel <ent type = 'person'>Prouty</ent> received in
|
||||
1959 from the vice president of the First National Bank of
|
||||
Boston and how it demonstrates that</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ Boston and how it demonstrates that</p>
|
||||
executives of America's biggest businesses, and it works for
|
||||
them at home and abroad. It is always successful in the
|
||||
highest echelons of government and finance. . . .
|
||||
Translated into everyday terms, Casey's CIA, as was Allen
|
||||
Translated into everyday terms, <ent type = 'person'>Casey</ent>'s CIA, as was Allen
|
||||
Dulles' CIA, is one of the true bastions of power as a
|
||||
servant of the American and transnational business and
|
||||
financial community.</p>
|
||||
@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ Boston and how it demonstrates that</p>
|
||||
| Toward the end of World War II, a small number of |
|
||||
| helicopters made their appearance in military operations. |
|
||||
| During the costly battle for Okinawa, in the summer of 1945, |
|
||||
| General Joseph Stilwell--famed for his role as commander in |
|
||||
| General <ent type = 'person'>Joseph Stilwell</ent>--famed for his role as commander in |
|
||||
| the China-Burma-India theater of the war--began to use an |
|
||||
| early model of the Sikorsky helicopter as a"command car." |
|
||||
| During the early 1950s, the Korean War gave the |
|
||||
@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ Boston and how it demonstrates that</p>
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| Air Force Plans |
|
||||
| "Team B" |
|
||||
| Chief--Lt. Col. L. F. Prouty |
|
||||
| Chief--Lt. Col. L. F. <ent type = 'person'>Prouty</ent> |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| That card by the door drew little attention, and it was |
|
||||
| meant to be that way. Then how did this civilian visitor |
|
||||
@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ Boston and how it demonstrates that</p>
|
||||
| Because of the role being played by my office in support |
|
||||
| of the use of helicopters in Southeast Asia, I already knew |
|
||||
| the Bell people well both in Washington, D.C., and Buffalo. |
|
||||
| I knew Bill Gesel, the president of Bell Helicopter. I knew |
|
||||
| I knew <ent type = 'person'>Bill Gesel</ent>, the president of Bell Helicopter. I knew |
|
||||
| they were competent, but in trouble for lack of orders. |
|
||||
| I described the helicopter as a useful vehicle of limited |
|
||||
| potential, but rather well suited for covert operations. In |
|
||||
@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ Boston and how it demonstrates that</p>
|
||||
| now, the Bell "Huey" helicopter was the unsung hero of the |
|
||||
| struggle in Vietnam. Thousands were used there. |
|
||||
| On one occasion, while I was at lunch at the Army and |
|
||||
| Navy Club in Washington, Bill Gesel, still president of |
|
||||
| Navy Club in Washington, <ent type = 'person'>Bill Gesel</ent>, still president of |
|
||||
| Bell, came by my table and pulled a check out of his pocket |
|
||||
| that was in the range of nine figures--hundreds of millions |
|
||||
| of dollars. Needless to say, Bell was doing well. Textron |
|
||||
@ -531,17 +531,17 @@ Boston and how it demonstrates that</p>
|
||||
| highest echelons of government and finance. |
|
||||
| This is the way things were more than 25 years ago. You |
|
||||
| may be assured these successes have not diminished under the |
|
||||
| current director of central intelligence, William J. Casey, |
|
||||
| current director of central intelligence, William J. <ent type = 'person'>Casey</ent>, |
|
||||
| a true friend of business. |
|
||||
| During a speech, delivered in December 1979 before an |
|
||||
| American Bar Association workshop on "Law, Intelligence and |
|
||||
| National Security," Casey said that he would like to see the |
|
||||
| National Security," <ent type = 'person'>Casey</ent> said that he would like to see the |
|
||||
| CIA be a place "in the United States government to |
|
||||
| systematically look at the economic opportunities and |
|
||||
| threats in a long-term perspective, . . . [to] recommend, or |
|
||||
| act on the use of economic leverage, either offensively or |
|
||||
| defensively for strategic purposes." |
|
||||
| Translated into everyday terms, Casey's CIA, as was Allen |
|
||||
| Translated into everyday terms, <ent type = 'person'>Casey</ent>'s CIA, as was Allen |
|
||||
| Dulles' CIA, is one of the true bastions of power as a |
|
||||
| servant of the American and transnational business and |
|
||||
| financial community. |
|
||||
|
@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>
|
||||
<person>John Stockwell</person>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>John Stockwell</ent>
|
||||
The Secret Wars of the CIA</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [The Other Americas Radio; A two-part speech.]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p><person>John Stockwell</person> is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>John Stockwell</ent> is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency
|
||||
and go public. He ran a CIA intelligence-gathering post in Vietnam, was the
|
||||
task-force commander of the CIA's secret war in Angola in 1975 and 1976, and
|
||||
was awarded the Medal of Merit before he resigned. Stockwell's book "In Search
|
||||
@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ well) at:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>For the on-line (electronic) version of this transcription, contact
|
||||
toad@spice.cs.cmu.edu on the ARPA network, or retrieve, via FTP, the
|
||||
file /usr/toad/text/talk/speech.doc or /usr/toad/text/talk/speech.mss
|
||||
file /usr/toad/text/talk/speech.doc or /usr/toad/text/talk/speech.<ent type = 'person'>mss</ent>
|
||||
from the SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU vax. Also available as a paper manuscript, or
|
||||
digitally on disk. Write to P.O.Box 81795, Pittsburgh, PA 15217.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ digitally on disk. Write to P.O.Box 81795, Pittsburgh, PA 15217.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I did 13 years in the CIA altogether. I sat on a subcommittee of the NSC, so
|
||||
I was like a chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star generals) Henry
|
||||
Kissinger, Bill Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s and the CIA, making the
|
||||
Kissinger, <ent type = 'person'>Bill Colby</ent> (the CIA director), the GS-18s and the CIA, making the
|
||||
important decisions and my job was to put it all together and make it happen
|
||||
and run it, an interesting place from which to watch a covert action being
|
||||
done....</p>
|
||||
@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ syndrome. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S. manipulates the
|
||||
press. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S. is pouring money into
|
||||
El Salvador, and preparing to invade Nicaragua; how all of this concerns us so
|
||||
directly. I'm going to try to explain to you the other side of terrorism;
|
||||
that is, the other side of what Secretary of State Shultz talks about. In
|
||||
that is, the other side of what Secretary of State <ent type = 'person'>Shultz</ent> talks about. In
|
||||
doing this, we'll talk about the Korean war, the Vietnam war, and the Central
|
||||
American war.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -89,8 +89,8 @@ heart of Africa. I concluded that I just couldn't see the point.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We were doing things it seemed because we were there, because it was our
|
||||
function, we were bribing people, corrupting people, and not protecting the
|
||||
U.S. in any visible way. I had a chance to go drinking with this Larry Devlin,
|
||||
a famous CIA case officer who had overthrown Patrice Lumumba, and had him
|
||||
U.S. in any visible way. I had a chance to go drinking with this <ent type = 'person'>Larry Devlin</ent>,
|
||||
a famous CIA case officer who had overthrown <ent type = 'person'>Patrice Lumumba</ent>, and had him
|
||||
killed in 1960, back in the Congo. He was moving into the Africa division
|
||||
Chief. I talked to him in Addis Ababa at length one night, and he was giving
|
||||
me an explanation - I was telling him frankly, 'sir, you know, this stuff
|
||||
@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ point, then you will understand national security, and you can make the big
|
||||
decisions. Now, get to work, and stop, you know, this philosophizing.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>And I said, `Aye-aye sir, sorry sir, a bit out of line sir'. It's a very
|
||||
powerful argument, our presidents use it on us. President Reagan has used it
|
||||
powerful argument, our presidents use it on us. President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> has used it
|
||||
on the American people, saying, `if you knew what I know about the situation
|
||||
in Central America, you would understand why it's necessary for us to
|
||||
intervene.'</p>
|
||||
@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ life, began to get a little bit more serious. They assigned me a country. It
|
||||
was during the cease-fire, '73 to '75. There was no cease-fire. Young men
|
||||
were being slaughtered. I saw a slaughter. 300 young men that the South
|
||||
Vietnamese army ambushed. Their bodies brought in and laid out in a lot next
|
||||
to my compound. I was up-country in Tay-ninh. They were laid out next door,
|
||||
to my compound. I was up-country in <ent type = 'person'>Tay</ent>-ninh. They were laid out next door,
|
||||
until the families could come and claim them and take them away for burial.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I thought about this. I had to work with the sadistic police chief. When I
|
||||
@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ dramatic end of our long involvement in Vietnam....</p>
|
||||
<p>I had been designated as the task-force commander that would run this secret
|
||||
war [in Angola in 1975 and 1976].... and what I figured out was that in this
|
||||
job, I would sit on a sub-committee of the National Security Council, this
|
||||
office that Larry Devlin has told me about where they had access to all the
|
||||
office that <ent type = 'person'>Larry Devlin</ent> has told me about where they had access to all the
|
||||
information about Angola, about the whole world, and I would finally
|
||||
understand national security. And I couldn't resist the opportunity to know.
|
||||
I knew the CIA was not a worthwhile organization, I had learned that the hard
|
||||
@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ job.... Suffice it to say I wouldn't be standing in front of you tonight if I
|
||||
had found these wise men making these tough decisions. What I found, quite
|
||||
frankly, was fat old men sleeping through sub-committee meetings of the NSC in
|
||||
which we were making decisions that were killing people in Africa. I mean
|
||||
literally. Senior ambassador Ed Mulcahy... would go to sleep in nearly every
|
||||
literally. Senior ambassador <ent type = 'person'>Ed Mulcahy</ent>... would go to sleep in nearly every
|
||||
one of these meetings....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>You can change the names in my book [about Angola] and you've got
|
||||
@ -216,14 +216,14 @@ have been defended that way.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>There was never a study run that evaluated the MPLA, FNLA and UNITA, the three
|
||||
movements in the country, to decide which one was the better one. The
|
||||
assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Nathaniel Davis, no
|
||||
assistant secretary of state for African affairs, <ent type = 'person'>Nathaniel Davis</ent>, no
|
||||
bleeding-heart liberal (he was known by some people in the business as the
|
||||
butcher of Santiago), he said we should stay out of the conflict and work with
|
||||
whoever eventually won, and that was obviously the MPLA. Our consul in
|
||||
Luanda, Tom Killoran, vigorously argued that the MPLA was the best qualified
|
||||
Luanda, <ent type = 'person'>Tom Killoran</ent>, vigorously argued that the MPLA was the best qualified
|
||||
to run the country and the friendliest to the U.S.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We brushed these people aside, forced Nat Davis to resign, and proceeded with
|
||||
<p>We brushed these people aside, forced <ent type = 'person'>Nat Davis</ent> to resign, and proceeded with
|
||||
our war. The MPLA said they wanted to be our friends, they didn't want to be
|
||||
pushed into the arms of the Soviet Union; they begged us not to fight them,
|
||||
they wanted to work with us. We said they wanted a cheap victory, they wanted
|
||||
@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ to create this picture of Cubans raping Angolans, Cubans and Soviets
|
||||
introducing arms into the conflict, Cubans and Russians trying to take over
|
||||
the world.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Our ambassador to the United Nations, Patrick Moynihan, he read continuous
|
||||
<p>Our ambassador to the United Nations, <ent type = 'person'>Patrick Moynihan</ent>, he read continuous
|
||||
statements of our position to the Security Council, the general assembly, and
|
||||
the press conferences, saying the Russians and Cubans were responsible for the
|
||||
conflict, and that we were staying out, and that we deplored the
|
||||
@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ events, to create this impression of Soviet and Cuban aggression in Angola.
|
||||
When they were in fact responding to our initiatives.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>And the CIA director was required by law to brief the Congress. This CIA
|
||||
director Bill Colby - the same one that dumped our people in Vietnam - he gave
|
||||
director <ent type = 'person'>Bill Colby</ent> - the same one that dumped our people in Vietnam - he gave
|
||||
36 briefings of the Congress, the oversight committees, about what we were
|
||||
doing in Angola. And he lied. At 36 formal briefings. And such lies are
|
||||
perjury, and it's a felony to lie to the Congress.</p>
|
||||
@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ still mucking around in Northern Angola.</p>
|
||||
<p>You can't trust a communist, can you? They proceeded to buy five 737 jets
|
||||
from Boeing Aircraft in Seattle. And they brought in 52 U.S. technicians to
|
||||
install the radar systems to land and take-off those planes. They didn't buy
|
||||
[the Soviet Union's] Aeroflot.... David Rockefeller himself tours S. Africa
|
||||
[the Soviet Union's] Aeroflot.... <ent type = 'person'>David Rockefeller</ent> himself tours S. Africa
|
||||
and comes back and holds press conferences, in which he says that we have no
|
||||
problem doing business with the so-called radical states of Southern Africa.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -322,16 +322,16 @@ having been taught to fight communists all my life. I went to see what
|
||||
communists were all about. I went to Cuba to see if they do in fact eat
|
||||
babies for breakfast. And I found they don't. I went to Budapest, a country
|
||||
that even national geographic admits is working nicely. I went to Jamaica to
|
||||
talk to Michael Manley about his theories of social democracy.</p>
|
||||
talk to <ent type = 'person'>Michael Manley</ent> about his theories of social democracy.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I went to Grenada and established a dialogue with Maurice Bishop and Bernard
|
||||
Coard and Phyllis Coard, to see - these were all educated people, and
|
||||
<p>I went to Grenada and established a dialogue with <ent type = 'person'>Maurice Bishop</ent> and Bernard
|
||||
Coard and <ent type = 'person'>Phyllis Coard</ent>, to see - these were all educated people, and
|
||||
experienced people - and they had a theory, they had something they wanted to
|
||||
do, they had rationales and explanations - and I went repeatedly to hear them.
|
||||
And then of course I saw the U.S., the CIA mounting a covert action against
|
||||
them, I saw us orchestrating our plan to invade the country. 19 days before he
|
||||
was killed, I was in Grenada talking to Maurice Bishop about these things,
|
||||
these indicators, the statements in the press by Ronald Reagan, and he and I
|
||||
was killed, I was in Grenada talking to <ent type = 'person'>Maurice Bishop</ent> about these things,
|
||||
these indicators, the statements in the press by Ronald <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>, and he and I
|
||||
were both acknowledging that it was almost certain that the U.S. would invade
|
||||
Grenada in the near future.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ who have been shot, or hit, or blown up....</p>
|
||||
since 1961]. What I found was that lots and lots of people have been killed
|
||||
in these things.... Some of them are very, very bloody.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Indonesian covert action of 1965, reported by Ralph McGehee, who was in
|
||||
<p>The Indonesian covert action of 1965, reported by <ent type = 'person'>Ralph McGehee</ent>, who was in
|
||||
that area division, and had documents on his desk, in his custody about that
|
||||
operation. He said that one of the documents concluded that this was a model
|
||||
operation that should be copied elsewhere in the world. Not only did it
|
||||
@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ fleeing communism. And on and on, until they got us into the Vietnam war, and
|
||||
|
||||
<p>There is a mood, a sentiment in Washington, by our leadership today, for the
|
||||
past 4 years, that a good communist is a dead communist. If you're killing 1
|
||||
to 3 million communists, that's great. President Reagan has gone public and
|
||||
to 3 million communists, that's great. President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> has gone public and
|
||||
said he would reduce the Soviet Union to a pile of ashes. The problem,
|
||||
though, is that these people killed by our national security activities are
|
||||
not communists. They're not Russians, they're not KGB. In the field we used
|
||||
@ -420,10 +420,10 @@ troops into the Soviet Union during that same period of time.</p>
|
||||
Nicaragua....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The next three leaders of Guatemala [after the CIA installed the puppet,
|
||||
Colonel Armas in a coup] died violent deaths, and amnesty international tells
|
||||
Colonel <ent type = 'person'>Armas</ent> in a coup] died violent deaths, and amnesty international tells
|
||||
us that the governments we've supported in power there since then, have killed
|
||||
80,000 people. You can read about that one in the book "Bitter Fruit", by
|
||||
Kinzer and Schlesinger. Kinzer's a New York Times Journalist... or Jonathan
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kinzer</ent> and Schlesinger. <ent type = 'person'>Kinzer</ent>'s a New York Times Journalist... or Jonathan
|
||||
Kwitny, the Wall Street Journal reporter, his book "Endless Enemies" all
|
||||
discuss this....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ and the other one in or around the genitals and you could crank and submit the
|
||||
individual to the greatest amount of pain, supposedly, that the human body can
|
||||
register.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Now how do you teach torture? Dan Mitrione: `I can teach you about torture,
|
||||
<p>Now how do you teach torture? <ent type = 'person'>Dan Mitrione</ent>: `I can teach you about torture,
|
||||
but sooner or later you'll have to get involved. You'll have to lay on your
|
||||
hands and try it yourselves.'</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -485,16 +485,16 @@ they've slaughtered and killed. Genocide is genocide!</p>
|
||||
<p>Now we're pouring money into El Salvador. A billion dollars or so. And it's
|
||||
a documented fact that the... 14 families there that own 60% of the country
|
||||
are taking out between 2 to 5 billion dollars - it's called de-capitalization
|
||||
- and putting it in banks in Miami and Switzerland. Mort Halperin, testifying
|
||||
- and putting it in banks in Miami and Switzerland. <ent type = 'person'>Mort Halperin</ent>, testifying
|
||||
to a committee of the Congress, he suggested we could simplify the whole thing
|
||||
politically just by investing our money directly in the Miami banks in their
|
||||
names and just stay out of El Salvador altogether. And the people would be
|
||||
better off.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Nicaragua. What's happening in Nicaragua today is covert action. It's a
|
||||
classic de-stabilization program. In November 16, 1981, President Reagan
|
||||
classic de-stabilization program. In November 16, 1981, President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
allocated 19 million dollars to form an army, a force of contras, they're
|
||||
called, ex-Somoza national guards, the monsters who were doing the torture and
|
||||
called, ex-<ent type = 'person'>Somoza</ent> national guards, the monsters who were doing the torture and
|
||||
terror in Nicaragua that made the Nicaraguan people rise up and throw out the
|
||||
dictator, and throw out the guard. We went back to create an army of these
|
||||
people. We are killing, and killing, and terrorizing people. Not only in
|
||||
@ -514,19 +514,19 @@ to prepublication censorship of books. They challenged 360 items in his 360
|
||||
page book. He fought it in court, and eventually they deleted some 60 odd
|
||||
items in his book.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Frank Snepp ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government the right to
|
||||
<p>The <ent type = 'person'>Frank Snepp</ent> ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government the right to
|
||||
sue a government employee for damages. If s/he writes an unauthorized account
|
||||
of the government - which means the people who are involved in corruption in
|
||||
the government, who see it, who witness it, like Frank Snepp did, like I did -
|
||||
the government, who see it, who witness it, like <ent type = 'person'>Frank Snepp</ent> did, like I did -
|
||||
if they try to go public they can now be punished in civil court. The
|
||||
government took $90,000 away from Frank Snepp, his profits from his book, and
|
||||
government took $90,000 away from <ent type = 'person'>Frank Snepp</ent>, his profits from his book, and
|
||||
they've seized the profits from my own book....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[Reagan passed] the Intelligence Identities Protection act, which makes it a
|
||||
<p>[<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> passed] the Intelligence Identities Protection act, which makes it a
|
||||
felony to write articles revealing the identities of secret agents or to write
|
||||
about their activities in a way that would reveal their identities. Now, what
|
||||
does this mean? In a debate in Congress - this is very controversial - the
|
||||
supporters of this bill made it clear.... If agents Smith and Jones came on
|
||||
supporters of this bill made it clear.... If agents <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Jones</ent> came on
|
||||
this campus, in an MK-ultra-type experiment, and blew your fiance's head away
|
||||
with LSD, it would now be a felony to publish an article in your local paper
|
||||
saying, `watch out for these 2 turkeys, they're federal agents and they blew
|
||||
@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ my loved one's head away with LSD'. It would not be a felony what they had
|
||||
done because that's national security and none of them were ever punished for
|
||||
those activities.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Efforts to muzzle government employees. President Reagan has been banging
|
||||
<p>Efforts to muzzle government employees. President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> has been banging
|
||||
away at this one ever since. Proposing that every government employee, for
|
||||
the rest of his or her life, would have to submit anything they wrote to 6
|
||||
committees of the government for censorship, for the rest of their lives. To
|
||||
@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ keep the scandals from leaking out... to keep the American people from
|
||||
knowing what the government is really doing.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Then it starts getting heavy. The `Pre-emptive Strikes' bill. President
|
||||
Reagan, working through the Secretary of State Shultz... almost 2 years ago,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>, working through the Secretary of State <ent type = 'person'>Shultz</ent>... almost 2 years ago,
|
||||
submitted the bill that would provide them with the authority to strike at
|
||||
terrorists before terrorists can do their terrorism. But this bill...
|
||||
provides that they would be able to do this in "this" country as well as
|
||||
@ -556,15 +556,15 @@ all of that, with impunity.</p>
|
||||
<p>Now, there was a tremendous outcry on the part of jurists. The New York Times
|
||||
columns and other newspapers saying, `this is no different from Hitler's
|
||||
"night and fog" program', where the government had the authority to haul
|
||||
people off at night. And they did so by the thousands. And President Reagan
|
||||
and Secretary Shultz have persisted.... Shultz has said, `Yes, we will have
|
||||
people off at night. And they did so by the thousands. And President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
and Secretary <ent type = 'person'>Shultz</ent> have persisted.... <ent type = 'person'>Shultz</ent> has said, `Yes, we will have
|
||||
to take action on the basis of information that would never stand up in a
|
||||
court. And yes, innocent people will have to be killed in the process. But,
|
||||
we must have this law because of the threat of international terrorism'.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Think a minute. What is `the threat of international terrorism'? These
|
||||
things catch a lot of attention. But how many Americans died in terrorist
|
||||
actions last year? According to Secretary Shultz, 79. Now, obviously that's
|
||||
actions last year? According to Secretary <ent type = 'person'>Shultz</ent>, 79. Now, obviously that's
|
||||
terrible but we killed 55,000 people on our highways with drunken driving; we
|
||||
kill 2,500 people in far nastier, bloodier, mutilating, gang-raping ways in
|
||||
Nicaragua last year alone ourselves. Obviously 79 peoples' death is not
|
||||
@ -576,25 +576,25 @@ pre-emptive striking have already been created, and trained in the defense
|
||||
department.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>They're building detention centers. There were 8 kept as mothballs under the
|
||||
McCarran act after World War II, to detain aliens and dissidents in the next
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>McCarran</ent> act after World War II, to detain aliens and dissidents in the next
|
||||
war, as was done in the next war, as was done with the Japanese people during
|
||||
World War II. They're building 10 more, and army camps, and the... executive
|
||||
memos about these things say it's for aliens and dissidents in the next
|
||||
national emergency....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by Loius Guiffrida, a
|
||||
friend of Ed Meese's.... He's going about the country lobbying and demanding
|
||||
<p>FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by <ent type = 'person'>Loius Guiffrida</ent>, a
|
||||
friend of <ent type = 'person'>Ed Meese</ent>'s.... He's going about the country lobbying and demanding
|
||||
that he be given authority, in the times of national emergency, to declare
|
||||
martial law, and establish a curfew, and gun down people who violate the
|
||||
curfew... in the United States.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>And then there's Ed Meese, as I said. The highest law enforcement officer in
|
||||
the land, President Reagan's closest friend, going around telling us that the
|
||||
<p>And then there's <ent type = 'person'>Ed Meese</ent>, as I said. The highest law enforcement officer in
|
||||
the land, President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>'s closest friend, going around telling us that the
|
||||
constitution never did guarantee freedom of speech and press, and due process
|
||||
of the law, and assembly.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>What they are planning for this society, and this is why they're determined to
|
||||
take us into a war if we'll permit it... is the Reagan revolution.... So he's
|
||||
take us into a war if we'll permit it... is the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> revolution.... So he's
|
||||
getting himself some laws so when he puts in the troops in Nicaragua, he can
|
||||
take charge of the American people, and put people in jail, and kick in their
|
||||
doors, and kill them if they don't like what he's doing....</p>
|
||||
@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ it to them, I would have gone to jail, without trial - blow off juries and all
|
||||
that sort of thing - for having violated our censorship laws....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In that job [Angola] I sat on a sub-committee of the NSC, so I was like a
|
||||
chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star generals) Henry Kissinger, Bill
|
||||
chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star generals) <ent type = 'person'>Henry Kissinger</ent>, Bill
|
||||
Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s and the CIA, making important decisions
|
||||
and my job was to put it all together and make it happen and run it, an
|
||||
interesting place from which to watch a covert action being done....</p>
|
||||
@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ targets, meaning, break up the economy of the country. Of course, they're
|
||||
attacking a lot more.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>To destabilize Nicaragua beginning in 1981, we began funding this force of
|
||||
Somoza's ex-national guardsmen, calling them the contras (the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Somoza</ent>'s ex-national guardsmen, calling them the contras (the
|
||||
counter-revolutionaries). We created this force, it did not exist until we
|
||||
allocated money. We've armed them, put uniforms on their backs, boots on
|
||||
their feet, given them camps in Honduras to live in, medical supplies,
|
||||
@ -684,8 +684,8 @@ make a society simply cease to function.</p>
|
||||
<p>Systematically, the contras have been assassinating religious workers,
|
||||
teachers, health workers, elected officials, government administrators. You
|
||||
remember the assassination manual? that surfaced in 1984. It caused such a
|
||||
stir that President Reagan had to address it himself in the presidential
|
||||
debates with Walter Mondale. They use terror. This is a technique that
|
||||
stir that President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> had to address it himself in the presidential
|
||||
debates with <ent type = 'person'>Walter Mondale</ent>. They use terror. This is a technique that
|
||||
they're using to traumatize the society so that it can't function.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I don't mean to abuse you with verbal violence, but you have to understand
|
||||
@ -700,14 +700,14 @@ watch while they do these things to the children.</p>
|
||||
for peace who have gone down there and they have filmed and photographed and
|
||||
witnessed these atrocities immediately after they've happened, and documented
|
||||
13,000 people killed this way, mostly women and children. These are the
|
||||
activities done by these contras. The contras are the people president Reagan
|
||||
activities done by these contras. The contras are the people president <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
calls `freedom fighters'. He says they're the moral equivalent of our
|
||||
founding fathers. And the whole world gasps at this confession of his family
|
||||
traditions.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Read "Contra Terror" by Reed Brody former assistant Attorney General of New
|
||||
York State. Read "The Contras" by Dieter Eich. Read "With the Contras" by
|
||||
Christopher Dickey. This is a main-line journalist, down there on a grant
|
||||
<p>Read "Contra Terror" by <ent type = 'person'>Reed Brody</ent> former assistant Attorney General of New
|
||||
York State. Read "The Contras" by <ent type = 'person'>Dieter Eich</ent>. Read "With the Contras" by
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Christopher Dickey</ent>. This is a main-line journalist, down there on a grant
|
||||
with the Council on Foreign Relations, a slightly to the right of the middle
|
||||
of the road organization. He writes a book that sets a pox on both your
|
||||
houses, and then he accounts about going in on patrol with the contras, and
|
||||
@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ of War on Both Sides" by the Americas Watch. And there are many, many more
|
||||
documentations of details, of names, of the incidents that have happened.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Part of a de-stabilization is propaganda, to dis-credit the targeted
|
||||
government. This one actually began under Jimmy Carter. He authorized the
|
||||
government. This one actually began under <ent type = 'person'>Jimmy Carter</ent>. He authorized the
|
||||
CIA to go in and try to make the Sandinistas look to be evil. So in 1979
|
||||
[when] they came in to power, immediately we were trying to cast them as
|
||||
totalitarian, evil, threatening Marxists. While they abolished the death
|
||||
@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ custody that they could have kept in prison, they said `no. Unless we have
|
||||
evidence of individual crimes, we're not going to hold someone in prison just
|
||||
because they were associated with the former administration.' While they set
|
||||
out to launch a literacy campaign to teach the people to read and write, which
|
||||
is something that the dictator Somoza, and us supporting him, had never
|
||||
is something that the dictator <ent type = 'person'>Somoza</ent>, and us supporting him, had never
|
||||
bothered to get around to doing. While they set out to build 2,500 clinics to
|
||||
give the country something resembling a public health policy, and access to
|
||||
medicines, we began to label them as totalitarian dictators, and to attack
|
||||
@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ them in the press, and to work with this newspaper `La Prensa', which - it's
|
||||
finally come out and been admitted, in Washington - the U.S. government is
|
||||
funding: a propaganda arm.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[Reagan and the State dept. have] been claiming they're building a war machine
|
||||
<p>[<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> and the State dept. have] been claiming they're building a war machine
|
||||
that threatens the stability of Central America. Now the truth is, this
|
||||
small, poor country has been attacked by the world's richest country under
|
||||
conditions of war, for the last 5 years. Us and our army - the death they
|
||||
@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ stability of all of Central America.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We claim the justification for this is the arms that are flowing from
|
||||
Nicaragua to El Salvador, and yet in 5 years of this activity, President
|
||||
Reagan hasn't been able to show the world one shred of evidence of any arms
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> hasn't been able to show the world one shred of evidence of any arms
|
||||
flowing from Nicaragua into El Salvador.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We launched a campaign to discredit their elections. International observer
|
||||
@ -762,10 +762,10 @@ because it was a totalitarian system. Instead we said, the elections that
|
||||
were held in El Salvador were models of democracy to be copied elsewhere in
|
||||
the world. And then the truth came out about that one. And we learned that
|
||||
the CIA had spent 2.2 million dollars to make sure that their choice of
|
||||
candidates - Duarte - would win. They did everything, we're told, by one of
|
||||
candidates - <ent type = 'person'>Duarte</ent> - would win. They did everything, we're told, by one of
|
||||
their spokesmen, indirectly, but stuff the ballot boxes....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I'll make a footnote that when I speak out, he [Senator Jesse Helms] calls me
|
||||
<p>I'll make a footnote that when I speak out, he [Senator <ent type = 'person'>Jesse Helms</ent>] calls me
|
||||
a traitor, but when something happens he doesn't like, he doesn't hesitate to
|
||||
go public and reveal the secrets and embarrass the U.S.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -789,26 +789,26 @@ humanitarian aid, which were arms, and it would fly back out with heroin. And
|
||||
the first target, market, of this heroin was the U.S. GI's in Vietnam. If
|
||||
anybody in Nicaragua is smuggling drugs, it's the contras. Now i've been
|
||||
saying that since the state department started waving this red herring around
|
||||
a couple of years ago, and the other day you notice President Reagan said that
|
||||
a couple of years ago, and the other day you notice President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> said that
|
||||
the Nicaraguans, the Sandinistas, were smuggling drugs, and the DEA said, `it
|
||||
ain't true, the contras are smuggling drugs'.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We claim the Sandinistas are responsible for the terrorism that's happening
|
||||
anywhere in the world. `The country club of terrorism' we call it. There's an
|
||||
incident in Rome, and Ed Meese goes on television and says, `that country club
|
||||
incident in Rome, and <ent type = 'person'>Ed Meese</ent> goes on television and says, `that country club
|
||||
in Nicaragua is training terrorists'. We blame the Sandinistas for the misery
|
||||
that exists in Nicaragua today, and there is misery, because the world's
|
||||
richest nation has set out to create conditions of misery, and obviously we're
|
||||
bound to have some effect. The misery is not the fault of the Sandinistas,
|
||||
it's the result of our destabilization program. And despite that, and despite
|
||||
some grumbling in the country, the Sandinistas in their elections got a much
|
||||
higher percentage of the vote than President Reagan did, who's supposed to be
|
||||
higher percentage of the vote than President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> did, who's supposed to be
|
||||
so popular in this country. And all observers are saying that people are
|
||||
still hanging together, with the Sandinistas.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Now it gets tricky. We're saying that the justification for more aid,
|
||||
possibly for an invasion of the country - and mind you, president Reagan has
|
||||
begun to talk about this, and the Secretary of Defense Weinberger began to say
|
||||
possibly for an invasion of the country - and mind you, president <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> has
|
||||
begun to talk about this, and the Secretary of Defense <ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent> began to say
|
||||
that it's inevitable - we claim that the justification is that the Soviet
|
||||
Union now has invested 500 million dollars in arms in military to make it its
|
||||
big client state, the Soviet bastion in this hemisphere. And that's true.
|
||||
@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ They do have a lot of arms in there now. But the question is, how did they
|
||||
get invited in? You have to ask yourself, what's the purpose of this
|
||||
destabilization program? For this I direct you back to the Newsweek article
|
||||
in Sept. 1981, where they announce the fact that the CIA was beginning to put
|
||||
together this force of Somoza's ex-guard. Newsweek described it as `the only
|
||||
together this force of <ent type = 'person'>Somoza</ent>'s ex-guard. Newsweek described it as `the only
|
||||
truly evil, totally unacceptable factor in the Nicaraguan equation'. They
|
||||
noted that neither the white house nor the CIA pretended it ever could have a
|
||||
chance of winning. So then they asked, rhetorically, `what's the point?' and
|
||||
@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ ammunition to attack them.</p>
|
||||
<p>And that's what we've accomplished now. They've had to get Soviet aid to
|
||||
defend themselves from the attack from the world's richest country, and now we
|
||||
can stand up to the American people and say, `see? they have all the Soviet
|
||||
aid'. Make no doubt of it, it's the game plan of the Reagan Administration to
|
||||
aid'. Make no doubt of it, it's the game plan of the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> Administration to
|
||||
have a war in Nicaragua, they have been working on this since 1981, they have
|
||||
been stopped by the will of the American people so far, but they're working
|
||||
harder than ever to engineer their war there.</p>
|
||||
@ -857,9 +857,9 @@ we know about, some of them very bloody indeed. Guatemala 1954, Brazil,
|
||||
Guyana, Chile, The Congo, Iran, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Equador, Uruguay - the
|
||||
CIA organized the overthrow of constitutional democracies. Read the book
|
||||
"Covert Action: 35 years of Deception" by the journalist Godswood. Remember
|
||||
the Henry Kissinger quote before the Congress when he was being grilled to
|
||||
the <ent type = 'person'>Henry Kissinger</ent> quote before the Congress when he was being grilled to
|
||||
explain what they had done to overthrow the democratic government in Chile, in
|
||||
which the President, Salvador Allende had been killed. And he said, `The
|
||||
which the President, <ent type = 'person'>Salvador Allende</ent> had been killed. And he said, `The
|
||||
issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for
|
||||
themselves'.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -868,10 +868,10 @@ Nicaragua today, that led us directly into the Korean war, where we fought
|
||||
China in Korea. We had a long covert action in Vietnam, very much like the
|
||||
one that we're running in Nicaragua today, that tracked us directly into the
|
||||
Vietnam war. Read the book, "The Hidden History of the Korean War" by I. F.
|
||||
Stone. Read "Deadly Deceits" by Ralph McGehee for the Vietnam story. In
|
||||
Stone. Read "Deadly Deceits" by <ent type = 'person'>Ralph McGehee</ent> for the Vietnam story. In
|
||||
Thailand, the Congo, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Honduras, the CIA put together
|
||||
large standing armies. In Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, the Congo, Iran,
|
||||
Nicaragua, and Sri Lanca, the CIA armed and encouraged ethnic minorities to
|
||||
Nicaragua, and <ent type = 'person'>Sri Lanca</ent>, the CIA armed and encouraged ethnic minorities to
|
||||
rise up and fight. The first thing we began doing in Nicaragua, 1981 was to
|
||||
fund an element of the Miskito indians, to give them money and training and
|
||||
arms, so they could rise up and fight against the government in Managua. In
|
||||
@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ citizens. They see themselves - they have been functioning above the laws, of
|
||||
God, and the laws of man - they've come back to this country, and they've
|
||||
continued their operations as far as they can get by with them. And we have
|
||||
abundant documentation of that as well. The MH-Chaos program, exposed in the
|
||||
late 60's and shut down, re-activated by President Reagan to a degree - we
|
||||
late 60's and shut down, re-activated by President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> to a degree - we
|
||||
don't have the details yet - in which they were spending a billion dollars to
|
||||
manipulate U.S. student, and labor organizations. The MK-ultra program. For
|
||||
20 years, working through over 200 medical schools and mental hospitals,
|
||||
@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ couldn't see straight - and hid cameras in the walls - to see what would
|
||||
happen at rush hour when the trains are zipping past - if everybody has
|
||||
vertigo and they can't see straight and they're bumping into each other.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Colonel White - oh yes, and I can't not mention the disease experimentations -
|
||||
<p>Colonel <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> - oh yes, and I can't not mention the disease experimentations -
|
||||
the use of deadly diseases. We launched - when we were destabilizing Cuba for
|
||||
7 years - we launched the swine fever epidemic, in the hog population, trying
|
||||
to kill out all of the pigs - a virus. We experimented in Haiti on the people
|
||||
@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ experimenting on people, with viruses. And now we have some deadly, killer
|
||||
viruses running around in society. And it has to make you wonder, and it has
|
||||
to make you worry.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Colonel White wrote from retirement - he was the man who was in charge of this
|
||||
<p>Colonel <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> wrote from retirement - he was the man who was in charge of this
|
||||
macabre program - he wrote, `I toiled whole-heartedly 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 blessings of the all highest?' Now
|
||||
@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ that program, the MK-ultra program, was eventually exposed by the press in
|
||||
dig up the Congressional record and read it for yourself.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>There's one book called `In Search of the Manchurian Candidate'. It's written
|
||||
by John Marks, based on 14,000 documents gotten out of the government under
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>John Marks</ent>, based on 14,000 documents gotten out of the government under
|
||||
the Freedom of Information Act. Read for yourselves. The thing was shut down
|
||||
but not one CIA case officer who was involved was in any way punished. Not
|
||||
one case officer involved in these experimentations on the American public,
|
||||
@ -979,9 +979,9 @@ lost a single paycheck for what they had done.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Church committee found that the CIA had co-opted several hundred
|
||||
journalists, including some of the biggest names in the business, to pump its
|
||||
propaganda stories into our media, to teach us to hate Fidel Castro, and Ho
|
||||
propaganda stories into our media, to teach us to hate <ent type = 'person'>Fidel Castro</ent>, and Ho
|
||||
Chi Minh, and the Chinese, and whomever. The latest flap or scandal we had
|
||||
about that was a year and a half ago. Leslie Gelb, the heavyweight with the
|
||||
about that was a year and a half ago. <ent type = 'person'>Leslie Gelb</ent>, the heavyweight with the
|
||||
New York Times, was exposed for having been working covertly with the CIA in
|
||||
1978 to recruit journalists in Europe, who would introduce stories, print
|
||||
stories that would create sympathy for the neutron bomb.</p>
|
||||
@ -1027,11 +1027,11 @@ laws....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>So now we have the CIA running the operation in Nicaragua, lying to us,
|
||||
running 50 covert actions, and gearing us up for our next war, the Central
|
||||
American war. Let there be no doubt about it, President Reagan has a fixation
|
||||
American war. Let there be no doubt about it, President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> has a fixation
|
||||
on Nicaragua. He came into office saying that we shouldn't be afraid of war,
|
||||
saying we have to face and erase the scars of the Vietnam war. He said in
|
||||
1983, `We will do whatever is necessary to reverse the situation in
|
||||
Nicaragua', meaning get rid of the Sandinistas. Admiral LaRocque, at the
|
||||
Nicaragua', meaning get rid of the Sandinistas. Admiral <ent type = 'person'>LaRocque</ent>, at the
|
||||
Center for Defense Information in Washington, says this is the most
|
||||
elaborately prepared invasion that the U.S. has ever done. At least that he's
|
||||
witnessed in his 40 years of association with our military.</p>
|
||||
@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ in which they said that it was just 2 hours from Managua to Texas. All of
|
||||
this getting us ready for the invasion of Nicaragua, for our next war.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Most of the people - 75% of the people - are polled as being against this
|
||||
action. However, President Eisenhower said, `The people of the world
|
||||
action. However, President <ent type = 'person'>Eisenhower</ent> said, `The people of the world
|
||||
genuinely want peace. Someday the leadership of the world are going to have
|
||||
to give in and give it to them'. But to date, the leaders never have, they've
|
||||
always been able to outwit the people, us, and get us into the wars when
|
||||
@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ that would flash, that would make people angry enough that we could go in and
|
||||
do....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We have a feeling that the Vietnam war was the first one in which the people
|
||||
resisted. But once again, we haven't read our history. Kate Richards-O'Hare.
|
||||
resisted. But once again, we haven't read our history. <ent type = 'person'>Kate Richards</ent>-O'Hare.
|
||||
In 1915, she said about WW I, `The Women of the U.S. are nothing but
|
||||
brutesalles, producing sons to be put in the army, to be made into
|
||||
fertilizer'. She was jailed for 5 years for anti-war talk.</p>
|
||||
@ -1100,23 +1100,23 @@ wrapped around their necks because that's what war is really all about.</p>
|
||||
tell about the Vietnam veterans. More of whom died violent deaths from
|
||||
suicide after they came back from Vietnam then died in the fighting itself.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Then you have President Reagan.... He talks about the glory of war, but you
|
||||
<p>Then you have President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>.... He talks about the glory of war, but you
|
||||
have to ask yourself, where was he when wars were being fought that he was
|
||||
young enough to fight in them? World War II, and the Korean war. Where he
|
||||
was was in Hollywood, making films, where the blood was catsup, and you could
|
||||
wash it off and go out to dinner afterwards....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Where was Gordon Liddy when he was young enough to go and fight in a war? He
|
||||
<p>Where was <ent type = 'person'>Gordon Liddy</ent> when he was young enough to go and fight in a war? He
|
||||
was hiding out in the U.S. running sloppy, illegal, un-professional breaking
|
||||
and entering operations. Now you'll forgive my egotism, at that time I was
|
||||
running professional breaking and entering operations....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>What about Rambo himself? Sylvester Stallone. Where was Sylvester Stallone
|
||||
<p>What about <ent type = 'person'>Rambo</ent> himself? <ent type = 'person'>Sylvester Stallone</ent>. Where was <ent type = 'person'>Sylvester Stallone</ent>
|
||||
during the Vietnam war? He got a draft deferment for a physical disability,
|
||||
and taught physical education in a girls' school in Switzerland during the
|
||||
war.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Getting back to President Reagan. He really did say that `you can always call
|
||||
<p>Getting back to President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>. He really did say that `you can always call
|
||||
cruise missiles back'.... Now, you can call back a B-52, and you can call back
|
||||
a submarine, but a cruise missile is different.... When it lands, it goes
|
||||
boom ! And I would prefer that the man with the finger on the button could
|
||||
@ -1132,27 +1132,27 @@ Nicaragua. And the Jewish leaders go on TV the next day in this country and
|
||||
say there are 5 Jewish families in Nicaragua, and they're not having any
|
||||
problems at all. This is the man who says that they're financing their
|
||||
revolution by smuggling drugs into the U.S. And the DEA says, `It ain't true,
|
||||
it's president Reagan's Contras that are doing it'....</p>
|
||||
it's president <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>'s Contras that are doing it'....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[When Reagan was governor of California, Reagan] said `If there has to be a
|
||||
<p>[When <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> was governor of California, <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>] said `If there has to be a
|
||||
bloodbath then let's get it over with'. Now you have to think about this a
|
||||
minute. A leader of the U.S. seriously proposing a bloodbath of our own
|
||||
youth. There was an outcry of the press, so 3 days later he said it again to
|
||||
make sure no-one had misunderstood him.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Read. You have to read to inform yourselves. Read "The Book of Quotes"; "On
|
||||
Reagan: The Man and the Presidency" by Ronnie Dugger. It gets heavy. Dugger
|
||||
concludes in his last chapter that President Reagan has a fixation on
|
||||
Armageddon. The Village Voice 18 months ago published an article citing the
|
||||
11 times that President Reagan publicly has talked about the fact that we are
|
||||
all living out Armageddon today....</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>: The Man and the Presidency" by <ent type = 'person'>Ronnie <ent type = 'person'>Dugger</ent></ent>. It gets heavy. <ent type = 'person'>Dugger</ent>
|
||||
concludes in his last chapter that President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> has a fixation on
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Armageddon</ent>. The Village Voice 18 months ago published an article citing the
|
||||
11 times that President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> publicly has talked about the fact that we are
|
||||
all living out <ent type = 'person'>Armageddon</ent> today....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[Reagan] has Jerry Falwell into the White House. This is the man that
|
||||
<p>[<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>] has <ent type = 'person'>Jerry Falwell</ent> into the <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> House. This is the man that
|
||||
preaches that we should get on our knees and beg for God to send the rapture
|
||||
down. Hell's fires on earth so the chosen can go up on high and all the other
|
||||
people can burn in hell's fires on earth. President Reagan sees himself as
|
||||
people can burn in hell's fires on earth. President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> sees himself as
|
||||
playing the role of the greatest leader of all times forever. Leading us into
|
||||
Armageddon. As he goes out at the end of his long life, we'll all go out with
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Armageddon</ent>. As he goes out at the end of his long life, we'll all go out with
|
||||
him....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Why does the CIA run 10,000 brutal covert actions? Why are we destabilizing a
|
||||
@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ the football pep-rally factor. When you get people worked up to hate, they'll
|
||||
let you spend huge amounts of money on arms.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Read "The Power Elite" by C. Wright Mills. Read "The Permanent War Complex"
|
||||
by Seymour Melman. CIA covert actions have the function of keeping the world
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Seymour Melman</ent>. CIA covert actions have the function of keeping the world
|
||||
hostile and unstable....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We can't take care of the poor, we can't take care of the old, but we can
|
||||
@ -1190,14 +1190,14 @@ choice. They have to find some other way to do business other than to
|
||||
motivate us through hate and paranoia and anger and killing, or we'll find
|
||||
other leaders to run the country.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Now, Helen Caldicott, at the end of her lectures, I've heard her say, very
|
||||
<p>Now, <ent type = 'person'>Helen Caldicott</ent>, at the end of her lectures, I've heard her say, very
|
||||
effectively, "Tell people to get out and get to work on the problem.... You'll
|
||||
feel better" ....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>'What can I do?'.... If you can travel, go to Nicaragua and see for yourself.
|
||||
Go to the Nevada test site and see for yourself. Go to Pantex on Hiroshima
|
||||
day this summer, and see the vigil there. The place where we make 10
|
||||
nose-cones a day, 70 a week, year in and year out. He [Admiral LaRocque]
|
||||
nose-cones a day, 70 a week, year in and year out. He [Admiral <ent type = 'person'>LaRocque</ent>]
|
||||
said, "I'd tell them, if they feel comfortable lying down in front of trucks
|
||||
with bombs on them, to lie down in front of trucks with bombs on them." But
|
||||
he said, "I'd tell them that they can't wait. They've got to start tomorrow,
|
||||
@ -1213,10 +1213,10 @@ today, and do it, what they can, every day of their lives."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Another file downloaded from: NIRVANAnet(tm)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> & the Temple of the Screaming Electron Jeff Hunter 510-935-5845
|
||||
<p> & the Temple of the Screaming Electron <ent type = 'person'>Jeff Hunter</ent> 510-935-5845
|
||||
Salted Slug Systems Strange 408-454-9368
|
||||
Burn This Flag Zardoz 408-363-9766
|
||||
realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 415-567-7043
|
||||
realitycheck <ent type = 'person'>Poindexter Fortran</ent> 415-567-7043
|
||||
Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 415-583-4102
|
||||
Tomorrow's 0rder of Magnitude Finger_Man 408-961-9315
|
||||
My Dog Bit Jesus Suzanne D'Fault 510-658-8078</p>
|
||||
|
@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ are presently being ENSLAVED and IMPOVERISHED by the current
|
||||
<p>It was written for a predominately Christian audience (which may
|
||||
or may not be your cup of tea), and some of the information
|
||||
may be a little dated (the figures for the debt, for example,
|
||||
have increased astronomically since it was penned) but regardless
|
||||
have increased ast<ent type = 'person'>ron</ent>omically since it was penned) but regardless
|
||||
of that -- it is a clear and URGENT message that needs to be
|
||||
listened to by the American people.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ share it with your friends!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
by
|
||||
|
||||
Pastor Sheldon Emry</p>
|
||||
Pastor <ent type = 'person'>Sheldon <ent type = 'person'>Emry</ent></ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "For the love of money is the root of all evil..."
|
||||
1 Timothy 6:10
|
||||
1 <ent type = 'person'>Timothy</ent> 6:10
|
||||
</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Produced and Distributed by:</p>
|
||||
@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ share it with your friends!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> INTRODUCTION</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "The love of money is the root of all evil": (1 Timothy 6:10)</p>
|
||||
<p> "The love of money is the root of all evil": (1 <ent type = 'person'>Timothy</ent> 6:10)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou
|
||||
shalt not be to him an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him
|
||||
@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ share it with your friends!</p>
|
||||
money upon usury." Leviticus 25:36-37</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "Unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: That the Lord
|
||||
they God bless thee." Deuteronomy 23:20</p>
|
||||
they God bless thee." <ent type = 'person'>Deut</ent>e<ent type = 'person'>ron</ent>omy 23:20</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In the early Church, any interest on debt was considered usury.
|
||||
Read below to see what interest (usury) on debts, a violation of
|
||||
@ -268,10 +268,10 @@ share it with your friends!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> by
|
||||
|
||||
Pastor Sheldon Emry
|
||||
Pastor <ent type = 'person'>Sheldon <ent type = 'person'>Emry</ent></ent>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[Cartoon showing a mother standing in front of a judge in divorce
|
||||
[Cartoon showing a mother standing in f<ent type = 'person'>ron</ent>t of a judge in divorce
|
||||
court, holding the hand of her small boy and girl -- with her
|
||||
husband sitting in the witness chair, holding his head in gloom.
|
||||
The mother says to the judge, "AND JUDGE, WE WERE ALWAYS IN DEBT!."]</p>
|
||||
@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________________________
|
||||
gave that function to The Federal Reserve Corporation. This was done with
|
||||
appropriate fanfare and propaganda that this would "remove money from
|
||||
politics" (they didn't say "and therefore from the people's control") and
|
||||
prevent "Boom and Bust" from hurting our citizens. </p>
|
||||
prevent "Boom and <ent type = 'person'>Bust</ent>" from hurting our citizens. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The people were not told then, and most still do not know today, that the
|
||||
Federal Reserve Corporation is a private corporation controlled by bankers
|
||||
@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________________________
|
||||
only to deceive the people.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
MORE DISASTROUS THAN PEARL HARBOR</p>
|
||||
MORE <ent type = 'person'>DISASTROUS THAN PEARL</ent> HARBOR</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Since that "day of infamy", more disastrous to us than Pearl Harbor, the
|
||||
small group of "privileged" people who lend us "our" money have accrued to
|
||||
@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ _____________________________________________________________________________</p
|
||||
with their ungodly system of usury and debt as certainly as if they had
|
||||
marched in with an uniformed army.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> To understand that it really is a "conquest," go back to the front
|
||||
<p> To understand that it really is a "conquest," go back to the f<ent type = 'person'>ron</ent>t
|
||||
and read the "Three Types of Conquest" again.
|
||||
|
||||
_____________________________________________________________________________</p>
|
||||
@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ _____________________________________________________________________________</p
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Our new "rulers" are trying to change our whole racial, social,
|
||||
religious, and political order, but they will not change the debt-
|
||||
money economic system by which they ron and rule. Our people have
|
||||
money economic system by which they <ent type = 'person'>ron</ent> and rule. Our people have
|
||||
become tenants and "debt-slaves" to the Bankers and their agents in
|
||||
the land our fathers conquered. It is conquest through the most
|
||||
gigantic fraud and swindle in the history of mankind.</p>
|
||||
@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ _____________________________________________________________________________</p
|
||||
over us is their ability to create "money" out of nothing and lend it
|
||||
to us at interest. If they had not been allowed to do that, they
|
||||
would never would have gained secret control of our nation. How true
|
||||
Solomon's words are:</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Solomon</ent>'s words are:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is
|
||||
servant to the lender." Proverbs 22.7</p>
|
||||
@ -923,10 +923,10 @@ _____________________________________________________________________________</p
|
||||
<p> "The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee
|
||||
very high, and thou shalt come down very low. He shall
|
||||
lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall be
|
||||
the head, and thou shalt be the tail." Deut. 28:44-45</p>
|
||||
the head, and thou shalt be the tail." <ent type = 'person'>Deut</ent>. 28:44-45</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Most of the owners of the largest banks in America are of Eastern
|
||||
European ancestry and connected with the Rothschild European banks.
|
||||
European ancestry and connected with the <ent type = 'person'>Rothschild</ent> European banks.
|
||||
Has that warning come to fruition in America?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Let us now consider the correct method of providing the medium of
|
||||
@ -972,11 +972,11 @@ _____________________________________________________________________________</p
|
||||
<p> The money-creators (Bankers) know that if we ever tried a
|
||||
Constitutional issue of debt-free, interest-free currency, even a
|
||||
limited issue, the benefits would be apparent immediately. That they
|
||||
must prevent. Abraham Lincoln was the last President to issue such
|
||||
must prevent. <ent type = 'person'>Abraham <ent type = 'person'>Lincoln</ent></ent> was the last President to issue such
|
||||
debt-free and interest-free currency (in 1863) and he was assassinated
|
||||
shortly thereafter. [Transcriber's note: JFK also made an issue of some
|
||||
shortly thereafter. [Transcriber's note: <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> also made an issue of some
|
||||
interest-free U.S. Treasury currency notes in 1963, and he quickly met
|
||||
the same fate as Lincoln].</p>
|
||||
the same fate as <ent type = 'person'>Lincoln</ent>].</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>___________________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1001,8 +1001,8 @@ _____________________________________________________________________________</p
|
||||
1700's and their wealth soon rivaled that of England and brought
|
||||
restrictions from Parliament, which led to the Revolutionary War.
|
||||
|
||||
Abraham Lincoln did it in 1863 to help finance the Civil War. He was
|
||||
later assassinated by an agent of the Rothschild Bank. No debt-free or
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Abraham <ent type = 'person'>Lincoln</ent></ent> did it in 1863 to help finance the Civil War. He was
|
||||
later assassinated by an agent of the <ent type = 'person'>Rothschild</ent> Bank. No debt-free or
|
||||
interest-free money has been issued in America since then.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Several Arab nations issue interest free loans to their citizens today.
|
||||
@ -1053,7 +1053,7 @@ ___________________________________________________________________________</p>
|
||||
|
||||
As history shows, the stability and responsibility of government issuing
|
||||
it is the deciding factor in the acceptance of that government's
|
||||
currency -- not gold, silver, or iron buried in some hole in the ground.
|
||||
currency -- not gold, silver, or i<ent type = 'person'>ron</ent> buried in some hole in the ground.
|
||||
Proof is America's currency today. Our gold and silver are practically
|
||||
gone, but our currency is accepted. But if the government was about to
|
||||
collapse our currency would be worthless. </p>
|
||||
@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@ ___________________________________________________________________________</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> CITIZEN CONTROL</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> If Federal Congress failed to act, or acted wrongly, in the supply of
|
||||
<p> If Federal Congress failed to act, or acted w<ent type = 'person'>ron</ent>gly, in the supply of
|
||||
money, the citizens would use the ballot or recall petitions to replace
|
||||
those who prevented correct action with others whom the people believe
|
||||
would pursue a better money policy. Since the creation of money and its
|
||||
@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ ___________________________________________________________________________ </p
|
||||
beyond the wildest dreams of the citizens today. And we would be at
|
||||
peace! (For a Bible example of cancellation of debts to money lenders
|
||||
and restoration of property and money to the people, read
|
||||
Nehemiah 5:1-13.)
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Nehemiah</ent> 5:1-13.)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
WHY YOU HAVEN'T KNOWN</p>
|
||||
@ -1320,7 +1320,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________________________</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> NOTEABLE MONEY QUOTES</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD: "whoever controls the volume of money in
|
||||
<p> PRESIDENT <ent type = 'person'>JAMES</ent> A. <ent type = 'person'>GARFIELD</ent>: "whoever controls the volume of money in
|
||||
in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> HORACE GREELRY: "While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to
|
||||
@ -1359,10 +1359,10 @@ ____________________________________________________________________________</p>
|
||||
conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion
|
||||
and duress of small groups of dominant men."
|
||||
|
||||
(Just before he died, Wilson is reported to have stated to friends
|
||||
(Just before he died, <ent type = 'person'>Wilson</ent> is reported to have stated to friends
|
||||
that he had been "deceived" and that "I have betrayed my Country."
|
||||
He referred to the Federal Reserve Act, passed during his
|
||||
Presidency) [<--note by the author, Emry.]
|
||||
Presidency) [<--note by the author, <ent type = 'person'>Emry</ent>.]
|
||||
|
||||
SIR JOSIAH STAMP: (President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the
|
||||
second richest man in Britain): "Banking was conceived in iniquity
|
||||
@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________________________</p>
|
||||
it is impersonal -- that there is no human relation between master
|
||||
and slave."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> THOMAS JEFFERSON (Letter to Elbridge Gerry, Jan. 26, 1779): "Banking
|
||||
<p> THOMAS JEFFERSON (Letter to <ent type = 'person'>Elbridge Gerry</ent>, Jan. 26, 1779): "Banking
|
||||
establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> WILLIAM CORBETT: (In Advice to Yound Men, 1, 1829): "The power
|
||||
@ -1444,8 +1444,8 @@ ____________________________________________________________________________</p>
|
||||
Presidents, Vice-Presidents, or potential candidates [except for
|
||||
Harry Browne -- JS]; Cabinet members, U.S. Judges, or other appointed
|
||||
U.S. officials; Any U.S. Senator or Representative, except Robert
|
||||
Lafoliete, Charles Binderup, Charles Lindberg Sr., Louis McFadden,
|
||||
Wright-Patman, or John Rarick? (All now gone).</p>
|
||||
Lafoliete, Charles Binderup, <ent type = 'person'>Charles Lindberg Sr</ent>., <ent type = 'person'>Louis McFadden</ent>,
|
||||
Wright-Patman, or <ent type = 'person'>John Rarick</ent>? (All now gone).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> State Governors or members of State Legislatures?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1513,14 +1513,14 @@ ____________________________________________________________________________</p>
|
||||
<p> The hundreds of "civil rights," "student," "Women's Lib." and
|
||||
similar "protest" organizations or publications? They protest
|
||||
"racism," atomic weapons, war, pollution, and scores of other supposed
|
||||
"wrongs," but NEVER, NEVER, expose or object to the robbery of the
|
||||
"w<ent type = 'person'>ron</ent>gs," but NEVER, NEVER, expose or object to the robbery of the
|
||||
people by the Billionaire Bankers!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Masonic Orders, Lodges or publications;</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Knights of Columbus;</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Any Catholic Pope, Bishop or Priest? (Father Coughlin of Michigan
|
||||
<p> Any Catholic Pope, Bishop or Priest? (Father <ent type = 'person'>Coughlin</ent> of Michigan
|
||||
spoke on radio and wrote books in the 1930's protesting the Bankers'
|
||||
plunder of America. He was silenced in a few years on direct orders
|
||||
of the Pope. Since then few Priests have mentioned the plunder).</p>
|
||||
@ -1579,7 +1579,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________________________</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "Who among you will give ear to this?
|
||||
Who will hearken, and hear for the time
|
||||
to come?" (the "last days") Isaiah 42:22-23</p>
|
||||
to come?" (the "last days") <ent type = 'person'>Isaiah</ent> 42:22-23</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
___________________________________________________________________________</p>
|
||||
|
File diff suppressed because it is too large
Load Diff
@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SUBJECT: FEMA GULAG</p>
|
||||
|
||||
The September issue of THE OSTRICH reprinted a story from the
|
||||
CBA BULLETIN which listed the following principal civilian concentra-
|
||||
tion camps established in GULAG USA under the =Rex '84= program:
|
||||
tion camps established in GULAG USA under the =<ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent> '84= program:
|
||||
Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas; Ft. Drum, New York; Ft. Indian Gap, Penn-
|
||||
sylvania; Camp A. P. Hill, Virginia; Oakdale, California; Eglin
|
||||
Air Force Base, Florida; Vendenberg AFB, California; Ft. Mc Coy,
|
||||
@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ SUBJECT: FEMA GULAG</p>
|
||||
as THE OSTRICH has been reporting. The map on this page and
|
||||
the list of executive orders available for imposition of an "emergency"
|
||||
are from 1970s files of the late Gen. =P. A. Del Valle's= ALERT,
|
||||
sent us by =Merritt Newby=, editor of the now defunct AMERICAN
|
||||
sent us by =<ent type = 'person'>Merritt Newby</ent>=, editor of the now defunct AMERICAN
|
||||
CHALLENGE.
|
||||
=Wake up Americans!= The Bushoviks have approved =Gorbachev's=
|
||||
imposition of "Emergency" to suppress unrest. =Henry Kissinger=
|
||||
=Wake up Americans!= The <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>oviks</ent> have approved =<ent type = 'person'>Gorbachev</ent>'s=
|
||||
imposition of "Emergency" to suppress unrest. =<ent type = 'person'>Henry Kissinger</ent>=
|
||||
and his clients hardly missed a day's profits in their deals with
|
||||
the butchers of Tiananmen Sqaure. Are you next?
|
||||
*************************************************************************</p>
|
||||
@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ SUBJECT: FEMA GULAG</p>
|
||||
Budget.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> E. O. 11490 is a compilation of some 23 previous Executive Orders,
|
||||
signed by Nixon on Oct. 28, 1969, and outlining emergency functions
|
||||
signed by <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> on Oct. 28, 1969, and outlining emergency functions
|
||||
which are to be performed by some 28 Executive Departments and
|
||||
Agencies whenever the President of the United States declares
|
||||
a national emergency (as in defiance of an impeachment edict,
|
||||
@ -125,19 +125,19 @@ SUBJECT: FEMA GULAG</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>--> Executive Order 11647 provides the regional and local mechanisms
|
||||
--> and manpower for carrying out the provisions of E. O. 11490.
|
||||
--> Signed by Richard Nixon on Feb. 10, 1972, this Order sets up Ten
|
||||
--> Signed by Richard <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> on Feb. 10, 1972, this Order sets up Ten
|
||||
--> Federal Regional Councils to govern Ten Federal Regions made up
|
||||
--> of the fifty still existing States of the Union.
|
||||
|
||||
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||||
Don sez: </p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Don sez</ent>: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>*Check out this book for the inside scoop on the "secret" Constitution.*
|
||||
|
||||
SUBJECT: - "The Proposed Constitutional Model" Pages 595-621
|
||||
Book Title - The Emerging Constitution
|
||||
Author - Rexford G. Tugwell
|
||||
Publisher - Harpers Magazine Press,Harper and Row
|
||||
Author - <ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent>ford G. Tugwell
|
||||
Publisher - <ent type = 'person'>Harper</ent>s Magazine Press,<ent type = 'person'>Harper</ent> and Row
|
||||
Dewey Decimal - 342.73 T915E
|
||||
ISBN - 0-06-128225-10
|
||||
Note Chapter 14
|
||||
@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
Virginia, District of Columbia.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Philadelphia
|
||||
REGION IV: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi,
|
||||
North Carolina, Tennessee.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>North</ent> Carolina, Tennessee.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Atlanta
|
||||
REGION V: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Chicago
|
||||
@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Dallas-Fort Worth
|
||||
REGION VII: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Kansas City
|
||||
REGION VIII: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota,
|
||||
REGION VIII: Colorado, Montana, <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> Dakota, South Dakota,
|
||||
Utah, Wyoming.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Denver
|
||||
REGION IX: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada.
|
||||
@ -203,13 +203,13 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
<p>################################################################################
|
||||
--------------------------------REF2:FEMA---------------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Bushie-Tail used the Gulf War Show to greatly expand the powers of the
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>ie-Tail used the Gulf War Show to greatly expand the powers of the
|
||||
presidency. During this shell game event, the Executive Orders signed
|
||||
into "law" continued Bushie's methodical and detailed program to bury
|
||||
into "law" continued <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>ie's methodical and detailed program to bury
|
||||
any residual traces of the constitutional rights and protections of U.S.
|
||||
citizens. The Bill of Rights--[almost too late to] use 'em or lose 'em:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> || The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to ||
|
||||
<p> || The record of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s fast and loose approach to ||
|
||||
|| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of ||
|
||||
|| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial ||
|
||||
|| executive. ||</p>
|
||||
@ -219,26 +219,26 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
bottom 2 pages for subscription & back issues info on this quarterly):</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Domestic Consequences of the Gulf War
|
||||
Diana Reynolds
|
||||
Reprinted with permission of CAIB. Copyright 1991</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>
|
||||
Reprinted with permission of <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>. Copyright 1991</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Diana Reynolds is a Research Associate at the Edward R. Murrow Center,
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent> is a Research Associate at the Edward R. Murrow Center,
|
||||
Fletcher School for Public Policy, Tufts University. She is also an
|
||||
Assistant Professor of Politics at Broadford College and a Lecturer at
|
||||
Merrimack College.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A war, even the most victorious, is a national misfortune.
|
||||
--Helmuth Von Moltke, Prussian field marshall</p>
|
||||
--<ent type = 'person'>Helmuth Von Moltke</ent>, Prussian field marshall</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> George Bush put the United States on the road to its second war in
|
||||
<p> George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> put the United States on the road to its second war in
|
||||
two years by declaring a national emergency on August 2,1990. In
|
||||
response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Bush issued two Executive
|
||||
response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> issued two Executive
|
||||
Orders (12722 and 12723) which restricted trade and travel with Iraq
|
||||
and froze Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets within the U.S. and those in the
|
||||
possession of U.S. persons abroad. At least 15 other executive orders
|
||||
followed these initial restrictions and enabled the President to
|
||||
mobilize the country's human and productive resources for war. Under
|
||||
the national emergency, Bush was able unilaterally to break his 1991
|
||||
the national emergency, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> was able unilaterally to break his 1991
|
||||
budget agreement with Congress which had frozen defense spending, to
|
||||
entrench further the U.S. economy in the mire of the military-
|
||||
industrial complex, to override environmental protection regulations,
|
||||
@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
Security Council and administered, where appropriate, under the
|
||||
general umbrella of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[1]
|
||||
There is no requirement that Congress be consulted before an emergency
|
||||
is declared or findings signed. The only restriction on Bush is that
|
||||
is declared or findings signed. The only restriction on <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> is that
|
||||
he must inform Congress in a "timely" fashion--he being the sole
|
||||
arbiter of timeliness.
|
||||
Ultimately, the president's perception of the severity of a
|
||||
@ -271,30 +271,30 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
appointed officers determine the nature of any state of emergency.
|
||||
For this reason, those who were aware of the modern development of
|
||||
presidential emergency powers were apprehensive about the domestic
|
||||
ramifications of any national emergency declared by George Bush. In
|
||||
light of Bush's record (see "Bush Chips Away at Constitution" Box
|
||||
ramifications of any national emergency declared by George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>. In
|
||||
light of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s record (see "<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Chips Away at Constitution" Box
|
||||
below) and present performance, their fears appear well-founded.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The War at Home
|
||||
It is too early to know all of the emergency powers, executive
|
||||
orders and findings issued under classified National Security
|
||||
Directives[2] implemented by Bush in the name of the Gulf War. In
|
||||
Directives[2] implemented by <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> in the name of the Gulf War. In
|
||||
addition to the emergency powers necessary to the direct mobilization
|
||||
of active and reserve armed forces of the United States, there are
|
||||
some 120 additional emergency powers that can be used in a national
|
||||
emergency or state of war (declared or undeclared by Congress). The
|
||||
"Federal Register" records some 15 Executive Orders (EO) signed by
|
||||
Bush from August 2,1990 to February 14,1991. (See "Bush's Executive
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> from August 2,1990 to February 14,1991. (See "<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s Executive
|
||||
Orders" box, below)
|
||||
It may take many years before most of the executive findings and
|
||||
use of powers come to light, if indeed they ever do. But evidence is
|
||||
emerging that at least some of Bush's emergency powers were activated
|
||||
emerging that at least some of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s emergency powers were activated
|
||||
in secret. Although only five of the 15 EOs that were published were
|
||||
directed at non-military personnel, the costs directly attributable to
|
||||
the exercise of the authorities conferred by the declaration of
|
||||
national emergency from August 2, 1990 to February 1, 1991 for non-
|
||||
military activities are estimated at approximately $1.3 billion.
|
||||
According to a February 11, 1991 letter from Bush to congressional
|
||||
According to a February 11, 1991 letter from <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to congressional
|
||||
leaders reporting on the "National Emergency With Respect to Iraq,"
|
||||
these costs represent wage and salary costs for the Departments of
|
||||
Treasury, State, Agriculture, and Transportation, U.S. Customs,
|
||||
@ -307,21 +307,21 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ____________________________________________________________________
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| Bush Chips Away at Constitution |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Chips Away at Constitution |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| George Bush, perhaps more than any other individual in |
|
||||
| George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>, perhaps more than any other individual in |
|
||||
| U.S. history, has expanded the emergency powers of |
|
||||
| presidency. In 1976, as Director of Central Intelligence, |
|
||||
| he convened Team B, a group of rabidly anti-communist |
|
||||
| intellectuals and former government officials to reevaluate |
|
||||
| CIA inhouse intelligence estimates on Soviet military |
|
||||
| strength. The resulting report recommended draconian civil |
|
||||
| defense measures which led to President Ford's Executive |
|
||||
| defense measures which led to President <ent type = 'person'>Ford</ent>'s Executive |
|
||||
| Order 11921 authorizing plans to establish government |
|
||||
| control of the means of production, distribution, energy |
|
||||
| sources, wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money |
|
||||
| in U.S. financial institutions in a national emergency.[1] |
|
||||
| As Vice President, Bush headed the Task Force on |
|
||||
| As Vice President, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> headed the Task Force on |
|
||||
| Combatting Terrorism, that recommended: extended and |
|
||||
| flexible emergency presidential powers to combat terrorism; |
|
||||
| restrictions on congressional oversight in counter- |
|
||||
@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
| President's use of force in a terrorist situation, and |
|
||||
| lifted the requirement that the President consult Congress |
|
||||
| before sanctioning deadly force. |
|
||||
| From 1982 to 1988, Bush led the Defense Mobilization |
|
||||
| From 1982 to 1988, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> led the Defense Mobilization |
|
||||
| Planning Systems Agency (DMPSA), a secret government |
|
||||
| organization, and spent more than $3 billion upgrading |
|
||||
| command, control, and communications in FEMA's continuity |
|
||||
@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
| planning for martial rule. Under this state, the executive |
|
||||
| would take upon itself powers far beyond those necessary to |
|
||||
| address national emergency contingencies.[5] |
|
||||
| Bush's "anything goes" anti-drug strategy, announced |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s "anything goes" anti-drug strategy, announced |
|
||||
| on September 6, 1989, suggested that executive emergency |
|
||||
| powers be used: to oust those suspected of associating |
|
||||
| with drug users or sellers from public and private housing; |
|
||||
@ -367,27 +367,27 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
| drugs in the continental U.S.; to confiscate private |
|
||||
| property belonging to drug users, and to incarcerate first |
|
||||
| time offenders in work camps.[6] |
|
||||
| The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to |
|
||||
| The record of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s fast and loose approach to |
|
||||
| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of |
|
||||
| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial |
|
||||
| executive. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 1. Executive Order 11921, "Emergency preparedness Functions, |
|
||||
| June 11, 1976. Federal Register, vol. 41, no. 116. The |
|
||||
| report was attacked by such notables as Ray Cline, the |
|
||||
| report was attacked by such notables as <ent type = 'person'>Ray <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent></ent>, the |
|
||||
| CIA's former Deputy Director, retired CIA intelligence |
|
||||
| analyst Arthur Macy Cox, and the former head of the U.S. |
|
||||
| Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Paul Warnke for |
|
||||
| Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, <ent type = 'person'>Paul Warnke</ent> for |
|
||||
| blatantly manipulating CIA intelligence to achieve the |
|
||||
| political ends of Team B's rightwing members. See Cline, |
|
||||
| quoted in "Carter to Inherit Intense Dispute on Soviet |
|
||||
| Intentions," Mary Marder, "Washington Post," January 2, |
|
||||
| political ends of Team B's rightwing members. See <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>, |
|
||||
| quoted in "<ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> to Inherit Intense Dispute on Soviet |
|
||||
| Intentions," <ent type = 'person'>Mary Marder</ent>, "Washington Post," January 2, |
|
||||
| 1977; Arthur Macy Cox, "Why the U.S. Since 1977 Has |
|
||||
| Been Mis-perceiving Soviet Military Strength," "New York |
|
||||
| Times," October 20, 1980; Paul Warnke, "George Bush and |
|
||||
| Times," October 20, 1980; <ent type = 'person'>Paul Warnke</ent>, "George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> and |
|
||||
| Team B," "New York Times," September 24, 1988. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 2. George Bush, "Public Report of the Vice President's Task |
|
||||
| 2. George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>, "Public Report of the Vice President's Task |
|
||||
| Force On Combatting Terrorism" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. |
|
||||
| Government Printing Office), February 1986. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
@ -396,22 +396,22 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
| Border Control Committee" (Washington, DC), October 1, |
|
||||
| 1988. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 4. Steven Emerson, "America's Doomsday Project," "U.S. News |
|
||||
| 4. <ent type = 'person'>Steven Emerson</ent>, "America's Doomsday Project," "U.S. News |
|
||||
| & World Report," August 7, 1989. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 5. See: Diana Reynolds, "FEMA and the NSC: The Rise of the |
|
||||
| National Security State," "CAIB," Number 33 (Winter 1990); |
|
||||
| Keenan Peck, "The Take-Charge Gang," "The Progressive," |
|
||||
| 5. See: <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>, "FEMA and the NSC: The Rise of the |
|
||||
| National Security State," "<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>," Number 33 (Winter 1990); |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Keenan Peck</ent>, "The Take-Charge Gang," "The Progressive," |
|
||||
| May 1985; Jack Anderson, "FEMA Wants to Lead Economic |
|
||||
| War," "Washington Post," January 10, 1985. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 6. These Presidential powers were authorized by the Anti- |
|
||||
| Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Public Law 100-690: 100th |
|
||||
| Congress. See also: Diana Reynolds, "The Golden Lie," |
|
||||
| "The Humanist," September/October 1990; Michael Isikoff, |
|
||||
| "Is This Determination or Using a Howitzer to Kill a |
|
||||
| Congress. See also: <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>, "The Golden Lie," |
|
||||
| "The Humanist," September/October 1990; <ent type = 'person'>Michael Isikoff</ent>, |
|
||||
| "Is This Determination or Using a <ent type = 'person'>Howitzer</ent> to Kill a |
|
||||
| Fly?" "Washington Post National Weekly," August 27-, |
|
||||
| September 2, 1990; Bernard Weintraub, "Bush Considers |
|
||||
| September 2, 1990; Bernard Weintraub, "<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Considers |
|
||||
| Calling Guard To Fight Drug Violence in Capital," "New |
|
||||
| York Times," March 21, 1989. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Even those Executive Orders which have been made public tend to
|
||||
raise as many questions as they answer about what actions were
|
||||
considered and actually implemented. On January 8, 1991, Bush signed
|
||||
considered and actually implemented. On January 8, 1991, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> signed
|
||||
Executive Order 12742, National Security Industrial Responsiveness,
|
||||
which ordered the rapid mobilization of resources such as food,
|
||||
energy, construction materials and civil transportation to meet
|
||||
@ -440,8 +440,8 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
<p> Wasting the Environment
|
||||
In one case the use of secret powers was discovered by a watchdog
|
||||
group and revealed in the press. In August 1990, correspondence
|
||||
passed between Colin McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
|
||||
Production and Logistics and Michael Deland, Chair of the White House
|
||||
passed between <ent type = 'person'>Colin McMillan</ent>, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
|
||||
Production and Logistics and <ent type = 'person'>Michael Deland</ent>, Chair of the White House
|
||||
Council on Environmental Quality. The letters responded to
|
||||
presidential and National Security Council directives to deal with
|
||||
increased industrial production and logistics arising from the
|
||||
@ -472,12 +472,12 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
also defer destruction of up to 10 percent of lethal chemical agents
|
||||
and munitions that existed on November 8, 1985.[10]
|
||||
One Executive Order which was made public dealt with "Chemical and
|
||||
Biological Weapons Proliferation." Signed by Bush on November 16,
|
||||
1990, EO 12735 leaves the impression that Bush is ordering an
|
||||
Biological Weapons Proliferation." Signed by <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> on November 16,
|
||||
1990, EO 12735 leaves the impression that <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> is ordering an
|
||||
increased effort to end the proliferation of chemical and biological
|
||||
weapons. The order states that these weapons "constitute a threat to
|
||||
national security and foreign policy" and declares a national
|
||||
emergency to deal with the threat. To confront this threat, Bush
|
||||
emergency to deal with the threat. To confront this threat, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>
|
||||
ordered international negotiations, the imposition of controls,
|
||||
licenses, and sanctions against foreign persons and countries for
|
||||
proliferation. Conveniently, the order grants the Secretaries of
|
||||
@ -485,14 +485,14 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
In February of 1991, the Omnibus Export Amendments Act was passed
|
||||
by Congress compatible with EO 12735. It imposed sanctions on
|
||||
countries and companies developing or using chemical or biological
|
||||
weapons. Bush signed the law, although he had rejected the identical
|
||||
weapons. <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> signed the law, although he had rejected the identical
|
||||
measure the year before because it did not give him the executive
|
||||
power to waive all sanctions if he thought the national interest
|
||||
required it.[11] The new bill, however, met Bush's requirements.</p>
|
||||
required it.[11] The new bill, however, met <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s requirements.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ____________________________________________________________________
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| BUSH'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>BUSH</ent>'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| * EO 12722 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and |
|
||||
| Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 2, 1990. |
|
||||
@ -546,16 +546,16 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
--------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Going Off Budget
|
||||
Although some of the powers which Bush assumed in order to conduct
|
||||
Although some of the powers which <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> assumed in order to conduct
|
||||
the Gulf War were taken openly, they received little public discussion
|
||||
or reporting by the media.
|
||||
In October, when the winds of the Gulf War were merely a breeze,
|
||||
Bush used his executive emergency powers to extend his budget
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> used his executive emergency powers to extend his budget
|
||||
authority. This action made the 1991 fiscal budget agreement between
|
||||
Congress and the President one of the first U.S. casualties of the
|
||||
war. While on one hand the deal froze arms spending through 1996, it
|
||||
also allowed Bush to put the cost of the Gulf War "off budget." Thus,
|
||||
using its emergency powers, the Bush administration could:</p>
|
||||
also allowed <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to put the cost of the Gulf War "off budget." Thus,
|
||||
using its emergency powers, the <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> administration could:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> * incur a deficit which exceeds congressional budget authority;</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
<p> * and exempt the Pentagon from congressional restrictions on
|
||||
hiring private contractors.[13]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> While there is no published evidence on which powers Bush actually
|
||||
<p> While there is no published evidence on which powers <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> actually
|
||||
invoked, the administration was able to push through the 1990 Omnibus
|
||||
Reconciliation Act. This legislation put a cap on domestic spending,
|
||||
created a record $300 billion deficit, and undermined the Gramm-
|
||||
@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
companion "dire emergency supplemental appropriation,"[14] it
|
||||
specified that the supplemental budget should not be used to finance
|
||||
costs the Pentagon would normally experience.[15]
|
||||
Lawrence Korb, a Pentagon official in the Reagan administration,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Lawrence Korb</ent>, a Pentagon official in the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> administration,
|
||||
believes that the Pentagon has already violated the spirit of the 1990
|
||||
Omnibus Reconciliation Act. It switched funding for the Patriot,
|
||||
Tomahawk, Hellfire and HARM missiles from its regular budget to the
|
||||
@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
<p> Pool of Disinformation
|
||||
Emergency powers to control the means of communications in the U.S.
|
||||
in the name of national security were never formally declared. There
|
||||
was no need for Bush to do so since most of the media voluntarily and
|
||||
was no need for <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to do so since most of the media voluntarily and
|
||||
even eagerly cooperated in their own censorship. Reporters covering
|
||||
the Coalition forces in the Gulf region operated under restrictions
|
||||
imposed by the U.S. military. They were, among other things, barred
|
||||
@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
domestic affairs. It is likely, however, that with a post-war
|
||||
presidential approval rating exceeding 75 percent, the domestic
|
||||
casualties will continue to mount with few objections. Paradoxically,
|
||||
even though the U.S. public put pressure on Bush to send relief for
|
||||
even though the U.S. public put pressure on <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to send relief for
|
||||
the 500,000 Iraqi Kurdish refugees, it is unlikely the same outcry
|
||||
will be heard for the 37 million Americans without health insurance,
|
||||
the 32 million living in poverty, or the country's five million hungry
|
||||
@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
|
||||
<p> FOOTNOTES:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 1. The administrative guideline was established under Reagan in Executive
|
||||
<p> 1. The administrative guideline was established under <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> in Executive
|
||||
Order 12656, November 18,1988, "Federal Register," vol. 23, no. 266.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 2. For instance, National Security Council policy papers or National
|
||||
@ -670,26 +670,26 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
a top security classified state and are not shared with Congress. For
|
||||
an excellent discussion see: Harold C. Relyea, The Coming of Secret
|
||||
Law, "Government Information Quarterly," Vol. 5, November 1988; see
|
||||
also: Eve Pell, "The Backbone of Hidden Government," "The Nation,"
|
||||
also: <ent type = 'person'>Eve Pell</ent>, "The Backbone of Hidden Government," "The Nation,"
|
||||
June 19,1990.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 3. "Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting on the National Emergency
|
||||
With Respect to Iraq," February, 11, 1991, "Weekly Compilation of
|
||||
Presidential Documents: Administration of George Bush," (Washington,
|
||||
Presidential Documents: Administration of George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>," (Washington,
|
||||
DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), pp. 158-61.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 4. The U.S. now has states of emergency with Iran, Iraq and Syria.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 5. Allanna Sullivan, "U.S. Oil Concerns Confident Of Riding Out Short Gulf
|
||||
<p> 5. <ent type = 'person'>Allanna Sullivan</ent>, "U.S. Oil Concerns Confident Of Riding Out Short Gulf
|
||||
War," "Wall Street Journal Europe," January 7, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 6. Colin McMillan, Letter to Michael Deland, Chairman, Council on
|
||||
<p> 6. <ent type = 'person'>Colin McMillan</ent>, Letter to <ent type = 'person'>Michael Deland</ent>, Chairman, Council on
|
||||
Environmental Quality (Washington, DC: Executive Office of the
|
||||
President), August 24, 1990; Michael R. Deland, Letter to Colin
|
||||
McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics
|
||||
(Washington, DC: Department of Defense), August 29,1990.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 7. Keith Schneider, "Pentagon Wins Waiver Of Environmental Rule," "New York
|
||||
<p> 7. <ent type = 'person'>Keith Schneider</ent>, "Pentagon Wins Waiver Of Environmental Rule," "New York
|
||||
Times," January 30, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 8. 33 U.S. Code (USC) sec. 1902 9(b).</p>
|
||||
@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 10. 50 USC sec. 1521(b) (3)(A).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ll. Adam Clymer, "New Bill Mandates Sanctions On Makers of Chemical Arms,"
|
||||
<p> ll. <ent type = 'person'>Adam Clymer</ent>, "New Bill Mandates Sanctions On Makers of Chemical Arms,"
|
||||
"New York Times," February 22, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 12. 31 USC O10005 (f); 2 USC O632 (i), 6419 (d), 907a (b); and Public
|
||||
@ -716,12 +716,12 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
the Congressional Budget office estimates that cost at only $40
|
||||
billion, $16 billion less than allied pledges.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 15. Michael Kamish, "After The War: At Home, An Unconquered Recession,"
|
||||
"Boston Globe," March 6, 1991; Peter Passell, "The Big Spoils From a
|
||||
Bargain War," "New York Times," March 3, 1991; and Alan Abelson, "A
|
||||
War Dividend For The Defense Industry?" "Barron's," March 18, 1991.</p>
|
||||
<p> 15. <ent type = 'person'>Michael Kamish</ent>, "After The War: At Home, An Unconquered Recession,"
|
||||
"Boston Globe," March 6, 1991; <ent type = 'person'>Peter Passell</ent>, "The Big Spoils From a
|
||||
Bargain War," "New York Times," March 3, 1991; and <ent type = 'person'>Alan Abelson</ent>, "A
|
||||
War Dividend For The Defense Industry?" "<ent type = 'person'>Barron</ent>'s," March 18, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 16. Lawrence Korb, "The Pentagon's Creative Budgetry Is Out of Line,"
|
||||
<p> 16. <ent type = 'person'>Lawrence Korb</ent>, "The Pentagon's Creative Budgetry Is Out of Line,"
|
||||
"International Herald Tribune," April 5, 199l.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 17. Many of the powers against aliens are automatically invoked during a
|
||||
@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
imposition of travel restrictions on aliens within the U.S. (8 USC sec.
|
||||
1185); and requiring aliens to be fingerprinted (8 USC sec. 1302).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 18. Ann Talamas, "FBI Targets Arab-Americans," "CAIB," Spring 1991, p. 4.</p>
|
||||
<p> 18. <ent type = 'person'>Ann Talamas</ent>, "FBI Targets Arab-Americans," "<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>," Spring 1991, p. 4.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 19. "Anti-Repression Project Bulletin" (New York: Center for
|
||||
Constitutional Rights), January 23, 1991.</p>
|
||||
@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
<p> 20. James DeParle, "Long Series of Military Decisions Led to Gulf War News
|
||||
Censorship," "New York Times," May 5, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 21. James LeMoyne, "A Correspondent's Tale: Pentagon's Strategy for the
|
||||
<p> 21. <ent type = 'person'>James LeMoyne</ent>, "A Correspondent's Tale: Pentagon's Strategy for the
|
||||
Press: Good News or No News," "New York Times," February 17, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>______________________________________________________________________________
|
||||
@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
<p>No. 1 (July 1978): Agee on CIA; Cuban exile trial; consumer research-Jamaica.*
|
||||
No. 2 (Oct. 1978): How CIA recruits diplomats; researching undercover
|
||||
officers; double agent in CIA.*
|
||||
No. 3 (Jan. 1979): CIA attacks CAIB; secret supp. to Army field manual;
|
||||
No. 3 (Jan. 1979): CIA attacks <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>; secret supp. to Army field manual;
|
||||
spying on host countries.*
|
||||
No. 4 (Apr.-May 1979): U.S. spies in Italian services; CIA in Spain; CIA
|
||||
recruiting for Africa; subversive academics; Angola.*
|
||||
@ -766,28 +766,28 @@ No. 6 (Oct. 1979): U.S. in Caribbean; Cuban exile terrorists; CIA plans
|
||||
No. 7 (Dec. 1979-Jan. 1980): Media destabilization in Jamaica; Robert
|
||||
Moss; CIA budget; media operations; UNITA; Iran.*
|
||||
No. 8 (Mar.-Apr. 1980): Attacks on Agee; U.S. intelligence legislation;
|
||||
CAIB statement to Congress; Zimbabwe; Northern Ireland.
|
||||
No. 9 (June 1980): NSA in Norway; Glomar Explorer; mind control; NSA.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent> statement to Congress; Zimbabwe; <ent type = 'person'>North</ent>ern Ireland.
|
||||
No. 9 (June 1980): NSA in Norway; <ent type = 'person'>Glomar Explorer</ent>; mind control; NSA.
|
||||
No. 10 (Aug.-Sept. 1980): Caribbean; destabilization in Jamaica; Guyana;
|
||||
Grenada bombing; "The Spike"; deep cover manual.
|
||||
Grenada bombing; "The <ent type = 'person'>Spike</ent>"; deep cover manual.
|
||||
No. 11 (Dec. 1980): Rightwing terrorism; South Korea; KCIA; Portugal;
|
||||
Guyana; Caribbean; AFIO; NSA interview.
|
||||
No. 12 (Apr. 1981): U.S. in Salvador and Guatemala; New Right; William
|
||||
Casey; CIA in Mozambique; mail surveillance.*
|
||||
No. 13 (July-Aug. 1981): South Africa documents; Namibia; mercenaries;
|
||||
the Klan; Globe Aero; Angola; Mozambique; BOSS; Central America;
|
||||
Max Hugel; mail surveillance.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Max Hugel</ent>; mail surveillance.
|
||||
No. 14-15 (Oct. 1981): Complete index to nos. 1-12; review of intelligence
|
||||
legislation; CAIB plans; extended Naming Names.
|
||||
legislation; <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent> plans; extended Naming Names.
|
||||
No. 16 (Mar. 1982): Green Beret torture in Salvador; Argentine death squads;
|
||||
CIA media ops; Seychelles; Angola; Mozambique; the Klan; Nugan Hand.*
|
||||
No. 17 (Summer 1982): CBW History; Cuban dengue epidemic; Scott Barnes
|
||||
No. 17 (Summer 1982): CBW History; Cuban dengue epidemic; <ent type = 'person'>Scott Barnes</ent>
|
||||
and yellow rain lies; mystery death in Bangkok.*
|
||||
No. 18 (Winter 1983): CIA & religion; "secret" war in Nicaragua; Opus Dei;
|
||||
Miskitos; evangelicals-Guatemala; Summer Inst. of Linguistics; World
|
||||
Medical Relief; CIA & BOSS; torture S. Africa; Vietnam defoliation.*
|
||||
No. 19 (Spring-Summer 1983): CIA & media; history of disinformation;
|
||||
"plot" against Pope; Grenada airport; Georgie Anne Geyer.
|
||||
"plot" against Pope; Grenada airport; <ent type = 'person'>Georgie Anne Geyer</ent>.
|
||||
No. 20 (Winter 1984): Invasion of Grenada; war in Nicaragua; Ft. Huachuca;
|
||||
Israel and South Korea in Central America; KAL flight 007.
|
||||
No. 21 (Spring 1984): N.Y. Times and the Salvador election; Time and
|
||||
@ -801,11 +801,11 @@ No. 24 (Summer 1985): State repression, infiltrators, provocateurs;
|
||||
NASSCO strike; Arnaud de Borchgrave, Moon, and Moss; Tetra Tech.
|
||||
No. 25 (Winter 1986): U.S., Nazis, and the Vatican; Knights of Malta;
|
||||
Greek civil war and Eleni; WACL and Nicaragua; torture.
|
||||
No. 26 (Summer 1986): U.S. state terrorism; Vernon Walters; Libya bombing;
|
||||
No. 26 (Summer 1986): U.S. state terrorism; <ent type = 'person'>Vernon Walters</ent>; Libya bombing;
|
||||
contra agents; Israel and South Africa; Duarte; media in Costa
|
||||
Rica; democracy in Nicaragua; plus complete index to nos. 13-25.*
|
||||
No. 27 (Spring 1987): Special: Religious Right; New York Times and Pope
|
||||
Plot; Carlucci; Southern Air Transport; Michael Ledeen.*
|
||||
Plot; Carlucci; Southern Air Transport; <ent type = 'person'>Michael Ledeen</ent>.*
|
||||
No. 28 (Summer 1987): Special: CIA and drugs: S.E. Asia, Afghanistan,
|
||||
Central America; Nugan Hand; MKULTRA in Canada; Delta Force;
|
||||
special section on AIDS theories and CBW.*
|
||||
@ -817,21 +817,21 @@ No. 30 (Summer 1989): Special: Middle East: The intifada, Israeli arms
|
||||
Buckley; the Afghan arms pipeline and contra lobby.
|
||||
No. 31 (Winter 1989): Special issue on domestic surveillance. The FBI; CIA
|
||||
on campus; Office of Public Diplomacy; Lexington Prison; Puerto Rico.
|
||||
No. 32 (Summer 1989): Tenth Year Anniversary Issue: The Best of CAIB.
|
||||
No. 32 (Summer 1989): Tenth Year Anniversary Issue: The Best of <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>.
|
||||
Includes articles from our earliest issues, Naming Names, CIA at home,
|
||||
abroad, and in the media. Ten-year perspective by Philip Agee.
|
||||
No. 33 (Winter 1990): The Bush Issue: CIA agents for Bush; Terrorism Task
|
||||
abroad, and in the media. Ten-year perspective by <ent type = 'person'>Philip Agee</ent>.
|
||||
No. 33 (Winter 1990): The <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Issue: CIA agents for <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>; Terrorism Task
|
||||
Force; El Salvador and Nicaragua intervention; Republicans and Nazis.
|
||||
No. 34 (Summer 1990): Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr; Nicaraguan
|
||||
elections; South African death squads; U.S. and Pol Pot; Pan Am
|
||||
Flight 103; Noriega and the CIA; Council for National Policy.
|
||||
No. 35 (Fall 1990): Special: Eastern Europe; Analysis-Persian Gulf and
|
||||
Cuba; massacres in Indonesia; CIA and Banks; Iran-contra
|
||||
Cuba; massacres in Indonesia; CIA and <ent type = 'person'>Banks</ent>; Iran-contra
|
||||
No. 36 (Spring 1991): Racism & Nat. Security: FBI v. Arab-Americans & Black
|
||||
Officials; Special: Destabilizing Africa: Chad, Uganda, S. Africa,
|
||||
Officials; Special: <ent type = 'person'>Destabilizing Africa</ent>: Chad, Uganda, S. Africa,
|
||||
Angola, Mozambique, Zaire; Haiti; Panama; Gulf War; COINTELPRO "art."
|
||||
No. 37 (Summer 1990): Special: Gulf War: Media; U.N.; Libya; Iran;
|
||||
Domestic costs; North Korea Next? Illegal Arms Deals.</p>
|
||||
Domestic costs; <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> Korea Next? Illegal Arms Deals.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> * Available in Photocopy only</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ No. 37 (Summer 1990): Special: Gulf War: Media; U.N.; Libya; Iran;
|
||||
<p> BACK ISSUES: Circle above, or list below. $6 per copy in U.S.
|
||||
Airmail: Canada/Mexico add $2; other countries add $4.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> CAIB, P.O. Box 34583, Washington, DC 20043</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>, P.O. Box 34583, Washington, DC 20043</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>--
|
||||
daveus rattus</p>
|
||||
@ -881,18 +881,18 @@ No. 37 (Summer 1990): Special: Gulf War: Media; U.N.; Libya; Iran;
|
||||
An excellent book which deals with the REX 84 detention plan is:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|
||||
``Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North,'' by Ben
|
||||
Bradlee Jr. (Donald I. Fine, $21.95. 573 pp.)
|
||||
``Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of <ent type = 'person'>Oliver <ent type = 'person'>North</ent></ent>,'' by Ben
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bradlee</ent> Jr. (Donald I. Fine, $21.95. 573 pp.)
|
||||
------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
Reviewed by Dennis M. Culnan Copyright 1990, Gannett News Service All
|
||||
Rights Reserved Short excerpt posted here under applicable copyright
|
||||
laws</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[Oliver] North managed to network himself into the highest levels of
|
||||
<p>[Oliver] <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> managed to network himself into the highest levels of
|
||||
the CIA and power centers around the world. There he lied and
|
||||
boastfully ignored the constitutional process, Bradlee writes.</p>
|
||||
boastfully ignored the constitutional process, <ent type = 'person'>Bradlee</ent> writes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Yet more terrifying is the plan hatched by North and other Reagan
|
||||
<p>Yet more terrifying is the plan hatched by <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> and other <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
people in the Federal Emergency Manpower Agency (FEMA): A blueprint
|
||||
for the military takeover of the United States. The plan called for
|
||||
FEMA to become ``emergency czar'' in the event of a national emergency
|
||||
@ -903,8 +903,8 @@ commanders and run state and local governments. Finally, it would
|
||||
have the authority to order suspect aliens into concentration camps
|
||||
and seize their property.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>When then-Attorney General William French Smith got wind of the plan,
|
||||
he killed it. After Smith left the administration, North and his FEMA
|
||||
<p>When then-Attorney General <ent type = 'person'>William French <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent></ent> got wind of the plan,
|
||||
he killed it. After <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent> left the administration, <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> and his FEMA
|
||||
cronies came up with the Defense Resource Act, designed to suspendend
|
||||
the First Amendment by imposing censorship and banning strikes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -914,20 +914,20 @@ with the president's declaration of a state of national emergency
|
||||
concurrent with a mythical U.S. military invasion of an unspecified
|
||||
Central American country, presumably Nicaragua.''</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Bradlee writes that the Rex exercise was designed to test FEMA's
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Bradlee</ent> writes that the <ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent> exercise was designed to test FEMA's
|
||||
readiness to assume authority over the Department of Defense, the
|
||||
National Guard in all 50 states, and ``a number of state defense
|
||||
forces to be established by state legislatures.'' The military would
|
||||
then be ``deputized,'' thus making an end run around federal law
|
||||
forbidding military involvement in domestic law enforcement.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Rex, which ran concurrently with the first annual U.S. show of force
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent>, which ran concurrently with the first annual U.S. show of force
|
||||
in Honduras in April 1984, was also designed to test FEMA's ability to
|
||||
round up 400,000 undocumented Central American aliens in the United
|
||||
States and its ability to distribute hundreds of tons of small arms to
|
||||
``state defense forces.''</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Incredibly, REX 84 was similar to a plan secretly adopted by Reagan
|
||||
<p>Incredibly, REX 84 was similar to a plan secretly adopted by <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
while governor of California. His two top henchmen then were Edwin
|
||||
Meese, who recently resigned as U.S. attorney general, and Louis
|
||||
Guiffrida, the FEMA director in 1984.</p>
|
||||
@ -950,15 +950,15 @@ patriots.
|
||||
------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> WILL GULF WAR LEAD TO REPRESSION AT HOME?
|
||||
by Paul DeRienzo and Bill Weinberg</p>
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Paul DeRienzo</ent> and Bill Weinberg</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On August 2, 1990, as Saddam Hussein's army was consolidating control
|
||||
over Kuwait, President George Bush responded by signing two executive
|
||||
over Kuwait, President George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> responded by signing two executive
|
||||
orders that were the first step toward martial law in the United
|
||||
States and suspending the Constitution.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On the surface, Executive Orders 12722 and 12723, declaring a
|
||||
"national emergency," merely invoked laws that allowed Bush to freeze
|
||||
"national emergency," merely invoked laws that allowed <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to freeze
|
||||
Iraqi assets in the United States.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The International Emergency Executive Powers Act permits the president
|
||||
@ -966,11 +966,11 @@ to freeze foreign assets after declaring a "national emergency," a
|
||||
move that has been made three times before -- against Panama in 1987,
|
||||
Nicaragua in 1985 and Iran in 1979.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>According to Professor Diana Reynolds, of the Fletcher School of
|
||||
Diplomacy at Boston's Tufts University, when Bush declared a national
|
||||
<p>According to Professor <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>, of the Fletcher School of
|
||||
Diplomacy at Boston's Tufts University, when <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> declared a national
|
||||
emergency he "activated one part of a contingency national security
|
||||
emergency plan." That plan is made up of a series of laws passed since
|
||||
the presidency of Richard Nixon, which Reynolds says give the
|
||||
the presidency of Richard <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>, which Reynolds says give the
|
||||
president "boundless" powers.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>According to Reynolds, such laws as the Defense Industrial
|
||||
@ -1009,22 +1009,22 @@ agency.</p>
|
||||
and corporate leaders who helped mobilize the nation's industries to
|
||||
support the war effort. The idea of a central national response to
|
||||
large-scale emergencies was reintroduced in the early 1970s by Louis
|
||||
Giuffrida, a close associate of then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan and
|
||||
his chief aide Edwin Meese.</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent>, a close associate of then-California Gov. Ronald <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> and
|
||||
his chief aide <ent type = 'person'>Edwin Meese</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Reagan appointed Giuffrida head of the California National Guard in
|
||||
1969. With Meese, Giuffrida organized "war-games" to prepare for
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> appointed <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> head of the California National Guard in
|
||||
1969. With Meese, <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> organized "war-games" to prepare for
|
||||
"statewide martial law" in the event that Black nationalists and
|
||||
anti-war protesters "challenged the authority of the state." In 1981,
|
||||
Reagan as president moved Giuffrida up to the big leagues, appointing
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> as president moved <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> up to the big leagues, appointing
|
||||
him director of FEMA.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>According to Reynolds, however, it was the actions of George Bush in
|
||||
<p>According to Reynolds, however, it was the actions of George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> in
|
||||
1976, while he was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency
|
||||
(CIA), that provided the stimulus for centralization of vast powers in
|
||||
FEMA.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Bush assembled a group of hawkish outsiders, called Team B, that
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> assembled a group of hawkish outsiders, called Team B, that
|
||||
released a report claiming the CIA ("Team A") had underestimated the
|
||||
dangers of Soviet nuclear attack. The report advised the development
|
||||
of elaborate plans for "civil defense" and post-nuclear government.
|
||||
@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ Three years later, in 1979, FEMA was given ultimate responsibility for
|
||||
developing these plans.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Aware of the bad publicity FEMA was getting because of its role in
|
||||
organizing for a post-nuclear world, Reagan's FEMA chief Giuffrida
|
||||
organizing for a post-nuclear world, <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>'s FEMA chief <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent>
|
||||
publicly argued that the 1865 Posse Comitatus Act prohibited the
|
||||
military from arresting civilians.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ to arrest civilians. The National Guard, under the control of state
|
||||
governors in peace time, is also exempt from the act and can arrest
|
||||
civilians.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FEMA Inspector General John Brinkerhoff has written a memo contending
|
||||
<p>FEMA Inspector General <ent type = 'person'>John Brinkerhoff</ent> has written a memo contending
|
||||
that the government doesn't need to suspend the Constitution to use
|
||||
the full range of powers Congress has given the agency. FEMA has
|
||||
prepared legislation to be introduced in Congress in the event of a
|
||||
@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ right to "deputize" National Guard and police forces is included in
|
||||
the package. But Reynolds believes that actual martial law need not be
|
||||
declared publicly.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Giuffrida has written that "Martial Rule comes into existence upon a
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> has written that "Martial Rule comes into existence upon a
|
||||
determination (not a declaration) by the senior military commander
|
||||
that the civil government must be replaced because it is no longer
|
||||
functioning anyway." He adds that "Martial Rule is limited only by the
|
||||
@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ know how many are enacted."</p>
|
||||
<p>DOMESTIC SPYING</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Throughout the 1980s, FEMA was prohibited from engaging in
|
||||
intelligence gathering. But on July 6, 1989, Bush signed Executive
|
||||
intelligence gathering. But on July 6, 1989, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> signed Executive
|
||||
Order 12681, pronouncing that FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate
|
||||
would "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence,
|
||||
investigative, or national security work." Recent events indicate that
|
||||
@ -1114,23 +1114,23 @@ York, NY 10011</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>DATE OF UPLOAD: November 17, 1989
|
||||
ORIGIN OF UPLOAD: Omni Magazine
|
||||
CONTRIBUTED BY: Donald Goldberg</p>
|
||||
CONTRIBUTED BY: <ent type = 'person'>Donald Goldberg</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>========================================================
|
||||
PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE BBS
|
||||
========================================================
|
||||
Although this article does not deal directly with UFOs,
|
||||
ParaNet felt it important as an offering to our readers who
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>ParaNet</ent> felt it important as an offering to our readers who
|
||||
depend so much upon communications as a way to stay informed.
|
||||
This article raises some interesting implications for the future
|
||||
of communications.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>THE NATIONAL GUARDS
|
||||
(C) 1987 OMNI MAGAZINE MAY 1987
|
||||
(Reprinted with permission and license to ParaNet Information
|
||||
(Reprinted with permission and license to <ent type = 'person'>ParaNet</ent> Information
|
||||
Service and its affiliates.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>By Donald Goldberg</p>
|
||||
<p>By <ent type = 'person'>Donald Goldberg</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The mountains bend as the fjord and the sea beyond stretch
|
||||
out before the viewer's eyes. First over the water, then a sharp
|
||||
@ -1176,7 +1176,7 @@ databases.
|
||||
military's increasing efforts to keep information not only from
|
||||
the public but from industry experts, scientists, and even other
|
||||
government officials as well. "That's like classifying a road
|
||||
map for fear of invasion," says Paul Wolff, assistant
|
||||
map for fear of invasion," says <ent type = 'person'>Paul Wolff</ent>, assistant
|
||||
administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
|
||||
Administration, of the attempted restrictions.
|
||||
These attempts to keep unclassified data out of the hands of
|
||||
@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ are a part of an alarming trend that has seen the military take
|
||||
an ever-increasing role in controlling the flow of information
|
||||
and communications through American society, a role traditionally
|
||||
-- and almost exclusively -- left to civilians. Under the
|
||||
approving gaze of the Reagan administration, Department of
|
||||
approving gaze of the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> administration, Department of
|
||||
Defense (DoD) officials have quietly implemented a number of
|
||||
policies, decisions, and orders that give the military
|
||||
unprecedented control over both the content and public use of
|
||||
@ -1207,13 +1207,13 @@ emergency is restricted to times of natural disaster, war, or
|
||||
when national security is specifically threatened. Now the
|
||||
military has attempted to redefine emergency.
|
||||
The point man in the Pentagon's onslaught on communications
|
||||
is Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. Latham, a former NSA
|
||||
deputy chief. Latham now heads up an interagency committee in
|
||||
is Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent>, a former NSA
|
||||
deputy chief. <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> now heads up an interagency committee in
|
||||
charge of writing and implementing many of the policies that have
|
||||
put the military in charge of the flow of civilian information
|
||||
and communication. He is also the architect of National Security
|
||||
Decision Directive 145 (NSDD 145), signed by Defense Secretary
|
||||
Caspar Weinberger in 1984, which sets out the national policy on
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Caspar <ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent></ent> in 1984, which sets out the national policy on
|
||||
telecommunications and computer-systems security.
|
||||
First NSDD 145 set up a steering group of top-level
|
||||
administration officials. Their job is to recommend ways to
|
||||
@ -1223,7 +1223,7 @@ agencies but by private companies as well. And last October the
|
||||
steering group issued a memorandum that defined sensitive
|
||||
information and gave federal agencies broad new powers to keep it
|
||||
from the public.
|
||||
According to Latham, this new category includes such data as
|
||||
According to <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent>, this new category includes such data as
|
||||
all medical records on government databases -- from the files of
|
||||
the National Cancer Institute to information on every veteran who
|
||||
has ever applied for medical aid from the Veterans Administration
|
||||
@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ has ever applied for medical aid from the Veterans Administration
|
||||
the Internal Revenue Service's computers. Even agricultural
|
||||
statistics, he argues, can be used by a foreign power against the
|
||||
United States.
|
||||
In his oversize yet Spartan Pentagon office, Latham cuts
|
||||
In his oversize yet Spartan Pentagon office, <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> cuts
|
||||
anything but an intimidating figure. Articulate and friendly, he
|
||||
could pass for a network anchorman or a television game show
|
||||
host. When asked how the government's new definition of
|
||||
@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@ sensitive information will be used, he defends the necessity for
|
||||
it and tries to put to rest concerns about a new restrictiveness.
|
||||
"The debate that somehow the DoD and NSA are going to
|
||||
monitor or get into private databases isn't the case at all,"
|
||||
Latham insists. "The definition is just a guideline, just an
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> insists. "The definition is just a guideline, just an
|
||||
advisory. It does not give the DoD the right to go into private
|
||||
records."
|
||||
Yet the Defense Department invoked the NSDD 145 guidelines
|
||||
@ -1248,18 +1248,18 @@ sale of data that are now unclassified and publicly available
|
||||
from privately owned computer systems. The excuse if offered was
|
||||
that these data often include technical information that might be
|
||||
valuable to a foreign adversary like the Soviet Union.
|
||||
Mead Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest
|
||||
computer databases, such as Lexis and Nexis, and has nearly
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Mead</ent> Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest
|
||||
computer databases, such as <ent type = 'person'>Lexis</ent> and Nexis, and has nearly
|
||||
200,000 users -- says it has already been approached by a team of
|
||||
agents from the Air Force and officials from the CIA and the FBI
|
||||
who asked for the names of subscribers and inquired what Mead
|
||||
who asked for the names of subscribers and inquired what <ent type = 'person'>Mead</ent>
|
||||
officials might do if information restrictions were imposed. In
|
||||
response to government pressure, Mead Data Central in effect
|
||||
response to government pressure, <ent type = 'person'>Mead</ent> Data Central in effect
|
||||
censured itself. It purged all unclassified government-supplied
|
||||
technical data from its system and completely dropped the
|
||||
National Technical Information System from its database rather
|
||||
than risk a confrontation.
|
||||
Representative Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat who chairs the
|
||||
Representative <ent type = 'person'>Jack <ent type = 'person'>Brooks</ent></ent>, a Texas Democrat who chairs the
|
||||
House Government Operations Committee, is an outspoken critic of
|
||||
the NSA's role in restricting civilian information. He notes
|
||||
that in 1985 the NSA -- under the authority granted by NSDD 145
|
||||
@ -1268,19 +1268,19 @@ local and federal elections in 1984. The computer system was
|
||||
used to count more than one third of all votes cast in the United
|
||||
States. While probing the system's vulnerability to outside
|
||||
manipulation, the NSA obtained a detailed knowledge of that
|
||||
computer program. "In my view," Brooks says, "this is an
|
||||
computer program. "In my view," <ent type = 'person'>Brooks</ent> says, "this is an
|
||||
unprecedented and ill-advised expansion of the military's
|
||||
influence in our society."
|
||||
There are other NSA critics. "The computer systems used by
|
||||
counties to collect and process votes have nothing to do with
|
||||
national security, and I'm really concerned about the NSA's
|
||||
involvement," says Democratic congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas,
|
||||
involvement," says Democratic congressman <ent type = 'person'>Dan Glickman</ent> of Kansas,
|
||||
chairman of the House science and technology subcommittee
|
||||
concerned with computer security.
|
||||
Also, under NSDD 145 the Pentagon has issued an order,
|
||||
virtually unknown to all but a few industry executives, that
|
||||
affects commercial communications satellites. The policy was
|
||||
made official by Defense Secretary Weinberger in June of 1985 and
|
||||
made official by Defense Secretary <ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent> in June of 1985 and
|
||||
requires that all commercial satellite operators that carry such
|
||||
unclassified government data traffic as routine Pentagon supply
|
||||
information and payroll data (and that compete for lucrative
|
||||
@ -1290,7 +1290,7 @@ affect the data over satellite channels, but it does make the NSA
|
||||
privy to vital information about the essential signals needed to
|
||||
operate a satellite. With this information it could take control
|
||||
of any satellite it chooses.
|
||||
Latham insists this, too, is a voluntary policy and that
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> insists this, too, is a voluntary policy and that
|
||||
only companies that wish to install protection will have their
|
||||
systems evaluated by the NSA. He also says industry officials
|
||||
are wholly behind the move, and argues that the protective
|
||||
@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ argue, could cripple a company competing against less expensive
|
||||
communications networks.
|
||||
Americans get much of their information through forms of
|
||||
electronic communications, from the telephone, television and
|
||||
radio, and information printed in many newspapers. Banks send
|
||||
radio, and information printed in many newspapers. <ent type = 'person'>Banks</ent> send
|
||||
important financial data, businesses their spreadsheets, and
|
||||
stockbrokers their investment portfolios, all over the same
|
||||
channels, from satellite signals to computer hookups carried on
|
||||
@ -1354,9 +1354,9 @@ Department officials. (The bill failed to pass the House for
|
||||
unrelated reasons.)
|
||||
"I think it is quite clear that they have snuck in there
|
||||
some powers that are dangerous for us as a company and for the
|
||||
public at large," said MCI vice president Kenneth Cox before the
|
||||
public at large," said MCI vice president <ent type = 'person'>Kenneth Cox</ent> before the
|
||||
Senate vote.
|
||||
Since President Reagan took office, the Pentagon has stepped
|
||||
Since President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> took office, the Pentagon has stepped
|
||||
up its efforts to rewrite the definition of national emergency
|
||||
and give the military expanded powers in the United States. "The
|
||||
declaration of 'emergency' has always been vague," says one
|
||||
@ -1365,7 +1365,7 @@ after ten years in top policy posts. "Different presidents have
|
||||
invoked it differently. This administration would declare a
|
||||
convenient 'emergency.'" In other words, what is a nuisance to
|
||||
one administration might qualify as a burgeoning crisis to
|
||||
another. For example, the Reagan administration might decide
|
||||
another. For example, the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> administration might decide
|
||||
that a series of protests on or near military bases constituted a
|
||||
national emergency.
|
||||
Should the Pentagon ever be given the green light, its base
|
||||
@ -1418,9 +1418,9 @@ day Ma Bell's monopoly over the telephone network of the entire
|
||||
United States was finally broken. The timing was no coincidence.
|
||||
Pentagon officials had argued for years along with AT&T against
|
||||
the divestiture of Ma Bell, on grounds of national security.
|
||||
Defense Secretary Weinberger personally urged the attorney
|
||||
Defense Secretary <ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent> personally urged the attorney
|
||||
general to block the lawsuit that resulted in the breakup, as had
|
||||
his predecessor, Harold Brown. The reason was that rather than
|
||||
his predecessor, <ent type = 'person'>Harold Brown</ent>. The reason was that rather than
|
||||
construct its own communications network, the Pentagon had come
|
||||
to rely extensively on the phone company. After the breakup the
|
||||
dependence continued. The Pentagon still used commercial
|
||||
@ -1445,11 +1445,11 @@ staff the National Coordinating Center. The meetings, which
|
||||
continued over the next three years, were held at the White
|
||||
House, the State Department, the Strategic Air Command (SAC)
|
||||
headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, and at the
|
||||
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>North</ent> American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado
|
||||
Springs.
|
||||
The industry officials attending constituted the National
|
||||
Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee -- called NSTAC
|
||||
(pronounced N-stack) -- set up by President Reagan to address
|
||||
Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee -- called <ent type = 'person'>NSTAC</ent>
|
||||
(pronounced N-stack) -- set up by President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> to address
|
||||
those same problems that worried the Pentagon. It was at these
|
||||
secret meetings, according to the minutes, that the idea of a
|
||||
communications watch center for national emergencies -- the NCC
|
||||
@ -1497,7 +1497,7 @@ military's peacetime communications center.
|
||||
control over the nation's vast communications and information
|
||||
network. For years the Pentagon has been studying how to take
|
||||
over the common carriers' facilities. That research was prepared
|
||||
by NSTAC at the DoD's request and is contained in a series of
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>NSTAC</ent> at the DoD's request and is contained in a series of
|
||||
internal Pentagon documents obtained by Omni. Collectively this
|
||||
series is known as the Satellite Survivability Report. Completed
|
||||
in 1984, it is the only detailed analysis to date of the
|
||||
@ -1524,7 +1524,7 @@ of all information in the United States. As one high-ranking
|
||||
White House communications official put it: "Whoever controls
|
||||
communications, controls the country." His remark was made after
|
||||
our State Department could not communicate directly with our
|
||||
embassy in Manila during the anti-Marcos revolution last year.
|
||||
embassy in Manila during the anti-<ent type = 'person'>Marcos</ent> revolution last year.
|
||||
To get through, the State Department had to relay all its
|
||||
messages through the Philippine government.
|
||||
Government officials have offered all kinds of scenarios to
|
||||
|
@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ plaintiffs, you the People of the United States. The civil action number
|
||||
is 76-H-667. It is entitled, "Complaint Against the Concentration Camp
|
||||
Program of the Dept. of Defense." It was filed in the U.S. District Court
|
||||
for the southern district of Texas, Houston division. The judge
|
||||
responsible for the case was Judge Carl Beau (phonetic spelling).</p>
|
||||
responsible for the case was Judge <ent type = 'person'>Carl Beau</ent> (phonetic spelling).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>You have no doubt heard the story: Once upon a time, under the Nazi
|
||||
regime in Germany, a man worked on an assembly line in a baby
|
||||
@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ time. The center for the Study for Democratic Institutions recently
|
||||
completed a proposed constitution for the "Newstates of America." The
|
||||
Center is Rockefeller funded. To give you an indication of the type of
|
||||
constitution proposed, the term "national emergency" is mentioned 134
|
||||
times. The document did not have a Bill of Rights and the right to own
|
||||
times. The document did not have a <ent type = 'person'>Bill</ent> of Rights and the right to own
|
||||
arms was taken away. At the same time, House Concurrent Resolution
|
||||
#28 awaited for calling a constitutional convention on or before July 4,
|
||||
1976. The presiding officer of such an event would have been Nelson
|
||||
Rockefeller, Vice President and president pro tem of the Senate. This
|
||||
Rockefeller, Vice President and president <ent type = 'person'>pro tem</ent> of the Senate. This
|
||||
particular resolution awaited in committee. Obviously, money would
|
||||
not be spent on these massive programs unless there would be the
|
||||
chance for the actual implementation of such a scheme.</p>
|
||||
@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ may be declared based upon this frightening decree, dated October
|
||||
Executive Order that established the federal regions and their capitals.
|
||||
All the departments of the government were involved, including the
|
||||
L.E.A.A. (Law Enforcement Assistance Administration) and H.E.W.
|
||||
(Health, Education, and Welfare). Congressman Larry McDonald has
|
||||
(Health, Education, and Welfare). Congressman <ent type = 'person'>Larry Mc<ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>ald</ent> has
|
||||
revealed to Congress that various guerrilla and terrorist groups were
|
||||
being financed by the federal government. If they (the terrorist groups)
|
||||
actually began in search of activities, Executive Order #11490 would
|
||||
@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ registrant, "Look there is nothing I can do. The truck behind the
|
||||
building will take you to a work camp where you have been assigned.
|
||||
Your wife has been assigned to a factory and there's nothing I can do."
|
||||
Then your son or daughter looks up at you with a quivering voice and
|
||||
asks, "Dad, why are we here?"</p>
|
||||
asks, "<ent type = 'person'>Dad</ent>, why are we here?"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>IMPLEMENTING THE NEW GOVERNMENT</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -131,11 +131,11 @@ U.S. Army's forces command, and continental Army Reserve &
|
||||
National Guard. And under that we have the four armies dividing up the
|
||||
United States. Under the Fifth Army we have the provost marshal, who
|
||||
is directly connected to the Deputy Chief of Staff for law enforcement
|
||||
personnel. Under the provost Marshall for the Fifth Army we have the
|
||||
personnel. Under the provost <ent type = 'person'>Marshall</ent> for the Fifth Army we have the
|
||||
300 Military Police Prisoner-of War (POW) Command at Lebonia, Michigan.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>At this point I quote from retired Admiral Elmo Zumoff's (phonetic
|
||||
spelling) book, "On Watch": Kissinger states, 'I believe the American
|
||||
<p>At this point I quote from retired Admiral <ent type = 'person'>Elmo <ent type = 'person'>Zumoff</ent></ent>'s (phonetic
|
||||
spelling) book, "On Watch": <ent type = 'person'>Kissinger</ent> states, 'I believe the American
|
||||
people lack the will to do the things necessary to achieve parity and to
|
||||
maintain maritime superiority. I believe we must get the best deal we
|
||||
can in our negotiations before the United States and the Soviets both
|
||||
@ -144,26 +144,26 @@ perceptions are in agreement, and both sides know the U.S. is inferior,
|
||||
we must have gotten the best deal we can. Americans at that time will
|
||||
not be happy that I have settled for second, but it will be too late. "</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Zumoff said, 'Then why not take it to the American people? They will
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Zumoff</ent> said, 'Then why not take it to the American people? They will
|
||||
not accept the decision to become second best while we are in a position
|
||||
of Gross National Product twice that of the U.S.S.R."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Kissinger responds, "That's a question of judgment. I judge that we will
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Kissinger</ent> responds, "That's a question of judgment. I judge that we will
|
||||
not get their support, and if we seek it and tell the fact as we would have
|
||||
to, we would lose our negotiating leverage with the Soviets."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Zumoff stated, "But isn't that the ultimate immorality in a democracy; to
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Zumoff</ent> stated, "But isn't that the ultimate immorality in a democracy; to
|
||||
make a decision for the people of such importance without consulting
|
||||
them?"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Kissinger stated, "Perhaps, but I doubt that there are one million who
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Kissinger</ent> stated, "Perhaps, but I doubt that there are one million who
|
||||
could even understand the issue.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Zumoff responded, "Even if that presumption is correct, those one
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Zumoff</ent> responded, "Even if that presumption is correct, those one
|
||||
million can influence the opinions of the majority of the people. I
|
||||
believe it is my duty to take the other course."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Kissinger responded, "You should take care, lest your words result in a
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Kissinger</ent> responded, "You should take care, lest your words result in a
|
||||
reduction in the Navy budget."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>So we see what the intention of the State Dept. is regarding the people.
|
||||
@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ provide it_although they say it is public information.</p>
|
||||
<p>The training spoken of for the California National Guard covers such
|
||||
subjects as dealing with individual civilians/civil population, detention
|
||||
procedures, citizen's rights, and similar matters. You know as well as I
|
||||
do that when there is Martial Law, or Martial Rule, citizens have no
|
||||
do that when there is <ent type = 'person'>Martial Law</ent>, or Martial Rule, citizens have no
|
||||
rights-because the Constitution is pre-empted. Even the uniforms of the
|
||||
National Guards who participate in this program are different from the
|
||||
regular uniforms. Army spokesmen will not reveal more about the
|
||||
@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ instructions from appropriate authorities. This includes law enforcement
|
||||
duties. The manual mentions something called "Garden plot Forces,"
|
||||
which will discuss at length in a few minutes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Don Bell (who writes a weekly report) reported on July 25, 1975 that in
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Don</ent> Bell</ent> (who writes a weekly report) reported on July 25, 1975 that in
|
||||
May of '75 the 303 Civil Affairs group of the U.S. Army Reserves in
|
||||
Kearny, NJ conducted an exercise to sharpen plans for a military
|
||||
takeover of the state government in NJ. According to Colonel Frances
|
||||
@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ definitely not the situation at this time...</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On February 16, 1975, in 'San Gabriel Valley Tribune' it was reported
|
||||
that the L.E.A.A. (funded by the Dept. of Justice) and the Police
|
||||
Foundation (funded by the Ford Foundation) were prime movers toward
|
||||
Foundation (funded by the <ent type = 'person'>Ford</ent> Foundation) were prime movers toward
|
||||
implementing a national police force. Each, however, contends they
|
||||
support local police agencies. The total program involves military units
|
||||
that have the function of taking ova the administration of local and state
|
||||
@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ troops in the state's war against political protesters and demonstrators.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"I saw a full-dress exhibition of what the California National Guard
|
||||
has planned for the next American revolution. Helicopters, SWAT
|
||||
teams, civilian military policemen in jackboots and helmets, twelve-
|
||||
teams, civilian military policemen in <ent type = 'person'>jackboots</ent> and helmets, twelve-
|
||||
gauge shotguns, .38 and .45 caliber pistols, radios, walkie-talkies, and
|
||||
electrically controlled intelligence centers wired for instant
|
||||
communications with any police force in one state.</p>
|
||||
@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ communications with any police force in one state.</p>
|
||||
<p>"L.E.A.F. is a 1,000 member unit put together this year to handle unique
|
||||
law enforcement problems such a mass civil disobedience, protest
|
||||
demonstrations and riots. In other words, breaking heads and taking
|
||||
names. L.E.A.F. has the support of Governor Brown, a quarter million
|
||||
names. L.E.A.F. has the support of Governor <ent type = 'person'>Brown</ent>, a quarter million
|
||||
dollars worth of grants from the federal government, and no public
|
||||
opposition from civil liberties' groups.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -298,10 +298,10 @@ held as late as 1975 so far, as many public records show. These were
|
||||
the conferences which Counter-Spy magazine had identified as
|
||||
California's "Garden Plot Sub-plan."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>'Gary Davis, Governor Brown's right hand man, says L.E.A.F. is to
|
||||
assist civil police, not to replace them. Gary says, "Civilians could
|
||||
<p>'<ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Gary</ent> Davis</ent>, Governor <ent type = 'person'>Brown</ent>'s right hand man, says L.E.A.F. is to
|
||||
assist civil police, not to replace them. <ent type = 'person'>Gary</ent> says, "Civilians could
|
||||
expect a civilian type law enforcement rather than what is commonly
|
||||
known as Martial Law." Despite this assurance, L.E.A.F.'s exercises
|
||||
known as <ent type = 'person'>Martial Law</ent>." Despite this assurance, L.E.A.F.'s exercises
|
||||
look disturbingly like the military coup described in the novel, "Seven
|
||||
Days In May. "</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -314,12 +314,12 @@ there has already been a number of incidents where the L.E.A.F. troops
|
||||
used excessive force to quell disturbances - even though their orders
|
||||
forbade it.' (That ends the quotation.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Former L.E.A.A. Administrator, Charles Ross Dovan (phonetic
|
||||
<p>Former L.E.A.A. Administrator, <ent type = 'person'>Charles Ross Dovan</ent> (phonetic
|
||||
spelling), is on record as having stated that local law enforcement has
|
||||
failed and must be replaced by a national police force. Patrick Murphy,
|
||||
failed and must be replaced by a national police force. <ent type = 'person'>Patrick Murphy</ent>,
|
||||
the administrator of the Police Foundation, states, "I have no fear of a
|
||||
national police force. Our 40,000 police departments are not sacred."
|
||||
Ex-Attorney General William Saxby warned that if we can go on as we
|
||||
Ex-Attorney General <ent type = 'person'>William Saxby</ent> warned that if we can go on as we
|
||||
are, crime will invade us and the national police will take over.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>For the policemen who do not cooperate and still want to be policemen,
|
||||
@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ governments by the federal government.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>An investigation was completed in Nov., 1975 by four sources: The
|
||||
Conservative publication, 'American Challenge' the leftist 'New Times';
|
||||
the foundation financed Fund for Investigative Journalism, and, Don
|
||||
the foundation financed Fund for Investigative Journalism, and, <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>
|
||||
Wood of the trustworthy 'Ozark Sunbeam. ' It involves the potential
|
||||
creation of a Police State through the use of the Pentagon and its
|
||||
computerized intelligence dossier (lodged in the Pentagon basement) of
|
||||
@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ Orders.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The cadre of specialized persons to enforce this plan are found in the U.
|
||||
S. Army Reserves Military Police POW Command at Lebonia,
|
||||
Michigan. Mr. Fenren (phonetic spelling) of the 300th Military Police
|
||||
Michigan. Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Fenren</ent> (phonetic spelling) of the 300th Military Police
|
||||
POW Command at Lebonia told me, when I called him from the Federal
|
||||
Information Center at Houston, that the camps in the Command were
|
||||
for foreign prisoners-of-war and for "enemies of the United States." I
|
||||
@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ people of that area.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>At Montgomery, AL we have a federal civilian prison camp at Maxwell
|
||||
Air Force Base. Now does that sound right? There's one at Tucson,
|
||||
AZ, David Munson Air Base. In Alaska we have Elmendorf at
|
||||
AZ, <ent type = 'person'>David Munson Air Base</ent>. In Alaska we have <ent type = 'person'>Elmendorf</ent> at
|
||||
Eielson Air Force Base.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>That brings us to a facility in Florida, called Avon Park, FL. He found
|
||||
@ -523,13 +523,13 @@ marshal of the Fifth Army.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In 1976, as well as on March 20, 1979,1 went to the sheriffs Dept. in
|
||||
Houston to see if our local sheriff's Dept. had been infiltrated by these
|
||||
plans. Well, it appears so. I was put in contact with a Lt. Kiljan
|
||||
plans. Well, it appears so. I was put in contact with a Lt. <ent type = 'person'>Kiljan</ent>
|
||||
(phonetic spelling) who is in charge of some secret unit in the
|
||||
department. I asked him if he had participated in military training with
|
||||
military personnel here in the Sheriff s Dept. He denied it, and when I
|
||||
asked him if he would testify so under oath he became angry and stated,
|
||||
"You are just an ordinary citizen. I don't have to tell you anything." I
|
||||
later discovered that Lt. Kiljan is the ex-director of the Houston branch
|
||||
later discovered that Lt. <ent type = 'person'>Kiljan</ent> is the ex-director of the Houston branch
|
||||
office of the U. S . Secret Service. Now where does his money come
|
||||
from? The area is administered by the Houston-Galveston Area Council.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ exact), Community Health Centers that are all part of this program.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>This is how they are part of the program. (It has already happened): In
|
||||
the mid-1950's, there were set into motion an interesting chain of
|
||||
events. About 1956, the Alaska Mental Health Bill was proposed and
|
||||
events. About 1956, the Alaska Mental Health <ent type = 'person'>Bill</ent> was proposed and
|
||||
later passed. It granted approximately $12 million and one million acres
|
||||
of public land to Alaska so that it could develop its own mental health
|
||||
program. Now this was a little abnormal since Alaska only had a little
|
||||
@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ were no provisions for jury trial in it or anything else. You would just
|
||||
be picked up and taken to the Alaskan-Siberian Asylum-
|
||||
incommunicado_and the state would also confiscate all of your
|
||||
personal and real property! They actually tried to do it in 1954 in the
|
||||
case of Ford vs. Milinak (phonetic spelling), which declared the act as
|
||||
case of <ent type = 'person'>Ford</ent> vs. <ent type = 'person'>Milinak</ent> (phonetic spelling), which declared the act as
|
||||
adopted in another state (the state of Missouri) as unconstitutional.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But the act itself still exists_and modified_but essentially in the same
|
||||
@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ This was part of the national program at that time.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In this act, the governor could have anyone picked up and sent to the
|
||||
Mental Health Institution in Alaska or elsewhere. The results of rumors
|
||||
back in the '50s, were that there was in fact a sinister, Frankenstein-type
|
||||
back in the '50s, were that there was in fact a sinister, <ent type = 'person'>Frankenstein</ent>-type
|
||||
mental health person in Alaska. I wrote to Alaska (the officials, that is)
|
||||
and asked them for a description of the kind of one million acres that
|
||||
they were eligible to receive under the Alaska Mental Health Act. I also
|
||||
@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ adherence to any political or religious doctrine.</p>
|
||||
<p>Let's look a little further into the type of program that the L.E.A.A. is
|
||||
paying for through the Dept. of Justice. The Federal Bureau of Prisons--
|
||||
located in the backwoods of North Carolina, near a tiny village called
|
||||
Butner--is constructing a mammoth 42 acre research complex for
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Butner</ent>--is constructing a mammoth 42 acre research complex for
|
||||
prisoners from throughout the East. Who will be sent for experiments to
|
||||
test new behavioral programs and techniques? Target date for
|
||||
completion of the entire system is ironically 1984.</p>
|
||||
@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ filed a denial of my allegations.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I filed a motion in the meantime to take the deposition of the person
|
||||
who writes the training programs for the concentration camp guards,
|
||||
Mr. Richard Burrage--the 75th Maneuver Air Command at Army
|
||||
Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Richard <ent type = 'person'>Burrage</ent></ent>--the 75th Maneuver Air Command at Army
|
||||
Reserve Center at Houston, Texas--stating that in light of all the recent
|
||||
activity of government agents, one of the agencies involved might
|
||||
attempt to murder this key witness, the author of the training camp
|
||||
@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ also aware as that there were no cases existing on this set of facts, but as
|
||||
you will see as I go along with this report, he chose to ignore it.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I then made an agreement with the assistant U. S. Attorney to take the
|
||||
deposition to Mr. Burrage. After I'd made the arrangements, the U.S.
|
||||
deposition to Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Burrage</ent>. After I'd made the arrangements, the U.S.
|
||||
Attorney refused to voluntarily go along with taking the deposition. It is
|
||||
very difficult to find justice in our system of courts. It is a corruption-
|
||||
driven system founded upon the buddy system, and hence, the court
|
||||
@ -766,8 +766,8 @@ injury.</p>
|
||||
<p>Now, on July 23 I had placed in the 'Houston Post' and in the 'Houston
|
||||
Chronicle' newspapers the following advertisement in the legal section.
|
||||
Quote: "Solicitation for witnesses in Civil Action 78-H 667, Federal
|
||||
District Court of Houston, People extemporal William Pabst vs. Gerald
|
||||
Ford et d. The action titled: Complaint Against the Concentration Camp
|
||||
District Court of Houston, People extemporal <ent type = 'person'>William Pabst</ent> vs. Gerald
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Ford</ent> et d. The action titled: Complaint Against the Concentration Camp
|
||||
Program of the Dept. of Defense. Attention: If you have participated in
|
||||
Operation Garden Plot, Operation Cable Splicer, the 300th Military
|
||||
Police Prisoner of War Command, or the Army Reserve Civil Affairs
|
||||
@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ with the president and various vice presidents because a refusal from
|
||||
that paper had come up from their own lawyers. Both newspapers
|
||||
finally carried it, but only after two days of complaining. The initial
|
||||
response of both papas was, "We don't carry stories like that" and:
|
||||
"Don't you think that the people planning the concentration camps have
|
||||
"<ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>'t you think that the people planning the concentration camps have
|
||||
our best interest in mind?" As you will hear for yourselves, the policies
|
||||
definitely do not reflect our best interests.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ letter from the Dept. of the Army, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff of
|
||||
Personnel, signed by 1B Sergeant, Colonel G.S., Action Director of
|
||||
Human Resources Development.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Quoting: "On behalf of President Ford, I am replying to your letter 27
|
||||
<p>Quoting: "On behalf of President <ent type = 'person'>Ford</ent>, I am replying to your letter 27
|
||||
May, 1976, regarding a news article in the Dallas Morning News. As
|
||||
much as he would like to, the president cannot reply personally to every
|
||||
communication he receives. Therefore, he has asked the departments
|
||||
@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ first discrepancy.</p>
|
||||
not set up any requirements or authorizations for military units of any
|
||||
type and does not even suggest it. Hence, the second discrepancy.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The next problem with the letter from President Ford's representative
|
||||
<p>The next problem with the letter from President <ent type = 'person'>Ford</ent>'s representative
|
||||
is that it states that the prisoner of war guard program is set up for the
|
||||
implementation for "conditions of war between the U.S. and one or
|
||||
more (foreign) countries." However, Article III of the Geneva
|
||||
@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ procedures for setting up the concentration camps.</p>
|
||||
<p>Article LXVIII of the Convention states (and I paraphrase): If you
|
||||
commit an offense that is solely intended to harm the occupying power,
|
||||
not harming the life or limb of members of the occupying power, but
|
||||
merely talking against such a force_such as the Martial Law situation
|
||||
merely talking against such a force_such as the <ent type = 'person'>Martial Law</ent> situation
|
||||
you can be imprisoned provided that the duration of such imprisonment
|
||||
is proportionate to the offense committed. Well, President Dwight
|
||||
Eisenhower didn't feel that provision was strong enough. So he had the
|
||||
@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ They met with the 82nd Airborne and part of the 101st Airborne; the
|
||||
Civil Affairs brigade from Dallas, TX; the 431st Civil Affairs company
|
||||
from Little Rock, AR headquarters; the 306th Civil Affairs group, U.S.
|
||||
Army Reserves, Fayetteville,AR commanded by Lt. Colonel N.
|
||||
McQuire (phonetic spelling) and William Highland. The 486th Civil
|
||||
McQuire (phonetic spelling) and <ent type = 'person'>William Highland</ent>. The 486th Civil
|
||||
Affairs company from Tulsa, OK; the 418th Civil Affairs company from
|
||||
Kansas City, MO; the 307th Civil Affairs group from Abilene, IX; the
|
||||
413th company from Hanlin, LA, the 12th S.S. group, 2nd Battalion
|
||||
@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ Protection of War Victims/Civilian Persons.</p>
|
||||
<p>* 5)Nevertheless, Article IV of both titles does of provide for the
|
||||
creation of any military programs for concentration camps.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>* 6) Whether Mr. Fenren of the 300th Military Police POW Command
|
||||
<p>* 6) Whether Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Fenren</ent> of the 300th Military Police POW Command
|
||||
has stated that the purpose of the Command is for the detention of
|
||||
foreign prisoners of war and enemies of the United States.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1088,20 +1088,20 @@ assumption of full or partial executive, legislative and judicial authority
|
||||
over a country or an area and there is no specific exclusion of the U. S.
|
||||
as such a country or area.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>* 9) Said manual defines country along certain geographical population
|
||||
<p>* 9) <ent type = 'person'>Said</ent> manual defines country along certain geographical population
|
||||
basis, county, state regions and national government.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>*10) Said organization in fact conducted practiced takeovers of local
|
||||
<p>*10) <ent type = 'person'>Said</ent> organization in fact conducted practiced takeovers of local
|
||||
and state governments in the continental U.S., including but not limited
|
||||
to the state of New Jersey.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>* 11) Said organization includes in its study outline page j-24 a section
|
||||
<p>* 11) <ent type = 'person'>Said</ent> organization includes in its study outline page j-24 a section
|
||||
on concentration camps and labor camps.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>* 12) Said organization includes in it operations composite service
|
||||
<p>* 12) <ent type = 'person'>Said</ent> organization includes in it operations composite service
|
||||
operations and psychological operations organizations.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>*13) Said psychological operation is working with the U. S. Public
|
||||
<p>*13) <ent type = 'person'>Said</ent> psychological operation is working with the U. S. Public
|
||||
Health Service, are prepared to operate any and/or all mental health
|
||||
facilities in the U. S. as tools of repression against outspoken but
|
||||
nonviolent political conduct of the U. S. citizens in conjunction with all
|
||||
@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ across the United States.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I obtained the 1945 report of the O. S. S. (Office of Strategic Services)-
|
||||
-the precursor of the C.I.A.-7th Army, William W. Quinn, Colonel
|
||||
G.F.CA.C.of the G2, on the liberation of Dachau, a concentration camp
|
||||
G.F.CA.C.of the G2, on the liberation of <ent type = 'person'>Dachau</ent>, a concentration camp
|
||||
during the liberation in Germany. It contains much groupings of
|
||||
information, but the relevant portion of the report concerns itself with
|
||||
the section on the townspeople. Quoting from his report, on why the
|
||||
@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ told it was all army material and booty from France.'</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"It is established that anyone who stated that he was only one train come
|
||||
in in the daytime was telling a flat lie. There are quite a few such
|
||||
people in Dachau."</p>
|
||||
people in <ent type = 'person'>Dachau</ent>."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The analysis of the anti-Nazi element of the town: 1) The people knew
|
||||
what was going on in the camp, even ten years prior to liberation; 2)
|
||||
@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@ innocent human beings; 4) The people are to blame for their cowardice--
|
||||
they were all too cowardly. They didn't want to risk anything--and that
|
||||
was the way it was in all of Germany.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The conclusion of this report written on Dachau written in 1945 on the
|
||||
<p>The conclusion of this report written on <ent type = 'person'>Dachau</ent> written in 1945 on the
|
||||
liberation of the concentration camp applies today. The conclusion is as
|
||||
follows: If one is to attempt tremendous task and accept the terrible
|
||||
responsibility of judging a whole town, assess it in mass as to collective
|
||||
@ -1201,7 +1201,7 @@ circumstances.</p>
|
||||
against one single aspect of the total program: The enforcement arm of
|
||||
the conspiracy. The people who makeup the cadre that is going to
|
||||
occupy the concentration camps where enemies of the U. S. will be
|
||||
placed. Remember Solzhenitsyn's words in the 'Gulag Archipelago':
|
||||
placed. Remember <ent type = 'person'>Solzhenitsyn</ent>'s words in the 'Gulag Archipelago':
|
||||
"Resistance should have begun right there but it did not begin. You
|
||||
aren't gagged, you really can and you really ought to cry out that arrests
|
||||
are being made on the strength of false accusations. If many such
|
||||
|
@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>From: <person>Bill Cooper</person> <special>dont.tread.on.me@usa.com</special>
|
||||
<xml><p>From: <ent type = 'person'>Bill Cooper</ent> <special>dont.tread.on.me@usa.com</special>
|
||||
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
|
||||
Subject: READ BEFORE "THEY" DELETE!
|
||||
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:12:01 -0400
|
||||
@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ processing system was necessary which could race ahead of the
|
||||
society and predict when society would arrive for capitulation. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Relay computers were to slow, but the electronic computer,
|
||||
invented in 1946 by J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly, filled
|
||||
invented in 1946 by J. <ent type = 'person'>Presper Eckert</ent> and John W. Mauchly, filled
|
||||
the bill. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The next breakthrough was the development of the simplex method
|
||||
@ -250,11 +250,11 @@ and emotional strengths and weaknesses. </p>
|
||||
<p> Give me control over a nation's currency, and I care not who
|
||||
makes its laws.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743 - 1812)</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Mayer Amschel <ent type = 'person'>Rothschild</ent></ent> (1743 - 1812)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Today's silent weapons technology is an outgrowth of a simple
|
||||
idea discovered, succinctly expressed, and effectively applied by
|
||||
the quoted Mr. Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Mr. Rothschild discovered
|
||||
the quoted Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Mayer Amschel <ent type = 'person'>Rothschild</ent></ent>. Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Rothschild</ent> discovered
|
||||
the missing passive component of economic theory known as economic
|
||||
inductance. He, of course, did not think of his discovery in these
|
||||
20th-century terms, and, to be sure, mathematical analysis had to
|
||||
@ -313,22 +313,22 @@ economics). </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> MR. ROTHSCHILD'S ENERGY DISCOVERY</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> What Mr. Rothschild had discovered was the basic principle of
|
||||
<p> What Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Rothschild</ent> had discovered was the basic principle of
|
||||
power, influence, and control over people as applied to economics.
|
||||
That principle is "when you assume the appearance of power, people
|
||||
soon give it to you." </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency or deposit loan
|
||||
<p> Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Rothschild</ent> had discovered that currency or deposit loan
|
||||
accounts had the required appearance of power that could be used to
|
||||
induce people (inductance, with people corresponding to a magnetic
|
||||
field) into surrendering their real wealth in exchange for a promise
|
||||
of greater wealth (instead of real compensation). They would put up
|
||||
real collateral in exchange for a loan of promissory notes. Mr.
|
||||
Rothschild found that he could issue more notes than he had backing
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Rothschild</ent> found that he could issue more notes than he had backing
|
||||
for, so long as he had someone's stock of gold as a persuader to
|
||||
show his customers. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Mr. Rothschild loaned his promissory notes to individual and to
|
||||
<p> Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Rothschild</ent> loaned his promissory notes to individual and to
|
||||
governments. These would create overconfidence. Then he would make
|
||||
money scarce, tighten control of the system, and collect the
|
||||
collateral through the obligation of contracts. The cycle was then
|
||||
@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ economic system got his support. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Collection of debts was guaranteed by economic aid to the enemy
|
||||
of the debtor. The profit derived from this economic methodology mad
|
||||
Mr. Rothschild all the more able to expand his wealth. He found that
|
||||
Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Rothschild</ent> all the more able to expand his wealth. He found that
|
||||
the public greed would allow currency to be printed by government
|
||||
order beyond the limits (inflation) of backing in precious metal or
|
||||
the production of goods and services. </p>
|
||||
@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ creditors (the public which we have taught to exchange true value
|
||||
for inflated currency) and falling back on whatever is left of the
|
||||
resources of nature and regeneration of those resources. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency gave him the power to
|
||||
<p> Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Rothschild</ent> had discovered that currency gave him the power to
|
||||
rearrange the economic structure to his own advantage, to shift
|
||||
economic inductance to those economic positions which would
|
||||
encourage the greatest economic instability and oscillation. </p>
|
||||
@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ likewise never be underestimated. It got women the vote in 1920. </p>
|
||||
<p> The emotional pressure for self-preservation during the time of
|
||||
war and the self-serving attitude of the common herd that have an
|
||||
option to avoid the battlefield - if junior can be persuaded to go -
|
||||
is all of the pressure finally necessary to propel Johnny off to
|
||||
is all of the pressure finally necessary to propel <ent type = 'person'>Johnny</ent> off to
|
||||
war. Their quiet blackmailings of him are the threats: "No
|
||||
sacrifice, no friends; no glory, no girlfriends." </p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ http://www.natvan.com/radio/radio.html</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The History and Significance of the New World Order </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>by Scott Spencer </p>
|
||||
<p>by <ent type = 'person'>Scott Spencer</ent> </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The author of this series, Scott Spencer, is a writer and researcher
|
||||
<p>The author of this series, <ent type = 'person'>Scott Spencer</ent>, is a writer and researcher
|
||||
who lives in Toronto, Canada. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Introduction </p>
|
||||
@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ organized Jewry is inherently hostile toward nationalism. </p>
|
||||
<p>An early milestone of the New World Order was the French Revolution.
|
||||
The French monarchy, and the causes of its downfall, have been widely
|
||||
and deliberately misrepresented. The truth about the French monarchy
|
||||
was stated by the Scottish philosopher David Hume in 1742: </p>
|
||||
was stated by the Scottish philosopher <ent type = 'person'>David <ent type = 'person'>Hume</ent></ent> in 1742: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Though all kinds of government be improved in modern times, yet
|
||||
monarchical government seems to have made the greatest advance to
|
||||
@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ was stated by the Scottish philosopher David Hume in 1742: </p>
|
||||
industry is encouraged; the arts flourish; and the prince lives
|
||||
among his subjects like a father among his children. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Hume added that he saw more "sources of degeneracy" in representative
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Hume</ent> added that he saw more "sources of degeneracy" in representative
|
||||
republics like that of England than in France, which he called "the
|
||||
most perfect model of pure monarchy." </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -100,28 +100,28 @@ Lafayette and many others had merely wanted to establish a
|
||||
constitutional monarchy, but as in all revolutions, the moderates did
|
||||
not determine the outcome. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But in spite of any conspiracy, Louis XVI could not have been
|
||||
<p>But in spite of any conspiracy, <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Louis</ent> XVI</ent> could not have been
|
||||
overthrown unless he allowed himself to be overthrown. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>This may seem a peculiar thing to say, that Louis XVI allowed himself
|
||||
<p>This may seem a peculiar thing to say, that <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Louis</ent> XVI</ent> allowed himself
|
||||
to be overthrown, allowed his kingdom to be ruined, and subjected
|
||||
himself and many others to the whim of filthy degenerates, but Louis
|
||||
himself and many others to the whim of filthy degenerates, but <ent type = 'person'>Louis</ent>
|
||||
XVI was a liberal, much like the liberals we encounter today. He was
|
||||
an enemy to his friends and a friend to his enemies. The entire French
|
||||
Revolution could have been stifled on several occasions if only the
|
||||
King had allowed his bodyguards and his troops to deal with the gangs
|
||||
of hired ruffians in the manner they so richly deserved. But no, Louis
|
||||
of hired ruffians in the manner they so richly deserved. But no, <ent type = 'person'>Louis</ent>
|
||||
was a "humanitarian." In the Siege of the Tuileries the King's
|
||||
own Swiss guards were brutally murdered simply because he had
|
||||
forbidden them to raise their weapons, even in self-defense, against
|
||||
those hired thugs whom the King naively regarded as "the people." </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Louis was not a congenitally stupid man, but from childhood his head
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Louis</ent> was not a congenitally stupid man, but from childhood his head
|
||||
had been filled with wrong ideas, the same kind of wrong ideas which
|
||||
public schools and the mass-media impress upon us and our children
|
||||
today. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The fate of Louis XVI should be a cautionary tale about the deadliness
|
||||
<p>The fate of <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Louis</ent> XVI</ent> should be a cautionary tale about the deadliness
|
||||
of wrong ideas. Some wrong ideas, the "brotherhood of man," for
|
||||
example, are highly infectious because they appeal to wishful
|
||||
thinking; it is soothing and pleasant to think that violence,
|
||||
@ -129,26 +129,26 @@ conflict, and death are mere vestiges of an unenlightened past, and
|
||||
that all unpleasantness can be avoided simply by being nice to
|
||||
everyone. This mode of thinking is a deadly form of self-indulgence. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Louis XVI had far more armed forces than were needed to crush the
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Louis</ent> XVI</ent> had far more armed forces than were needed to crush the
|
||||
Revolution, but he chose not to crush it. Over one million Frenchmen,
|
||||
many of whom were the best in the nation, were murdered -- as a
|
||||
consequence of his "humanitarianism." </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Bolshevik Revolution </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Czarist Russia was naturally a prime target of Jewish malice and
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Czar</ent>ist Russia was naturally a prime target of Jewish malice and
|
||||
defamation, since it was the last absolute monarchy in Europe. In
|
||||
addition, the government of the Czar (Czar is the Russian equivalent
|
||||
addition, the government of the <ent type = 'person'>Czar</ent> (<ent type = 'person'>Czar</ent> is the Russian equivalent
|
||||
of Kaiser or Caesar), more than any other government, had taken steps
|
||||
to protect its people from Jewish exploitation. The Japanese victory
|
||||
over Czarist Russia in 1905 was the first great blow to the confidence
|
||||
of the White world; it was brought about with the financial assistance
|
||||
of Jewish bankers. Czarist Russia's defeat in 1905 was part of a long
|
||||
over <ent type = 'person'>Czar</ent>ist Russia in 1905 was the first great blow to the confidence
|
||||
of the <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> world; it was brought about with the financial assistance
|
||||
of Jewish bankers. <ent type = 'person'>Czar</ent>ist Russia's defeat in 1905 was part of a long
|
||||
pattern of events, including numerous assassinations, attempted
|
||||
assassinations, and bombings. In the end there was the bloody ritual
|
||||
murder of Czar Nicholas II and most of his family. </p>
|
||||
murder of <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Czar</ent> Nicholas II</ent> and most of his family. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It should be noted, however, that the Czar, like Louis XVI,
|
||||
<p>It should be noted, however, that the <ent type = 'person'>Czar</ent>, like <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Louis</ent> XVI</ent>,
|
||||
essentially permitted his own rule to be replaced. At first, it was
|
||||
replaced by a republic. The republic was weak and dissolute and ended
|
||||
up paving the way for a reign of terror. As in France, the better
|
||||
@ -157,18 +157,18 @@ racial elements were murdered. </p>
|
||||
<p>The preponderance of Jewish influence in the Bolshevik Revolution is
|
||||
thoroughly documented. Additionally, Zionism played a part. Zionism
|
||||
is, and was, an integral aspect of the largely Jewish New World Order.
|
||||
Rabbi Moses Hess, one of the primary instigators of Zionism, was a
|
||||
mentor of Karl Marx. </p>
|
||||
Rabbi <ent type = 'person'>Moses Hess</ent>, one of the primary instigators of Zionism, was a
|
||||
mentor of <ent type = 'person'>Karl <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent></ent>. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Destruction of Britain </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Zionism contributed to the destruction of Britain as a world power.
|
||||
Zionism helped to dismantle the White-dominated world of our
|
||||
Zionism helped to dismantle the <ent type = 'person'>White</ent>-dominated world of our
|
||||
grandfathers, ushering in the Jews' New World Order of multiracialism,
|
||||
the absolute rule of money, and cultural chaos.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In 1914 the greatest power in the White world was the British Empire.
|
||||
After the First World War the alleged "victor," Great Britain, was a
|
||||
<p>In 1914 the greatest power in the <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> world was the British Empire.
|
||||
After the First World War the alleged "victor," <ent type = 'person'>Great Britain</ent>, was a
|
||||
second-rate power. After the Second World War, which Britain also
|
||||
supposedly "won," she was a third-rate power and quickly stripped of
|
||||
almost all her possessions. How was this great empire destroyed? </p>
|
||||
@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ almost all her possessions. How was this great empire destroyed? </p>
|
||||
bankers raked in a huge debt. Britain in particular was ruinously
|
||||
indebted. Britain's plight would not have been so grievous had the
|
||||
Jewish bankers not succeeded in prolonging the war by involving the
|
||||
United States. Even Winston Churchill later stated that it would have
|
||||
United States. Even <ent type = 'person'>Winston Churchill</ent> later stated that it would have
|
||||
been better if the United States had stayed out of World War I. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>However, it was the moral weakness of Britain's leaders which allowed
|
||||
@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ bring the United States into the war against Germany if, after the
|
||||
war, they would be given Palestine. How were the Jews able to bring
|
||||
the United States into the war? Firstly, even at that time, they owned
|
||||
many newspapers in the United States which they used for pro-war
|
||||
propaganda. And secondly, through Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was a
|
||||
propaganda. And secondly, through <ent type = 'person'>Woodrow Wilson</ent>. Wilson was a
|
||||
weak-willed and self-indulgent man. He was the first U.S. president to
|
||||
be surrounded by Jewish "advisors" and to be thoroughly beholden to
|
||||
Jewish interests. </p>
|
||||
@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ Orwellian-sounding title carries the mark of one of their operations. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The New World Order and Egalitarianism </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>World War I was the first of the many wars in which young White men
|
||||
<p>World War I was the first of the many wars in which young <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> men
|
||||
were required to shed their blood and end their lives, not to defend
|
||||
their borders from invaders, not to gain an increase in the territory
|
||||
controlled by their people, and not even to enrich their national
|
||||
@ -253,8 +253,8 @@ post-war period, wrote in The Rising Tide of Color in 1920: </p>
|
||||
<p>The European powers, while they displayed an unlimited capacity for
|
||||
treachery toward defeated Germany, whose people were certainly not
|
||||
granted self-determination, did abide by their foolish feel-good
|
||||
propaganda of a "New World Order" when it came to the non-White world.
|
||||
Unrest by non-Whites in British and French colonies was met with
|
||||
propaganda of a "New World Order" when it came to the non-<ent type = 'person'>White</ent> world.
|
||||
Unrest by non-<ent type = 'person'>White</ent>s in British and French colonies was met with
|
||||
concessions, and the European empires were gradually dissolved. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It is ironic that Britain was a leading promoter of the League of
|
||||
@ -265,19 +265,19 @@ bankers, who did not give a hoot about Britain's destiny. Once the
|
||||
Britons had developed and pacified the dark continent
|
||||
sufficiently for safe operation of Jewish-owned gold, copper, and
|
||||
diamond mines, they were disposable. Beyond this
|
||||
trail-blazing function, all those White colonists were just in the
|
||||
way. And the destruction of White political power in Africa
|
||||
trail-blazing function, all those <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> colonists were just in the
|
||||
way. And the destruction of <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> political power in Africa
|
||||
was an explicit part of the New World Order agenda. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A collection of essays entitled "The New World Order" was published by
|
||||
Oxford University Press in 1932. In the essay entitled Race Problems
|
||||
in Industry and Culture, F. S. Marvin states: </p>
|
||||
in Industry and Culture, F. S. <ent type = 'person'>Marvin</ent> states: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Until South Africa can not only contemplate, but insist on
|
||||
having, a Bantu as one of its delegation to Geneva, it has not
|
||||
recognized the principle. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marvin also advocated the admission of the non-White hordes into White
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marvin</ent> also advocated the admission of the non-<ent type = 'person'>White</ent> hordes into <ent type = 'person'>White</ent>
|
||||
homelands. He wrote: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> But there does exist a teeming population in Japan, pressing for
|
||||
@ -295,18 +295,18 @@ homelands. He wrote: </p>
|
||||
tasks are at hand, but to keep steadily before the
|
||||
eyes of all parties the hopes and duties of cooperating mankind. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>F.S. Marvin was a professor of history and a member of the Royal
|
||||
<p>F.S. <ent type = 'person'>Marvin</ent> was a professor of history and a member of the Royal
|
||||
Historical Society. It is absolutely terrifying that there have been,
|
||||
and are, men who hold positions of respect who speak such idiocy.
|
||||
Similarly, in more recent times, the Queen of England, in her
|
||||
Christmas address of 1994, praised the recent introduction of
|
||||
"democracy" to South Africa. F.S. Marvin's prescription was a
|
||||
"democracy" to South Africa. F.S. <ent type = 'person'>Marvin</ent>'s prescription was a
|
||||
toned-down version of the tirades of lunatic abolitionists one hundred
|
||||
years earlier. They said the same things because they suffered from
|
||||
the same syndrome: sadomasochistic race-treason clothed in the
|
||||
sanctimonious pretension of Judaic otherworldliness. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The conspiracy theorists who make so much noise about Cecil Rhodes and
|
||||
<p>The conspiracy theorists who make so much noise about <ent type = 'person'>Cecil Rhodes</ent> and
|
||||
say the New World Order is a British conspiracy are trafficking
|
||||
information that is not only incomplete and misleading, but grossly
|
||||
out of date. One of these groups is the Lyndon Larouche organization
|
||||
@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ phenomena. The biggest lie, however, is that the New World Order is
|
||||
some sort of German or "Nazi" plot. It is primarily Jewish in origin.
|
||||
"Patriots" who tell you otherwise are ill-informed or liars. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Hitler's New European Order </p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>'s New European Order </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Perhaps the biggest lie on the God, country, and gold coin circuit is
|
||||
that the National Socialist German government was a progenitor of
|
||||
@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ Bolshevism was a serious menace. A Judeo-Communist regime even seized
|
||||
power briefly in Bavaria shortly after the war. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The liberal Weimar constitution imposed on Germany after the war was
|
||||
written by Hugo Preuss, a Jew. The dominant political party of the
|
||||
written by <ent type = 'person'>Hugo Preuss</ent>, a Jew. The dominant political party of the
|
||||
Weimar period was the Social Democratic Party, founded by Ferdinand
|
||||
Lasalle, also a Jew. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ ugliness. Nihilistic creeds of self-destruction were made popular by
|
||||
the mostly Jewish-controlled magazines and newspapers. Drug use
|
||||
skyrocketed. Homosexuality suddenly became "fashionable." Modern "art"
|
||||
replaced the beautiful images of the pre-1918 period. Pornography of
|
||||
the grossest and most indecent kind was popularized. Marxism was
|
||||
the grossest and most indecent kind was popularized. <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ism was
|
||||
preached from university lecterns and even many church pulpits. Sound
|
||||
familiar? </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ simply by undergoing the ritual of baptism. For many Jews, this ritual
|
||||
was meaningless. It was simply submitted to as a means to achieve
|
||||
power. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In opposition to the New World Order, Hitler erected his New Order of
|
||||
<p>In opposition to the New World Order, <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> erected his New Order of
|
||||
Europe. It had some of the characteristics of the Old Order; for
|
||||
example, it preserved the nation-state and traditional morality. It
|
||||
also preserved many of Old Order's trappings, such as the customary
|
||||
@ -382,20 +382,20 @@ primarily based, not on religion, but on race. </p>
|
||||
<p>Misinformation about National Socialist Germany </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A tremendous amount of malicious dishonesty has been directed against
|
||||
the memory of Hitler's New European Order. For example, there has been
|
||||
an effort to manipulate Christians with the lie that Adolf Hitler was
|
||||
a scourge of Christianity. In fact, Adolf Hitler received a great deal
|
||||
the memory of <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>'s New European Order. For example, there has been
|
||||
an effort to manipulate Christians with the lie that Adolf <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> was
|
||||
a scourge of Christianity. In fact, Adolf <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> received a great deal
|
||||
of support from Christian clergymen, Catholic and Lutheran. Among the
|
||||
smaller sects, the Seventh Day Adventist and New Apostolic churches
|
||||
were among the most ardent supporters of National Socialism, long
|
||||
before the party actually came to power. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Another lie is that Hitler was a member of the Thule Society. Such a
|
||||
society did exist, but Hitler regarded it as an embarrassment. You may
|
||||
<p>Another lie is that <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> was a member of the Thule Society. Such a
|
||||
society did exist, but <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> regarded it as an embarrassment. You may
|
||||
read his opinion of its freakish "occult" characters in the last
|
||||
chapter of Book I of Mein Kampf. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It is also a lie that Hitler took away the guns from the German
|
||||
<p>It is also a lie that <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> took away the guns from the German
|
||||
people. The promoters of this falsehood usually make the insinuation
|
||||
by means of a verbal shell-game, in which they distort the actual
|
||||
disarming of non-citizen, non-German, Jewish deportees during the war
|
||||
@ -407,22 +407,22 @@ fact, private ownership of guns persisted in Germany until the New
|
||||
World Order forces of the Allies rolled in and confiscated guns, and
|
||||
converted Germany into a brainwashed province of the New World Order. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>This myth of Hitler the gun-grabber has been promoted most
|
||||
<p>This myth of <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> the gun-grabber has been promoted most
|
||||
vociferously by an organization calling itself "Jews for the
|
||||
Preservation of Firearms Ownership." It should be clear that Jews in
|
||||
general are a very biased source of information about
|
||||
Hitler. </p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Why Is Hitler Demonized? </p>
|
||||
<p>Why Is <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> Demonized? </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Hitler is accused of many things he did not do, but there is one thing
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> is accused of many things he did not do, but there is one thing
|
||||
he did do. He broke the Jews' grip on Germany and restored Germany to
|
||||
the German people. This fact is reflected in his popularity; during
|
||||
most of his administration, Adolf Hitler was favorably regarded by
|
||||
most of his administration, Adolf <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> was favorably regarded by
|
||||
more than 90% of the German people -- a popularity which no American
|
||||
President has ever matched. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Because Hitler put the interests of his own people first, and freed
|
||||
<p>Because <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> put the interests of his own people first, and freed
|
||||
them from the New World Order, World Jewry declared war on Germany in
|
||||
1933. They revived essentially the same propaganda they had used
|
||||
against the Kaiser. With appropriate changes, the same kind of
|
||||
@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ propaganda is used to rouse us against whoever the current enemy of
|
||||
the New World Order happens to be. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Heaven forbid that our people should ever have a strong leader who
|
||||
cares for our survival as a people, as Hitler cared for
|
||||
cares for our survival as a people, as <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> cared for
|
||||
Germany. That would not suit the New World Order at all! </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>And that is why the obsession with the democratic republic as a form
|
||||
@ -447,12 +447,12 @@ government should not be whether it is a "big government" or a
|
||||
"democratic" government, but whether it is a government which serves
|
||||
us -- or serves our enemies. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It is absurd to moralize against Adolf Hitler for setting up a strong
|
||||
<p>It is absurd to moralize against Adolf <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> for setting up a strong
|
||||
government to preserve his people from the New World Order. It is
|
||||
absurd to criticize him for not acting like a typical American
|
||||
conservative -- for not using approaches that have always failed.
|
||||
Conservatives always compromise; they use half-measures and try to be
|
||||
nice to everyone. It is to Hitler's credit that he saw clearly what
|
||||
nice to everyone. It is to <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent>'s credit that he saw clearly what
|
||||
had to be done and did it, with very little compromise. Let us no
|
||||
longer make virtues of irresolution and weakness; let us no longer
|
||||
moralize against success. </p>
|
||||
@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ moralize against success. </p>
|
||||
<p>The New World Order Is Here Now </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>All of those so called "patriots," with their flag-waving and their
|
||||
knee-jerk tendency to link everything bad to Hitler -- including, most
|
||||
knee-jerk tendency to link everything bad to <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> -- including, most
|
||||
ironically, the New World Order -- have built their house on
|
||||
quicksand, for it is the United States of America since 1933 which has
|
||||
been the enforcer of the New World Order, and it was Germany and her
|
||||
@ -472,18 +472,18 @@ New World Order is not some future threat. It rules now. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The New World Order crowd has been at the levers of power in the
|
||||
United States during most of this century. They experienced a
|
||||
temporary setback in the 1920s, during the Harding and Coolidge
|
||||
temporary setback in the 1920s, during the <ent type = 'person'>Harding</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Coolidge</ent>
|
||||
administrations, when popular sentiment recognized that the First
|
||||
World War had been a grievous error. During the 1920s immigration was
|
||||
drastically reduced, and a number of Jewish subversives were even
|
||||
deported. But since the Great Depression swept Franklin Roosevelt and
|
||||
deported. But since the Great Depression swept <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent>lin <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent></ent> and
|
||||
his retinue of Jews and Communists into power, the New World Order has
|
||||
had uninterrupted control of the United States Government.
|
||||
The McCarthy era marked the last important attempt to regain control
|
||||
of the United States government for the American people. McCarthyism
|
||||
The <ent type = 'person'>McCarthy</ent> era marked the last important attempt to regain control
|
||||
of the United States government for the American people. <ent type = 'person'>McCarthy</ent>ism
|
||||
failed because the full depth and racial nature of the problem were
|
||||
not recognized and faced in a forthright manner. Most of the patriotic
|
||||
efforts since McCarthy have been far more timid, far less inclined to
|
||||
efforts since <ent type = 'person'>McCarthy</ent> have been far more timid, far less inclined to
|
||||
call a spade a spade and, as a consequence, have failed utterly. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Scare Word "Nazi" </p>
|
||||
@ -507,8 +507,8 @@ documentary "proving" the evil "racism" and "oppression" that were
|
||||
omnipresent in the Old America. However, anyone over 40 can remember
|
||||
America was freer, safer, more cultured, more prosperous, and more
|
||||
optimistic then than now. Exempt from demonization, of course, are New
|
||||
World Order change agents like the Marxist profligate "Martin Luther"
|
||||
King and the unspeakable Franklin Roosevelt, who were doing their best
|
||||
World Order change agents like the <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ist profligate "Martin Luther"
|
||||
King and the unspeakable <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent>lin <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent></ent>, who were doing their best
|
||||
to destroy the Old America and everything it stood for. They are not
|
||||
demonized, but are regarded as heroes, if not saints! </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ rest of it. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The real reason, and in fact the only reason, National Socialist
|
||||
Germany is demonized is the same reason that pre-1965
|
||||
America is demonized: Both favored the survival of the White race.
|
||||
America is demonized: Both favored the survival of the <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> race.
|
||||
This is a crime that the New World Order cannot forgive. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Resistance to the New World Order </p>
|
||||
@ -591,31 +591,31 @@ schools and the Jewish-controlled media have made sure that we know by
|
||||
heart: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
|
||||
created equal . . ." Now, it is obvious to almost everyone that
|
||||
individual human beings are not born equal to each other. On the face
|
||||
of it, Thomas Jefferson's statement is blatantly, and even
|
||||
embarrassingly, untrue. Jefferson himself later advocated repatriation
|
||||
of it, Thomas <ent type = 'person'>Jefferson</ent>'s statement is blatantly, and even
|
||||
embarrassingly, untrue. <ent type = 'person'>Jefferson</ent> himself later advocated repatriation
|
||||
of Blacks to Africa. This may give us some insight into his more
|
||||
mature and considered views. Unfortunately however, he did write that
|
||||
phrase. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>During the Enlightenment, leading philosophers such as John Locke and
|
||||
Jean Jacques Rousseau seriously argued that everyone was born mentally
|
||||
identical. Locke's term for the condition of the mind at birth was
|
||||
<p>During the Enlightenment, leading philosophers such as <ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Locke</ent></ent> and
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Jean Jacques Rousseau</ent> seriously argued that everyone was born mentally
|
||||
identical. <ent type = 'person'>Locke</ent>'s term for the condition of the mind at birth was
|
||||
tabula rasa, Latin for "blank slate." Racial differences were thought
|
||||
to be due to environmental influence over the course of just a few
|
||||
generations. These fallacies, part of the intellectual universe in
|
||||
which Thomas Jefferson lived, were overturned in the nineteenth
|
||||
century. Many scientists, including Charles Darwin, began making
|
||||
discoveries that showed human equality was a myth. Darwin dealt a
|
||||
which Thomas <ent type = 'person'>Jefferson</ent> lived, were overturned in the nineteenth
|
||||
century. Many scientists, including <ent type = 'person'>Charles <ent type = 'person'>Darwin</ent></ent>, began making
|
||||
discoveries that showed human equality was a myth. <ent type = 'person'>Darwin</ent> dealt a
|
||||
death blow to the superstitions of the Enlightenment by providing
|
||||
evidence that man was part of the animal kingdom in which all are
|
||||
clearly not created equal. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Darwin wrote that men are not tabulae rasae; human motivations and
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Darwin</ent> wrote that men are not tabulae rasae; human motivations and
|
||||
emotions are based on instincts. These are at least partially
|
||||
hereditary, and differ from one race to another. More recently,
|
||||
mainstream psychology has largely acknowledged that the
|
||||
characteristics of the mind are largely hereditary, although the
|
||||
Politically Correct adherents of the Boas school still
|
||||
Politically Correct adherents of the <ent type = 'person'>Boas</ent> school still
|
||||
argue the point. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Science should have utterly dispelled the belief that all men are
|
||||
@ -626,10 +626,10 @@ regarded as a holy relic until about the 1840s, when it was put on
|
||||
display in the National Portrait Gallery, at the urging of Daniel
|
||||
Webster. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>When "Martin Luther" King Jr. spoke in Washington, DC, in 1963, he
|
||||
<p>When "Martin Luther" King Jr. spoke in <ent type = 'person'>Washington</ent>, DC, in 1963, he
|
||||
used the words in the Declaration as if they were a debt instrument.
|
||||
He said, 'you claim to believe this; you must act accordingly.'
|
||||
(Perhaps his Jewish and Communist associate, Stanley Levison, had
|
||||
(Perhaps his Jewish and Communist associate, <ent type = 'person'>Stanley Levison</ent>, had
|
||||
something to do with it.) It is a dramatic illustration of the latent
|
||||
destructive power of wrong ideas. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -648,8 +648,8 @@ equal." </p>
|
||||
level. We are indeed fortunate to have the rights which the
|
||||
Constitution expresses, but that piece of paper did not create them.
|
||||
These rights are part of the Anglo Saxon tradition and spring from the
|
||||
soul of our branch of the White race. The republican form of
|
||||
government has hardly existed outside of the White world (except in
|
||||
soul of our branch of the <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> race. The republican form of
|
||||
government has hardly existed outside of the <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> world (except in
|
||||
name) because it presupposes a self-discipline and independence of
|
||||
thought which are characteristic primarily of our race. When the
|
||||
republican form is transplanted to Africa or Asia, it simply does not
|
||||
@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ on the Jews' good side, to point to some Gentile stooge as an excuse
|
||||
to avoid implicating the Jews. The so-called Jewish "patriots" can
|
||||
also be counted on to do this. The fact that these essentially Jewish
|
||||
organizations try to ensnare Gentile stooges is not at all surprising
|
||||
in light of Isaiah 61, which states: </p>
|
||||
in light of <ent type = 'person'>Isaiah</ent> 61, which states: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Aliens shall stand and feed your flocks, foreigners shall be your
|
||||
plowmen and vine dressers; but you shall be called the priests of
|
||||
@ -702,41 +702,41 @@ in light of Isaiah 61, which states: </p>
|
||||
or some equivalent thereof. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Grand Orient Freemasonry and quasi-Masonic secret societies such as
|
||||
Adam Weishaupt's Order of Illuminati had an important role in inciting
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Adam <ent type = 'person'>Weishaupt</ent></ent>'s Order of Illuminati had an important role in inciting
|
||||
the French Revolution. The Grand Orient Lodge of Freemasonry,
|
||||
notorious for being Jewish-controlled, horrified Europe by ordering
|
||||
that Louis XVI be executed. </p>
|
||||
that <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Louis</ent> XVI</ent> be executed. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Jewish writer Max Dimont states in Jews, God, and History that there
|
||||
<p>Jewish writer <ent type = 'person'>Max Dimont</ent> states in Jews, God, and History that there
|
||||
was an addition to Cabalism in the 16th century, which has significant
|
||||
implications: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A new metaphysical philosophy was injected into Cabalism in the
|
||||
sixteenth century by one of the great Cabalistic scholars, Isaac
|
||||
Luria (1534-1572), known as Ari, 'the lion.' Luria held that all
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Luria</ent> (1534-1572), known as <ent type = 'person'>Ari</ent>, 'the lion.' <ent type = 'person'>Luria</ent> held that all
|
||||
matter and thought evolved through a three stage cycle: tzimtzum,
|
||||
literally 'contraction' or thesis; shevirat hakeilim, literally
|
||||
literally 'contraction' or thesis; shevirat <ent type = 'person'>hakeilim</ent>, literally
|
||||
'breaking of the vessels' or antithesis; and tikkun, literally
|
||||
'restoration' or synthesis. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>That last Hebrew term, tikkun, you have heard before: It is the name
|
||||
of Rabbi Michael Lerner's Jewish magazine. It was Rabbi Lerner who was
|
||||
the spiritual advisor of First Lady Hillary Clinton. It was Rabbi
|
||||
Lerner who put the words "politics of meaning" into her mouth. </p>
|
||||
of Rabbi <ent type = 'person'>Michael <ent type = 'person'>Lerner</ent></ent>'s Jewish magazine. It was Rabbi <ent type = 'person'>Lerner</ent> who was
|
||||
the spiritual advisor of First Lady <ent type = 'person'>Hillary Clinton</ent>. It was Rabbi
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Lerner</ent> who put the words "politics of meaning" into her mouth. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Also notable is Jacob Frank, a Jew and the leader of the Frankists.
|
||||
<p>Also notable is <ent type = 'person'>Jacob <ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent></ent>, a Jew and the leader of the <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent>ists</ent>.
|
||||
They also called themselves the "Illuminated." This group
|
||||
was part of what is called the "Jewish Reformation," which also
|
||||
included Hasidic Judaism. Jewish writer, Norman F. Cantor,
|
||||
states in The Sacred Chain: the History of the Jews: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Central to Frank's doctrine, and practiced by him and some of his
|
||||
<p> Central to <ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent>'s doctrine, and practiced by him and some of his
|
||||
followers, was the legitimacy of sexual promiscuity based on the
|
||||
assumption, from Cabalistic derivation, that sexual activity was
|
||||
a form of cosmic healing, unifying the spiritual and material
|
||||
realms. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The "free love" advocated and practiced by Jacob Frank and his ilk was
|
||||
<p>The "free love" advocated and practiced by <ent type = 'person'>Jacob <ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent></ent> and his ilk was
|
||||
echoed in the French Revolution, in the Bolshevik Revolution, in the
|
||||
radical abolitionist movement of the American Civil War era, and in
|
||||
the hippie movement of the 60s. </p>
|
||||
@ -753,46 +753,46 @@ example of the Jewish "ideals" of universal human equality, which are
|
||||
vended to the gullible. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The general character of the abolitionists is suggested by a memoir of
|
||||
Henry B. Stanton, who attended a convention of abolitionists in
|
||||
Henry B. <ent type = 'person'>Stanton</ent>, who attended a convention of abolitionists in
|
||||
Boston: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> There was a representative array on the front seats, near the
|
||||
platform. First was Garrison, his countenance calling to mind the
|
||||
pictures of the prophet Isaiah in a rapt mood; next was the fine
|
||||
Roman head of Wendell Phillips; at his right was Father Lampson,
|
||||
platform. First was <ent type = 'person'>Garrison</ent>, his countenance calling to mind the
|
||||
pictures of the prophet <ent type = 'person'>Isaiah</ent> in a rapt mood; next was the fine
|
||||
Roman head of <ent type = 'person'>Wendell Phillips</ent>; at his right was Father <ent type = 'person'>Lampson</ent>,
|
||||
so called, a crazy loon -- his hair and flowing beard as white as
|
||||
the driven snow. He was the inventor of the valuable
|
||||
scythe-snath, and invariably carried a snath in his hand. His
|
||||
forte was selling his wares on secular days and disturbing
|
||||
religious meetings on Sunday. Next to Lampson sat
|
||||
Edmund Quincy, high born and wealthy, the son of the famous
|
||||
President Quincy [of Harvard]. Next to Quincy was Abigail Folsom,
|
||||
religious meetings on Sunday. Next to <ent type = 'person'>Lampson</ent> sat
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Edmund <ent type = 'person'>Quincy</ent></ent>, high born and wealthy, the son of the famous
|
||||
President <ent type = 'person'>Quincy</ent> [of Harvard]. Next to <ent type = 'person'>Quincy</ent> was <ent type = 'person'>Abigail Folsom</ent>,
|
||||
another lunatic, with a shock of unkempt hair reaching down to her
|
||||
waist. At her right was George W. Mellen, clad in the military
|
||||
waist. At her right was George W. <ent type = 'person'>Mellen</ent>, clad in the military
|
||||
costume of the Revolution, and fancying himself to be General
|
||||
Washington, because he was named after him. Poor Mellen died in
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Washington</ent>, because he was named after him. Poor <ent type = 'person'>Mellen</ent> died in
|
||||
an asylum. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Another prominent figure in Radical Abolitionism was Victoria
|
||||
Woodhull, who was also a feminist, an occultist, and a
|
||||
Communist. Stanton continues: </p>
|
||||
Communist. <ent type = 'person'>Stanton</ent> continues: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> As if her time did not pass spectacularly enough, Victoria
|
||||
Woodhull organized an American section of the International
|
||||
Workingmen's Association [the First Communist International]. In
|
||||
this endeavor her chief ally was William West . . . Their section
|
||||
this endeavor her chief ally was <ent type = 'person'>William West</ent> . . . Their section
|
||||
of the International advocated woman's suffrage and sexual
|
||||
freedom as well as Stephen Pearl Andrews' pet theories of
|
||||
freedom as well as <ent type = 'person'>Stephen Pearl Andrews</ent>' pet theories of
|
||||
universal language and "pantarchical" order." </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>These flakes were an embarrassment even to the Marxists. In the
|
||||
interests of party orthodoxy, Victoria Woodhull's section was expelled
|
||||
from the party when Marx relocated the center of World Communism from
|
||||
<p>These flakes were an embarrassment even to the <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ists. In the
|
||||
interests of party orthodoxy, <ent type = 'person'>Victoria Woodhull</ent>'s section was expelled
|
||||
from the party when <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent> relocated the center of World Communism from
|
||||
London to New York City in 1872. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In 1863 Henry C. Wright published The Self-Abnegationist, which was a
|
||||
reaction against the findings of Charles Darwin vis a vis the
|
||||
implications for man. Wright defined self-abnegation in these terms:
|
||||
<p>In 1863 Henry C. <ent type = 'person'>Wright</ent> published The Self-Abnegationist, which was a
|
||||
reaction against the findings of <ent type = 'person'>Charles <ent type = 'person'>Darwin</ent></ent> vis a vis the
|
||||
implications for man. <ent type = 'person'>Wright</ent> defined self-abnegation in these terms:
|
||||
"Suffer rather than inflict suffering; die, rather than kill." </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>He further explains: </p>
|
||||
@ -805,10 +805,10 @@ implications for man. Wright defined self-abnegation in these terms:
|
||||
law of his nature, to which he will find his heaven in being
|
||||
obedient. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Mainstream historian Lewis Perry states that there was behind radical
|
||||
<p>Mainstream historian <ent type = 'person'>Lewis <ent type = 'person'>Perry</ent></ent> states that there was behind radical
|
||||
abolitionism a religious movement called "Perfectionism," which is
|
||||
"the quest for perfect holiness and the idea that such perfection
|
||||
might be immediately possible." Perry further states: </p>
|
||||
might be immediately possible." <ent type = 'person'>Perry</ent> further states: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Perfectionist ideas permeated the major denominations and
|
||||
inspired a variety of shockingly radical splinter movements. It
|
||||
@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ might be immediately possible." Perry further states: </p>
|
||||
to be perfect to attack the practices of institutional churches
|
||||
and hold themselves to new standards of morality. Rumors of
|
||||
sexual promiscuity particularly haunted the career of
|
||||
perfectionism in upstate New York. John Humphrey Noyes
|
||||
perfectionism in upstate New York. <ent type = 'person'>John Humphrey Noyes</ent>
|
||||
proceeded from the development of perfectionist religious
|
||||
theories to preach common marriage among the saints, a belief
|
||||
which, as practiced by Noyes and his followers at the Oneida
|
||||
@ -828,23 +828,23 @@ might be immediately possible." Perry further states: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The combination of the term "perfectionism" with the advocacy of
|
||||
sexual promiscuity is a suggestive parallel to Jewish Cabalism. Adam
|
||||
Weishaupt's Order of the Illuminati was also known as the
|
||||
Perfektibilisten. We return to Perry: </p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Weishaupt</ent>'s Order of the Illuminati was also known as the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Perfektibilisten</ent>. We return to <ent type = 'person'>Perry</ent>: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The most notorious perfectionist was John Humphrey Noyes. Noyes
|
||||
<p> The most notorious perfectionist was <ent type = 'person'>John Humphrey Noyes</ent>. Noyes
|
||||
had been brought up as an orthodox New Englander and educated in
|
||||
the 'New Divinity' at Yale." After a meeting with abolitionist
|
||||
leader William Lloyd Garrison, Noyes announced that he had
|
||||
leader William Lloyd <ent type = 'person'>Garrison</ent>, Noyes announced that he had
|
||||
retracted his allegiance to the United States government and now
|
||||
championed the claim of Jesus Christ to the throne of the world.
|
||||
championed the claim of <ent type = 'person'>Jesus Christ</ent> to the throne of the world.
|
||||
He depicted the government as a fat libertine flogging Negroes
|
||||
and torturing Indians. . . . "My hope of the millennium," he
|
||||
wrote, "begins where Dr. Beecher's expires -- viz, at the
|
||||
wrote, "begins where Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Beecher</ent>'s expires -- viz, at the
|
||||
overthrow of this nation." </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>James Russell Lowell, a prominent abolitionist, explicitly advocated
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>James Russell Lowell</ent>, a prominent abolitionist, explicitly advocated
|
||||
race-mixing, on the grounds that mulatto offspring would be more
|
||||
submissive -- more "Christian" -- than the White race. He wrote: </p>
|
||||
submissive -- more "Christian" -- than the <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> race. He wrote: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> We have never had any doubt that the African race was intended to
|
||||
introduce a new element of civilization, and that the Caucasian
|
||||
@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ submissive -- more "Christian" -- than the White race. He wrote: </p>
|
||||
seemingly humble, but truly more noble, qualities which teach it
|
||||
to obey. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Abolitionist Henry C. Wright stated in 1857 what would become the
|
||||
<p>Abolitionist Henry C. <ent type = 'person'>Wright</ent> stated in 1857 what would become the
|
||||
actual agenda of the Reconstruction period: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A baptism of blood awaits the slave holder and his abettors. So
|
||||
@ -870,27 +870,27 @@ actual agenda of the Reconstruction period: </p>
|
||||
willingly and penitently let their slaves go free. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It should be noted that, aside from the grotesque dream of forced
|
||||
miscegenation, Wright's vision is not essentially different
|
||||
from that of Karl Marx; it was an axiom of Marxist anarchism that
|
||||
miscegenation, <ent type = 'person'>Wright</ent>'s vision is not essentially different
|
||||
from that of <ent type = 'person'>Karl <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent></ent>; it was an axiom of <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ist anarchism that
|
||||
workers were in fact slaves, who would one day change
|
||||
places with their masters. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Marxism: Illuminism Reincarnate </p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ism: Illuminism Reincarnate </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Karl Marx, though he disclaimed the Jewish religion, was the
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Karl <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent></ent>, though he disclaimed the Jewish religion, was the
|
||||
descendent of a long line of rabbis. Both his father and mother
|
||||
were Jews. His father, Heinrich, a well-to-do lawyer who was a dutiful
|
||||
were Jews. His father, <ent type = 'person'>Heinrich</ent>, a well-to-do lawyer who was a dutiful
|
||||
follower of the Enlightenment philosophers, was faced with a choice of
|
||||
being baptized or giving up his profession. He chose the former. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Karl Marx had no mystical pretensions whatsoever; he called his
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Karl <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent></ent> had no mystical pretensions whatsoever; he called his
|
||||
ideology "dialectical materialism," incorporating a semblance of the
|
||||
Hegelian philosophy which was the popular, mainstream philosophy of
|
||||
that time. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>One often hears patriotic broadcasters refer vaguely to "the Hegelian
|
||||
dialectic," as if Hegelianism itself were a tool of conspiracy. In
|
||||
fact, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels both stated repeatedly that the
|
||||
fact, <ent type = 'person'>Karl <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent></ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Friedrich Engels</ent> both stated repeatedly that the
|
||||
Hegelian dialectic, as espoused by Hegel, was not and could not be an
|
||||
instrument of conspiracy. I consider it important to exonerate Hegel
|
||||
because it appears as part of a general knee-jerk tendency to dump on
|
||||
@ -906,23 +906,23 @@ and "left" in politics. They claim that the left stands for "more
|
||||
government" and that the right stands for "less government," that
|
||||
Communism is the extreme of the left and Anarchy the extreme of the
|
||||
right. This conception of the political spectrum is a false one.
|
||||
Historically, Marxism has embraced both Communism and Anarchism. The
|
||||
Anarchists of 100 years ago, such as Alexander Birkman and "Red Emma"
|
||||
Goldman, were called "Reds," and they were indeed Marxists who used
|
||||
the familiar Marxist slogans. On the ostensible premise that society
|
||||
makes men bad, the Marxist ideal is precisely the elimination of all
|
||||
Historically, <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ism has embraced both Communism and Anarchism. The
|
||||
Anarchists of 100 years ago, such as <ent type = 'person'>Alexander Birkman</ent> and "Red Emma"
|
||||
Goldman, were called "Reds," and they were indeed <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ists who used
|
||||
the familiar <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ist slogans. On the ostensible premise that society
|
||||
makes men bad, the <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ist ideal is precisely the elimination of all
|
||||
government, and of all other social barriers -- the same ideal which
|
||||
Adam Weishaupt espoused. The real motive behind this abhorrence of
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Adam <ent type = 'person'>Weishaupt</ent></ent> espoused. The real motive behind this abhorrence of
|
||||
social barriers is simply the Jews' desire to recreate our society in
|
||||
their own image, so that they will have a free hand to engage in
|
||||
power-seeking activities without the barriers that traditional White
|
||||
power-seeking activities without the barriers that traditional <ent type = 'person'>White</ent>
|
||||
societies imposed on them. They would like to freely engage in all the
|
||||
abhorrent practices which emanate from the Jewish soul and are
|
||||
condoned by their Jewish lawbook, the Talmud. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Perhaps it is clear now why laissez faire is so widely touted by Jews
|
||||
like Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand. Laissez faire and Marxism are not
|
||||
the opposites that most of our people assume them to be. Marxism
|
||||
like <ent type = 'person'>Milton Friedman</ent> and Ayn Rand. Laissez faire and <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ism are not
|
||||
the opposites that most of our people assume them to be. <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ism
|
||||
actually goes farther than laissez faire, advocating a never-never
|
||||
land in which there is no government whatsoever. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ land in which there is no government whatsoever. </p>
|
||||
1889 book Anarchy and Anarchists: a History of the Red Terror and the
|
||||
Social Revolution in America and Europe: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It [anarchism] is founded upon the teachings of Karl Marx and his
|
||||
<p> It [anarchism] is founded upon the teachings of <ent type = 'person'>Karl <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent></ent> and his
|
||||
disciples, and it aims directly at the complete destruction of
|
||||
all forms of government and religion. It offers no solution of
|
||||
the problems which will arise when society, as we understand it,
|
||||
@ -939,26 +939,26 @@ Social Revolution in America and Europe: </p>
|
||||
later. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>When one considers that anarchism is, in fact, laissez faire carried a
|
||||
step farther, it becomes apparent that Marxism and the beloved laissez
|
||||
step farther, it becomes apparent that <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ism and the beloved laissez
|
||||
faire doctrine of today's so-called Conservatives are intimately
|
||||
related. The two philosophies are in fact striving toward the same
|
||||
impossible goal: a world without any constraints or conflict, and with
|
||||
plenty for everyone. The salient element in Marxism and laissez faire
|
||||
is the drive to abolish the constraints and the order of healthy White
|
||||
plenty for everyone. The salient element in <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ism and laissez faire
|
||||
is the drive to abolish the constraints and the order of healthy <ent type = 'person'>White</ent>
|
||||
society. The bribe which these Jewish doctrines offer to their Gentile
|
||||
adherents is a license for self-indulgence In the name of laissez
|
||||
faire, our millionaires justify stabbing American workingmen in the
|
||||
back by importing workers from the non-White world. And under Marxist
|
||||
back by importing workers from the non-<ent type = 'person'>White</ent> world. And under <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ist
|
||||
inspiration, the so-called "civil rights" movement was organized. Now,
|
||||
it is obvious that the so-called "civil rights" movement resulted in
|
||||
less freedom for White people, but it has on the whole, by its
|
||||
less freedom for <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> people, but it has on the whole, by its
|
||||
destruction of communities and social norms, increased the level of
|
||||
anarchy, in the sense of chaos, in our society. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Furthermore, although it did produce an expansion of government, the
|
||||
really significant thing is that the government has been perverted.
|
||||
The big government we have today is distinctly anti-White and is
|
||||
pernicious in ways that a pro-White government of equal proportions
|
||||
The big government we have today is distinctly anti-<ent type = 'person'>White</ent> and is
|
||||
pernicious in ways that a pro-<ent type = 'person'>White</ent> government of equal proportions
|
||||
would not be. Indeed if an equally powerful state had been organized
|
||||
for the purpose of fighting off the enemies of our race, perhaps we
|
||||
would not have been conquered by infiltration as we have been today. </p>
|
||||
@ -968,21 +968,21 @@ would not have been conquered by infiltration as we have been today. </p>
|
||||
<p>Any people which is at war will necessarily have a big government, and
|
||||
that is true whether the enemy is internal or external. The reason why
|
||||
our enemies, the enemies of our race, have built up a big government
|
||||
is that they have marked us, racially conscious White men and women
|
||||
(and really all White people) as enemies in our own land. Big
|
||||
is that they have marked us, racially conscious <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> men and women
|
||||
(and really all <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> people) as enemies in our own land. Big
|
||||
government has been built up to wage war against us. Should we ever
|
||||
gain control of the seat of power, any scruples about using "big
|
||||
government" against our enemies will be a disaster, a snatching of
|
||||
defeat from the jaws of victory. The redefinition of "conservative" to
|
||||
mean "laissez faire" would be crippling at the very brink of victory.
|
||||
A government in the hands of White patriots will have to be a
|
||||
A government in the hands of <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> patriots will have to be a
|
||||
powerful government if it is to correct all the damage that has been
|
||||
done by the current anti-White regime. </p>
|
||||
done by the current anti-<ent type = 'person'>White</ent> regime. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>So the question of left and right is not a question of more or less
|
||||
government. The original "rightists," were supporting the big
|
||||
government (for its time) of Louis XVI, and the original "leftists"
|
||||
like Weishaupt advocated anarchy. But anarchism is always
|
||||
government (for its time) of <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Louis</ent> XVI</ent>, and the original "leftists"
|
||||
like <ent type = 'person'>Weishaupt</ent> advocated anarchy. But anarchism is always
|
||||
a transitional ideology; anarchy is a power-vacuum, and Nature abhors
|
||||
a vacuum. Ultimately, the question is whether we will live in a
|
||||
society ordered according to the character of our own race or
|
||||
@ -990,8 +990,8 @@ according to the demands of that vastly different Middle Eastern race.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>This anti-government attitude among patriots is understandable,
|
||||
because in the United States our experiences with big government are
|
||||
almost all bad. Really big government in the U.S. began with Franklin
|
||||
Roosevelt. In the U.S., more government has always meant more racially
|
||||
almost all bad. Really big government in the U.S. began with <ent type = 'person'>Frank</ent>lin
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent>. In the U.S., more government has always meant more racially
|
||||
destructive policies. This is simply because of the malevolent entity
|
||||
which controls our government. A government that is truly of, by, and
|
||||
for our people would not be of that nature, so the axiom that
|
||||
@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ our people, or whether it is run by and for the enemies of our people.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Today in the United States both political parties are universalist,
|
||||
and both see man as a mainly economic entity. They share
|
||||
these characteristics with Marxism. The only valid alternative, the
|
||||
these characteristics with <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ism. The only valid alternative, the
|
||||
only true antithesis to the New World Order, is a society based on
|
||||
race. Only by establishing a race-based society can America and the
|
||||
civilization of the West survive. Only by establishing a race-based
|
||||
@ -1022,9 +1022,9 @@ Great Depression. The abrupt stock-market crash which heralded the
|
||||
Depression did not take the leaders of Jewry by surprise. Some have
|
||||
argued that the Jews used their control of credit through the Federal
|
||||
Reserve System, which they had in place from the days of their puppet
|
||||
Woodrow Wilson, to engineer the stock-market crash. Regardless of
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Woodrow Wilson</ent>, to engineer the stock-market crash. Regardless of
|
||||
whether the Jews caused the crash, manipulated it, or merely had
|
||||
inside knowledge of it; evidence suggests that Bernard Baruch (an
|
||||
inside knowledge of it; evidence suggests that <ent type = 'person'>Bernard <ent type = 'person'>Baruch</ent></ent> (an
|
||||
extremely wealthy Jewish speculator who had been one of the Jewish
|
||||
string pullers behind Wilson and virtual economic czar during World
|
||||
War I), knew exactly when the crash was coming. He abruptly pulled all
|
||||
@ -1034,10 +1034,10 @@ able to buy up American industry for practically nothing. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It is an old saw that money is the mother's milk of political
|
||||
campaigns. With their vastly increased share of the American pie,
|
||||
and with a smear campaign, the Jews were able to blame Herbert Hoover
|
||||
for the depression and replace him with their puppet Roosevelt, who
|
||||
had run as a Conservative but governed as a Marxist socialist and did
|
||||
not let the Constitution get in his way. Roosevelt was also notorious
|
||||
and with a smear campaign, the Jews were able to blame <ent type = 'person'>Herbert Hoover</ent>
|
||||
for the depression and replace him with their puppet <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent>, who
|
||||
had run as a Conservative but governed as a <ent type = 'person'>Marx</ent>ist socialist and did
|
||||
not let the Constitution get in his way. <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent> was also notorious
|
||||
for stocking the executive branch with large numbers of Communists and
|
||||
Jews; many of whom remained for decades. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ to this day. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>At the end of the Second Fratricidal War in Europe, genuine patriotic
|
||||
Americans like George S. Patton urged that Bolshevism be finished off
|
||||
by military means. Several years later, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
|
||||
by military means. Several years later, Senator Joseph R. <ent type = 'person'>McCarthy</ent>
|
||||
published America's Retreat from Victory, which argued that the reason
|
||||
why the opportunity to destroy Bolshevism had not been grasped was
|
||||
that the American government was controlled by Communist sympathizers
|
||||
@ -1100,16 +1100,16 @@ not about "rights" but about enforcing equality. This movement was
|
||||
planned by the Jews after the Second World War and was carried out at
|
||||
the tactical level by Jewish agitators and fellow travelers who held
|
||||
positions of influence in the media and universities. This war against
|
||||
the White race was also waged by Gentile stooges like Dwight David
|
||||
Eisenhower, who appointed Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, then said
|
||||
the <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> race was also waged by Gentile stooges like Dwight David
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Eisenhower</ent>, who appointed <ent type = 'person'>Earl Warren</ent> to the Supreme Court, then said
|
||||
"Oops!" with a pretended look of surprise. Nevertheless, he did not
|
||||
neglect to send paratroopers to Little Rock to enforce the Warren
|
||||
Court's anti-White agenda. Eisenhower, the protege of Bernard Baruch,
|
||||
Court's anti-<ent type = 'person'>White</ent> agenda. <ent type = 'person'>Eisenhower</ent>, the protege of <ent type = 'person'>Bernard <ent type = 'person'>Baruch</ent></ent>,
|
||||
had also been the first "supreme commander" of the Soviet-American
|
||||
alliance that called itself the "United Nations" even before Communist
|
||||
agent Alger Hiss chaired the nominal founding meeting of that
|
||||
organization in San Francisco several years later. Eisenhower's mentor
|
||||
Baruch was also a leader of the Jewish community in the Western
|
||||
agent <ent type = 'person'>Alger Hiss</ent> chaired the nominal founding meeting of that
|
||||
organization in San Francisco several years later. <ent type = 'person'>Eisenhower</ent>'s mentor
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Baruch</ent> was also a leader of the Jewish community in the Western
|
||||
Hemisphere; at this point it is very clear how everything ties
|
||||
together. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1118,31 +1118,31 @@ together. </p>
|
||||
<p>What threatens America most today is immigration. The United States
|
||||
government has for years been under-funding its border patrol and
|
||||
refusing to take adequate measures to curb the illegal immigration of
|
||||
fast-breeding mestizos. You will recall that non-White immigration was
|
||||
part of the New World Order program described by F.S. Marvin in 1932.
|
||||
fast-breeding mestizos. You will recall that non-<ent type = 'person'>White</ent> immigration was
|
||||
part of the New World Order program described by F.S. <ent type = 'person'>Marvin</ent> in 1932.
|
||||
In Canada this destructive immigration is part of official government
|
||||
policy. Almost one-quarter of a million largely non-White immigrants
|
||||
policy. Almost one-quarter of a million largely non-<ent type = 'person'>White</ent> immigrants
|
||||
enter Canada legally every year, despite horrendous unemployment among
|
||||
the White population. The U.S. government pursues by subterfuge the
|
||||
the <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> population. The U.S. government pursues by subterfuge the
|
||||
very same New World Order policy which the Canadian government pursues
|
||||
openly, and which the British government pursued by bringing Blacks
|
||||
into Britain. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>One would have to be brain-dead to believe that the motive for
|
||||
bringing these fast-breeding non-White populations into our
|
||||
bringing these fast-breeding non-<ent type = 'person'>White</ent> populations into our
|
||||
homelands is in any way charitable, since any relief afforded to
|
||||
Mexico by emigration will quickly be cancelled by population
|
||||
increase. The population of Mexico doubles every nineteen years!
|
||||
Current policies will lead to the entire world being overpopulated
|
||||
with brown men and women. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>As America becomes increasingly non-White, it will also become
|
||||
<p>As America becomes increasingly non-<ent type = 'person'>White</ent>, it will also become
|
||||
increasingly unfree. A people united by common blood and common values
|
||||
need few laws, few prisons, and few policemen to get along peaceably.
|
||||
Multicultural empires are not known for their freedom. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Non-White America, populated by mulattos and mestizos, will be easier
|
||||
for our enemies to control and exploit, and whatever White minority
|
||||
<p>Non-<ent type = 'person'>White</ent> America, populated by mulattos and mestizos, will be easier
|
||||
for our enemies to control and exploit, and whatever <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> minority
|
||||
remains, if it adheres to the representative process, will be
|
||||
perennially behind the eight-ball, always outvoted by racial aliens
|
||||
being manipulated by our enemies. It seems to me that those
|
||||
@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ direction: toward a United States in which the Constitution is a
|
||||
revered artifact with even less influence than it has today. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We do not have to accept this fate, nor will the fight be impossible!
|
||||
Louis XVI and Czar Nicholas II died because they lacked the will to
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Louis</ent> XVI</ent> and <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Czar</ent> Nicholas II</ent> died because they lacked the will to
|
||||
resist and didn't even really try. We understand what is happening. A
|
||||
highly motivated and disciplined minority can change the course of
|
||||
history. It has happened before. In fact, it has seldom happened any
|
||||
|
@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
|
||||
<p> A two-part speech.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Copyright (C) 1987 The Other Americas Radio
|
||||
John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>John Stockwell</ent> is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the
|
||||
agency and go public. He ran a CIA intelligence-gathering post in
|
||||
Vietnam, was the task-force commander of the CIA's secret war in
|
||||
Angola in 1975 and 1976, and was awarded the Medal of Merit before he
|
||||
resigned. Stockwell's book In Search of Enemies, published by W.W.
|
||||
Norton 1978, is an international best-seller. This is a transcript of
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Norton</ent> 1978, is an international best-seller. This is a transcript of
|
||||
a lecture he gave in June, 1986. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The policy of The Other Americas Radio regarding reproducing this
|
||||
@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Santa Barbara, CA 93102
|
||||
|
||||
<p> For the on-line (electronic) version of this transcription, contact
|
||||
toad@nl.cs.cmu.edu on the ARPA network, or retrieve, via FTP, the file
|
||||
/usr/toad/text/talk/speech.doc or /usr/toad/text/talk/speech.mss from
|
||||
/usr/toad/text/talk/speech.doc or /usr/toad/text/talk/speech.<ent type = 'person'>mss</ent> from
|
||||
the NL.CS.CMU.EDU vax. Also available as a paper manuscript, or
|
||||
digitally on disk. Write to P.O.Box 81795, Pittsburgh, PA 15217.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ digitally on disk. Write to P.O.Box 81795, Pittsburgh, PA 15217.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "I did 13 years in the CIA altogether. I sat on a subcommittee of
|
||||
the NSC, so I was like a chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star
|
||||
generals) Henry Kissinger, Bill Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s
|
||||
generals) <ent type = 'person'>Henry Kissinger</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Bill Colby</ent> (the CIA director), the GS-18s
|
||||
and the CIA, making the important decisions and my job was to put it
|
||||
all together and make it happen and run it, an interesting place from
|
||||
which to watch a covert action being done....</p>
|
||||
@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ manipulates the press. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S.
|
||||
is pouring money into El Salvador, and preparing to invade Nicaragua;
|
||||
how all of this concerns us so directly. I'm going to try to explain
|
||||
to you the other side of terrorism; that is, the other side of what
|
||||
Secretary of State Shultz talks about. In doing this, we'll talk
|
||||
Secretary of State <ent type = 'person'>Shultz</ent> talks about. In doing this, we'll talk
|
||||
about the Korean war, the Vietnam war, and the Central American war.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Everything I'm going to talk to you about is represented, one way or
|
||||
@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ just couldn't see the point.</p>
|
||||
<p> We were doing things it seemed because we were there, because it was
|
||||
our function, we were bribing people, corrupting people, and not
|
||||
protecting the U.S. in any visible way. I had a chance to go drinking
|
||||
with this Larry Devlin, a famous CIA case officer who had overthrown
|
||||
with this <ent type = 'person'>Larry Devlin</ent>, a famous CIA case officer who had overthrown
|
||||
Patrice Lumumba, and had him killed in 1960, back in the Congo. He
|
||||
was moving into the Africa division Chief. I talked to him in Addis
|
||||
Ababa at length one night, and he was giving me an explanation - I was
|
||||
@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ understand national security, and you can make the big decisions.
|
||||
Now, get to work, and stop, you know, this philosophizing.'</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> And I said, `Aye-aye sir, sorry sir, a bit out of line sir'. It's a
|
||||
very powerful argument, our presidents use it on us. President Reagan
|
||||
very powerful argument, our presidents use it on us. President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
has used it on the American people, saying, `if you knew what I know
|
||||
about the situation in Central America, you would understand why it's
|
||||
necessary for us to intervene.'</p>
|
||||
@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ end of our long involvement in Vietnam....</p>
|
||||
<p> I had been designated as the task-force commander that would run
|
||||
this secret war [in Angola in 1975 and 1976].... and what I figured
|
||||
out was that in this job, I would sit on a sub-committee of the
|
||||
National Security Council, this office that Larry Devlin has told me
|
||||
National Security Council, this office that <ent type = 'person'>Larry Devlin</ent> has told me
|
||||
about where they had access to all the information about Angola, about
|
||||
the whole world, and I would finally understand national security.
|
||||
And I couldn't resist the opportunity to know. I knew the CIA was not
|
||||
@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ say I wouldn't be standing in front of you tonight if I had found
|
||||
these wise men making these tough decisions. What I found, quite
|
||||
frankly, was fat old men sleeping through sub-committee meetings of
|
||||
the NSC in which we were making decisions that were killing people in
|
||||
Africa. I mean literally. Senior ambassador Ed Mulcahy... would go
|
||||
Africa. I mean literally. Senior ambassador <ent type = 'person'>Ed Mulcahy</ent>... would go
|
||||
to sleep in nearly every one of these meetings....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> You can change the names in my book [about Angola] [13] and you've
|
||||
@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ to create this picture of Cubans raping Angolans, Cubans and Soviets
|
||||
introducing arms into the conflict, Cubans and Russians trying to take
|
||||
over the world.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Our ambassador to the United Nations, Patrick Moynihan, he read
|
||||
<p> Our ambassador to the United Nations, <ent type = 'person'>Patrick Moynihan</ent>, he read
|
||||
continuous statements of our position to the Security Council, the
|
||||
general assembly, and the press conferences, saying the Russians and
|
||||
Cubans were responsible for the conflict, and that we were staying
|
||||
@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ create this impression of Soviet and Cuban aggression in Angola. When
|
||||
they were in fact responding to our initiatives.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> And the CIA director was required by law to brief the Congress.
|
||||
This CIA director Bill Colby - the same one that dumped our people in
|
||||
This CIA director <ent type = 'person'>Bill Colby</ent> - the same one that dumped our people in
|
||||
Vietnam - he gave 36 briefings of the Congress, the oversight
|
||||
committees, about what we were doing in Angola. And he lied. At 36
|
||||
formal briefings. And such lies are perjury, and it's a felony to lie
|
||||
@ -352,18 +352,18 @@ earnest, after having been taught to fight communists all my life. I
|
||||
went to see what communists were all about. I went to Cuba to see if
|
||||
they do in fact eat babies for breakfast. And I found they don't. I
|
||||
went to Budapest, a country that even national geographic admits is
|
||||
working nicely. I went to Jamaica to talk to Michael Manley about his
|
||||
working nicely. I went to Jamaica to talk to <ent type = 'person'>Michael Manley</ent> about his
|
||||
theories of social democracy.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> I went to Grenada and established a dialogue with Maurice Bishop and
|
||||
Bernard Cord and Phyllis Cord, to see - these were all educated
|
||||
<p> I went to Grenada and established a dialogue with <ent type = 'person'>Maurice Bishop</ent> and
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bernard Cord</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Phyllis Cord</ent>, to see - these were all educated
|
||||
people, and experienced people - and they had a theory, they had
|
||||
something they wanted to do, they had rationales and explanations -
|
||||
and I went repeatedly to hear them. And then of course I saw the
|
||||
U.S., the CIA mounting a covert action against them, I saw us
|
||||
orchestrating our plan to invade the country. 19 days before he was
|
||||
killed, I was in Grenada talking to Maurice Bishop about these things,
|
||||
these indicators, the statements in the press by Ronald Reagan, and he
|
||||
killed, I was in Grenada talking to <ent type = 'person'>Maurice Bishop</ent> about these things,
|
||||
these indicators, the statements in the press by Ronald <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>, and he
|
||||
and I were both acknowledging that it was almost certain that the U.S.
|
||||
would invade Grenada in the near future.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ performed since 1961]. What I found was that lots and lots of people
|
||||
have been killed in these things.... Some of them are very, very
|
||||
bloody.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Indonesian covert action of 1965, reported by Ralph McGehee, who
|
||||
<p> The Indonesian covert action of 1965, reported by <ent type = 'person'>Ralph McGehee</ent>, who
|
||||
was in that area division, and had documents on his desk, in his
|
||||
custody about that operation. He said that one of the documents
|
||||
concluded that this was a model operation that should be copied
|
||||
@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ killed.</p>
|
||||
<p> There is a mood, a sentiment in Washington, by our leadership today,
|
||||
for the past 4 years, that a good communist is a dead communist. If
|
||||
you're killing 1 to 3 million communists, that's great. President
|
||||
Reagan has gone public and said he would reduce the Soviet Union to a
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> has gone public and said he would reduce the Soviet Union to a
|
||||
pile of ashes. The problem, though, is that these people killed by
|
||||
our national security activities are not communists. They're not
|
||||
Russians, they're not KGB. In the field we used to play chess with
|
||||
@ -462,10 +462,10 @@ Soviet Union during that same period of time.</p>
|
||||
marines in Nicaragua....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The next three leaders of Guatemala [after the CIA installed the
|
||||
puppet, Colonel Armaz in a coup] died violent deaths, and amnesty
|
||||
puppet, Colonel <ent type = 'person'>Armaz</ent> in a coup] died violent deaths, and amnesty
|
||||
international tells us that the governments we've supported in power
|
||||
there since then, have killed 80,000 people. You can read about that
|
||||
one in the book Bitter Fruit, by Schlesinger and Kinzer. [5] Kinzer's
|
||||
one in the book Bitter Fruit, by <ent type = 'person'>Schlesinger</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Kinzer</ent>. [5] <ent type = 'person'>Kinzer</ent>'s
|
||||
a New York Times Journalist... or Jonathan Kwitny, the Wall Street
|
||||
Journal reporter, his book Endless Enemies [7] - all discuss this....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ payroll, trained by the CIA and the United States.</p>
|
||||
<p> We had the `public safety program' going throughout Central and
|
||||
Latin America for 26 years, in which we taught them to break up
|
||||
subversion by interrogating people. Interrogation, including torture,
|
||||
the way the CIA taught it. Dan Metrione, the famous exponent of these
|
||||
the way the CIA taught it. <ent type = 'person'>Dan Metrione</ent>, the famous exponent of these
|
||||
things, did 7 years in Brazil and 3 in Uruguay, teaching
|
||||
interrogation, teaching torture. He was supposed to be the master of
|
||||
the business, how to apply the right amount of pain, at just the right
|
||||
@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ wire between the teeth and the other one in or around the genitals and
|
||||
you could crank and submit the individual to the greatest amount of
|
||||
pain, supposedly, that the human body can register.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Now how do you teach torture? Dan Metrione: `I can teach you about
|
||||
<p> Now how do you teach torture? <ent type = 'person'>Dan Metrione</ent>: `I can teach you about
|
||||
torture, but sooner or later you'll have to get involved. You'll have
|
||||
to lay on your hands and try it yourselves.'</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -541,8 +541,8 @@ better off.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Nicaragua. What's happening in Nicaragua today is covert action.
|
||||
It's a classic de-stabilization program. In November 16, 1981,
|
||||
President Reagan allocated 19 million dollars to form an army, a force
|
||||
of contras, they're called, ex-Somoza national guards, the monsters
|
||||
President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> allocated 19 million dollars to form an army, a force
|
||||
of contras, they're called, ex-<ent type = 'person'>Somoza</ent> national guards, the monsters
|
||||
who were doing the torture and terror in Nicaragua that made the
|
||||
Nicaraguan people rise up and throw out the dictator, and throw out
|
||||
the guard. We went back to create an army of these people. We are
|
||||
@ -559,26 +559,26 @@ keep the world unstable, and to propagandize the American people to
|
||||
hate, so we will let the establishment spend any amount of money on
|
||||
arms....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Victor Marquetti ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government
|
||||
<p> The <ent type = 'person'>Victor Marquetti</ent> ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government
|
||||
the right to prepublication censorship of books. They challenged 360
|
||||
items in his 360 page book. He fought it in court, and eventually
|
||||
they deleted some 60 odd items in his book.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Frank Snep ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government the
|
||||
<p> The <ent type = 'person'>Frank Snep</ent> ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government the
|
||||
right to sue a government employee for damages. If s/he writes an
|
||||
unauthorized account of the government - which means the people who
|
||||
are involved in corruption in the government, who see it, who witness
|
||||
it, like Frank Snep did, like I did - if they try to go public they
|
||||
it, like <ent type = 'person'>Frank Snep</ent> did, like I did - if they try to go public they
|
||||
can now be punished in civil court. The government took $90,000 away
|
||||
from Frank Snep, his profits from his book, and they've seized the
|
||||
from <ent type = 'person'>Frank Snep</ent>, his profits from his book, and they've seized the
|
||||
profits from my own book....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Reagan passed] the Intelligence Identities Protection act, which
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> passed] the Intelligence Identities Protection act, which
|
||||
makes it a felony to write articles revealing the identities of secret
|
||||
agents or to write about their activities in a way that would reveal
|
||||
their identities. Now, what does this mean? In a debate in Congress
|
||||
- this is very controversial - the supporters of this bill made it
|
||||
clear.... If agents Smith and Jones came on this campus, in an
|
||||
clear.... If agents <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Jones</ent> came on this campus, in an
|
||||
MK-ultra-type experiment, and blew your fiance's head away with LSD,
|
||||
it would now be a felony to publish an article in your local paper
|
||||
saying, `watch out for these 2 turkeys, they're federal agents and
|
||||
@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ they blew my loved one's head away with LSD'. It would not be a
|
||||
felony what they had done because that's national security and none of
|
||||
them were ever punished for those activities.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Efforts to muzzle government employees. President Reagan has been
|
||||
<p> Efforts to muzzle government employees. President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> has been
|
||||
banging away at this one ever since. Proposing that every government
|
||||
employee, for the rest of his or her life, would have to submit
|
||||
anything they wrote to 6 committees of the government for censorship,
|
||||
@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ to keep the American people from knowing what the government is really
|
||||
doing.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Then it starts getting heavy. The `Pre-emptive Strikes' bill.
|
||||
President Reagan, working through the Secretary of State Shultz...
|
||||
President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>, working through the Secretary of State <ent type = 'person'>Shultz</ent>...
|
||||
almost 2 years ago, submitted the bill that would provide them with
|
||||
the authority to strike at terrorists before terrorists can do their
|
||||
terrorism. But this bill... provides that they would be able to do
|
||||
@ -611,15 +611,15 @@ jury, and all of that, with impunity.</p>
|
||||
York Times columns and other newspapers saying, `this is no different
|
||||
from Hitler's "night in fog" program', where the government had the
|
||||
authority to haul people off at night. And they did so by the
|
||||
thousands. And President Reagan and Secretary Shultz have
|
||||
persisted.... Shultz has said, `Yes, we will have to take action on
|
||||
thousands. And President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> and Secretary <ent type = 'person'>Shultz</ent> have
|
||||
persisted.... <ent type = 'person'>Shultz</ent> has said, `Yes, we will have to take action on
|
||||
the basis of information that would never stand up in a court. And
|
||||
yes, innocent people will have to be killed in the process. But, we
|
||||
must have this law because of the threat of international terrorism'.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Think a minute. What is `the threat of international terrorism'?
|
||||
These things catch a lot of attention. But how many Americans died in
|
||||
terrorist actions last year? According to Secretary Shultz, 79. Now,
|
||||
terrorist actions last year? According to Secretary <ent type = 'person'>Shultz</ent>, 79. Now,
|
||||
obviously that's terrible but we killed 55,000 people on our highways
|
||||
with drunken driving; we kill 2,500 people in far nastier, bloodier,
|
||||
mutilating, gang-raping ways in Nicaragua last year alone ourselves.
|
||||
@ -638,18 +638,18 @@ more, and army camps, and the... executive memos about these things
|
||||
say it's for aliens and dissidents in the next national emergency....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by Loius
|
||||
Guiffrida, a friend of Ed Meese's.... He's going about the country
|
||||
Guiffrida, a friend of <ent type = 'person'>Ed Meese</ent>'s.... He's going about the country
|
||||
lobbying and demanding that he be given authority, in the times of
|
||||
national emergency, to declare martial law, and establish a curfew,
|
||||
and gun down people who violate the curfew... in the United States.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> And then there's Ed Meese, as I said. The highest law enforcement
|
||||
officer in the land, President Reagan's closest friend, going around
|
||||
<p> And then there's <ent type = 'person'>Ed Meese</ent>, as I said. The highest law enforcement
|
||||
officer in the land, President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>'s closest friend, going around
|
||||
telling us that the constitution never did guarantee freedom of speech
|
||||
and press, and due process of the law, and assembly.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> What they are planning for this society, and this is why they're
|
||||
determined to take us into a war if we'll permit it... is the Reagan
|
||||
determined to take us into a war if we'll permit it... is the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
revolution.... So he's getting himself some laws so when he puts in
|
||||
the troops in Nicaragua, he can take charge of the American people,
|
||||
and put people in jail, and kick in their doors, and kill them if they
|
||||
@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ censorship laws....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In that job [Angola] I sat on a sub-committee of the NSC, so I was
|
||||
like a chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star generals) Henry
|
||||
Kissinger, Bill Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s and the CIA,
|
||||
Kissinger, <ent type = 'person'>Bill Colby</ent> (the CIA director), the GS-18s and the CIA,
|
||||
making important decisions and my job was to put it all together and
|
||||
make it happen and run it, an interesting place from which to watch a
|
||||
covert action being done....</p>
|
||||
@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ economic targets, meaning, break up the economy of the country. Of
|
||||
course, they're attacking a lot more.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> To destabilize Nicaragua beginning in 1981, we began funding this
|
||||
force of Somoza's ex-national guardsmen, calling them the contras (the
|
||||
force of <ent type = 'person'>Somoza</ent>'s ex-national guardsmen, calling them the contras (the
|
||||
counter-revolutionaries). We created this force, it did not exist
|
||||
until we allocated money. We've armed them, put uniforms on their
|
||||
backs, boots on their feet, given them camps in Honduras to live in,
|
||||
@ -751,8 +751,8 @@ cease to function.</p>
|
||||
<p> Systematically, the contras have been assassinating religious
|
||||
workers, teachers, health workers, elected officials, government
|
||||
administrators. You remember the assassination manual? that surfaced
|
||||
in 1984. It caused such a stir that President Reagan had to address
|
||||
it himself in the presidential debates with Walter Mondale. They use
|
||||
in 1984. It caused such a stir that President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> had to address
|
||||
it himself in the presidential debates with <ent type = 'person'>Walter Mondale</ent>. They use
|
||||
terror. This is a technique that they're using to traumatize the
|
||||
society so that it can't function.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -770,12 +770,12 @@ witnesses for peace who have gone down there and they have filmed and
|
||||
photographed and witnessed these atrocities immediately after they've
|
||||
happened, and documented 13,000 people killed this way, mostly women
|
||||
and children. These are the activities done by these contras. The
|
||||
contras are the people president Reagan calls `freedom fighters'. He
|
||||
contras are the people president <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> calls `freedom fighters'. He
|
||||
says they're the moral equivalent of our founding fathers. And the
|
||||
whole world gasps at this confession of his family traditions.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Read Contra Terror by Reed Brodie [1], former assistant Attorney
|
||||
General of New York State. Read The Contras by Dieter Eich. [4] Read
|
||||
<p> Read Contra Terror by <ent type = 'person'>Reed Brodie</ent> [1], former assistant Attorney
|
||||
General of New York State. Read The Contras by <ent type = 'person'>Dieter Eich</ent>. [4] Read
|
||||
With the Contras by Christopher Dickey. [2] This is a main-line
|
||||
journalist, down there on a grant with the Council on Foreign
|
||||
Relations, a slightly to the right of the middle of the road
|
||||
@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ kept in prison, they said `no. Unless we have evidence of individual
|
||||
crimes, we're not going to hold someone in prison just because they
|
||||
were associated with the former administration.' While they set out
|
||||
to launch a literacy campaign to teach the people to read and write,
|
||||
which is something that the dictator Somoza, and us supporting him,
|
||||
which is something that the dictator <ent type = 'person'>Somoza</ent>, and us supporting him,
|
||||
had never bothered to get around to doing. While they set out to
|
||||
build 2,500 clinics to give the country something resembling a public
|
||||
health policy, and access to medicines, we began to label them as
|
||||
@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ with this newspaper `La Prensa', which - it's finally come out and
|
||||
been admitted, in Washington - the U.S. government is funding: a
|
||||
propaganda arm.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Reagan and the State dept. have] been claiming they're building a
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> and the State dept. have] been claiming they're building a
|
||||
war machine that threatens the stability of Central America. Now the
|
||||
truth is, this small, poor country has been attacked by the world's
|
||||
richest country under conditions of war, for the last 5 years. Us and
|
||||
@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ America.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> We claim the justification for this is the arms that are flowing
|
||||
from Nicaragua to El Salvador, and yet in 5 years of this activity,
|
||||
President Reagan hasn't been able to show the world one shred of
|
||||
President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> hasn't been able to show the world one shred of
|
||||
evidence of any arms flowing from Nicaragua into El Salvador.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> We launched a campaign to discredit their elections. International
|
||||
@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ Instead we said, the elections that were held in El Salvador were
|
||||
models of democracy to be copied elsewhere in the world. And then the
|
||||
truth came out about that one. And we learned that the CIA had spent
|
||||
2.2 million dollars to make sure that their choice of candidates -
|
||||
Duarte - would win. They did everything, we're told, by one of their
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Duarte</ent> - would win. They did everything, we're told, by one of their
|
||||
spokesmen, indirectly, but stuff the ballot boxes....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> I'll make a footnote that when I speak out, he [Senator Jesse
|
||||
@ -869,13 +869,13 @@ target, market, of this heroin was the U.S. GI's in Vietnam. If
|
||||
anybody in Nicaragua is smuggling drugs, it's the contras. Now i've
|
||||
been saying that since the state department started waving this red
|
||||
herring around a couple of years ago, and the other day you notice
|
||||
President Reagan said that the Nicaraguans, the Sandinistas, were
|
||||
President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> said that the Nicaraguans, the Sandinistas, were
|
||||
smuggling drugs, and the DEA said, `it ain't true, the contras are
|
||||
smuggling drugs'.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> We claim the Sandinistas are responsible for the terrorism that's
|
||||
happening anywhere in the world. `The country club of terrorism' we
|
||||
call it. There's an incident in Rome, and Ed Meese goes on television
|
||||
call it. There's an incident in Rome, and <ent type = 'person'>Ed Meese</ent> goes on television
|
||||
and says, `that country club in Nicaragua is training terrorists'. We
|
||||
blame the Sandinistas for the misery that exists in Nicaragua today,
|
||||
and there is misery, because the world's richest nation has set out to
|
||||
@ -883,14 +883,14 @@ create conditions of misery, and obviously we're bound to have some
|
||||
effect. The misery is not the fault of the Sandinistas, it's the
|
||||
result of our destabilization program. And despite that, and despite
|
||||
some grumbling in the country, the Sandinistas in their elections got
|
||||
a much higher percentage of the vote than President Reagan did, who's
|
||||
a much higher percentage of the vote than President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> did, who's
|
||||
supposed to be so popular in this country. And all observers are
|
||||
saying that people are still hanging together, with the Sandinistas.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Now it gets tricky. We're saying that the justification for more
|
||||
aid, possibly for an invasion of the country - and mind you, president
|
||||
Reagan has begun to talk about this, and the Secretary of Defense
|
||||
Weinberger began to say that it's inevitable - we claim that the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> has begun to talk about this, and the Secretary of Defense
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent> began to say that it's inevitable - we claim that the
|
||||
justification is that the Soviet Union now has invested 500 million
|
||||
dollars in arms in military to make it its big client state, the
|
||||
Soviet bastion in this hemisphere. And that's true. They do have a
|
||||
@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ lot of arms in there now. But the question is, how did they get
|
||||
invited in? You have to ask yourself, what's the purpose of this
|
||||
destabilization program? For this I direct you back to the Newsweek
|
||||
article in Sept. 1981, where they announce the fact that the CIA was
|
||||
beginning to put together this force of Somoza's ex-guard. Newsweek
|
||||
beginning to put together this force of <ent type = 'person'>Somoza</ent>'s ex-guard. Newsweek
|
||||
described it as `the only truly evil, totally unacceptable factor in
|
||||
the Nicaraguan equation'. They noted that neither the white house nor
|
||||
the CIA pretended it ever could have a chance of winning. So then
|
||||
@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ ammunition to attack them.</p>
|
||||
aid to defend themselves from the attack from the world's richest
|
||||
country, and now we can stand up to the American people and say, `see?
|
||||
they have all the Soviet aid'. Make no doubt of it, it's the game
|
||||
plan of the Reagan Administration to have a war in Nicaragua, they
|
||||
plan of the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> Administration to have a war in Nicaragua, they
|
||||
have been working on this since 1981, they have been stopped by the
|
||||
will of the American people so far, but they're working harder than
|
||||
ever to engineer their war there.</p>
|
||||
@ -943,7 +943,7 @@ from these things, classic CIA operations that we know about, some of
|
||||
them very bloody indeed. Guatemala 1954, Brazil, Guyana, Chile, the
|
||||
Congo, Iran, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Equador, Uruguay - the CIA
|
||||
organized the overthrow of constitutional democracies. Read the book
|
||||
Covert Action: 35 years of Deception by the journalist Godswood. [6]
|
||||
Covert Action: 35 years of Deception by the journalist <ent type = 'person'>Godswood</ent>. [6]
|
||||
Remember the Henry Kissinger quote before the Congress when he was
|
||||
being grilled to explain what they had done to overthrow the
|
||||
democratic government in Chile, in which the President, Salvador
|
||||
@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ where we fought China in Korea. We had a long covert action in
|
||||
Vietnam, very much like the one that we're running in Nicaragua today,
|
||||
that tracked us directly into the Vietnam war. Read the book, The
|
||||
Hidden History of the Korean War by I. F. Stone. [14] Read Deadly
|
||||
Deceits by Ralph McGehee [9] for the Vietnam story. In Thailand, the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Deceits</ent> by <ent type = 'person'>Ralph McGehee</ent> [9] for the Vietnam story. In Thailand, the
|
||||
Congo, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Honduras, the CIA put together large
|
||||
standing armies. In Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, the Congo,
|
||||
Iran, Nicaragua, and Sri Lanka, the CIA armed and encouraged ethnic
|
||||
@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ functioning above the laws, of God, and the laws of man - they've come
|
||||
back to this country, and they've continued their operations as far as
|
||||
they can get by with them. And we have abundant documentation of that
|
||||
as well. The MH-Chaos program, exposed in the late 60's and shut
|
||||
down, re-activated by President Reagan to a degree - we don't have the
|
||||
down, re-activated by President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> to a degree - we don't have the
|
||||
details yet - in which they were spending a billion dollars to
|
||||
manipulate U.S. student, and labor organizations. The MK-ultra
|
||||
program. For 20 years, working through over 200 medical schools and
|
||||
@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ cameras in the walls - to see what would happen at rush hour when the
|
||||
trains are zipping past - if everybody has vertigo and they can't see
|
||||
straight and they're bumping into each other.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Colonel White - oh yes, and I can't not mention the disease
|
||||
<p> Colonel <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> - oh yes, and I can't not mention the disease
|
||||
experimentations - the use of deadly diseases. We launched - when we
|
||||
were destabilizing Cuba for 7 years - we launched the swine fever
|
||||
epidemic, in the hog population, trying to kill out all of the pigs -
|
||||
@ -1059,7 +1059,7 @@ viruses. And now we have some deadly, killer viruses running around
|
||||
in society. And it has to make you wonder, and it has to make you
|
||||
worry.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Colonel White wrote from retirement - he was the man who was in
|
||||
<p> Colonel <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> wrote from retirement - he was the man who was in
|
||||
charge of this macabre program - he wrote, `I toiled whole-heartedly
|
||||
in the vineyards because it was fun, fun fun. Where else could a
|
||||
red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage
|
||||
@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ investigated by the Congress, and shut down by the Congress. You can
|
||||
dig up the Congressional record and read it for yourself.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> There's one book called `In Search of the Manchurian Candidate'.
|
||||
It's written by John Marks, based on 14,000 documents gotten out of
|
||||
It's written by <ent type = 'person'>John Marks</ent>, based on 14,000 documents gotten out of
|
||||
the government under the Freedom of Information Act. Read for
|
||||
yourselves. The thing was shut down but not one CIA case officer who
|
||||
was involved was in any way punished. Not one case officer involved
|
||||
@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ paycheck for what they had done.</p>
|
||||
<p> The Church committee found that the CIA had co-opted several hundred
|
||||
journalists, including some of the biggest names in the business, to
|
||||
pump its propaganda stories into our media, to teach us to hate Fidel
|
||||
Castro, and Ho Chi Minh, and the Chinese, and whomever. The latest
|
||||
Castro, and <ent type = 'person'>Ho Chi Minh</ent>, and the Chinese, and whomever. The latest
|
||||
flap or scandal we had about that was a year and a half ago. Lesley
|
||||
Gelp, the heavyweight with the New York Times, was exposed for having
|
||||
been working covertly with the CIA in 1978 to recruit journalists in
|
||||
@ -1132,11 +1132,11 @@ for having violated our censorship laws....</p>
|
||||
<p> So now we have the CIA running the operation in Nicaragua, lying to
|
||||
us, running 50 covert actions, and gearing us up for our next war, the
|
||||
Central American war. Let there be no doubt about it, President
|
||||
Reagan has a fixation on Nicaragua. He came into office saying that
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> has a fixation on Nicaragua. He came into office saying that
|
||||
we shouldn't be afraid of war, saying we have to face and erase the
|
||||
scars of the Vietnam war. He said in 1983, `We will do whatever is
|
||||
necessary to reverse the situation in Nicaragua', meaning get rid of
|
||||
the Sandinistas. Admiral LaRoque, at the Center for Defense
|
||||
the Sandinistas. Admiral <ent type = 'person'>LaRoque</ent>, at the Center for Defense
|
||||
Information in Washington, says this is the most elaborately prepared
|
||||
invasion that the U.S. has ever done. At least that he's witnessed in
|
||||
his 40 years of association with our military.</p>
|
||||
@ -1158,7 +1158,7 @@ hours from Managua to Texas. All of this getting us ready for the
|
||||
invasion of Nicaragua, for our next war.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Most of the people - 75% of the people - are polled as being against
|
||||
this action. However, President Eisenhower said, `The people of the
|
||||
this action. However, President <ent type = 'person'>Eisenhower</ent> said, `The people of the
|
||||
world genuinely want peace. Someday the leadership of the world are
|
||||
going to have to give in and give it to them'. But to date, the
|
||||
leaders never have, they've always been able to outwit the people, us,
|
||||
@ -1188,7 +1188,7 @@ enough that we could go in and do....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> We have a feeling that the Vietnam war was the first one in which
|
||||
the people resisted. But once again, we haven't read our history.
|
||||
Kate Richards-O'Hare. In 1915, she said about WW I, `The Women of the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kate Richards</ent>-O'Hare. In 1915, she said about WW I, `The Women of the
|
||||
U.S. are nothing but brutesalles, producing sons to be put in the
|
||||
army, to be made into fertilizer'. She was jailed for 5 years for
|
||||
anti-war talk.</p>
|
||||
@ -1212,25 +1212,25 @@ they would tell about the Vietnam veterans. More of whom died violent
|
||||
deaths from suicide after they came back from Vietnam then died in the
|
||||
fighting itself.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Then you have President Reagan.... He talks about the glory of war,
|
||||
<p> Then you have President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>.... He talks about the glory of war,
|
||||
but you have to ask yourself, where was he when wars were being fought
|
||||
that he was young enough to fight in them? World War II, and the
|
||||
Korean war. Where he was was in Hollywood, making films, where the
|
||||
blood was catsup, and you could wash it off and go out to dinner
|
||||
afterwards....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Where was Gordon Liddy when he was young enough to go and fight in a
|
||||
<p> Where was <ent type = 'person'>Gordon Liddy</ent> when he was young enough to go and fight in a
|
||||
war? He was hiding out in the U.S. running sloppy, illegal,
|
||||
un-professional breaking and entering operations. Now you'll forgive
|
||||
my egotism, at that time I was running professional breaking and
|
||||
entering operations....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> What about Rambo himself? Sylvester Stallone. Where was Sylvester
|
||||
<p> What about <ent type = 'person'>Rambo</ent> himself? <ent type = 'person'>Sylvester Stallone</ent>. Where was Sylvester
|
||||
Stallone during the Vietnam war? He got a draft deferment for a
|
||||
physical disability, and taught physical education in a girls' school
|
||||
in Switzerland during the war.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Getting back to President Reagan. He really did say that `you can
|
||||
<p> Getting back to President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>. He really did say that `you can
|
||||
always call cruise missiles back'.... Now, you can call back a B-52,
|
||||
and you can call back a submarine, but a cruise missile is
|
||||
different.... When it lands, it goes boom!. And I would prefer that
|
||||
@ -1248,28 +1248,28 @@ on TV the next day in this country and say there are 5 Jewish families
|
||||
in Nicaragua, and they're not having any problems at all. This is the
|
||||
man who says that they're financing their revolution by smuggling
|
||||
drugs into the U.S. And the DEA says, `It ain't true, it's president
|
||||
Reagan's Contras that are doing it'....</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>'s Contras that are doing it'....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [When Reagan was governor of California, Reagan] said `If there has
|
||||
<p> [When <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> was governor of California, <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>] said `If there has
|
||||
to be a bloodbath then let's get it over with'. Now you have to think
|
||||
about this a minute. A leader of the U.S. seriously proposing a
|
||||
bloodbath of our own youth. There was an outcry of the press, so 3
|
||||
days later he said it again to make sure no one had misunderstood him.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Read. You have to read to inform yourselves. Read The Book of
|
||||
Quotes [12]. Read On Reagan: The Man and the Presidency [3] by Ronnie
|
||||
Dugger. It gets heavy. Dugger concludes in his last chapter that
|
||||
President Reagan has a fixation on Armageddon. The Village Voice 18
|
||||
Quotes [12]. Read On <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>: The Man and the Presidency [3] by Ronnie
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Dugger</ent>. It gets heavy. <ent type = 'person'>Dugger</ent> concludes in his last chapter that
|
||||
President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> has a fixation on <ent type = 'person'>Armageddon</ent>. The Village Voice 18
|
||||
months ago published an article citing the 11 times that President
|
||||
Reagan publicly has talked about the fact that we are all living out
|
||||
Armageddon today....</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> publicly has talked about the fact that we are all living out
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Armageddon</ent> today....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Reagan] has Jerry Falwell into the White House. This is the man
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>] has Jerry Falwell into the <ent type = 'person'>White</ent> House. This is the man
|
||||
that preaches that we should get on our knees and beg for God to send
|
||||
the rapture down. Hell's fires on earth so the chosen can go up on
|
||||
high and all the other people can burn in hell's fires on earth.
|
||||
President Reagan sees himself as playing the role of the greatest
|
||||
leader of all times forever. Leading us into Armageddon. As he goes
|
||||
President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> sees himself as playing the role of the greatest
|
||||
leader of all times forever. Leading us into <ent type = 'person'>Armageddon</ent>. As he goes
|
||||
out at the end of his long life, we'll all go out with him....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Why does the CIA run 10,000 brutal covert actions? Why are we
|
||||
@ -1287,7 +1287,7 @@ When you get people worked up to hate, they'll let you spend huge
|
||||
amounts of money on arms.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Read The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills. [11] Read The Permanent War
|
||||
Complex by Seymour Melman. [10] CIA covert actions have the function
|
||||
Complex by <ent type = 'person'>Seymour Melman</ent>. [10] CIA covert actions have the function
|
||||
of keeping the world hostile and unstable....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> We can't take care of the poor, we can't take care of the old, but
|
||||
@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ problem.... You'll feel better'....</p>
|
||||
yourself. Go to the Nevada test site and see for yourself. Go to
|
||||
Pantex on Hiroshima day this summer, and see the vigil there. The
|
||||
place where we make 10 nose-cones a day, 70 a week, year in and year
|
||||
out. He [Admiral LaRock] said, `I'd tell them, if they feel
|
||||
out. He [Admiral <ent type = 'person'>LaRock</ent>] said, `I'd tell them, if they feel
|
||||
comfortable lying down in front of trucks with bombs on them, to lie
|
||||
down in front of trucks with bombs on them.' But he said, `I'd tell
|
||||
them that they can't wait. They've got to start tomorrow, today, and
|
||||
@ -1328,24 +1328,24 @@ do it, what they can, every day of their lives'.</p>
|
||||
Contra Terror.
|
||||
??, .</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[2] Christopher Dickey.
|
||||
<p>[2] <ent type = 'person'>Christopher Dickey</ent>.
|
||||
With the Contras.
|
||||
??, .</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[3] Dugger, Ronnie.
|
||||
On Reagan: The Man and the Presidency.
|
||||
<p>[3] <ent type = 'person'>Dugger</ent>, Ronnie.
|
||||
On <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>: The Man and the Presidency.
|
||||
McGraw-Hill, 1983.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[4] Eich, Dieter.
|
||||
The Contras: Interviews with Anti-Sandinistas.
|
||||
Synthesis, 1985.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[5] Kinzer, Stephan and Stephen Schlesinger.
|
||||
<p>[5] <ent type = 'person'>Kinzer</ent>, Stephan and Stephen <ent type = 'person'>Schlesinger</ent>.
|
||||
Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in
|
||||
Guatemala.
|
||||
Doubleday, 1983.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[6] Godswood, Roy (editor).
|
||||
<p>[6] <ent type = 'person'>Godswood</ent>, Roy (editor).
|
||||
Covert Actions: 35 Years of Deception.
|
||||
Transaction, 1980.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1356,15 +1356,15 @@ do it, what they can, every day of their lives'.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[8] LaFeber, Walter.
|
||||
Inevitable Revolutions; The United States in Central America.
|
||||
Norton, 1984.</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Norton</ent>, 1984.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[9] McGehee, Ralph.
|
||||
Deadly Deceits: My Twenty-Five Years in the CIA.
|
||||
Deadly <ent type = 'person'>Deceits</ent>: My Twenty-Five Years in the CIA.
|
||||
Sheridan Square, 1983.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[10] Melman, Seymour.
|
||||
The Permanent War Complex.
|
||||
Simon and Shuster, 1974.</p>
|
||||
Simon and <ent type = 'person'>Shuster</ent>, 1974.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[11] Mills, C. Wright.
|
||||
The Power Elite.
|
||||
@ -1376,7 +1376,7 @@ do it, what they can, every day of their lives'.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[13] Stockwell, John.
|
||||
In Search of Enemies.
|
||||
Norton, 1978.</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Norton</ent>, 1978.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[14] Stone, I.F.
|
||||
Hidden History of the Korean War.
|
||||
|
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@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
|
||||
Copyright (c) 1990
|
||||
Earl Laurence Lovings</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1. Proton (1 Hydrogen 1) Energy: 938.3 Mev = 1.007825 amu
|
||||
2. Neutron (1 Neutron 0) Energy: 939.6 Mev = 1.008665 amu
|
||||
<p>1. Proton (1 Hydrogen 1) Energy: 938.3 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> = 1.007825 amu
|
||||
2. Neutron (1 Neutron 0) Energy: 939.6 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> = 1.008665 amu
|
||||
3. Deuterium (2 Hydrogen 1) = 2.014102 amu
|
||||
4. [(1 Neutron 0) + (1 Hydrogen 1) - electron] =
|
||||
(939.6 Mev + 938.3 Mev - .511 Mev) = 1877.389 Mev =
|
||||
(939.6 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> + 938.3 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> - .511 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>) = 1877.389 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> =
|
||||
2.015447128 amu
|
||||
5. [(1 Neutron 0) - (1 Hydrogen 1) + electron] =
|
||||
(939.6 Mev - 938.3 Mev + .511 Mev) = 1.811 Mev =
|
||||
(939.6 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> - 938.3 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> + .511 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>) = 1.811 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> =
|
||||
1.9441763 x 10 - 03 amu
|
||||
6. (105 Palladium 46) = 104.905064 amu
|
||||
7. (103 Rhodium 45) = 102.905511 amu</p>
|
||||
@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ This is done by this process:</p>
|
||||
102.905511 amu - 102.8916 amu = 1.394653 x 10-02 amu.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>To find out how many electrons that is equivalent to:
|
||||
(1.394653 x 10-02 amu x 931.5 Mev/amu)/(.511 Mev/electrons) =
|
||||
(1.394653 x 10-02 amu x 931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu)/(.511 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/electrons) =
|
||||
25.42309 electrons</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>This is the amount of electrons required to be ionized to enable
|
||||
@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ fusion.</p>
|
||||
<p> The Equation:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Q = [(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) + (25.423 e) -
|
||||
(1877.389 Mev) + (1.811 Mev) - (2 Hydrogen 1)] x 931.5 Mev or,</p>
|
||||
(1877.389 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>) + (1.811 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>) - (2 Hydrogen 1)] x 931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> or,</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Q = [(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu + .01394653 amu - 2.015447 amu
|
||||
+ 1.944176 x 10-03 amu - 2.014102 amu)] x 931.5 Mev</p>
|
||||
+ 1.944176 x 10-03 amu - 2.014102 amu)] x 931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Q = 13.55 Mev</p>
|
||||
<p>Q = 13.55 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>You must realize for this process to work for host element fusion,
|
||||
you have to have a host element before Deuterium will fuse.
|
||||
@ -72,12 +72,12 @@ processes.</p>
|
||||
(1 Neutron 0)] = or,</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu - 3.016030 amu - 1.008665 amu) x
|
||||
(931.5 Mev/amu)] = Q = 3.27 Mev</p>
|
||||
(931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu)] = Q = 3.27 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>My Equation: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Host Element = (3 Helium 2) + (1 Neutron 0)
|
||||
[(3 Helium 2) + (1 Neutron 0) - 1877.389 Mev + 1.811 Mev] =
|
||||
[(3 Helium 2) + (1 Neutron 0) - 1877.389 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> + 1.811 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>] =
|
||||
[3.016030 amu + 1.008665 amu - 2.015447 amu + 1.944176x10-03 amu]
|
||||
= 2.011192 amu</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -87,27 +87,27 @@ processes.</p>
|
||||
<p>(2.014102 amu) - 2.011192 amu = 2.909899 x 10-03 amu excess mass
|
||||
convert to electrons</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>(2.909899 x 10-03 amu x 931.5 Mev/amu) /(.511 Mev/electrons) =
|
||||
<p>(2.909899 x 10-03 amu x 931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu) /(.511 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/electrons) =
|
||||
5.304445 electrons</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Now the fusion of Deuterium atoms
|
||||
[(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) + 5.30444e - 1877.389 Mev
|
||||
+ 1.811 Mev - (2 Hydrogen 1)] x 931.5 Mev =
|
||||
[(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) + 5.30444e - 1877.389 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>
|
||||
+ 1.811 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> - (2 Hydrogen 1)] x 931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> =
|
||||
[(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu + 2.909899x10-03 amu - 2.015447 amu
|
||||
+ 1.944176x10-03 amu - 2.014102 amu)] x (931.5 Mev/amu)</p>
|
||||
+ 1.944176x10-03 amu - 2.014102 amu)] x (931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Q = 3.27 Mev</p>
|
||||
<p>Q = 3.27 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Known Equation:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>2. [(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) -> (4 Helium 2)] = or,
|
||||
[(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu - 4.002603 amu)] x
|
||||
(931.5 Mev/amu) = Q = 23.85 Mev
|
||||
(931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu) = Q = 23.85 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>
|
||||
|
||||
My Equation: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Host Element = (4 Helium 2)
|
||||
[(4 Helium 2) - 1877.389 Mev + 1.811 Mev] =
|
||||
[(4 Helium 2) - 1877.389 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> + 1.811 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>] =
|
||||
[(4.002603 amu - 2.015447 amu + 1.944176x10-03 amu)] = 1.9891 amu</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The element whose mass is closest to the new unstable "element" is
|
||||
@ -116,16 +116,16 @@ My Equation: </p>
|
||||
<p>(2.014102 amu) - 1.9891 amu = 2.500188 x 10-02 amu excess mass
|
||||
convert to electrons</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>(2.500188 x 10-02 amu x 931.5 Mev/amu) /(.511 Mev/electrons) =
|
||||
<p>(2.500188 x 10-02 amu x 931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu) /(.511 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/electrons) =
|
||||
45.57585 electrons</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Now the fusion of Deuterium atoms
|
||||
[(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) + 45.58 electrons - 1877.389 Mev
|
||||
+ 1.811 Mev - (2 Hydrogen 1)] x 931.5 Mev =
|
||||
[(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) + 45.58 electrons - 1877.389 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>
|
||||
+ 1.811 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> - (2 Hydrogen 1)] x 931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> =
|
||||
[(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu + 2.500188x10-02 amu - 2.015447 amu
|
||||
+ 1.944176x10-03 amu - 2.014102 amu)] x (931.5 Mev/amu) =</p>
|
||||
+ 1.944176x10-03 amu - 2.014102 amu)] x (931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu) =</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Q = 23.85 Mev</p>
|
||||
<p>Q = 23.85 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Known Equation:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -133,12 +133,12 @@ convert to electrons</p>
|
||||
(1 Hydrogen 1) = or,</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu - 3.016050 amu - 1.007825 amu)] x
|
||||
(931.5 Mev/amu) = Q = 4.03 Mev</p>
|
||||
(931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu) = Q = 4.03 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>My Equation: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Host Element = (3 Hydrogen 1) + (1 Hydrogen 1)
|
||||
[(3 Hydrogen 1) + ( 1 Hydrogen 1) - 1877.389 Mev + 1.811 Mev] =
|
||||
[(3 Hydrogen 1) + ( 1 Hydrogen 1) - 1877.389 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> + 1.811 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>] =
|
||||
[3.016050 amu + 1.007825 amu - 2.015447 amu + 1.944176x10-03 amu]
|
||||
= 2.010372 amu</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -148,26 +148,26 @@ convert to electrons</p>
|
||||
<p>(2.014102 amu - 2.010372 amu) = 3.729582x10-03 amu excess mass
|
||||
convert to electrons</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>(3.729582x10-03 amu x 931.5 Mev/amu)/(.511 Mev/electrons) =
|
||||
<p>(3.729582x10-03 amu x 931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu)/(.511 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/electrons) =
|
||||
6.798641 electrons</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Now the fusion of Deuterium atoms
|
||||
[(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) + 6.799 electrons - 1877.389 Mev
|
||||
+ 1.811 Mev - (2 Hydrogen 1)] x 931.5 Mev =
|
||||
[(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) + 6.799 electrons - 1877.389 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>
|
||||
+ 1.811 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> - (2 Hydrogen 1)] x 931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> =
|
||||
[(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu + 3.7296x10-03 amu - 2.015447 amu +
|
||||
1.944176x10-03 amu - 2.014102 amu)] x (931.5 Mev/amu) =
|
||||
Q = 4.03 Mev</p>
|
||||
1.944176x10-03 amu - 2.014102 amu)] x (931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu) =
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Q = 4.03 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent></p>
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<p> Known Equation:</p>
|
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<p>4. [(1 Hydrogen 1) + (1 Hydrogen) -> (2 Hydrogen 1) +(electron)=
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[(1.007825 amu + 1.007825 amu - 2 electrons - 2.014102 amu)]
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x (931.5 Mev/amu) = Q = .42 Mev</p>
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x (931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu) = Q = .42 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent></p>
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||||
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<p>My Equation:</p>
|
||||
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<p>Host Element = (2 Hydrogen 1)
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[(2 Hydrogen 1) - 1877.389 Mev + 1.811 Mev] =
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||||
[(2 Hydrogen 1) - 1877.389 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> + 1.811 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>] =
|
||||
[(2.014102 amu - 2.015447128 amu + 1.9441763x10-03 amu)] =
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5.990302x10-04 amu</p>
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@ -177,14 +177,14 @@ is (1 Hydrogen 1)</p>
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<p>(1.007825 amu - 5.990302x10-03 amu) = 1.007226 amu excess mass
|
||||
convert to neutrinos</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>(1.007226 amu x 931.5 Mev/amu) / (.42 Mev/neutrinos) =
|
||||
<p>(1.007226 amu x 931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu) / (.42 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/neutrinos) =
|
||||
2,233.884 neutrinos</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Now the fusion of 1 Hydrogen 1 atoms</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[(1 Hydrogen 1) + (1 Hydrogen 1) + 2,234 neutrinos - 2 electrons
|
||||
- 1877.389 Mev + 1.811 Mev - (1 Hydrogen)] x 931.5 Mev/amu =
|
||||
- 1877.389 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> + 1.811 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent> - (1 Hydrogen)] x 931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu =
|
||||
[(1.007825 amu + 1.007825 amu + 1.007226 amu - .001097 amu
|
||||
-2.015447128 amu + 1.9441763x10-03 amu - 1.007825 amu)]
|
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x 931.5 Mev/amu = Q = .42 Mev
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x 931.5 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>/amu = Q = .42 <ent type = 'person'>Mev</ent>
|
||||
</p></xml>
|
@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ seem to me to provide a framework for thinking about the self of
|
||||
self psychology and then invite you all to let me know whether what
|
||||
I have said has made sense and whether you can see directions for
|
||||
the development of these notions.
|
||||
Freud's effort to explain mental life on the basis of drives
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Freud</ent>'s effort to explain mental life on the basis of drives
|
||||
that are the psychological representations of biological
|
||||
disequilibria fell on hard times as he tried to work out the theory
|
||||
in detail. He introduced a new entity, the ego, dangerously close
|
||||
@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ its so called synthetic function.
|
||||
The concept of the ego became the center of American
|
||||
psychoanalytic theory in the forties ,fifties and sixties. Despite
|
||||
heroic, rigorous efforts to sharpen the terms's meaning, the
|
||||
confusion Freud left between the ego and the subjective experience
|
||||
confusion <ent type = 'person'>Freud</ent> left between the ego and the subjective experience
|
||||
of the self continued. This persistent confusions was not merely
|
||||
the result of intellectual sloppiness. Nor was it, as Bruno
|
||||
Bettleheim proposes, the result of Freud's English translators'
|
||||
discomfort the soul-like implications of the Freud's original idea.
|
||||
Bettleheim proposes, the result of <ent type = 'person'>Freud</ent>'s English translators'
|
||||
discomfort the soul-like implications of the <ent type = 'person'>Freud</ent>'s original idea.
|
||||
The difficult is more fundamental. The terminologic and theoretic
|
||||
confusion reflected a clinical reality.
|
||||
It often happens that people who functioned badly in the areas
|
||||
@ -50,23 +50,23 @@ The systematic exploration of the self experience began in
|
||||
psychoanalysis in the years following the second world war, though,
|
||||
of course the concept of self has been the object of study since
|
||||
the dawn of civilization. Although he had significant
|
||||
psychoanalytic precursors, notably in the work of Paul Federn, Erik
|
||||
Erikson was the first to propose that the core of much
|
||||
psychopathology lies in disorders of self experience. Erikson's
|
||||
psychoanalytic precursors, notably in the work of <ent type = 'person'>Paul Federn</ent>, Erik
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Erikson</ent> was the first to propose that the core of much
|
||||
psychopathology lies in disorders of self experience. <ent type = 'person'>Erikson</ent>'s
|
||||
concept of identity, which amalgamated the many sources of beliefs
|
||||
about who one is is both evocative of common experience and proved
|
||||
clinically useful. Many kinds of difficultly, as well a normal, and
|
||||
supernormal psychological development can be usefully explored as
|
||||
experiences of loss or diffusion of identity or attempts to
|
||||
establish a satisfactory identity where one was lacking.
|
||||
Erikson's work is problematic from a psychoanalytic point of
|
||||
view for two reasons. First, reading Erikson carefully one
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Erikson</ent>'s work is problematic from a psychoanalytic point of
|
||||
view for two reasons. First, reading <ent type = 'person'>Erikson</ent> carefully one
|
||||
discovers that his wonderful portrayal of emotional states through
|
||||
imagery, metaphor and clinical detail is not matched by explicit,
|
||||
clear theoretical formulations. Second, his writings often focus
|
||||
on external environmental effects rather than people's
|
||||
psychological worlds and the manner of their construction.
|
||||
Erikson never systematically described his therapeutic
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Erikson</ent> never systematically described his therapeutic
|
||||
approach to his patients. However, it is clear that he consistently
|
||||
placed a positive connotation on his patients' struggles. He
|
||||
demonstrated how manifest psychopathology could be understood as
|
||||
@ -74,24 +74,24 @@ potentially successful attempts to achieve valuable identities,
|
||||
that while there might be difficulties in the way the patient's
|
||||
basic project and his ways of attempting to accomplish it were
|
||||
closer to healthy development than the patient or the society might
|
||||
recognize. Erikson's psychobiographical studies of Luther, Gandhi,
|
||||
Hitler and Shaw are messages to readers, many of them young, about
|
||||
the value of their struggles to form workable identities. Erikson's
|
||||
recognize. <ent type = 'person'>Erikson</ent>'s psychobiographical studies of Luther, Gandhi,
|
||||
Hitler and <ent type = 'person'>Shaw</ent> are messages to readers, many of them young, about
|
||||
the value of their struggles to form workable identities. <ent type = 'person'>Erikson</ent>'s
|
||||
implicit view is that an appreciative stance toward the patients'
|
||||
struggles which include or dominated by external realities is
|
||||
therapeutic.
|
||||
In the years following the second world war Harry Stack
|
||||
Sullivan, observed that the experience of the self of many of his
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Sullivan</ent>, observed that the experience of the self of many of his
|
||||
schizophrenic patients was grossly disturbed. Borrowing from the
|
||||
Chicago School of Sociology, most notably George Herbert Mead,
|
||||
Sullivan conceptualized the self as a summation of social roles,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Sullivan</ent> conceptualized the self as a summation of social roles,
|
||||
some of them retained without full awareness from archaic periods
|
||||
of development. In this "interpersonal theory" of psychology
|
||||
pathology resulted from a self system that was internal incongruent
|
||||
or problematic in terms of the environment. Therapeutic
|
||||
intervention consisted in understanding and appropriately revising
|
||||
the self system in the light of more mature and current
|
||||
understanding. What is central to our discussion is Sullivan's view
|
||||
understanding. What is central to our discussion is <ent type = 'person'>Sullivan</ent>'s view
|
||||
that the self system was both the product of the external
|
||||
environment and made no sense whatever outside of a social system.
|
||||
Several analysts, notably Klein, Winnicott, Khan, Fairburn,
|
||||
@ -106,9 +106,9 @@ difficulties in the first two years of life, could work out their
|
||||
problems if provided with an analytic situation that allowed them
|
||||
to reengage those phases with the analyst experienced as the
|
||||
archaic maternal environment of that era. Some of these analysts
|
||||
believed, like Melaine Klein, that these very early situations
|
||||
believed, like <ent type = 'person'>Melaine Klein</ent>, that these very early situations
|
||||
involved inherent conflicts that now be resolved through
|
||||
interpretation in analysis. Others like Donald Winnicott held that
|
||||
interpretation in analysis. Others like <ent type = 'person'>Donald Winnicott</ent> held that
|
||||
new experiences, "beyond interpretation," with a good-enough object
|
||||
were needed so that the developmental failure could be righted
|
||||
through new development. The theoretical formulations of many of
|
||||
@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ or so unsystematic that their work has had relatively little
|
||||
influence on psychoanalytic theory beyond the range of their
|
||||
immediate followers. It is only now being integrated into the
|
||||
mainstream of psychoanalytic thought.
|
||||
Margaret Mahler and her coworkers also concerned themselves
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Margaret <ent type = 'person'>Mahler</ent></ent> and her coworkers also concerned themselves
|
||||
with he early development of the self. They centered their
|
||||
attention on the era of late toddlerhood that involved the
|
||||
difficulties of the child emerging from a state they called
|
||||
@ -126,16 +126,16 @@ taking environment into a state of being an individual in one's own
|
||||
right. Based on treatment experiences with youngsters and adults
|
||||
who seemed to have difficulties in the area of the self experience
|
||||
and observations of toddlers, which unfortunately were dominated
|
||||
by their preexisting theory, Mahler and her group concluded that
|
||||
by their preexisting theory, <ent type = 'person'>Mahler</ent> and her group concluded that
|
||||
much of the difficulty in self experience arose from a failure to
|
||||
adequately separate from the mother of infancy. Although there are
|
||||
many well informed analysts who would disagree with me, I will
|
||||
assert that the overwhelming data of infant and later developmental
|
||||
studies demonstrate that Mahler's symbiotic phase is not part of
|
||||
studies demonstrate that <ent type = 'person'>Mahler</ent>'s symbiotic phase is not part of
|
||||
normal development nor is separateness, in the sense she meant it,
|
||||
characteristic of ordinary or healthy more mature psychological
|
||||
function.
|
||||
However the clinical observations that lead to Mahler's
|
||||
However the clinical observations that lead to <ent type = 'person'>Mahler</ent>'s
|
||||
thinking and that have been explained in terms of her theories are
|
||||
certainly common. That is, there are many people who seem to have
|
||||
shaky experiences of themselves and function with a conflicting
|
||||
@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ notions that on the one hand they desperately need other people if
|
||||
they are to function at all reasonably and that some core aspect
|
||||
of themselves is in danger precisely in these urgently needed
|
||||
interactions.
|
||||
Starting in the sixties in Chicago Heinz Kohut initiated a
|
||||
Starting in the sixties in Chicago <ent type = 'person'>Heinz <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent></ent> initiated a
|
||||
psychoanalytic study of disorders of the self. His approach to
|
||||
these researches was methodologically distinct and is worth a
|
||||
moment's pause. First he took a radical position, that he claimed,
|
||||
@ -153,37 +153,37 @@ sciences. He asserted that it is possible and usually to
|
||||
immediately comprehend complex psychological configurations in
|
||||
others and that such understanding ordinary mode of operation of
|
||||
the working analyst. Empathy for other's internal states, as a mode
|
||||
of comprehension, was, for Kohut, similar to the way we perceive
|
||||
of comprehension, was, for <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent>, similar to the way we perceive
|
||||
faces - as a complete and immediate gestalt. Analytic training and
|
||||
technique are designed to maximize the analyst's ability to use
|
||||
this investigative tool and to overcoming its pitfalls, just a
|
||||
training in microscopy enables us to vastly extend ordinary visual
|
||||
capacities. While Kohut claimed to be making explicit what everyone
|
||||
capacities. While <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent> claimed to be making explicit what everyone
|
||||
did anyway, his position, right or wrong, was deeply antithetical
|
||||
to Freud's view of psychoanalysis as a natural science-like
|
||||
investigation and also Hartman's explicit statements that empathy
|
||||
in the sense that Kohut meant it had no appropriate role in
|
||||
to <ent type = 'person'>Freud</ent>'s view of psychoanalysis as a natural science-like
|
||||
investigation and also <ent type = 'person'>Hartman</ent>'s explicit statements that empathy
|
||||
in the sense that <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent> meant it had no appropriate role in
|
||||
psychoanalytic investigation.
|
||||
A second, and less problematically, position about
|
||||
psychoanalytic investigative method was Kohut's position on
|
||||
transference. In his early writings on self psychology Kohut
|
||||
psychoanalytic investigative method was <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent>'s position on
|
||||
transference. In his early writings on self psychology <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent>
|
||||
assumed that the only data to be taken seriously in psychoanalysis
|
||||
were the data of the transference. The various stories the patient
|
||||
told, the analyst's conceptual framework and responses and all the
|
||||
other stuff the analyst commonly use to frame a picture of the
|
||||
patient's psychology was of minimal importance compared to the job
|
||||
of describing and understanding the interaction between patient
|
||||
and analyst. Kohut also believed that premature interpretations to
|
||||
and analyst. <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent> also believed that premature interpretations to
|
||||
the effect that the patient was avoiding knowing something about
|
||||
himself often interfered with the full blossoming of the
|
||||
transference. According to Kohut, premature interpretations,
|
||||
transference. According to <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent>, premature interpretations,
|
||||
particularly premature interpretations of defense often resulted
|
||||
in the analyst discovering evidence that confirmed their
|
||||
preexisting notions because they misunderstood possibly contrary
|
||||
clinical facts as representative of the patients' avoidance of
|
||||
already known realities.
|
||||
Using empathy and the exploration of transference as their
|
||||
primary tools, Kohut and his students treated a group of patients
|
||||
primary tools, <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent> and his students treated a group of patients
|
||||
whose distress took three overlapping forms. One group of patients
|
||||
suffered from feelings of depletion, emptiness, triviality and/or
|
||||
fragmentation. These experiences often took symbolic expression in
|
||||
@ -193,9 +193,9 @@ sexual promiscuity and perversion, shop lifting, desperately
|
||||
clinging relations to other people and substance abuse. Finally,
|
||||
some of the patients had chronic and acute states of tantrum like
|
||||
rage.
|
||||
In analysis, at least as conducted by Kohut and his followers,
|
||||
In analysis, at least as conducted by <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent> and his followers,
|
||||
these patients developed characteristic attitudes to the analyst
|
||||
that Kohut labeled selfobject transferences. Characteristically,
|
||||
that <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent> labeled selfobject transferences. Characteristically,
|
||||
often against considerable internal resistance, these patients came
|
||||
to experience the analyst as essential to their well being. His
|
||||
physical or psychological absence variously precipitated great
|
||||
@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ experienced every weekend as "like being sent away to live in the
|
||||
Sahara in a desert" and the return to the analysis as "like coming
|
||||
back to the oasis."
|
||||
When their feelings are not interrupted these patients like
|
||||
these experience the analyst in characteristic ways that Kohut
|
||||
these experience the analyst in characteristic ways that <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent>
|
||||
described with oversimplifying systemticity. Some patients
|
||||
idealized the analyst seeing in him the embodiment of strength and
|
||||
good and feeling alive and whole in his presence. Others find
|
||||
@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ states of mind commonly bring with them inordinate distress or
|
||||
symptoms which could be reasonably understood as experiences of a
|
||||
fragmented or devitalized self or attempts to avoid those
|
||||
experiences.
|
||||
From these clinical experiences Kohut posited that there were
|
||||
From these clinical experiences <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent> posited that there were
|
||||
a group of people for whom the maintenance of a satisfactory self
|
||||
experience was centrally important because it was so problematic.
|
||||
The analyses of these patients was characterized by the use of the
|
||||
@ -246,26 +246,26 @@ self. Any interruption in the capacity to use the analyst in this
|
||||
manner lead to the reemergence of problems in this area. The
|
||||
situation within the analysis was equated with postulated normal
|
||||
developmental states in which the caretaker ordinarily performs the
|
||||
functions for the self. These functions Kohut called selfobject
|
||||
functions for the self. These functions <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent> called selfobject
|
||||
functions and he believed his patients to be suffering from
|
||||
disorders of the self resultant on traumatic failures of early
|
||||
selfobject functions. As in normal development small, empathically
|
||||
supported, failures in the selfobject function allow patients to
|
||||
identify with the image of the way the analyst should have
|
||||
functioned and to make those functions more their own. However
|
||||
mental health does not consist in giving up self objects. Kohut
|
||||
mental health does not consist in giving up self objects. <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent>
|
||||
asserted that selfobject functions normally continue across the
|
||||
course of life and that it is their qualities, not their existence,
|
||||
that is altered with maturity. (Having made this assertion Kohut
|
||||
never elaborated or demonstrated it. Recently Bertram Cohler and
|
||||
that is altered with maturity. (Having made this assertion <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent>
|
||||
never elaborated or demonstrated it. Recently <ent type = 'person'>Bertram Cohler</ent> and
|
||||
myself have undertaken the task of exploring the empirical evidence
|
||||
for Kohut's position.)
|
||||
Kohut's findings, and the findings of many of those who have
|
||||
for <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent>'s position.)
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent>'s findings, and the findings of many of those who have
|
||||
examined the psychology of the self from other viewpoints, have
|
||||
been questioned in too apparently distinct ways, whose
|
||||
interconnection I will show you in a moment.
|
||||
The first objection is that Kohut's theories serve to avoid
|
||||
painful psychological truths. Many of the phenomena Kohut observed
|
||||
The first objection is that <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent>'s theories serve to avoid
|
||||
painful psychological truths. Many of the phenomena <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent> observed
|
||||
had been observed previously and classified as defensive
|
||||
operations. For example, idealizations of the analyst were commonly
|
||||
understood as ways both to avoid knowing of the unconscious
|
||||
@ -278,25 +278,25 @@ rationalize wishes whose non-fulfillment may be extremely
|
||||
frustrating but not inherently, must less psychologically fatally,
|
||||
damaging.
|
||||
The second set of objections has to do with the theory of the
|
||||
self. Kohut never clearly defines his central concept of the self.
|
||||
self. <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent> never clearly defines his central concept of the self.
|
||||
Essentially he says that everyone knows from experience what the
|
||||
self is and leaves it at that. After studying the many discussions
|
||||
of the meaning of the "self" in the psychoanalytic literature one
|
||||
is reminded of the Buddha's comments on the self. He said that
|
||||
is reminded of the <ent type = 'person'>Buddha</ent>'s comments on the self. He said that
|
||||
those who believe in the self are like "a man who says that he is
|
||||
in love with the most beautiful woman in the land, but is unable
|
||||
to specify her name, her family or her appearance" (Digha Nikaya
|
||||
to specify her name, her family or her appearance" (<ent type = 'person'>Digha Nikaya</ent>
|
||||
I 193, quoted in Carrithers (1983).) The essential theoretical
|
||||
difficulty was clarified by Meissner who pointed out that the term
|
||||
self as habitually used by Kohut and most other writers whose work
|
||||
difficulty was clarified by <ent type = 'person'>Meissner</ent> who pointed out that the term
|
||||
self as habitually used by <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent> and most other writers whose work
|
||||
places the self at the center of psychological life, is
|
||||
consistently used to refer to both a psychological representation
|
||||
and also a psychological agent. Although more systematic
|
||||
researchers, for example Hartman, limit the concept of self to a
|
||||
researchers, for example <ent type = 'person'>Hartman</ent>, limit the concept of self to a
|
||||
psychological representation of the person, they also give the self
|
||||
a markedly subsidiary role in psychology. Meissner's argument is
|
||||
quite similar to Schafer's later discussions of internalization in
|
||||
which Schafer observed that the elaborate analytic theories of
|
||||
a markedly subsidiary role in psychology. <ent type = 'person'>Meissner</ent>'s argument is
|
||||
quite similar to <ent type = 'person'>Schafer</ent>'s later discussions of internalization in
|
||||
which <ent type = 'person'>Schafer</ent> observed that the elaborate analytic theories of
|
||||
internalization were in fact nothing more then the translation into
|
||||
psychoanalytic jargon of unconscious fantasies and did not, in his
|
||||
view represent, represent actual psychological mechanism and in
|
||||
@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ the activity of a caretaker who is but a cry away or requires some
|
||||
elaborate undertaking - say a few years of psychoanalysis - can be
|
||||
regarded as involving no essential difference in this function.
|
||||
Although he never would have put it in this way this is an
|
||||
essential aspect of what Kohut was trying to point to in the idea
|
||||
essential aspect of what <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent> was trying to point to in the idea
|
||||
of the selfobject - something that functions as an essential aspect
|
||||
of the self or of the support of the self but which because of the
|
||||
mechanics of its availability is at times less efficiently
|
||||
@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ of her presence. It is only her failure of availability that makes
|
||||
her of interest, just as we are generally unaware of our memories
|
||||
except when we have difficulty recollecting something we need to
|
||||
continue our thinking.
|
||||
Those of you familiar with Marvin Minsky's work recently
|
||||
Those of you familiar with <ent type = 'person'>Marvin Minsky</ent>'s work recently
|
||||
summarized in The Society of Mind will recognize in these ideas a
|
||||
particular application of the multi-hierarchy computational model
|
||||
that can be used to explore processing within many levels of human
|
||||
@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ constitutes a major area of psychoanalytic investigation that
|
||||
encompasses much of object relations theory, including self
|
||||
psychology, attachment theory, the concept of the transitional
|
||||
object and the role of cultural experience.
|
||||
In the von Neumann architecture computer design was dominated
|
||||
In the <ent type = 'person'>von Neuman</ent>n architecture computer design was dominated
|
||||
by the wish to avoid programming errors. This was accomplished by
|
||||
carefully separating data, programs and processing functions and
|
||||
forcing sequential processing so that except in terms of the
|
||||
@ -457,12 +457,12 @@ anticipation at least the basic architecture of the system from
|
||||
its beginning. It cannot result of the evolutionary piecing
|
||||
together of elements designed for other functions as the brain must
|
||||
have evolved.
|
||||
The von Neuman architecture is so excellent an environment for
|
||||
The <ent type = 'person'>von Neuman</ent> architecture is so excellent an environment for
|
||||
humans to design programs for that it dominated computer design for
|
||||
almost four decades. However as von Neumann noted from early on
|
||||
almost four decades. However as <ent type = 'person'>von Neuman</ent>n noted from early on
|
||||
this architecture is a poor model for brain functioning. The
|
||||
microsecond firing times of neurons are much to slow to allow
|
||||
brains to do the things they do all the time with a von Neumann
|
||||
brains to do the things they do all the time with a <ent type = 'person'>von Neuman</ent>n
|
||||
machines. Furthermore brains are the result of a bioevolutionary
|
||||
process, not a unitary design and its programmer is not an
|
||||
individual who sets out to explicitly specify processes but an
|
||||
@ -471,12 +471,12 @@ brains. Of course we know from direct study of brains that they
|
||||
operate through massively parallel processing.
|
||||
Fortunately for those of us interested in brains and their
|
||||
productions it has become clear that the technological limitations
|
||||
inherent in the von Neumann architecture make it essential that
|
||||
inherent in the <ent type = 'person'>von Neuman</ent>n architecture make it essential that
|
||||
other architectures be explored in depth to make more capable
|
||||
computers. The last five years has seen an explosion of
|
||||
publications about parallel processing architecture and we will be
|
||||
among the beneficiaries of the resultant intellectual advances.
|
||||
But, of course, the problems that von Neumann sought to avoid
|
||||
But, of course, the problems that <ent type = 'person'>von Neuman</ent>n sought to avoid
|
||||
in computer design are precisely the problems that emerge in
|
||||
parallel processing. It is simply much more difficult to predict
|
||||
what is going to happen when things do not go on sequentially, when
|
||||
@ -566,13 +566,13 @@ the programs we are most familiar with from the study of computers.
|
||||
The self is self developing. Here my opinions are somewhat
|
||||
different from many of my psychoanalytic colleagues, so let me
|
||||
spell them out briefly. As she attempted to explore the concepts
|
||||
of normality and pathology in childhood, Anna Freud discovered that
|
||||
of normality and pathology in childhood, <ent type = 'person'>Anna <ent type = 'person'>Freud</ent></ent> discovered that
|
||||
the presence or absence of symptoms per se was not an adequate
|
||||
guide in assessing children. She concluded that childhood was
|
||||
normatively a period of change and development and these were its
|
||||
primary tasks. The failure of such for such development to be
|
||||
ongoing was the essence of psychological disturbance in childhood.
|
||||
For Anna Freud, who had a clear picture of what psychological
|
||||
For <ent type = 'person'>Anna <ent type = 'person'>Freud</ent></ent>, who had a clear picture of what psychological
|
||||
health was like in adulthood, the task of childhood was move toward
|
||||
such mature functioning and she posited a drive to "the completion
|
||||
of development."
|
||||
@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ Oedipus complex or the end of late adolescence or whenever else is
|
||||
mistaken. Second there seem to be quite diverse ways to be
|
||||
psychologically healthy which becomes readily apparent if we avoid
|
||||
employing a priori notions of the meaning of health. Finally the
|
||||
work begun by Marsh to the effect that programs can be written not
|
||||
work begun by <ent type = 'person'>Marsh</ent> to the effect that programs can be written not
|
||||
with specific goals in mind but rather that proceed to explore and
|
||||
develop in area that are vaguely defined by such criteria as
|
||||
"interestingness" corresponded so well to the observations of
|
||||
@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ of the rewriting occur. A combination of the two approaches would
|
||||
seem to be necessary. In a sequential system for example a fatal
|
||||
error occurs if a real interminable loop is introduced into a
|
||||
program. Here, however, parallelism and conflict can be of
|
||||
considerable help. Freud's idea of a tripartite model of mind
|
||||
considerable help. <ent type = 'person'>Freud</ent>'s idea of a tripartite model of mind
|
||||
essentially involves the parallel processing of data, the
|
||||
consequent development and resolution of conflict so that a variety
|
||||
of needs can be met through these various modes of processing. In
|
||||
@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ unnecessary, or at least peculiar phenomenon, while from the point
|
||||
of view of classical psychoanalysis precisely what is most
|
||||
interesting about people is barred from the conscious awareness.
|
||||
Thus subjective reports about experience should be relatively
|
||||
uninteresting to both groups. However, following Vygotsky and
|
||||
uninteresting to both groups. However, following <ent type = 'person'>Vygotsky</ent> and
|
||||
Basch, I take a different point of view about consciousness.
|
||||
Consciousness is a state that we employ when automatic functioning
|
||||
becomes problematic. For example we only become aware of walking
|
||||
@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ when we stumble or when we are learning how to do it and only
|
||||
attend to it in detail if something impedes are ability to walk.
|
||||
It is thus precisely in areas of difficulty that we expect
|
||||
awareness to appear. So it is the areas of difficulty that we
|
||||
should find well represented in consciousness. Freud's idea of
|
||||
should find well represented in consciousness. <ent type = 'person'>Freud</ent>'s idea of
|
||||
bringing the unconscious into awareness then is nothing more then
|
||||
the extension of this normal process into areas in which it is not
|
||||
employed. In particular the mechanism of repression reflects a
|
||||
@ -660,14 +660,14 @@ I am well aware of having painted the picture of the
|
||||
computational self with extremely broad strokes and having done
|
||||
violence to many subtle and important issues in the process. At the
|
||||
same time I am impressed that psychoanalysts having discovered that
|
||||
the Freudian and ego-psychological paradigms are inadequate have
|
||||
the <ent type = 'person'>Freud</ent>ian and ego-psychological paradigms are inadequate have
|
||||
largely abandoned the attempt to develop broad theories that
|
||||
encompass the particular data of the psychoanalytic field, choosing
|
||||
instead to focus on smaller more tractable problems and maintaining
|
||||
an unavowed theoretical agnosticism.
|
||||
An exception to this abandonment of theory lies in the work
|
||||
of the self psychologists. However their conceptualizations,
|
||||
especially those of Kohut, while evocative remain vague. I think
|
||||
especially those of <ent type = 'person'>Kohut</ent>, while evocative remain vague. I think
|
||||
it is clear that the computational properties of the mind must find
|
||||
representation in personal psychology. I have suggested one
|
||||
possibility for how this may occur using the computational self as
|
||||
|
@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ American city</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>E. Presley & J. Morrison, Propietors.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>W. Casey & J.E. Hoover, Curators</p>
|
||||
<p>W. Casey & J.E. <ent type = 'person'>Hoo</ent>ver, Curators</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>THE CONTENTS:
|
||||
(AMERICAN WING)</p>
|
||||
@ -63,16 +63,16 @@ American city</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The dead aliens from a crippled UFO the gov't captured.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Several Elvis clones awaiting activation (might be ElvisDroids).</p>
|
||||
<p>Several <ent type = 'person'>Elvis</ent> clones awaiting activation (might be <ent type = 'person'>Elvis</ent>Droids).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Hundred of huge crates marked with the name Craig Shergold (containing
|
||||
<p>Hundred of huge crates marked with the name <ent type = 'person'>Craig Shergold</ent> (containing
|
||||
Business cards and getwell cards by the million).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>H.G. Wells' working time machine from "Time After Time"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The UFO that purportedly crashed in the early '50s in New Mexico</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Evidence providing the TRUE story of the Kennedy assassination</p>
|
||||
<p>Evidence providing the TRUE story of the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> assassination</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Judge Crater</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -93,16 +93,16 @@ The dinosaur skull with a bullet hole in it</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The steel that the T1000 fell into</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Microscope slide labelled "Turin Shroud section No. 325", with piece
|
||||
<p>Microscope slide labelled "Turin <ent type = 'person'>Shroud</ent> section No. 325", with piece
|
||||
of material reading "Made In Korea" in tiny letters</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Thunderbird 9</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Wild Card virus (Xenovirus Takis-A)</p>
|
||||
<p>The Wild Card virus (<ent type = 'person'>Xenovirus Takis</ent>-A)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The contents of a house previously owned by the Adams family</p>
|
||||
<p>The contents of a house previously owned by the <ent type = 'person'>Adams</ent> family</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The contents of a house previously owned by the Munster family</p>
|
||||
<p>The contents of a house previously owned by the <ent type = 'person'>Munster</ent> family</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>An formula/equation that allows for the creation of negative-life energy</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ had at one time or another analyzed the Necronomicon</p>
|
||||
head whose face is a mass of tentacles, a scaly, rubbery-looking body,
|
||||
claws on its hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>An authorization for the assassination of Norma Jean Baker. It is signed
|
||||
by President John F. Kennedy and is dated 4 August 1962</p>
|
||||
<p>An authorization for the assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Norma Jean Baker</ent>. It is signed
|
||||
by President <ent type = 'person'>John</ent> F. <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> and is dated 4 August 1962</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A gun recovered from a grassy knoll in Dallas, Texas by CIA agents on
|
||||
22 November 1963</p>
|
||||
@ -187,20 +187,20 @@ men to sabotage cold fusion experiments</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A house made out of stale candy</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Evidence showing that the reason JFK didn't support the Bay of Pigs
|
||||
<p>Evidence showing that the reason <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> didn't support the Bay of Pigs
|
||||
Invasion was that the Illuminati threatened to expose several scandals
|
||||
if he did</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A stuffed Ravenous BugBlatter Beast of Traal</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Confirmed photo of Adolf Hitler living high on the hog in Argentina</p>
|
||||
<p>Confirmed photo of <ent type = 'person'>Adolf Hitler</ent> living high on the hog in Argentina</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Confirmed photo of Adolf Hitler breaking a glass with his foot in his
|
||||
<p>Confirmed photo of <ent type = 'person'>Adolf Hitler</ent> breaking a glass with his foot in his
|
||||
marraige ceremony to Eva Braun</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Several volumes with the title WHAT THE SHADOW KNOWS</p>
|
||||
<p>Several volumes with the title WHAT THE SH<ent type = 'person'>AD</ent>OW KNOWS</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Proof that President Bush chose Quayle as his running mate to prevent
|
||||
<p>Proof that President <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> chose <ent type = 'person'>Quayle</ent> as his running mate to prevent
|
||||
future assassination attempts</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Equipment recovered from the laboratory of Dr. Frankenstein</p>
|
||||
@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ invented as government misinformation)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A gaunlet with six gems that provide the wearer with near-omnipotence</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Proof that Milli Vanilli *did* sing their album</p>
|
||||
<p>Proof that <ent type = 'person'>Milli Vanilli</ent> *did* sing their album</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A heave metal box, 75cm on a side, painted in military green. Each side
|
||||
has the words, "This side towards enemy" printed on it.
|
||||
@ -240,9 +240,9 @@ has the words, "This side towards enemy" printed on it.
|
||||
not human) corpse in the trunk, and with black-and-whice cans labelled
|
||||
simply "BEER" and "FOOD" in the back seat</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>All of Dan Quayle's clones (they decided one DQ was bad enough!)</p>
|
||||
<p>All of Dan <ent type = 'person'>Quayle</ent>'s clones (they decided one DQ was bad enough!)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Robbie the Robot</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Robbie</ent> the Robot</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Transience Disk</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ simply "BEER" and "FOOD" in the back seat</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>One Tesla Radio Power distribution system</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>John Galt</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> Galt</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The top 10 vaporware products of all time</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -264,9 +264,9 @@ simply "BEER" and "FOOD" in the back seat</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Lassie</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The pen used to sign the Hitler-Stalin pact</p>
|
||||
<p>The pen used to sign the Hitler-<ent type = 'person'>Stalin</ent> pact</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>What's left of the apple that fell on Newton's head</p>
|
||||
<p>What's left of the apple that fell on <ent type = 'person'>Newton</ent>'s head</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The reliable version of the space shuttle (threatened job security)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -283,8 +283,8 @@ simply "BEER" and "FOOD" in the back seat</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Jimmy Hoffa</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A Cloudbuster (a rainmaking machine built by Wilhelm Reich - see
|
||||
the Kate Bush video "Cloudbusting")</p>
|
||||
<p>A Cloudbuster (a rainmaking machine built by <ent type = 'person'>Wilhelm Reich</ent> - see
|
||||
the Kate <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> video "Cloudbusting")</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>An N-ray detector</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ the Kate Bush video "Cloudbusting")</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A box full of scrolls - written in Aramaic. Box says "Gnostic II."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Ronald Reagan Mark I and the animatronics to make him work</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Ronald <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent></ent> <ent type = 'person'>Mark</ent> I and the animatronics to make him work</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Bill Gates' Porsche 959</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -360,9 +360,9 @@ the Kate Bush video "Cloudbusting")</p>
|
||||
<p>Some plants from the Brazilian rain forest that can cure just about
|
||||
anything</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The "magic gun" that fired the "magic bullet" that killed JFK</p>
|
||||
<p>The "magic gun" that fired the "magic bullet" that killed <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Part of a Soviet Sub recovered by Howard Hughes' Glomar Explorer back
|
||||
<p>Part of a Soviet Sub recovered by <ent type = 'person'>Howard Hughes</ent>' <ent type = 'person'>Glomar Explorer</ent> back
|
||||
in 1971</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A Typhoon-class submarine with Caterpillar Drive</p>
|
||||
@ -375,11 +375,11 @@ in 1971</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A three-eyed fish named Blinky</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>JFK's Brain</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>'s Brain</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The gold from the lost Dutchman mine</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Marylin Monroe Diaries</p>
|
||||
<p>The <ent type = 'person'>Marylin Monroe</ent> Diaries</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Holy Grail</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ in 1971</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Rhinegold</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The FBI and CIA files detailing the Career of "Special Agent Elvis"</p>
|
||||
<p>The FBI and CIA files detailing the Career of "Special Agent <ent type = 'person'>Elvis</ent>"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A mountain of letters addressed to Santa Claus</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -402,33 +402,33 @@ one coon skin cap</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In a corner a Zoltar Fortune Telling Machine</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A strange looking submarmine named Natulis</p>
|
||||
<p>A strange looking <ent type = 'person'>submarmine</ent> named Natulis</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A row of robots, one marked Gort and another marked Robbie</p>
|
||||
<p>A row of robots, one marked <ent type = 'person'>Gort</ent> and another marked <ent type = 'person'>Robbie</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>200 year old crate (damaged) of tea marked "Boston"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Joseph Raymond McCarthy in cryogenic suspension.
|
||||
(Due to be woken 2000 AD)</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Joseph Raymond <ent type = 'person'>McCarthy</ent></ent> in cryogenic suspension.
|
||||
(Due to be woken 2000 <ent type = 'person'>AD</ent>)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Contents of a television studio once based in a desert.
|
||||
Props include Mars landscape sections and lifesized fibreglass spaceships</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Ted Kennedy's driver license</p>
|
||||
<p>Ted <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s driver license</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Yoko Ono's talent</p>
|
||||
<p>Yoko <ent type = 'person'>Ono</ent>'s talent</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Diogene's Zippo</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Lincoln Savings and Loan cash reserves</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A portrait, in GIF format, showing Helen of Troy was a real dog</p>
|
||||
<p>A portrait, in GIF format, showing <ent type = 'person'>Helen</ent> of <ent type = 'person'>Troy</ent> was a real dog</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Micheal Jackson's original nose</p>
|
||||
<p>Micheal <ent type = 'person'>Jackson</ent>'s original nose</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A petrified turd, left by one of the mounts of the Four Horsemen</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Indisputable proof that Oswald acted alone</p>
|
||||
<p>Indisputable proof that <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> acted alone</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>All the people who have ever voted in a Chicago election while dead
|
||||
(required an annex)</p>
|
||||
@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ Props include Mars landscape sections and lifesized fibreglass spaceships</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Oliver North's diary</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A brain laleled "Ronald Reagan"</p>
|
||||
<p>A brain laleled "<ent type = 'person'>Ronald <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent></ent>"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Ten crates of clothes labeled "Liberace"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ of the Third Kind"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The missing pages from the logbook of the abandoned Marie Celeste</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Adolf Hitler's body... intact</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Adolf Hitler</ent>'s body... intact</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Blob... in a large freezer of course</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ of the Third Kind"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>All the books which were checked out when the Library at Alexandria burned</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Undeniable authentication documents for the Shroud of Turin</p>
|
||||
<p>Undeniable authentication documents for the <ent type = 'person'>Shroud</ent> of Turin</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A map showing where the Time Tunnel desert base's drive-in door is located</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ of the Third Kind"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Used hypodermic needle; once injected a miniaturized submarine into a neck</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Copy of hostage-withholding agreement between Bush and the Ayatollah</p>
|
||||
<p>Copy of hostage-withholding agreement between <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> and the Ayatollah</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Saucer pieces, mostly melted from magnesium flares, found in (Ant)artic</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -510,9 +510,9 @@ of the Third Kind"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Three "telepods", non-working, along with a grotesque fly/human/metal body</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Spy satellite photos, detailing the location of Noah's Ark</p>
|
||||
<p>Spy satellite photos, detailing the location of <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A working orgone energy machine (see theories of Nicola Tesla
|
||||
<p>A working orgone energy machine (see theories of <ent type = 'person'>Nicola</ent> Tesla
|
||||
for more details)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A real, live unicorn</p>
|
||||
@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ Earth theory</p>
|
||||
<p>What REALLY happened on the Hindenberg</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Two strange electronic devices, found with a set of identifcation for
|
||||
"Commander Pavel Chekov, Starfleet."</p>
|
||||
"Commander <ent type = 'person'>Pavel Chekov</ent>, Starfleet."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A set of photographs of a tall (6'3"), muscular man wearing sunglasses.
|
||||
Some appear to have been taken at a police station, the rest at a mall</p>
|
||||
@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ DeLorean sports car. Among the papers is a photograph of two men
|
||||
standing by a clock, dating back to 1888</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A female android, dressed in a pink gown, with her left arm torn out of
|
||||
place. She looks remarkably like Olivia d'Abo</p>
|
||||
place. She looks remarkably like <ent type = 'person'>Olivia</ent> d'Abo</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Several hundred issues of "Playboy" confiscated from American servicemen
|
||||
in the Persian Gulf</p>
|
||||
@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ in the Persian Gulf</p>
|
||||
<p>A green meteorite attatched to a chain, found in a sewer by the
|
||||
Metropolis department of Public Works</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Two CDs, one marked "Elvis" and the other marked "Bruce." These are kept
|
||||
<p>Two CDs, one marked "<ent type = 'person'>Elvis</ent>" and the other marked "<ent type = 'person'>Bruce</ent>." These are kept
|
||||
with two identically-marked reels of tape and a strange machine</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Plans and a prototype of a reactionless engine. The notes say it puts
|
||||
@ -592,9 +592,9 @@ York City</p>
|
||||
<p>About 60,000 tapes and CDs by the 2 Live Crew</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Hundreds of issues of a comic shop newsletter bearing the headline,
|
||||
"DeFalco and Macchio found in adult movie house."</p>
|
||||
"<ent type = 'person'>DeFalco</ent> and Macchio found in adult movie house."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Captain Hook's hand</p>
|
||||
<p>Captain <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Hoo</ent>k</ent>'s hand</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A listing of pi which gets to a long stretch of ones and then ends</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ York City</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Formula 7x</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The recipie for Macdonald's secret sauce</p>
|
||||
<p>The recipie for <ent type = 'person'>Macdonald</ent>'s secret sauce</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>KFC's 11 secret herbs and spices</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -634,13 +634,13 @@ prophecies!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A box containing proof that Salem really did have witches</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The REAL McCarthy list, before the politicain's saw it</p>
|
||||
<p>The REAL <ent type = 'person'>McCarthy</ent> list, before the politicain's saw it</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The recording of Nixon saying "I'm not a crook"</p>
|
||||
<p>The recording of <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> saying "I'm not a crook"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Proof that Daylight savings, and flouridation really ARE communist plotS</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The missing part of Kennedy's head</p>
|
||||
<p>The missing part of <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s head</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The true identity of the kidnaper of the Lindbergh baby</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -657,13 +657,13 @@ is a version of 'Gin 'n Tonic'.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The formula for Coca-Cola</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The missing 80 points of Dan Quayle's IQ</p>
|
||||
<p>The missing 80 points of Dan <ent type = 'person'>Quayle</ent>'s IQ</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Every taxicab in the Metropolitan New York area (only while it's raining)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Golden Fleece</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A broadsword from roughly 1000 AD with a woman's hand still gripping the handle</p>
|
||||
<p>A broadsword from roughly 1000 <ent type = 'person'>AD</ent> with a woman's hand still gripping the handle</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A grafitti-free subway car</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ as Shirley McLean</p>
|
||||
duck-shooting</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A reciept for a rifle and ammo from Dallas Texas, to the account of L.B.
|
||||
Johnson</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>John</ent>son</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A note from a member of the French Govt. saying they were sorry for the
|
||||
Rainbow Warrior</p>
|
||||
@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ the other</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The lost notice to tell Arthur the bulldozers were coming</p>
|
||||
<p>The lost notice to tell <ent type = 'person'>Arthur</ent> the bulldozers were coming</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The message from the Vogons warning the Earth of the Hyperspace Bypass</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ the other</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"That Loving Feeling"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Plane tickets proving George Bush was in Paris in the fall of 1980</p>
|
||||
<p>Plane tickets proving <ent type = 'person'>George</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> was in Paris in the fall of 1980</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Recordings of a mysterious five-tone musical work, left over
|
||||
from a certain project that took place at Devil's Rock</p>
|
||||
@ -737,23 +737,23 @@ from a certain project that took place at Devil's Rock</p>
|
||||
<p>A slightly radioactive safe marked "S.S. Titanic"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Pay stubs with the words "Central Intelligence Agency" and "Lee Harvey
|
||||
Oswald"</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The autopsy records for JFK (sealed for 50 years!)</p>
|
||||
<p>The autopsy records for <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> (sealed for 50 years!)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The totally innocuous file on MLKjr that
|
||||
<p>The totally innocuous file on <ent type = 'person'>MLKjr</ent> that
|
||||
was sealed -- because it was totally innocuous!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The report given to FDR on the Japanese fleet steaming toward Hawaii</p>
|
||||
<p>The report given to <ent type = 'person'>FDR</ent> on the Japanese fleet steaming toward Hawaii</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>George Washington's membership card for the Masons</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>George</ent> Washington</ent>'s membership card for the Masons</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Birth certificates for several mulatto children, with the "Father"
|
||||
space marked "Thomas Jefferson"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Autopsy records for President Zachary Taylor</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Telegram from Andrew Johnson to John Wilkes Booth saying "Great opportunity
|
||||
<p>Telegram from <ent type = 'person'>Andrew <ent type = 'person'>John</ent>son</ent> to <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> Wilkes Booth</ent> saying "Great opportunity
|
||||
at Ford's Theater -- a definite Do-Not-Miss"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>a prototype (or working model!) of Alpha Complex's
|
||||
@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ the "Philadelphia Experiment"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Plans for the "Wildfire" research station</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Set of printer plates for the Lyons UNIX book</p>
|
||||
<p>Set of printer plates for the <ent type = 'person'>Lyons</ent> UNIX book</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Atlantis</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -784,13 +784,13 @@ the "Philadelphia Experiment"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The plan for a balanced US budget</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Several letters signed "George Washington" and "Adam
|
||||
Weisshaupt", and a memo signed by a grafologist claiming that both sets
|
||||
<p>Several letters signed "<ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>George</ent> Washington</ent>" and "Adam
|
||||
Weisshaupt", and a memo signed by a <ent type = 'person'>grafologist</ent> claiming that both sets
|
||||
were written by the same person.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The unicorn scene from "Blade Runner"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Laserdisc copies of all Hayao Miyazaki films -- UNCUT and in ENGLISH</p>
|
||||
<p>Laserdisc copies of all <ent type = 'person'>Hayao Miyazaki</ent> films -- <ent type = 'person'>UNCUT</ent> and in ENGLISH</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Schubert's last symphony (complete)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -801,9 +801,9 @@ solved in polynomial time</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A pouch of sand, a red ruby on a chain, and a strange insect-like mask</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The last 7 presidents and vice presidents, frozen -- including Bush & Quayle</p>
|
||||
<p>The last 7 presidents and vice presidents, frozen -- including <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> & <ent type = 'person'>Quayle</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Several Caroline clones (they work there)</p>
|
||||
<p>Several <ent type = 'person'>Caroline</ent> clones (they work there)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>a Kirelean photograph of Stonhenge -- showing auras on all the
|
||||
stones, including the missing ones</p>
|
||||
@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ body of a Red Army corporal</p>
|
||||
have the letter M engraved on them</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The financial records of Stemple's Mill, Seattle, Washington - signed
|
||||
"Ishmael Marx"</p>
|
||||
"<ent type = 'person'>Ishmael Marx</ent>"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A large number of Swords</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -857,11 +857,11 @@ are kept</p>
|
||||
<p>The coordinates of a rain-swept planet far out in the galaxy, inhabited by a
|
||||
little old man who likes cats (even though he doesn't believe in them)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Aristotle's treatise on humor</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Aristotle</ent>'s treatise on humor</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Freemasons' Ultimate Secret</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>King Arthur's perfectly preserved body</p>
|
||||
<p>King <ent type = 'person'>Arthur</ent>'s perfectly preserved body</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>God's pair of dice</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ tennis shoes with the name "M. Martian" on both</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Beethoven manuscripts that disapeared at his death.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The first draft of Adam Weishaupt's inagural address</p>
|
||||
<p>The first draft of <ent type = 'person'>Adam Weishaupt</ent>'s inagural address</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The allied plans for the bombing of Russian oil fields, early '41</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ titus in Rome) with report detailing the contents of the
|
||||
Vatican warehouse</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>An archive containing every issue to date of the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, with
|
||||
marginal notations like, "Hoo boy, we *really* fooled this one!"
|
||||
marginal notations like, "<ent type = 'person'>Hoo</ent> boy, we *really* fooled this one!"
|
||||
and "He's getting too close; exchange him."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A large tank containing some sort of preservative solution and several
|
||||
@ -942,7 +942,7 @@ When any name is typed in, the COMPLETE history of the subject is displayed,
|
||||
including what he is doing at this moment, with constant updating</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The CIA's report on Psychotronic Weaponry, with the Soviet's explaination
|
||||
to what happened to Nixon and Carter, as well athe death of Brezhnev,
|
||||
to what happened to <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent>, as well athe death of Brezhnev,
|
||||
Andropov, Chernenko, and the meteoric rise to power of one Mikhail
|
||||
Gorbachev, who happened to be head of the KGB when the research was being
|
||||
done</p>
|
||||
@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ Found in the basement of a church in Detroit</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Directions to Midian</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Definitive proof of the Carter thesis that states that petroleum, rather
|
||||
<p>Definitive proof of the <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> thesis that states that petroleum, rather
|
||||
than being a diminishing resource, is constantly replenished naturally
|
||||
by the earth</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ deficiency Virus</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Joseph Smith's golden tablets, containing the Book of Mormon</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The missing 23 minutes of Nixon's tape recordings</p>
|
||||
<p>The missing 23 minutes of <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>'s tape recordings</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Parcelsus' notebooks (that were supposedly buried with him, but weren't there
|
||||
when his tomb was opened, later---for that matter, how about his body?)</p>
|
||||
@ -985,7 +985,7 @@ when his tomb was opened, later---for that matter, how about his body?)</p>
|
||||
<p>A couple of those computer chips they've supposedly found embedded in the
|
||||
arms of Egyptian mummies</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>All that runic graffiti saying things like "Sven Redbeard was here" from the
|
||||
<p>All that runic graffiti saying things like "<ent type = 'person'>Sven Redbeard</ent> was here" from the
|
||||
upper Mississippi</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A parrot-headed umbrella</p>
|
||||
@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ carved out of it</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The "Greatest American Hero" suit (with instructions)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Rudy Wells' lab notes</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Rudy Wells</ent>' lab notes</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Several hypodermic needles,
|
||||
labelled "Lot Six"</p>
|
||||
@ -1027,8 +1027,8 @@ animals with fan-shaped wings and lots of tentacles. Also contains
|
||||
what looks like a frozen block of blackish protoplasm marked "Do not
|
||||
defrost under ANY circumstances"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Photo showing the "Illuminated Five" (Nikola Tesla, Howard Hughes,
|
||||
Adam Weishaupt, H.P. Lovecraft, and Nostradamus) having a beer bash
|
||||
<p>Photo showing the "Illuminated Five" (Nikola Tesla, <ent type = 'person'>Howard Hughes</ent>,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Adam Weishaupt</ent>, H.P. Lovecraft, and Nostradamus) having a beer bash
|
||||
at the Eye In The Pyramid pub in Ingolstadt</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Overthruster and Buckaroo Banzai's jet car. Also a strange
|
||||
@ -1037,9 +1037,9 @@ alien</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Proof that Orson Wells' War of the Worlds broadcast was no joke</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The *complete* manuscript of Coleridge's Kubla Khan</p>
|
||||
<p>The *complete* manuscript of <ent type = 'person'>Coleridge</ent>'s Kubla Khan</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Everything dropped by aliens that Eric Von Daniken claims to have seen (which
|
||||
<p>Everything dropped by aliens that <ent type = 'person'>Eric Von Daniken</ent> claims to have seen (which
|
||||
is usually guarded by "wild tribesmen" or drug runners, etc.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>One of those movie revolvers that fires twelve or fifteen shots, or at least
|
||||
@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ the inventor to be executed, to keep the glassblowers in business</p>
|
||||
of Civilization as We Know It (suppressed because the world is not
|
||||
prepared)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The sequel to Gone With the Wind that Margaret Mitchell supposedly burned,
|
||||
<p>The sequel to Gone With the Wind that <ent type = 'person'>Margaret Mitchell</ent> supposedly burned,
|
||||
after finding she didn't like "all the trouble *this* book has brought me."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The lightbulbs they used for illumination, in painting Egyptian tombs</p>
|
||||
@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ Sea, dated at approximately 6 million years old)</p>
|
||||
<p>A dodo bird</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A disk pack containing the personnel database for Yoyodyne Propulsion
|
||||
Systems, listing lots of people named John who all applied for social
|
||||
Systems, listing lots of people named <ent type = 'person'>John</ent> who all applied for social
|
||||
security numbers on November 1, 1938 in Grover's Mill, NJ</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Boxes of proposal, progress report, and design review documents for
|
||||
@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ name of an elaborate cover for yet another internal security service --
|
||||
as yet unknown</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>UNIX; a nearly-mythical, small, simple, fully-functional multiuser
|
||||
operating system (mentioned in some theoretical papers by Ritchie and
|
||||
operating system (mentioned in some theoretical papers by <ent type = 'person'>Ritchie</ent> and
|
||||
Thompson, c. 1978). Possibly found squished in the very bottom left
|
||||
back corner of one of several huge crates labelled "BSD," "SYS5," etc</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ beasties</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Gordian knot. Beside it, a much simpler knot, cut in two</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Docmuments from the 1960's describing Isaac Asimov's process to "grow" a
|
||||
<p>Docmuments from the 1960's describing <ent type = 'person'>Isaac Asimov</ent>'s process to "grow" a
|
||||
positronic brain, using a revolutionary crystal-growing process amazingly
|
||||
similar to biological cell reproduction</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1155,11 +1155,11 @@ by subversive nature. All Email, too, of course</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The crashed UFO from White Sands, 1947</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A statement stating that Iran-Contra was "all my idea", signed Ronald Reagan</p>
|
||||
<p>A statement stating that Iran-Contra was "all my idea", signed <ent type = 'person'>Ronald <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent></ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>George Bush's travelogue from October, 1980</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>George</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s travelogue from October, 1980</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Professor Azland's time bubble</p>
|
||||
<p>Professor <ent type = 'person'>Azland</ent>'s time bubble</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A spaceship powered entirely by steam</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1176,22 +1176,22 @@ containing some water and a sad-looking yellow fish</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A battered and aged working copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>CIA pay stubs, made out in the name of Mikhail Gorbachev</p>
|
||||
<p>CIA pay stubs, made out in the name of <ent type = 'person'>Mikhail Gorbachev</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A complete set of Majestic Twelve (aka MJ-12 aka MAJIC) documents, marked
|
||||
"Exempt: not to be declassified Top Secret Burn before reading"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A stack of memos to Joe Malik (regarding the Illuminati)</p>
|
||||
<p>A stack of memos to <ent type = 'person'>Joe Malik</ent> (regarding the Illuminati)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A cat. No one can tell whether it is alive or dead</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A gigantic submarine made of gold. Leif Erikson is written on the side</p>
|
||||
<p>A gigantic submarine made of gold. <ent type = 'person'>Leif Erikson</ent> is written on the side</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A sacred cow</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The collected writings of Kilgore Trout
|
||||
<p>The collected writings of <ent type = 'person'>Kilgore Trout</ent>
|
||||
The only writings to appear by him are excerpts and brief quotes in several
|
||||
Kurt Vonnegut stories, except for the novel "Venus on the Half Shell"</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kurt Vonnegut</ent> stories, except for the novel "Venus on the Half Shell"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>And, of course, the warehouse would need to have, as a relief from all
|
||||
the clutter, a vial containing a perfect vacuum</p>
|
||||
@ -1204,13 +1204,13 @@ sing once in awhile. A sign hangs in front of the cage saying;
|
||||
And DO NOT feed after midnight!!!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A small glass vile that seems to contain plain water. The label reads;
|
||||
"property of R. Reagan, from fountain of youth, FL"</p>
|
||||
"property of R. <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>, from fountain of youth, FL"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>This list</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>(BRITISH WING)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>All the gadgets designed by Q, including the ones James Bond didn't use</p>
|
||||
<p>All the gadgets designed by Q, including the ones <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>James</ent> Bond</ent> didn't use</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>All the gadgets designed by q (Q's little brother), such as a vacuum
|
||||
cleaner which, when carefully dismantled and cunningly reassembled,
|
||||
@ -1222,22 +1222,22 @@ becomes a hair dryer</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Complete inventory of the U. S. Government warehouse</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The first telephone, invented by Percy forbes-Hamilton. It wasn't much
|
||||
use until Alexander Graham Bell invented the second one</p>
|
||||
<p>The first telephone, invented by <ent type = 'person'>Percy</ent> forbes-<ent type = 'person'>Hamilton</ent>. It wasn't much
|
||||
use until <ent type = 'person'>Alexander Graham Bell</ent> invented the second one</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A map showing the exact location of Thunderbirds' Island H.Q.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A copy of a blackmail note addressed to Pons and Fleischmann, sent by the
|
||||
<p>A copy of a blackmail note addressed to <ent type = 'person'>Pons</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Fleischmann</ent>, sent by the
|
||||
head of B.P.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Plans for converting the Scott Monument into a rocket capable of travelling
|
||||
<p>Plans for converting the <ent type = 'person'>Scott</ent> Monument into a rocket capable of travelling
|
||||
to Mars and back</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The date and time of the revolution</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Geoffrey Boycott's missing test years</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The real Jules Verne trophy</p>
|
||||
<p>The real <ent type = 'person'>Jules Verne</ent> trophy</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The location of the *first* tunnel under the Channel (built back in
|
||||
Napoleon's time)</p>
|
||||
@ -1249,7 +1249,7 @@ a Commander Straker</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The diary of one "S. Holmes, Consulting Detective."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A similar (but often contradictory) diary by a Dr. Watson</p>
|
||||
<p>A similar (but often contradictory) diary by a Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Watson</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Several infernal devices created by a Dr. Manchu, in crates shipped
|
||||
in from Hong Kong</p>
|
||||
@ -1258,12 +1258,12 @@ in from Hong Kong</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The manuscripts of all those unwritten Sherlock
|
||||
Holmes adventures, such as the Adventure of the Aluminium Crutch, and The
|
||||
Giant Rat of Sumatra, that Watson kept tempting us with!</p>
|
||||
Giant Rat of Sumatra, that <ent type = 'person'>Watson</ent> kept tempting us with!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A "Norwegian Blue" parrot nailed to a perch in a birdcage</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A device, similar to a laptop computer, wrapped in a dirty towel,
|
||||
with the words "Don't panic" written in friendly letters</p>
|
||||
with the words "<ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>'t panic" written in friendly letters</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A Babel fish</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ operating instructions for Stonehenge</p>
|
||||
<p>An electronic thumb</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A number of typewritten manuscripts bearing titles such
|
||||
as "Hamlet", "Macbeth" and "George", with the author
|
||||
as "Hamlet", "<ent type = 'person'>Macbeth</ent>" and "<ent type = 'person'>George</ent>", with the author
|
||||
given as A. Simian</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Documents detailing payments made to an advertising agency
|
||||
@ -1287,20 +1287,20 @@ to manufacture a front man to sell the above manuscripts</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A device for flattening areas of corn</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The mumified remains of the original M. Thatcher</p>
|
||||
<p>The mumified remains of the original M. <ent type = 'person'>Thatcher</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Mark Thatcher's road map</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Mark</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Thatcher</ent>'s road map</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A copy of "The Nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter: Witch"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A sonic screwdriver (nonfunctional, with a note explaining that it was found in
|
||||
London, AD 1666)</p>
|
||||
London, <ent type = 'person'>AD</ent> 1666)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>An Eyes-Only Scottland Yard File re: a serious of prostitute murders
|
||||
<p>An Eyes-Only <ent type = 'person'>Scott</ent>land Yard File re: a serious of prostitute murders
|
||||
in London in the 1890's</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A file cabinet, formerly belongong to one Brigadier Arthur Gordon
|
||||
Lethbridge-Stewart, containing detailed documents of encounters with
|
||||
<p>A file cabinet, formerly belongong to one Brigadier <ent type = 'person'>Arthur</ent> Gordon
|
||||
Lethbridge-<ent type = 'person'>Stewart</ent>, containing detailed documents of encounters with
|
||||
assorted aliens and creatures on the British Isles, all stamped with the
|
||||
words "TOP SECRET:UNIT"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ the bottom</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The school transcripts and transfer forms of one Vislor Turlough, which
|
||||
gives his home address as "Trion"; and similar, older documents for a
|
||||
girl named Susan whose grandfather claimed on her records that she'd
|
||||
girl named <ent type = 'person'>Susan</ent> whose grandfather claimed on her records that she'd
|
||||
attended "West Gallifrey Junior High."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A letter from Downing Street to Argentina, promising
|
||||
@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ capture some unspecified islands</p>
|
||||
moving one disc at a time
|
||||
Diagrams for a semi-functionnal mind control device,
|
||||
and (pessimistic) progress reports for control of subject
|
||||
"John M."</p>
|
||||
"<ent type = 'person'>John</ent> M."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Details of the massive conspiracy which seems to have resulted
|
||||
in most of the British secrets ending up in the US warehouse</p>
|
||||
@ -1351,7 +1351,7 @@ pill if you are in a small two-man shuttle craft</p>
|
||||
<p>A bloodstained apron embroydered with masonic regalia and three
|
||||
feathers</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Margret Thatcher's conscience</p>
|
||||
<p>Margret <ent type = 'person'>Thatcher</ent>'s conscience</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A report on an MI5 operation involving a poisoned apple, a known
|
||||
homosexual and an infinite tape</p>
|
||||
@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ fallen towers</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Some very old burned cakes</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>John Major's personality</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>John</ent> Major's personality</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The phone number of International Rescue</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1372,16 +1372,16 @@ fallen towers</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A biochemical report proving that one should put the milk in first</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Neil Kinnock's ideals</p>
|
||||
<p>Neil <ent type = 'person'>Kinnock</ent>'s ideals</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Satelite photographs showing that the General Galtiari was, in fact,
|
||||
<p>Satelite photographs showing that the General <ent type = 'person'>Galtiari</ent> was, in fact,
|
||||
somewhere in the Indian Ocean when sunk</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A report on the spontanious self-disassembly of an early experimental
|
||||
British nuclear weapon as it was being transported through inner
|
||||
London, and why no one noticed</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A gene analysis on the reamins of Winston Churchil, showing that he
|
||||
<p>A gene analysis on the reamins of <ent type = 'person'>Winston Churchil</ent>, showing that he
|
||||
was, in fact, a chicken</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A map and latitude-longitude coordinates showing the exact location of
|
||||
@ -1396,12 +1396,12 @@ the Village</p>
|
||||
<p>A door, above which is the brightly lit word "EXIT", and
|
||||
which bears a small plate upon which is written "101"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Nigel Lawson's calculator</p>
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Nigel Lawson</ent>'s calculator</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A parchment letter from James I to a group of biblical scholars
|
||||
<p>A parchment letter from <ent type = 'person'>James</ent> I to a group of biblical scholars
|
||||
starting with the words "Thou Creeps"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A large leathery egg found on the shores of a Scottish loch</p>
|
||||
<p>A large leathery egg found on the shores of a <ent type = 'person'>Scott</ent>ish loch</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Authur Skargil's Tory party membership</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@ lifted out of Aukland harbour</p>
|
||||
all British submarines pointing out that, contrary to earlier orders,
|
||||
issued due to a previous minister having his hair shampooed and set
|
||||
while typing, it is _Soviet_ trawlers that pose a thright to British
|
||||
security and not, as stated, _Scottish_ ones</p>
|
||||
security and not, as stated, _<ent type = 'person'>Scott</ent>ish_ ones</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The final page of the Communist Manefesto containing the punch line,
|
||||
found inside a volume in the British library where it had seemingly
|
||||
@ -1429,14 +1429,14 @@ been dropped in the haste of getting the book to the publisher</p>
|
||||
<p>The original plans for the analytical engine clearly labeled as
|
||||
"Automatic bacon slicer and piano key carving machine"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The launch control system for the Scott monument</p>
|
||||
<p>The launch control system for the <ent type = 'person'>Scott</ent> monument</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The formula for the additive inserted into Welsh water supplies 25
|
||||
years ago to induce small mutations into unborn children which makes
|
||||
the retina and optic lobes much less sensitive to fast moving ovoid
|
||||
objects</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The minutes of the final session of the Scotish parliament wherein the
|
||||
<p>The minutes of the final session of the <ent type = 'person'>Scotish</ent> parliament wherein the
|
||||
members decided to take the money and run before the Irish made good
|
||||
on their promise to sue for royalties on Whiskey</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@ by apointment, intrnl. removals"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A shard of crystal found wedged in a crevice on Rockall</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The complete transcript of Joan of Ark's trial</p>
|
||||
<p>The complete transcript of <ent type = 'person'>Joan</ent> of Ark's trial</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The recipe for British Rail sausage rolls, confiscated for national
|
||||
security reasons</p>
|
||||
@ -1464,9 +1464,9 @@ security reasons</p>
|
||||
<p>A suppressed letter from St. Paul apologizing to the female members
|
||||
of the church at Corinth</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A complete transscript of Gallieo's trial (including the non-public parts)</p>
|
||||
<p>A complete transscript of <ent type = 'person'>Gallieo</ent>'s trial (including the non-public parts)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Fatima Prophesies (One look at those, and the Pope in office at
|
||||
<p>The Fatima Prophesies (One look at those, and the <ent type = 'person'>Pope</ent> in office at
|
||||
the time locked himself up for three days)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Obviously a copy of the Necronomicon (Know thine enemies!)</p>
|
||||
@ -1482,9 +1482,9 @@ blood. When the blood was scanned for DNA, none was found...)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Lazarus, in a cage</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A paystub to one Mr. Salmon Rushdie, commenting, "Job Well Done."</p>
|
||||
<p>A paystub to one Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Salmon Rushdie</ent>, commenting, "Job Well <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>e."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A paystub to Lee Harvey Oswald, commenting "Job Well Done."</p>
|
||||
<p>A paystub to Lee Harvey <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>, commenting "Job Well <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>e."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The bill for the Last Supper</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1494,7 +1494,7 @@ blood. When the blood was scanned for DNA, none was found...)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A big ol' hourglass that _cannot_ be turned over, slowly running out</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A very large key, inset with pearls, inscribed (in Aramaic) "To Peter,
|
||||
<p>A very large key, inset with pearls, inscribed (in Aramaic) "To <ent type = 'person'>Peter</ent>,
|
||||
Sorry, you can't take it with you."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A dartboard, with most of the space being taken up with signs for Italy,
|
||||
@ -1503,7 +1503,7 @@ one for the USA. Oh, yeaH, there's a dart in it now, pierced through Poland</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Copies of all the books put on the "Banned" lists (Know Thine Enemies!)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>An ancient map, dated AD 476 that points to the major locations where all
|
||||
<p>An ancient map, dated <ent type = 'person'>AD</ent> 476 that points to the major locations where all
|
||||
the books were taken (Damn the *^$#$ Dark Ages!)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A strange account of a man who appeared before the Inquisition saying, "No,
|
||||
@ -1512,18 +1512,18 @@ The report goes on to show that the man was summarily tortured for Heresy,
|
||||
and when he did not repent, was killed. Strangely, though, it also comments
|
||||
that the body of the heretic disappeared soon after</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>An ancient tome, dating to AD 30, written in a bastardization of Arabic,
|
||||
<p>An ancient tome, dating to <ent type = 'person'>AD</ent> 30, written in a bastardization of Arabic,
|
||||
Aramaic, Greek, and Latin, proposing complex differential equations, and
|
||||
signed QED, JC. (Prince of Darkness)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Complete records on all major exorcisms, visitations, and miracles</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>One part of a strange machine built by Da Vinci, which used solar energy to
|
||||
<p>One part of a strange machine built by <ent type = 'person'>Da Vinci</ent>, which used solar energy to
|
||||
remarkable ends</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Tons of Stuff by Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and Donatello,
|
||||
<p>Tons of Stuff by Raphael, Leonardo <ent type = 'person'>Da Vinci</ent>, Michaelangelo, and <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>atello,
|
||||
along with a few others, deemed "inappropriate" for the general populace,
|
||||
but which looked spiffy on the Pope's bedroom wall</p>
|
||||
but which looked spiffy on the <ent type = 'person'>Pope</ent>'s bedroom wall</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A bottle of water that says "Taken from top of Everest...Remember!"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1534,22 +1534,22 @@ but which looked spiffy on the Pope's bedroom wall</p>
|
||||
<p>Various bottles containing insects, frogs, lice, etc., and the last labelled,
|
||||
"Azrael. Open in case of Emergency."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The char-broiled corpse of a non-levite, "Don't touch it."</p>
|
||||
<p>The char-broiled corpse of a non-levite, "<ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>'t touch it."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A horn, reading, "DON'T BLOW!!!!"</p>
|
||||
<p>A horn, reading, "<ent type = 'person'>DON</ent>'T BLOW!!!!"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A sling and several stones</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Ark of the Covenant, with a note in Italian reading, "Switch made...replica
|
||||
en route to USA."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Samples of the excellent 'shrooms that only grow on Patmos (as in St. John)</p>
|
||||
<p>Samples of the excellent 'shrooms that only grow on Patmos (as in St. <ent type = 'person'>John</ent>)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Sybilline Books</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Lost Centuries of Nostradamus</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Grimoire of Pope Honorius</p>
|
||||
<p>The Grimoire of <ent type = 'person'>Pope</ent> Honorius</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Third Prophecy of Fatima</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1562,7 +1562,7 @@ en route to USA."</p>
|
||||
<p>All the material on the Russian ESP "remote viewing" project (which, of
|
||||
course, was stolen by our own remote viewers)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The bodies of the executed Romanoff royal family, including Anastasia</p>
|
||||
<p>The bodies of the executed <ent type = 'person'>Romanoff</ent> royal family, including Anastasia</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>All the missing Old Masters paintings that the Nazis commandeered</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1574,7 +1574,7 @@ course, was stolen by our own remote viewers)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The sword given to the first Emperor by the goddess Amaterasu</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A copy of the telegram from Tojo to Roosevelt giving warning of the
|
||||
<p>A copy of the telegram from <ent type = 'person'>Tojo</ent> to <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent> giving warning of the
|
||||
Pearl Harbor attack</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>An oxygen destroyer</p>
|
||||
@ -1595,7 +1595,7 @@ That Can Say No"</p>
|
||||
<p>Godzilla</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>To Europe and the so-called Gas Chambers with eager
|
||||
scientists from 'round the world, Fred Leuchter, and all
|
||||
scientists from 'round the world, <ent type = 'person'>Fred Leuchter</ent>, and all
|
||||
Revisionists beg. Questions answered NOW. The Sun could
|
||||
steal the mist of mystery. IT COULD BE SO SIMPLE. Truth
|
||||
denied; investigation denied. Every day the Zionist Giant
|
||||
@ -1605,5 +1605,5 @@ through the long wait; the cattle WILL find their way home.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Pete Faust
|
||||
|
||||
Institute For Relearning
|
||||
Institute For <ent type = 'person'>Relearning</ent>
|
||||
</p></xml>
|
@ -203,11 +203,11 @@ Go to a library. Take a book at random. Skim it. Then, decide how
|
||||
that book is either for you or against you. If it is for you, quote
|
||||
liberally and out of context. If against you, do the same.
|
||||
|
||||
DON"T LET YOURSELF GET CONFUSED BY THE FACTS! We certainly don't!
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>DON</ent>"T LET YOURSELF GET CONFUSED BY THE FACTS! We certainly don't!
|
||||
|
||||
------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
Alan LustigerINTERNET:lustiger@att.com UUCP:att!pruxp!alu
|
||||
ATTMAIL:!alustiger CIS:72657,366
|
||||
|
||||
--
|
||||
Selected by Maddi Hausmann. MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com.</p></xml>
|
||||
Selected by <ent type = 'person'>Maddi Hausmann</ent>. MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com.</p></xml>
|
@ -1,57 +1,57 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>SOLDIER OF FORTUNE DIES MYSTERIOUSLY AFTER
|
||||
TALKING TO CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATORS</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>by <person>Vince Bielski</person> and Dennis Bernstein</p>
|
||||
<p>by <ent type = 'person'>Vince Bielski</ent> and Dennis Bernstein</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A county coroner in Los Angeles has yet to announce the
|
||||
cause of death of Steven Carr, a 27-year-old U.S. mercenary who
|
||||
cause of death of <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Steven</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent></ent>, a 27-year-old U.S. mercenary who
|
||||
has provided Congress with much of what it knows about weapons
|
||||
shipments to the contras. Had Carr lived, he was also expected to
|
||||
shipments to the contras. Had <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> lived, he was also expected to
|
||||
testified in federal court against 29 contra supporters allegedly
|
||||
involved in cocaine trafficking, an assassination attempt on
|
||||
former contra leader Eden Pastora and a scheme to kill U.S
|
||||
former contra leader <ent type = 'person'>Eden Pastora</ent> and a scheme to kill U.S
|
||||
Ambassador to Costa Rica Lewis Tambs.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> While Detective Mel Arnold of the Los Angeles Police
|
||||
<p> While Detective <ent type = 'person'>Mel <ent type = 'person'>Arnold</ent></ent> of the Los Angeles Police
|
||||
Department said the department is investigating the possibility
|
||||
that Carr was murdered, at this point he said there doesn't
|
||||
that <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> was murdered, at this point he said there doesn't
|
||||
appear to be any evidence of "foul play." But in the days before
|
||||
his death, Carr told several people that he feared he would be
|
||||
his death, <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> told several people that he feared he would be
|
||||
assassinated. He was "very paranoid and frightened" because of
|
||||
his role as a witness, Carr's sister Ann of Naples, Fla., said.</p>
|
||||
his role as a witness, <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent>'s sister <ent type = 'person'>Ann</ent> of Naples, Fla., said.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Here is what the police are saying about Carr's death. He
|
||||
<p> Here is what the police are saying about <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent>'s death. He
|
||||
died at 4 am on December 13 in a parking lot near his friend's
|
||||
apartment in Van Nuys, Calif., where he was staying. In the
|
||||
predawn hours on this Saturday morning, while his friend,
|
||||
Jacqueline Scott, was asleep, Carr left the apartment for an
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Jacqueline <ent type = 'person'>Scott</ent></ent>, was asleep, <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> left the apartment for an
|
||||
unknown reason. After spending an undetermined amount of time
|
||||
outside, Carr began making noise which awoke Scott. Arnold said
|
||||
he could not describe the type of noise Carr was making. Scott
|
||||
found Carr in the parking lot, who was "distressed and having
|
||||
outside, <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> began making noise which awoke <ent type = 'person'>Scott</ent>. <ent type = 'person'>Arnold</ent> said
|
||||
he could not describe the type of noise <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> was making. <ent type = 'person'>Scott</ent>
|
||||
found <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> in the parking lot, who was "distressed and having
|
||||
coordination problems." Soon after he died from a "probable
|
||||
cocaine overdose." Asked if the police found any physical
|
||||
evidence of cocaine use in the area of the apartment or parking
|
||||
lot, Arnold said "no comment."</p>
|
||||
lot, <ent type = 'person'>Arnold</ent> said "no comment."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Dan Sheehan, an attorney with the Christic Institute in
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Dan <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent></ent>, an attorney with the Christic Institute in
|
||||
Washington which filed the law suit against the 29 contra
|
||||
supporter, said Carr used cocaine, but called him "an educated
|
||||
user." Martha Honey, a reporter for the BBC, became friends with
|
||||
Carr while he was a mercenary in Costa Rica. She said Carr was
|
||||
supporter, said <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> used cocaine, but called him "an educated
|
||||
user." <ent type = 'person'>Martha Honey</ent>, a reporter for the BBC, became friends with
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> while he was a mercenary in Costa Rica. She said <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> was
|
||||
not the type of person who would kill himself because he was
|
||||
under pressure. "Stevie was a survivor. He had this ability to get
|
||||
under pressure. "<ent type = 'person'>Stevie</ent> was a survivor. He had this ability to get
|
||||
himself in trouble but he always seemed to bounce back. He had a
|
||||
great sense of humor."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The source of his fears were not just the contra
|
||||
supporters whose alleged crimes he revealed, but also the U.S.
|
||||
government. Carr said that while he was in Costa Rica, U.S.
|
||||
government. <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> said that while he was in Costa Rica, U.S.
|
||||
embassy officials threatened to jail him if he squealed on their
|
||||
contra operation in Costa Rica.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In April 1985 Carr was arrested by Costa Rican authorities
|
||||
for violating the country's neutrality and sent to prison. Carr
|
||||
<p> In April 1985 <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> was arrested by Costa Rican authorities
|
||||
for violating the country's neutrality and sent to prison. <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent>
|
||||
was one of several mercenaries based in northern Costa Rica on
|
||||
land owned and managed by a U.S. citizen and reported CIA
|
||||
operative named John Hull. Evidence from several sources suggests
|
||||
@ -59,43 +59,43 @@ that the contras operate what amounts to a military base on
|
||||
property controlled by Hull as well as an airbase for the
|
||||
movement of cocaine from Columbia into the United States.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> While in jail, Carr spilled the beans about the contra
|
||||
<p> While in jail, <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> spilled the beans about the contra
|
||||
operation. To reporters, he claimed that Hull had told him that
|
||||
Hull was the CIA liaison to the contras and was receiving $10,000 a
|
||||
month from the National Security Council to help finance the
|
||||
operation. Carr told Honey why he was revealing such secrets:
|
||||
"Carr said that the mercenaries had been led to believe that
|
||||
operation. <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> told Honey why he was revealing such secrets:
|
||||
"<ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> said that the mercenaries had been led to believe that
|
||||
their mercenary activity was sanctioned by top U.S. military and
|
||||
Costa Rican officials. He was extremely bitter at having been
|
||||
arrested."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Honey compiled information from Carr and other sources into
|
||||
<p> Honey compiled information from <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> and other sources into
|
||||
a book focusing on the role of Hull and other contra supporters in
|
||||
the May 1984 assassination attempt against Pastora in Nicaragua
|
||||
in which a bomb explosion killed eight people and injured
|
||||
Pastora. Hull sued Honey, and her colleague Tony Avirgan, for
|
||||
libel in May 1986. Carr received a subpoena to appear at the
|
||||
Pastora. Hull sued Honey, and her colleague <ent type = 'person'>Tony Avirgan</ent>, for
|
||||
libel in May 1986. <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> received a subpoena to appear at the
|
||||
trial, where he was to be a key witness for the reporters'
|
||||
defense.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> On May 16, Carr was released from jail. He later described
|
||||
<p> On May 16, <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> was released from jail. He later described
|
||||
the events which took place in his life over the course of the
|
||||
next week to Honey and an U.S. congressional aide involved in an
|
||||
investigation of the arms supply network to the contras.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Carr said that Hull bailed him out of jail as a way of
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> said that Hull bailed him out of jail as a way of
|
||||
persuading him to testify on Hull's behalf. Hull requested that
|
||||
Carr testify that the reporters forced him to make the charges
|
||||
against Hull, Carr said.</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> testify that the reporters forced him to make the charges
|
||||
against Hull, <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> said.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> That same day, Carr said he went to the U.S. embassy to
|
||||
<p> That same day, <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> said he went to the U.S. embassy to
|
||||
determine why he was arrested for participating in a war that the
|
||||
U.S. supports. He said he met with two officials, Kirk Kotula,
|
||||
the counsel general and John Jones, the acting chief of the
|
||||
U.S. supports. He said he met with two officials, <ent type = 'person'>Kirk <ent type = 'person'>Kotula</ent></ent>,
|
||||
the counsel general and <ent type = 'person'>John Jones</ent>, the acting chief of the
|
||||
consulute.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> According to Honey's notes of her conversation with Carr
|
||||
about his meeting with the officials, Carr said: "The officials
|
||||
<p> According to Honey's notes of her conversation with <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent>
|
||||
about his meeting with the officials, <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> said: "The officials
|
||||
told me they knew all about Hull's contra operation and they had
|
||||
me call him. He picked up the phone instantly, as if he had been
|
||||
waiting for my call.</p>
|
||||
@ -106,60 +106,60 @@ the matter. The embassy told me to get the hell out of Dodge or
|
||||
I'd go back to La Reforma prison. They told me that the bus to
|
||||
Panama leaves at 7:30 pm and to be on it," he said.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Carr spent the next three days staying at Honey's house. On
|
||||
night of May 19, Carr left the house to visit a friend, and the
|
||||
following day, the U.S. embassy told the court that Carr was in
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> spent the next three days staying at Honey's house. On
|
||||
night of May 19, <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> left the house to visit a friend, and the
|
||||
following day, the U.S. embassy told the court that <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> was in
|
||||
their custody and that he would appear at the trial, Honey said.
|
||||
However, Carr said on May 20, following U.S. embassy orders, he
|
||||
However, <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> said on May 20, following U.S. embassy orders, he
|
||||
took a bus to Panama, and with the help to the U.S. embassy
|
||||
there, flew to Miami a few days later. Upon his return, Carr was
|
||||
there, flew to Miami a few days later. Upon his return, <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> was
|
||||
put in jail in Naples, Fla., for a prior offense.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Kotula said he had talked with Carr, but denied the he had
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Kotula</ent> said he had talked with <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent>, but denied the he had
|
||||
threatened him or forced him to leave Costa Rica. "That's not
|
||||
true, at least by me. I did not threaten him with any such thing.
|
||||
I couldn't do that, what would be the possible motive. I can't
|
||||
put people in jail and I can't get people out of jail.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "I tried to convince Steve Carr when I first met him not to
|
||||
<p> "I tried to convince Steve <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> when I first met him not to
|
||||
go and join up with some bunch of guys. He was nothing but a
|
||||
overgrown child who had read too many John Wayne comic books."</p>
|
||||
overgrown child who had read too many <ent type = 'person'>John Wayne</ent> comic books."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Jonathan Winer, an aide to Sen. John Kerry D-Mass., said
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Jonathan <ent type = 'person'>Winer</ent></ent>, an aide to Sen. John Kerry D-Mass., said
|
||||
the Senator's office is investigating the matter. "There are
|
||||
obviously some very serious questions regarding the U.S.
|
||||
embassy's role in Steven Carr leaving Costa Rica," he said.</p>
|
||||
embassy's role in <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Steven</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent></ent> leaving Costa Rica," he said.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> After Carr's return to the U.S., congressional investigators
|
||||
<p> After <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent>'s return to the U.S., congressional investigators
|
||||
said they had planned on bringing him before Congress. His
|
||||
testimony, based on his participation on a March 6, 1985 arms
|
||||
shipment from Fort Lauderdale to Ilogango Air Base in El
|
||||
Salvador, would have linked Felix Rodriguez--the ex-CIA agent who
|
||||
reportedly met with Donald Gregg, aide to Vice President George
|
||||
Bush--to that weapons shipment, Sheehan said.</p>
|
||||
Salvador, would have linked <ent type = 'person'>Felix Rodriguez</ent>--the ex-CIA agent who
|
||||
reportedly met with <ent type = 'person'>Donald Gregg</ent>, aide to Vice President George
|
||||
Bush--to that weapons shipment, <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> said.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "He is the guy that can prove that the March 6
|
||||
shipment of weapons that flew out of the Fort Lauderdale Airport
|
||||
went to Ilopango airport," said Sheehan. "He witnessed and can
|
||||
identify Felix Rodriguez as the guy who off loaded the weapons to
|
||||
went to Ilopango airport," said <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent>. "He witnessed and can
|
||||
identify <ent type = 'person'>Felix Rodriguez</ent> as the guy who off loaded the weapons to
|
||||
smaller planes which were then flown to Hull's ranch in Costa
|
||||
Rica."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In early 1986, Carr and two other eye-witnesses told federal
|
||||
<p> In early 1986, <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> and two other eye-witnesses told federal
|
||||
authorities that several major players in the arms supply network
|
||||
were involved in the shipment, including Tom Posey, head of the
|
||||
mercenary group Civilian Materiel Assistance, Robert Owen,
|
||||
reportedly a liaison to fired Lt. Col. Oliver North, and Hull,
|
||||
Sheehan said.</p>
|
||||
were involved in the shipment, including <ent type = 'person'>Tom Posey</ent>, head of the
|
||||
mercenary group Civilian Materiel Assistance, <ent type = 'person'>Robert Owen</ent>,
|
||||
reportedly a liaison to fired Lt. Col. <ent type = 'person'>Oliver North</ent>, and Hull,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> said.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> With no criminal indictment by October, Sheehan alleged
|
||||
<p> With no criminal indictment by October, <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> alleged
|
||||
before a congressional committee that the Justice Department had
|
||||
engaged in a "willfull conspiracy...to obstruct justice....A
|
||||
number of telephone calls were then placed to Mr. Kellner (the
|
||||
U.S. Attorney in Miami) personally by Edwin Meese...instructing
|
||||
Mr. Kellner 'to proceed very, very, very slowly' in any
|
||||
investigation of this case." Kellner has said he
|
||||
has talked with Meese about the case, but denied Sheehan's
|
||||
number of telephone calls were then placed to Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Kellner</ent> (the
|
||||
U.S. Attorney in Miami) personally by <ent type = 'person'>Edwin <ent type = 'person'>Meese</ent></ent>...instructing
|
||||
Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Kellner</ent> 'to proceed very, very, very slowly' in any
|
||||
investigation of this case." <ent type = 'person'>Kellner</ent> has said he
|
||||
has talked with <ent type = 'person'>Meese</ent> about the case, but denied <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent>'s
|
||||
allegation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A grand jury has recently formed in Miami to reportedly hear
|
||||
@ -170,10 +170,10 @@ Salvador--evidence which is essential in making a case that the
|
||||
U.S. Neutrality Act and the Arms Export Control Act were
|
||||
violated--is now dead.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "A great deal of the information Carr provided did check
|
||||
<p> "A great deal of the information <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> provided did check
|
||||
out. It will now be harder for anyone to bring a prosecution with
|
||||
Steven's testimony now unavailable, and I think that is very
|
||||
unfortunate," Winer said.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Steven</ent>'s testimony now unavailable, and I think that is very
|
||||
unfortunate," <ent type = 'person'>Winer</ent> said.
|
||||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
e, and I think that is very
|
||||
|
@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>SECRET TEAM OF WEAPONS DEALERS
|
||||
by <person>Vince Bielski</person></p>
|
||||
by Vince Bielski</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A "secret team" of former CIA and military officials and
|
||||
arms dealers are responsible for the covert weapons shipments to
|
||||
Iran and the contras under the direction of fired White House
|
||||
aide Lt. Col. Oliver North.</p>
|
||||
aide Lt. Col. <ent type = 'person'>Oliver North</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Members of the "secret team" came together in the secret war
|
||||
against Cuba in 1961, and have since been involved in "political
|
||||
@ -15,26 +15,26 @@ Nicaragua.</p>
|
||||
leaders, has resorted to opium and cocaine trafficking to
|
||||
finance their operations.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Edwin Wilson, the ex-CIA operative convicted for selling
|
||||
explosives to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, was an active member.</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Edwin <ent type = 'person'>Wilson</ent></ent>, the ex-CIA operative convicted for selling
|
||||
explosives to Libya's <ent type = 'person'>Moammar <ent type = 'person'>Gadhafi</ent></ent>, was an active member.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> These allegations are part of a lengthy affidavit filed this
|
||||
week in a Miami federal court in support of a law suit brought
|
||||
by Dan Sheehan, an attorney with the Christic Institute in
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Dan <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent></ent>, an attorney with the Christic Institute in
|
||||
Washington. The suit names 29 alledged operatives in the contras
|
||||
arms network as defendants.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The suit alleges that the defendants supplied the C-4
|
||||
explosives which were used in the May 1984 assassination attempt
|
||||
against contra leader Eden Pastora in Nicaragua in which eight
|
||||
people were killed and Pastora injured. The plaintiffs, Martha
|
||||
Honey and Tony Avirgan, are American journalists who are sueing
|
||||
against contra leader <ent type = 'person'>Eden <ent type = 'person'>Pastora</ent></ent> in Nicaragua in which eight
|
||||
people were killed and <ent type = 'person'>Pastora</ent> injured. The plaintiffs, Martha
|
||||
Honey and <ent type = 'person'>Tony Avirgan</ent>, are American journalists who are sueing
|
||||
for personal injuries they suffered from the bombing.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Christic Institute, a church funded public interest law
|
||||
firm, has taken on controversial cases in the past, such as the
|
||||
suit against Kerr McGree Nuclear Corporation on behalf of Karen
|
||||
Silkwood. And it was while Sheehan was defending a sanctuary
|
||||
Silkwood. And it was while <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> was defending a sanctuary
|
||||
worker that he received information which led him
|
||||
into the investigation of the contra arms supply opertation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ into the investigation of the contra arms supply opertation.</p>
|
||||
Emergency Management Agency that FEMA had a highly secret plan to
|
||||
"deputize" government and State National Guard personnel for the
|
||||
purpose of interning 400,000 undocumented Central
|
||||
Americans in detention centers in the event that President Reagan
|
||||
Americans in detention centers in the event that President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
launched "Operation Night-train"--a military invasion into
|
||||
Central America.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -50,40 +50,40 @@ Central America.</p>
|
||||
bases of hundreds of tons of weapons to be used by newly created
|
||||
State Defense Forces, composed of civilians, who would help
|
||||
enforce the "State of Domestic National Emergency" during the
|
||||
invasion. Sheehan learned from a Louisiana State National Guard
|
||||
invasion. <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> learned from a Louisiana State National Guard
|
||||
Colonel that a State Defense Force in Louisiana planned to give
|
||||
half of the weapons it received to the contras.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In Miami, former U.S. military personnel and active National
|
||||
Guard units had organized a para-military organization, called
|
||||
Civilian Military Assistance, to arm, train and fight with the
|
||||
contras. The group, headed by Tom Posey, obtained "surplus"
|
||||
contras. The group, headed by <ent type = 'person'>Tom Posey</ent>, obtained "surplus"
|
||||
military equipment from the 20th Special Forces Unit of the U.S.
|
||||
Army in Alabama, Sheehan learned from a member of the group.</p>
|
||||
Army in Alabama, <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> learned from a member of the group.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In June 1984, Sheehan was informed a man who
|
||||
<p> In June 1984, <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> was informed a man who
|
||||
working with the para-military organization in helping arm the
|
||||
contras also claimed to be a "personal representative to the
|
||||
Contras of...Lt. Col. Oliver North." His name is Robert Owen.</p>
|
||||
Contras of...Lt. Col. <ent type = 'person'>Oliver North</ent>." His name is <ent type = 'person'>Robert Owen</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> One year later, Sheehan began putting this information into
|
||||
<p> One year later, <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> began putting this information into
|
||||
a law suit when he learned that Posey, Owen and others
|
||||
were allegedly involved in the bombing of the Pastora press
|
||||
were allegedly involved in the bombing of the <ent type = 'person'>Pastora</ent> press
|
||||
conference which caused physical and personal injury to the two
|
||||
American reporters.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Sheehans investigation also led him to the discovery of a
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent>s investigation also led him to the discovery of a
|
||||
"secret team" of former high ranking U.S. officials and officers
|
||||
who oversaw the procurement and shipment of weapons to the
|
||||
contras to to Iran. Through Posey, Owen and other they allegedly
|
||||
supplied the explosives for the press conference bombing. The
|
||||
"secret team" includes former high-ranking CIA officials Theodore
|
||||
Shackley and Thomas Clines, ret. Air Force Gen. Richard Secord,
|
||||
ex-CIA operative Edwin Wilson, and two arms dealers, Albert Hakim
|
||||
(of Los Gatos) and Rafael Quintero, both of whom are U.S.
|
||||
Shackley and <ent type = 'person'>Thomas <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>s</ent>, ret. Air Force Gen. <ent type = 'person'>Richard <ent type = 'person'>Secord</ent></ent>,
|
||||
ex-CIA operative <ent type = 'person'>Edwin <ent type = 'person'>Wilson</ent></ent>, and two arms dealers, <ent type = 'person'>Albert <ent type = 'person'>Hakim</ent></ent>
|
||||
(of Los Gatos) and <ent type = 'person'>Rafael <ent type = 'person'>Quintero</ent></ent>, both of whom are U.S.
|
||||
citizens.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In the affidavit, which cites 79 seperate sources, Sheehan
|
||||
<p> In the affidavit, which cites 79 seperate sources, <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent>
|
||||
said he learned of the "secret team" from a former U.S.
|
||||
intelligence officer who worked in Iran, a retired CIA officer,
|
||||
and a former Air Force officer.</p>
|
||||
@ -98,18 +98,18 @@ will of Congress,...the President,...or the (CIA)," the affidavit
|
||||
reads.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The source said the "secret team" was set up in
|
||||
1977 under the supervision of Shackley and Cline, who were then
|
||||
with the CIA. Wilson worked with Gadhafi "to secretly train
|
||||
1977 under the supervision of Shackley and <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>, who were then
|
||||
with the CIA. <ent type = 'person'>Wilson</ent> worked with <ent type = 'person'>Gadhafi</ent> "to secretly train
|
||||
Libyan anti-Shah of Iran terrorists in the use of deadly C-4
|
||||
explosives," the affidavit reads. Wilson's real purpose was to
|
||||
explosives," the affidavit reads. <ent type = 'person'>Wilson</ent>'s real purpose was to
|
||||
gather intelligence on the anti-Shah terrorist missions, and then
|
||||
pass the information to Quintero, "who was responsible for the
|
||||
pass the information to <ent type = 'person'>Quintero</ent>, "who was responsible for the
|
||||
assassination of these Libyan terrorists,"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Wilson was convicted for his dealings with Gadhafi, and
|
||||
Shackley and Clines resigned under pressure from then-CIA
|
||||
director Stansfield Turner. Shackley and Clines then join with
|
||||
Secord and Hakim and "went private" continuing to run their
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Wilson</ent> was convicted for his dealings with <ent type = 'person'>Gadhafi</ent>, and
|
||||
Shackley and <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>s resigned under pressure from then-CIA
|
||||
director <ent type = 'person'>Stansfield Turner</ent>. Shackley and <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>s then join with
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Secord</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Hakim</ent> and "went private" continuing to run their
|
||||
"secret team," the affidavit reads.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This group--initially through the Egyptian-American
|
||||
@ -117,16 +117,16 @@ Transport and Service Company--was "responsible for the entire
|
||||
supply of weapons...to the Contras," when the CIA wasn't directly
|
||||
providing them. They began arming the contras in August 1979,
|
||||
after entering "into a formal contractual agreement with
|
||||
Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza" despite President Carter's
|
||||
order banning the sending of weapons to Somoza, the affidavit
|
||||
Nicaraguan dictator <ent type = 'person'>Anastasio <ent type = 'person'>Somoza</ent></ent>" despite President <ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent>'s
|
||||
order banning the sending of weapons to <ent type = 'person'>Somoza</ent>, the affidavit
|
||||
reads.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The CIA took over in 1981, but when the 1984 ban on U.S.
|
||||
support went into effect, North reactivated the private
|
||||
merchants. Quintero, operating through a Florida based
|
||||
merchants. <ent type = 'person'>Quintero</ent>, operating through a Florida based
|
||||
corporation named Orca Supply Company--a company earlier set up
|
||||
by Edwin Wilson--saw to it that the supplies were delivered to
|
||||
the contras through John Hull, a U.S. citizen, who reportedly
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Edwin <ent type = 'person'>Wilson</ent></ent>--saw to it that the supplies were delivered to
|
||||
the contras through <ent type = 'person'>John Hull</ent>, a U.S. citizen, who reportedly
|
||||
operates a contra base in northern Costa Rica on land he owns.
|
||||
Among the delivered weapons were the explosives used in the
|
||||
Pastor bombing, the CIA source said.</p>
|
||||
@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ equipment is bought from the U.S. government at the
|
||||
manufacturer's cost and sold to Iran at replacement cost. The
|
||||
profits are then laundered through front companies.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Examiner reported in July that Secord, partners with
|
||||
Hakim in Standford Technology Trading Group International, was
|
||||
<p> The Examiner reported in July that <ent type = 'person'>Secord</ent>, partners with
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hakim</ent> in Standford Technology Trading Group International, was
|
||||
involved in the 1981 sale of AWACS to Saudi Arabia, in which
|
||||
money from that sale financed the contra operation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -148,45 +148,45 @@ cocaine dealers in which the drug moves from Columbia,
|
||||
through Hull's land, into the U.S at a level of one ton each
|
||||
week.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> When the Reagan Administration decided to undertake the
|
||||
secret sales of arms to Iran in 1985, it was Shackley, Clines,
|
||||
Hakim and Secord whom they used to carry out the mission, the
|
||||
<p> When the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> Administration decided to undertake the
|
||||
secret sales of arms to Iran in 1985, it was Shackley, <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>s,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hakim</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Secord</ent> whom they used to carry out the mission, the
|
||||
affidavit reads.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>BACKGROUND</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In 1961, Shackley, a CIA station chief in Miami, and his
|
||||
deputy Clines, directed the covert war against Cuba. A special
|
||||
unit formed to assassinate Castro, supervised by the "Mafia
|
||||
Lieutenant Santo Trafficante," included Quintero--and Felix
|
||||
Rodreguez and Luis Pasada Carillo--two ex-CIA agent who
|
||||
deputy <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>s, directed the covert war against Cuba. A special
|
||||
unit formed to assassinate <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>, supervised by the "Mafia
|
||||
Lieutenant Santo Trafficante," included <ent type = 'person'>Quintero</ent>--and Felix
|
||||
Rodreguez and <ent type = 'person'>Luis Pasada Carillo</ent>--two ex-CIA agent who
|
||||
reportedly operate the contras arms network at an El Salvador air
|
||||
base. Pasada was involved in the 1976 mid-air bombing
|
||||
of a Cuban passenger airliner.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> After the covert war activists were caught smuggling narcotics
|
||||
into the U.S. from Cuba, the operation was shut down, and Shackley
|
||||
and Clines were transfered to Laos, where Shackley was made CIA
|
||||
Deputy Chief of Station and Clines continued as his deputy.</p>
|
||||
and <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>s were transfered to Laos, where Shackley was made CIA
|
||||
Deputy Chief of Station and <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>s continued as his deputy.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> According to the affidavit, Shackley and Clines directed a
|
||||
secret program which trained and used Meo tribesmen "to
|
||||
<p> According to the affidavit, Shackley and <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>s directed a
|
||||
secret program which trained and used <ent type = 'person'>Meo</ent> tribesmen "to
|
||||
secretly assassinated over 100,000 non-combatant village mayors,
|
||||
book-keepers, clerks and other civilian bureaucrats in Laos,
|
||||
Cambodia and Thailand." The operation was funded by profits from
|
||||
an illegal opium trade.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A commander the political assassination program was ret.
|
||||
Army General John Singlaub, who has said publicly that he is
|
||||
Army General <ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Singlaub</ent></ent>, who has said publicly that he is
|
||||
helping arm the contras. North, a Marine Corps Major at the time,
|
||||
was one of Singlaub's deputies. Also involved with Shackley in
|
||||
Laos was Secord, then an Air Force General, the affidavit
|
||||
was one of <ent type = 'person'>Singlaub</ent>'s deputies. Also involved with Shackley in
|
||||
Laos was <ent type = 'person'>Secord</ent>, then an Air Force General, the affidavit
|
||||
reads.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In 1971, Shackley and Clines, from their post the CIA's
|
||||
<p> In 1971, Shackley and <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>s, from their post the CIA's
|
||||
Western Hemisphere operations, directed the "Track II" operation
|
||||
in Chile which played a role in the assassination of Chilean
|
||||
President Salvador Allende, the affidavit reads.</p>
|
||||
President <ent type = 'person'>Salvador Allende</ent>, the affidavit reads.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In 1974, the two directed the Phoenix project in Vietnam,
|
||||
which carried out the political assassination of some 60,000 non-
|
||||
|
@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ examples involves one of the most controversial activities in
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The story of rock and roll has been told in many books, among
|
||||
which are You Say You Want a Revolution by Robert G. Pielke
|
||||
and The Story of Rock by Carl Belz. From the very beginning,
|
||||
and The Story of Rock by <ent type = 'person'>Carl Belz</ent>. From the very beginning,
|
||||
it was the music of the young, and was hated and reviled by
|
||||
the old. Why? Not simply because the music itself was
|
||||
distasteful to adults. The animosity against rock and roll
|
||||
@ -98,17 +98,17 @@ music, but teenagers would carefully search the radio band for
|
||||
the few that did. (My favorite was an Oklahoma City station
|
||||
more than 500 miles from my home.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>And along came Sam Phillips, the entrepreneur par excellence,
|
||||
<p>And along came <ent type = 'person'>Sam Phillips</ent>, the entrepreneur par excellence,
|
||||
who shook the world by looking for a white man who sang like a
|
||||
black man. One day the invisible hand of the market brought
|
||||
into his studio the man who would become the King of Rock and
|
||||
Roll, Elvis Presley. Elvis was hated and condemned by grown-
|
||||
ups. But teenagers didn't care, and Elvis became the social
|
||||
Roll, <ent type = 'person'>Elvis</ent> Presley. <ent type = 'person'>Elvis</ent> was hated and condemned by grown-
|
||||
ups. But teenagers didn't care, and <ent type = 'person'>Elvis</ent> became the social
|
||||
phenomenon of the century. (While on our way to a national
|
||||
student council convention when I was in the 9th grade, a few
|
||||
of us discovered that Elvis was staying in our motel. I
|
||||
knocked on his door and asked if Elvis would come out to
|
||||
visit. At about midnight, Elvis Presley came down to the pool
|
||||
of us discovered that <ent type = 'person'>Elvis</ent> was staying in our motel. I
|
||||
knocked on his door and asked if <ent type = 'person'>Elvis</ent> would come out to
|
||||
visit. At about midnight, <ent type = 'person'>Elvis</ent> Presley came down to the pool
|
||||
and spent some time visiting with a few of us. It did not take
|
||||
long to see that he was a great person and that what grown-ups
|
||||
were saying about him was untrue.)</p>
|
||||
@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ together in other ways. Buddy Holly, who created some of the
|
||||
most beautiful music ever written, shocked the black audience
|
||||
at the Apollo Theater in New York City. (No white act had ever
|
||||
played the Apollo!) And they loved him! White teenagers were
|
||||
flocking to see Chuck Berry sing "Roll Over Beethoven,"
|
||||
flocking to see <ent type = 'person'>Chuck Berry</ent> sing "Roll Over Beethoven,"
|
||||
"Maybellene," and "Sweet Little Sixteen." And, horror of
|
||||
horrors, white and black musicians were even travelling
|
||||
together!</p>
|
||||
@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ came in the form of a Congressional investigation of an
|
||||
activity that was harming no one.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>While the political investigation cast a wide net over rock
|
||||
and roll, its ultimate brunt was felt by Alan Freed, a disc
|
||||
and roll, its ultimate brunt was felt by <ent type = 'person'>Alan Freed</ent>, a disc
|
||||
jockey who was the first to coin the term "rock and roll."
|
||||
Freed was one of the earliest and most successful promoters of
|
||||
rock and roll, is generally recognized as the "Father of Rock
|
||||
@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ and Roll," and appeared in the rock and roll movie, Rock
|
||||
Around the Clock. But all that ended with the Congressional
|
||||
attempt to destroy rock and roll. In one of the ugliest abuses
|
||||
of political power in American history, U.S. Congressmen
|
||||
brutalized and butchered Alan Freed. He died a broken man in
|
||||
brutalized and butchered <ent type = 'person'>Alan Freed</ent>. He died a broken man in
|
||||
1965 at the age of 43.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But the politicians and the racists, despite their fervent
|
||||
@ -210,13 +210,13 @@ heritage of the world. It also sent deep and profound quakes
|
||||
through some of the most wrongful beliefs of American adults.
|
||||
The social upheaval began with challenges to racial prejudice
|
||||
but it did not end there. A few years later, appeared an
|
||||
individual named Boy Dylan, one of the world's greatest poets
|
||||
individual named Boy <ent type = 'person'>Dylan</ent>, one of the world's greatest poets
|
||||
and ironically a product of America's government schools.
|
||||
Through the message of his music, Dylan pierced the conscience
|
||||
Through the message of his music, <ent type = 'person'>Dylan</ent> pierced the conscience
|
||||
of a generation during the most controversial war in American
|
||||
history.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of
|
||||
<p>Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Hornberger</ent> is founder and president of The Future of
|
||||
Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.
|
||||
|
||||
------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
|
@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p>******************************
|
||||
>From the SF Examiner, Monday July 20, 1992.
|
||||
Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon (Jeff Cohen is founder
|
||||
of FAIR, a media watchdog group; Norman Solomon is
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Jeff Cohen</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Norman Solomon</ent> (<ent type = 'person'>Jeff Cohen</ent> is founder
|
||||
of FAIR, a media watchdog group; <ent type = 'person'>Norman Solomon</ent> is
|
||||
a media critic.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Takeover of the Democratic Party</p>
|
||||
@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ invisible. Their political maneuvers are generally not news.</p>
|
||||
dealing by various groups. In the days before the convention,
|
||||
political reporters scrutinized teachers unions, black activists,
|
||||
senior-citizen groups, feminists, gay-rights advocates - denigrating
|
||||
them as ``special interests'' who could ruin ``Clinton's convention''
|
||||
them as ``special interests'' who could ruin ``<ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>'s convention''
|
||||
by ``alienating middle-class voters.''
|
||||
With so much media focus on these relatively powerless grass-roots
|
||||
groups, powerful corporations - the country's REAL special
|
||||
@ -54,18 +54,18 @@ virtually every corporate interest needing a government
|
||||
favor. The message to anti-poverty or consumer-rights activists:
|
||||
No need for you to come on board. You can wait at the station.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>ITEM: The Clinton-Gore ticket represents the seizure of the
|
||||
<p>ITEM: The <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>-<ent type = 'person'>Gore</ent> ticket represents the seizure of the
|
||||
party hierarchy by the Democratic Leadership Council, which
|
||||
is typically euphemized in the media as a group of
|
||||
``moderate'' Democratic politicians who want the party to
|
||||
``speak for the middle class.'' (Clinton and Gore were
|
||||
founders of the DLC; Clinton was its chair in 1990-91.)
|
||||
``speak for the middle class.'' (<ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Gore</ent> were
|
||||
founders of the DLC; <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> was its chair in 1990-91.)
|
||||
The problem is that the DLC has no middle-class constituents.
|
||||
It is bankrolled by - and speaks for - corporate America:
|
||||
ARCO, Dow Chemical, Georgia Pacific, Martin Marietta, the
|
||||
ARCO, Dow Chemical, Georgia Pacific, <ent type = 'person'>Martin Marietta</ent>, the
|
||||
Tobacco Institute, the Petroleum Institute, etc.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>ITEM: Clinton became the media-designated ``front-runner'' in
|
||||
<p>ITEM: <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> became the media-designated ``front-runner'' in
|
||||
large part because he raised so much money early in the
|
||||
campaign. The cash didn't come from middle-class folks.
|
||||
As reported by the weekly In These Times, most of it
|
||||
@ -73,31 +73,31 @@ came from conservative business interests; investment
|
||||
bankers, corporate lobbyists and Wall Street firms which
|
||||
fund both major political parties.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>ITEM: Two of Clinton's key fund-raisers were Robert Barry,
|
||||
a longtime General Electric lobbyist, and Thomas H. Boggs
|
||||
<p>ITEM: Two of <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>'s key fund-raisers were <ent type = 'person'>Robert Barry</ent>,
|
||||
a longtime General Electric lobbyist, and Thomas H. <ent type = 'person'>Boggs</ent>
|
||||
Jr., who ears $1.5 million a year as a lawyer-lobbyist
|
||||
for the Washington firm of Patton, Boggs, and Blow.
|
||||
Boggs' parents were members of Congress; his sister is
|
||||
media pundit Cokie Roberts. His law firm boasts a computer
|
||||
for the Washington firm of Patton, <ent type = 'person'>Boggs</ent>, and Blow.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Boggs</ent>' parents were members of Congress; his sister is
|
||||
media pundit <ent type = 'person'>Cokie Roberts</ent>. His law firm boasts a computer
|
||||
program that matches corporate donors with Congress members
|
||||
who seek his help in raising money; a match depends on what
|
||||
legislation is pending before Congress.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>ITEM: The Boggs law firm also boasts partner Ron Brown,
|
||||
<p>ITEM: The <ent type = 'person'>Boggs</ent> law firm also boasts partner <ent type = 'person'>Ron <ent type = 'person'>Brown</ent></ent>,
|
||||
chair of the Democratic Party. Some pundits have suggested
|
||||
that since Brown in an African-American, the Clinton-Gore
|
||||
ticket has less need of Jesse Jackson to mobilize the
|
||||
black vote in November. But Ron Brown is far more familiar
|
||||
that since <ent type = 'person'>Brown</ent> in an African-American, the <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>-<ent type = 'person'>Gore</ent>
|
||||
ticket has less need of <ent type = 'person'>Jesse Jackson</ent> to mobilize the
|
||||
black vote in November. But <ent type = 'person'>Ron <ent type = 'person'>Brown</ent></ent> is far more familiar
|
||||
with corporate boardrooms and government corridors than
|
||||
grass-roots organizing. His clients have included an
|
||||
array of U.S. and foreign business interests, as well as
|
||||
the regime of Haitian dictator Jean Claude Duvalier.</p>
|
||||
the regime of Haitian dictator <ent type = 'person'>Jean Claude Duvalier</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> When Jerry Brown spent his campaign denouncing
|
||||
<p> When Jerry <ent type = 'person'>Brown</ent> spent his campaign denouncing
|
||||
``Washington sleaze,'' he was referring to these kinds of
|
||||
cozy corporate-government relations.
|
||||
But mainstream media have demonstrated far less animus
|
||||
toward corporate influence than toward Jerry Brown, who
|
||||
toward corporate influence than toward Jerry <ent type = 'person'>Brown</ent>, who
|
||||
was routinely described by journalists covering the
|
||||
convention as ``disruptive,'' ``egotistical'' and a
|
||||
``party pooper.''
|
||||
|
@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ Date: 3 Nov 1993 00:02:07 GMT</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate":
|
||||
The CIA and Mind Control
|
||||
by John Marks
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>John Marks</ent>
|
||||
[Excerpts]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>By the 1950s, most "Americans knew something about the famous
|
||||
trial of the Hungarian Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, at which the
|
||||
Cardinal appeared zombielike, as though drugged or hypnotized.
|
||||
trial of the Hungarian <ent type = 'person'>Josef Cardinal Mindszenty</ent>, at which the
|
||||
Cardinal appeared <ent type = 'person'>zombielike</ent>, as though drugged or hypnotized.
|
||||
Other defendants at Soviet 'show trials' had displayed similar
|
||||
symptoms as they recited unbelievable confessions in dull,
|
||||
cliche-ridden monotones. Americans were familiar with the idea
|
||||
@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ both domestic and foreign captives, [it was argued that] there
|
||||
must be a technique involved that would yield its secrets under
|
||||
objective investigation."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Harold Wolff and Lawrence Hinkle "became the chief brainwashing
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Harold Wolff</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Lawrence Hinkle</ent> "became the chief brainwashing
|
||||
studiers for the U.S. government... Their secret report to [CIA
|
||||
chief] Allen Dulles, later published in a declassified version,
|
||||
chief] <ent type = 'person'>Allen Dulles</ent>, later published in a declassified version,
|
||||
was considered the definitive U.S. Government work on the
|
||||
subject."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -57,16 +57,16 @@ borders of experimental psychiatry (which are hazy in their own
|
||||
right) that Agency officials thought it prudent to have much of
|
||||
the work done outside the United States."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Montreal hospital. One of Cameron's projects was an attempt to
|
||||
"depattern" experimental subjects. "Cameron defined
|
||||
<p>Montreal hospital. One of <ent type = 'person'>Cameron</ent>'s projects was an attempt to
|
||||
"depattern" experimental subjects. "<ent type = 'person'>Cameron</ent> defined
|
||||
'depatterning' as breaking up existing patterns of behavior... by
|
||||
means of particularly intensive electroshocks, usually combined
|
||||
with prolonged, drug-induced sleep... Cameron claimed he could
|
||||
with prolonged, drug-induced sleep... <ent type = 'person'>Cameron</ent> claimed he could
|
||||
generate 'differential amnesia.' Creating such a state in which a
|
||||
man who knew too much could be made to forget had long been a
|
||||
prime objective [of CIA] programs."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Cameron's depatterning "normally started with 15 to 30 days of
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Cameron</ent>'s depatterning "normally started with 15 to 30 days of
|
||||
'sleep therapy.' As the name implies, the patient slept almost
|
||||
the whole day and night. According to a doctor at the hospital
|
||||
who used to administer what he calls the 'sleep cocktail,' a
|
||||
@ -77,39 +77,39 @@ Another staff doctor would also awaken the patient two or
|
||||
sometimes three times daily for electroshock treatments... In
|
||||
standard, professional electroshock, doctors gave the subject a
|
||||
single dose of 110 volts, lasting a fraction of a second, once a
|
||||
day or every other day. By contrast, Cameron used a form 20 to 40
|
||||
day or every other day. By contrast, <ent type = 'person'>Cameron</ent> used a form 20 to 40
|
||||
times more intense, two or three times daily, with the power
|
||||
turned up to 150 volts."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"The frequent screams of patients that echoed through the
|
||||
hospital did not deter Cameron or most of his associates in their
|
||||
hospital did not deter <ent type = 'person'>Cameron</ent> or most of his associates in their
|
||||
attempts to 'depattern' their subjects completely. Other hospital
|
||||
patients report beinng petrified by the 'sleep rooms,' where the
|
||||
patients report <ent type = 'person'>beinng</ent> petrified by the 'sleep rooms,' where the
|
||||
treatment took place, and they would usually creep down the
|
||||
opposite side of the hall."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"The Agency sent the psychiatrist research money to take the
|
||||
treatment *beyond this point*. Agency officials wanted to know
|
||||
if, once Cameron had produced a blank mind, he could then program
|
||||
if, once <ent type = 'person'>Cameron</ent> had produced a blank mind, he could then program
|
||||
in new patterns of behavior, as he claimed he could. As early as
|
||||
1953 -- the year he headed the American Psychiatric Association
|
||||
-- Cameron conceived a technique he called 'psychic driving,' by
|
||||
-- <ent type = 'person'>Cameron</ent> conceived a technique he called 'psychic driving,' by
|
||||
which he would bombard the subject with repeated verbal
|
||||
messages."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The CIA continued to fund Cameron's research. Then, in 1964, he
|
||||
retired abruptly. "His successor, Dr. Robert Cleghorn, made a
|
||||
<p>The CIA continued to fund <ent type = 'person'>Cameron</ent>'s research. Then, in 1964, he
|
||||
retired abruptly. "His successor, Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Robert Cleghorn</ent>, made a
|
||||
virtually unprecedented move in the academic world of mutual
|
||||
back-scratching and praise. He commissioned a psychiatrist and a
|
||||
psychologist, unconnected to Cameron, to study his electroshock
|
||||
psychologist, unconnected to <ent type = 'person'>Cameron</ent>, to study his electroshock
|
||||
work."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"The study-team members couched their report in densely academic
|
||||
jargon, but one of them speaks more clearly now. He talks
|
||||
bitterly of one of Cameron's former patients who needs to keep a
|
||||
bitterly of one of <ent type = 'person'>Cameron</ent>'s former patients who needs to keep a
|
||||
list of her simplest household chores to remember how to do
|
||||
them... He continues, 'I probably shouldn't talk about this, but
|
||||
Cameron -- for him to do what he did -- he was a very
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Cameron</ent> -- for him to do what he did -- he was a very
|
||||
schizophrenic guy, who totally detached himself from the human
|
||||
implications of his work... God, we talk about concentration
|
||||
camps. I don't want to make this comparison, but God, you talk
|
||||
@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ our back yard.'"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Details are scarce, since many of the principal witnesses have
|
||||
died, will not talk about what went on, or lie about it. In what
|
||||
ways the CIA applied work like Cameron's is not known. What is
|
||||
ways the CIA applied work like <ent type = 'person'>Cameron</ent>'s is not known. What is
|
||||
known, however, is that the intelligence community, including the
|
||||
CIA, changed the face of the scientific community during the
|
||||
1950s and early 1960s by its interest in such experiments."</p>
|
||||
@ -128,12 +128,12 @@ CIA, changed the face of the scientific community during the
|
||||
<p>-!---------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Today's conspiracy brought to you by.......
|
||||
Brian Francis Redman
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Brian Francis Redman</ent>
|
||||
.....................
|
||||
: Aperi os tuum muto, :
|
||||
: et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt. :
|
||||
: <ent type = 'person'>Aperi os tuum muto</ent>, :
|
||||
: et causis omnium <ent type = 'person'>filiorum qui</ent> pertranseunt. :
|
||||
: Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, :
|
||||
: et judica inopem et pauperem. :
|
||||
: et <ent type = 'person'>judica inopem</ent> et pauperem. :
|
||||
: -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9 :
|
||||
:...................:
|
||||
(bfrg9732@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) (72567.3145@compuserve.com)
|
||||
|
@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
|
||||
M. Duke Lane
|
||||
(CIS ID: 76004,2356)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p><person>Harold Weisberg</person> once said about his Whitewash works that "there are no
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Harold Weisberg</ent> once said about his <ent type = 'person'>Whitewash</ent> works that "there are no
|
||||
theories in my books... they're factual."[1] The sentiment about factuality
|
||||
has been echoed by many respectable researchers, who insist that "the Kennedy
|
||||
has been echoed by many respectable researchers, who insist that "the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>
|
||||
case ought to be treated as a homicide, which is what it is." Aren't we
|
||||
pressing for a final, legal investigation of the JFK murder to view all of
|
||||
pressing for a final, legal investigation of the <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> murder to view all of
|
||||
the evidence, new and old, holding it to the constraints of our legal system?
|
||||
A common refrain, after all, is that the Warren Commission's investigation
|
||||
and "conviction" of Lee Oswald would never have held up in a true adversarial
|
||||
and "conviction" of <ent type = 'person'>Lee <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent></ent> would never have held up in a true adversarial
|
||||
judicial proceeding.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Interestingly, we don't seem to hold ourselves to the same constraints. If
|
||||
@ -25,32 +25,32 @@ whether researchers' conclusions ought to be held up to critical peer review
|
||||
or whether we should be allowed to follow our intuition and reach reasonable
|
||||
conclusions... which can't be anything more than speculation, by
|
||||
definition.[2] That we accept such speculation and/or incomplete
|
||||
investigation as "fact" is exemplified by Robert Morrow's recently published
|
||||
First Hand Knowledge (FHK),[3] in which he suggests that an apparent CIA
|
||||
operative was detained in Fort Worth only a couple of hours after Kennedy's
|
||||
investigation as "fact" is exemplified by Robert <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent>'s recently published
|
||||
First Hand Knowledge (<ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent>),[3] in which he suggests that an apparent CIA
|
||||
operative was detained in Fort Worth only a couple of hours after <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s
|
||||
assassination.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FHK is, by most people's estimation, a reprint of Morrow's earlier Betrayal,
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent> is, by most people's estimation, a reprint of <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent>'s earlier Betrayal,
|
||||
this time, however, naming names and adding new information. One piece of
|
||||
this "new information" is that an "unidentified suspect" taken into custody
|
||||
in Fort Worth, 30 miles west of Dallas, was, in fact, David Atlee Phillips, a
|
||||
former CIA operative who was based in Mexico City while Lee Harvey Oswald was
|
||||
in Fort Worth, 30 miles west of Dallas, was, in fact, <ent type = 'person'>David Atlee Phillips</ent>, a
|
||||
former CIA operative who was based in Mexico City while <ent type = 'person'>Lee Harvey <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent></ent> was
|
||||
purportedly visiting Soviet and Cuban embassies in that city, and/or the
|
||||
"Maurice Bishop" character said to be Cubans refugees' CIA contact for the
|
||||
"<ent type = 'person'>Maurice Bishop</ent>" character said to be Cubans refugees' CIA contact for the
|
||||
Bay of Pigs operation. What, the reader must wonder, was this man--of all
|
||||
people--doing in that place at that time? This is information with curious
|
||||
implications indeed!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>As evidence of Phillips' apparent complicity in the murder, Morrow includes a
|
||||
<p>As evidence of Phillips' apparent complicity in the murder, <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent> includes a
|
||||
photo of Phillips beside the House Assassinations Committee's sketch of
|
||||
"Bishop," which many researchers agree look strikingly similar. The photo is
|
||||
included with the Phillips and "Bishop" pictures. The man, Morrow asserts,
|
||||
included with the Phillips and "Bishop" pictures. The man, <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent> asserts,
|
||||
bears an "uncanny resemblance" to Phillips/Bishop. Even while the angles of
|
||||
the men's faces are different, making a direct comparison difficult if not
|
||||
impossible, there does indeed appear to be a resemblance between them.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>What was Phillips/Bishop doing in Fort Worth? The reader is left to wonder,
|
||||
for Morrow cites Gary Shaw and Larry Ray Harris' Cover-Up[4] to state that no
|
||||
for <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent> cites <ent type = 'person'>Gary <ent type = 'person'>Shaw</ent></ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Larry Ray Harris</ent>' Cover-Up[4] to state that no
|
||||
record of this man's arrest exists and, in fact, the negatives of the
|
||||
pictures taken of the arrest have disappeared from the files of The Fort
|
||||
Worth Star-Telegram. Who but the government could manage such an obvious
|
||||
@ -58,21 +58,21 @@ cover-up, one must wonder. Who indeed?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Since I live near Fort Worth, I decided to look into this. This article will
|
||||
take the reader roughly through the steps of my investigation into this
|
||||
question. In the end, we will find that not only was Morrow "reaching," but
|
||||
question. In the end, we will find that not only was <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent> "reaching," but
|
||||
also that previous information was incomplete at best. While I cannot
|
||||
possibly clear Phillips from any sort of involvement in the Bay of Pigs
|
||||
episode or the Kennedy hit, it is quite clear that he was NOT the man in the
|
||||
photo Morrow uses to implicate him. This is perhaps an abject lesson for the
|
||||
episode or the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> hit, it is quite clear that he was NOT the man in the
|
||||
photo <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent> uses to implicate him. This is perhaps an abject lesson for the
|
||||
reader not to take everything he reads at face value, no matter what the
|
||||
credentials of an author may seem to be....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Let us pause for a moment to consider Morrow's works. Morrow, as we know,
|
||||
<p>Let us pause for a moment to consider <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent>'s works. <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent>, as we know,
|
||||
claims to be a former CIA contract agent who supposedly delivered four
|
||||
Mannlicher- Carcano 7.65mm rifles to David Ferrie for what he later
|
||||
determined to be the JFK assassination, one of which he says he kept. In both
|
||||
FHK and Betrayal, he discusses the purchase and delivery of these rifles to
|
||||
Ferrie, who of course, cannot confirm or deny Morrow's allegation since he is
|
||||
dead. Nor can Morrow's CIA connection be affirmed or refuted; we have no
|
||||
Mannlicher- Carcano 7.65mm rifles to <ent type = 'person'>David <ent type = 'person'>Ferrie</ent></ent> for what he later
|
||||
determined to be the <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> assassination, one of which he says he kept. In both
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent> and Betrayal, he discusses the purchase and delivery of these rifles to
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Ferrie</ent>, who of course, cannot confirm or deny <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent>'s allegation since he is
|
||||
dead. Nor can <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent>'s CIA connection be affirmed or refuted; we have no
|
||||
choice but to either take the man at his word or not, since it is impossible
|
||||
to prove one way or the other. That is simply the nature of the beast.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -82,42 +82,42 @@ of the assassination. Certainly, the dust jacket overview and the author's
|
||||
own preface to his new book paint a reasonably credible picture of the man
|
||||
who claims to have "first hand knowledge" of the assassination. Knowing,
|
||||
however, that there is no statute of limitations against prosecution in a
|
||||
murder, how is it that Morrow can publicly come forward with an admission of
|
||||
murder, how is it that <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent> can publicly come forward with an admission of
|
||||
having participated in the most notorious murder of our time? Even aside from
|
||||
prosecution, surely one must wonder at what repercussions he might suffer at
|
||||
the hands of those whom he names as his accomplices, including the CIA.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>These questions are handled adroitly enough even before the reader reaches
|
||||
the book's introduction. "Mr Morrow," the dust jacket states, "has now come
|
||||
the book's introduction. "Mr <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent>," the dust jacket states, "has now come
|
||||
forward with the truth because he believes the danger to his family is
|
||||
reduced due to the impending release of the Congressional files on the
|
||||
assassination," thereby assuring us that Morrow doesn't expect to become
|
||||
assassination," thereby assuring us that <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent> doesn't expect to become
|
||||
another "mysterious death."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But what of the others he names? His own preface makes this clear: "More than
|
||||
half the characters about to come to life on these pages have already been
|
||||
put to death, tortured, exiled or silenced in strange and horrible ways."
|
||||
They are either dead or otherwise will not rise to their own defense against
|
||||
Morrow's accusations. It is worthwhile to note that David Atlee Phillips is
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent>'s accusations. It is worthwhile to note that <ent type = 'person'>David Atlee Phillips</ent> is
|
||||
among the former, having died of cancer at his Arlington, VA, home on July 7,
|
||||
1988.[5] He will not be stepping forward to clear his name, nor will Tracy
|
||||
Barnes, another of the people Morrow names in FHK and who is also dead. The
|
||||
rest of the "more than half" of Morrow's characters will likewise not be
|
||||
Barnes, another of the people <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent> names in <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent> and who is also dead. The
|
||||
rest of the "more than half" of <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent>'s characters will likewise not be
|
||||
coming forward to correct the record and provide true facts since they've
|
||||
either been "put to death, tortured, exiled or silenced in strange and
|
||||
horrible ways." The other half, we may reasonably conclude, have but bit
|
||||
parts in Morrow's narrative, and aren't connected with the assassination, and
|
||||
parts in <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent>'s narrative, and aren't connected with the assassination, and
|
||||
so have nothing to "fear."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Returning to the question of Phillips (or Bishop) having been arrested in
|
||||
Fort Worth, we must bear these factors in mind. Gary Shaw and Larry Harris
|
||||
Fort Worth, we must bear these factors in mind. <ent type = 'person'>Gary <ent type = 'person'>Shaw</ent></ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Larry Harris</ent>
|
||||
have already told us that no record of the arrest exists and that negatives
|
||||
of the photographs taken of this man have "disappeared" from the
|
||||
Star-Telegram's files. Morrow has only added to the mystery by connecting the
|
||||
Star-Telegram's files. <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent> has only added to the mystery by connecting the
|
||||
CIA to this man, a factor which can apparently not be proven nor disproven.
|
||||
Or can it?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Tom Tilson Tells Tall Tales
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Tom Tilson</ent> Tells Tall Tales
|
||||
===========================</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>One of the first things I was curious about was whether this arrest had any
|
||||
@ -129,29 +129,29 @@ to the slayer."[6] Fort Worth was the apparent destination of the driver of
|
||||
the black sedan headed westbound on the DFW Turnpike and chased by an
|
||||
off-duty Dallas policeman.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>This incident was first reported by Earl Golz in The Dallas Morning News[7]
|
||||
nearly twenty years after the fact, and repeated by Jim Marrs in
|
||||
<p>This incident was first reported by <ent type = 'person'>Earl <ent type = 'person'>Golz</ent></ent> in The Dallas Morning News[7]
|
||||
nearly twenty years after the fact, and repeated by <ent type = 'person'>Jim Marrs</ent> in
|
||||
Crossfire,[8] to which the reader is referred for additional information. In
|
||||
addition, rumblings of a car having been found abandoned in Fort Worth later
|
||||
in the day_naturally tied to the "black car chase"_raised even more
|
||||
interesting possibilities. Was the man in the FHK photo the same one who
|
||||
off-duty officer Tom Tilson chased from Dealey Plaza, and who may
|
||||
interesting possibilities. Was the man in the <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent> photo the same one who
|
||||
off-duty officer <ent type = 'person'>Tom Tilson</ent> chased from Dealey Plaza, and who may
|
||||
subsequently have abandoned the car before having been arrested?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Unequivocally not. To begin with, it is apparent that there never was a car,
|
||||
black or otherwise, where Tilson claimed he initially saw it. His interview
|
||||
with Golz clearly states that he was driving along Commerce Street just
|
||||
beyond the Stemmons Freeway bridge but not yet as far as the Triple Underpass
|
||||
with <ent type = 'person'>Golz</ent> clearly states that he was driving along Commerce Street just
|
||||
beyond the <ent type = 'person'>Stemmons</ent> Freeway bridge but not yet as far as the Triple Underpass
|
||||
(the railroad bridge) when he saw a man run down the bridge abutment, toss a
|
||||
long object (a rifle?) into the back seat, run around to jump into the
|
||||
driver's seat and take off.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>According to his daughter who was riding with him, "seconds before she saw
|
||||
the fleeing man, the presidential limousine had just sped past his parked car
|
||||
on the grass... and the limousine was turning onto Stemmons Freeway."[9] This
|
||||
time roughly corresponds to the time that Mel McIntire took two photographs
|
||||
on the grass... and the limousine was turning onto <ent type = 'person'>Stemmons</ent> Freeway."[9] This
|
||||
time roughly corresponds to the time that <ent type = 'person'>Mel McIntire</ent> took two photographs
|
||||
of the limo emerging from under the railroad bridge and, shortly thereafter,
|
||||
the Secret Service follow-up car turning onto Stemmons.[10] In neither photo
|
||||
the Secret Service follow-up car turning onto <ent type = 'person'>Stemmons</ent>.[10] In neither photo
|
||||
is there a "parked car on the grass." With the rest of the motorcade still in
|
||||
Dealey Plaza, it is impossible that a car could have gotten to that spot in
|
||||
time for Tilson to have seen it before passing under the Triple Underpass. It
|
||||
@ -179,31 +179,31 @@ reports from ordinary citizens, yet ignore one from "one of their own?"</p>
|
||||
through city streets to get on a highway when there was and is an entrance
|
||||
ramp onto the same highway, going in the same direction, within 100 yards of
|
||||
where his car was supposedly parked and immediately to the left of the
|
||||
Stemmons Freeway entrance taken by the motorcade? I think not.</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Stemmons</ent> Freeway entrance taken by the motorcade? I think not.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>If Tilson's story is a fabrication, however, that doesn't preclude that a car
|
||||
was found abandoned in Fort Worth, and in fact, one was. Almost by accident,
|
||||
I met a retired Fort Worth police officer, WD Roberts, who had called in a
|
||||
I met a retired Fort Worth police officer, WD <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent>, who had called in a
|
||||
report of an abandoned and presumably stolen car only a few minutes after the
|
||||
time that Kennedy was being shot thirty miles away.[14]</p>
|
||||
time that <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> was being shot thirty miles away.[14]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Officer Roberts, who is now retired from the force, was on patrol in the
|
||||
<p>Officer <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent>, who is now retired from the force, was on patrol in the
|
||||
Riverside section of east Fort Worth and had come across the vehicle. He
|
||||
called it in to the dispatcher at about 12:45 to 1:00. (It was later
|
||||
determined to have been stolen in Houston the previous week.) Roberts is
|
||||
determined to have been stolen in Houston the previous week.) <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> is
|
||||
certain that the car was not black (ergo not related to Tilson's "black
|
||||
sedan"), but only recalls it as being "a light color, perhaps even
|
||||
two-toned." Since it had been parked there for a number of days, we can
|
||||
reasonably conclude that it was not related to the JFK murder, thereby
|
||||
reasonably conclude that it was not related to the <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> murder, thereby
|
||||
removing it from consideration in relation to the arrest in question.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>If At First You Don't Succeed...
|
||||
<p>If At First You <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>'t Succeed...
|
||||
================================</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Between the apparent fact that Tom Tilson's black sedan never existed and
|
||||
<p>Between the apparent fact that <ent type = 'person'>Tom Tilson</ent>'s black sedan never existed and
|
||||
that the car found abandoned in Fort Worth wasn't connected to this
|
||||
pseudo-event, it was quite certain that this avenue of inquiry would not lead
|
||||
to a conclusion about the photo in FHK. Who, then, was the man in the photo,
|
||||
to a conclusion about the photo in <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent>. Who, then, was the man in the photo,
|
||||
and what could be learned about him? After all, he could be just about
|
||||
anyone: how can an unidentified man be found thirty years later from his
|
||||
image that is bound to have changed in the interim? There are more than two
|
||||
@ -226,12 +226,12 @@ person based upon the recollection of only one or two of his
|
||||
contemporaries... even if they're trained observers, as police are frequently
|
||||
termed.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The officer who found the abandoned car mentioned earlier, WD Roberts, also
|
||||
turned out to be the arresting officer in the case of Donald Wayne House,
|
||||
<p>The officer who found the abandoned car mentioned earlier, WD <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent>, also
|
||||
turned out to be the arresting officer in the case of <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>ald Wayne House,
|
||||
which many readers are familiar with. For the sake of those who aren't and
|
||||
for putting Roberts' observations and impressions on the record (since
|
||||
for putting <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent>' observations and impressions on the record (since
|
||||
nobody's ever asked him about this before), we'll once again depart our main
|
||||
focus on the FHK photo to recap the story of this arrest; interestingly, it
|
||||
focus on the <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent> photo to recap the story of this arrest; interestingly, it
|
||||
will lead us directly back to the photo.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In addition to the brief mention of the "2-city manhunt" in The Dallas
|
||||
@ -239,20 +239,20 @@ Morning News on the morning after the assassination, there was one (and only
|
||||
one) other account of someone being arrested in Fort Worth. It appeared in
|
||||
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram the day after the assassination, and related
|
||||
that a 22-year-old man had been picked up as a possible suspect in the
|
||||
assassination of President Kennedy.[15] While it didn't identify the man by
|
||||
assassination of President <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>.[15] While it didn't identify the man by
|
||||
name, it did indicate that he was from Ranger, a small town southwest of Fort
|
||||
Worth. It also identified the arresting officers (WD Roberts and BG Whistler)
|
||||
Worth. It also identified the arresting officers (WD <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> and BG <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent>)
|
||||
and noted that the man had been arrested in the 3400 block of East Belknap
|
||||
Street in the city.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Reconstructing this arrest from a variety of sources, it happened something
|
||||
like this:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On the morning of November 22, Donald Wayne House left his home in Ranger, TX
|
||||
<p>On the morning of November 22, <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>ald Wayne House left his home in Ranger, TX
|
||||
bound for Mesquite (a Dallas suburb) to visit an old Army buddy, Randall
|
||||
Hunsaker.[16] He had parked his car in a lot on Commerce Street at about
|
||||
10:30[17] and called Hunsaker, who was apparently not home. Hearing that JFK
|
||||
was due to ride through downtown, he decided to get a glimpse of Kennedy,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Hunsaker</ent>.[16] He had parked his car in a lot on Commerce Street at about
|
||||
10:30[17] and called <ent type = 'person'>Hunsaker</ent>, who was apparently not home. Hearing that <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>
|
||||
was due to ride through downtown, he decided to get a glimpse of <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>,
|
||||
whom he says he had long admired.[18] After the motorcade had passed, he
|
||||
headed toward Fort Worth on the DFW Turnpike to visit a cousin.[19]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -260,14 +260,14 @@ headed toward Fort Worth on the DFW Turnpike to visit a cousin.[19]</p>
|
||||
where two women who had heard about the assassination asked him if he knew
|
||||
anything more about it. House told them that he'd heard the alleged
|
||||
assassin's description, which he then related to the women. The description
|
||||
he gave them of Oswald describes House as well, a resemblance that can be
|
||||
he gave them of <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> describes House as well, a resemblance that can be
|
||||
clearly seen in photos taken of him that day except that House is much
|
||||
shorter than Oswald.[20] It is also possible that the women had heard the
|
||||
shorter than <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>.[20] It is also possible that the women had heard the
|
||||
description themselves and felt that House matched it closely enough to
|
||||
arouse their suspicions.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>One of the two women he spoke with was apparently the "Mrs Cunningham"
|
||||
identified in Dallas County Deputy Sheriff JC Watson's report who called the
|
||||
<p>One of the two women he spoke with was apparently the "Mrs <ent type = 'person'>Cunningham</ent>"
|
||||
identified in Dallas County Deputy Sheriff <ent type = 'person'>JC Watson</ent>'s report who called the
|
||||
Grand Prairie PD after House had left the filling station. The Grand Prairie
|
||||
PD then notified the Dallas County sheriffs, who in turn made a general
|
||||
broadcast including his description and that of his car and its license plate
|
||||
@ -276,42 +276,42 @@ sheriffs that the car and driver had been taken into custody.[21]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The green and white Ford was heading westbound on the DFW Turnpike toward
|
||||
Fort Worth.[22] At about the same time or just shortly after the Sheriff's
|
||||
broadcast had gone out, FWPD officer WD Roberts had pulled into the Shady
|
||||
broadcast had gone out, FWPD officer WD <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> had pulled into the Shady
|
||||
Oaks Drive-in on Riverside Drive just after having called in his report of
|
||||
the abandoned car. While waiting for a cup of coffee, he happened to glance
|
||||
in his mirror and noticed the car going by. He took off after it, leaving the
|
||||
carhop standing there with his order in hand.[23]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Roberts called into FWPD dispatch to verify House's license plate number, and
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> called into FWPD dispatch to verify House's license plate number, and
|
||||
because he was driving an underpowered cruiser, he also requested assistance
|
||||
in case the driver attempted to evade him.[24] Officer BG Whistler, who was
|
||||
in case the driver attempted to evade him.[24] Officer BG <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent>, who was
|
||||
patrolling an adjoining sector, sped to his assistance and met up with him a
|
||||
short distance away at the "Five Points" intersection of East Belknap and
|
||||
Bonnie Brae;[25] officer BL Harbour also fell in behind Whistler.[26] Upon
|
||||
seeing he had assistance, Roberts notified dispatch that he was going to
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bonnie Brae</ent>;[25] officer BL Harbour also fell in behind <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent>.[26] Upon
|
||||
seeing he had assistance, <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> notified dispatch that he was going to
|
||||
"curb" the car.[27]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Roberts pulled around House and forced him to pull over in the 3400 block of
|
||||
East Belknap Street near Sylvania Park; Whistler came up behind House, got
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> pulled around House and forced him to pull over in the 3400 block of
|
||||
East Belknap Street near Sylvania Park; <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent> came up behind House, got
|
||||
out of his squad car, and trained his shotgun on House, telling him to get
|
||||
out of the car and keep his hands where they could be seen. Roberts frisked
|
||||
him and put him in handcuffs before putting him in the back of Whistler's
|
||||
out of the car and keep his hands where they could be seen. <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> frisked
|
||||
him and put him in handcuffs before putting him in the back of <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent>'s
|
||||
car. By this time (shortly before 1:57 pm CST, the time on House's arrest
|
||||
report[28]), a number of other officers had also arrived, including Lt
|
||||
Lawrence Wood who immediately took charge as the ranking officer. Harbour
|
||||
joined Whistler in the latter's car and the two transported the prisoner to
|
||||
city hall where they were photographed by newsmen.[29] Wood accompanied these
|
||||
officers to city hall on his motorcycle[30] while Roberts remained behind to
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Lawrence <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent></ent> who immediately took charge as the ranking officer. Harbour
|
||||
joined <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent> in the latter's car and the two transported the prisoner to
|
||||
city hall where they were photographed by newsmen.[29] <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> accompanied these
|
||||
officers to city hall on his motorcycle[30] while <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> remained behind to
|
||||
secure the scene and inventory the vehicle.[31]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>All of the officers involved described the arrest as "odd" because, during
|
||||
all of this time, House never said a word. Roberts in particular thought so,
|
||||
all of this time, House never said a word. <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> in particular thought so,
|
||||
and "couldn't imagine how you could pull a man out of his car, frisk him,
|
||||
handcuff him and put him in the back of a patrol car in a matter of just
|
||||
seconds, all the time with a shotgun aimed at him and he never even asked why
|
||||
he was being arrested!"[32]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Roberts' account was confirmed by Whistler, who added that Lt Wood had
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent>' account was confirmed by <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent>, who added that Lt <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> had
|
||||
instructed them not to ask House any questions or make any statements to him,
|
||||
but to "leave that to the Feds," who had apparently been notified to meet the
|
||||
officers at city hall.[33] House's arrest report also indicated that "the
|
||||
@ -319,32 +319,32 @@ subject never once appeared nervous and in fact he was unusually calm," and
|
||||
that he had never asked the officers why he was being arrested or taken into
|
||||
jail.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Among the police, only Wood's account differed. He told a reporter that House
|
||||
<p>Among the police, only <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent>'s account differed. He told a reporter that House
|
||||
was "hysterical" and that "the guy stuttered, he was so scared he couldn't
|
||||
get a single word out, no matter how long he tried,"[34] descriptions the
|
||||
arresting officers adamantly denied. In Wood's defense, however, that
|
||||
arresting officers adamantly denied. In <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent>'s defense, however, that
|
||||
recollection was nearly twenty years old by the time it was made.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>(House's own account of it, published ten months after his arrest, says that
|
||||
he'd asked why he was being arrested and was told by officers "You're being
|
||||
arrested for the assassination of President Kennedy,"[35] which also
|
||||
arrested for the assassination of President <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>,"[35] which also
|
||||
contradicts the officers' statements. I consider this to be a relatively
|
||||
minor point since House was "in the spotlight" during the interview and may
|
||||
have tended to meld details. He was undoubtedly told at some time why he'd
|
||||
been brought in; whether it was before or after he arrived at city hall seems
|
||||
more a matter of how he told the story than how it actually happened.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Another oddity, Roberts recalled, was that House's car was "absolutely
|
||||
<p>Another oddity, <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> recalled, was that House's car was "absolutely
|
||||
spotless, there wasn't even a slip of paper in the glove box," although he
|
||||
found an empty dynamite box in the trunk, which House claimed to have been
|
||||
using as a tool chest[36] (Wood, in his account, said that "we found several
|
||||
using as a tool chest[36] (<ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent>, in his account, said that "we found several
|
||||
boxes of dynamite in the back seat,"[37] which the arresting officers also
|
||||
disputed). Roberts was surprised to learn that House supposedly junked the
|
||||
disputed). <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> was surprised to learn that House supposedly junked the
|
||||
car a short while later[38], saying that he couldn't imagine why he did since
|
||||
the car was "immaculate."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>House was transported to city hall (which also housed police headquarters at
|
||||
the time) by Officers Whistler and Harbour, and photographs[39] show the two
|
||||
the time) by Officers <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent> and Harbour, and photographs[39] show the two
|
||||
taking him inside. House was then put in the "shakedown" room and searched,
|
||||
where the only belongings that were recorded having been taken from him was a
|
||||
wallet containing $23 in cash and a knife.[40] According to House, he was
|
||||
@ -352,12 +352,12 @@ interrogated by federal officers for three hours and remained alone in his
|
||||
cell for another hour before being cleared and released,[41] although the jail
|
||||
report indicates the time was slightly shorter.[42]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Another apparent "oddity" came up when Roberts also recalled that, when he
|
||||
<p>Another apparent "oddity" came up when <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> also recalled that, when he
|
||||
arrived at city hall later in the day, he had gone to the chief's secretary
|
||||
to dictate his report. About midway into his report, he says, the chief came
|
||||
in and told him "not to bother" completing his report, that the man had
|
||||
already been cleared by the Feds.[43] Whistler also did not recall writing a
|
||||
report, corroborating Roberts' memory.</p>
|
||||
already been cleared by the Feds.[43] <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent> also did not recall writing a
|
||||
report, corroborating <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent>' memory.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Again, there is nothing "sinister" about this. The official record of federal
|
||||
agents interviewing him exists, and was published by the Warren
|
||||
@ -372,14 +372,14 @@ of the afternoon, it is hardly surprising that this occurred.</p>
|
||||
<p>A Second Arrest in Fort Worth
|
||||
=============================</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>While there is a relative wealth of information about Donald Wayne House
|
||||
<p>While there is a relative wealth of information about <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>ald Wayne House
|
||||
available, as we've already learned, nothing was known about the second man
|
||||
who is pictured in FHK. As I've already noted, in Cover-Up, Shaw and Harris
|
||||
who is pictured in <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent>. As I've already noted, in Cover-Up, <ent type = 'person'>Shaw</ent> and Harris
|
||||
relate that "a second Fort Worth arrest was made at the same time House was
|
||||
taken into custody, but other than photographs from The Fort Worth
|
||||
Star-Telegram, there is no record of the arrest." They continue that
|
||||
"negatives of these photos [which include the one that appears in FHK and
|
||||
also in Cover-Up] are now missing from the newspaper's files."[45] Morrow
|
||||
"negatives of these photos [which include the one that appears in <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent> and
|
||||
also in Cover-Up] are now missing from the newspaper's files."[45] <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent>
|
||||
added his opinion that the man looked like someone associated with the CIA
|
||||
and/or the Bay of Pigs operation. It all sounds very mysterious, almost
|
||||
sinister.</p>
|
||||
@ -388,18 +388,18 @@ sinister.</p>
|
||||
who this man was, and no account of this second arrest appeared in any of the
|
||||
local papers. None of the photos were published by local newspapers, although
|
||||
there were at least four other photos taken of him in addition to the one in
|
||||
FHK. A second picture, which appears in Cover-Up,[46] shows the man being
|
||||
taken from the FWPD patrol car by Lt Wood, and a third on file at the
|
||||
Star-Telegram offices depicts him being led by Wood and another officer (the
|
||||
same one in the FHK photo) into city hall; two others show the back of the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent>. A second picture, which appears in Cover-Up,[46] shows the man being
|
||||
taken from the FWPD patrol car by Lt <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent>, and a third on file at the
|
||||
Star-Telegram offices depicts him being led by <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> and another officer (the
|
||||
same one in the <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent> photo) into city hall; two others show the back of the
|
||||
man and the arresting officers as they entered the building.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Neither of the two photos in Cover-Up (one of which is the one in FHK) were
|
||||
<p>Neither of the two photos in Cover-Up (one of which is the one in <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent>) were
|
||||
taken by Star-Telegram photographers, which explains why the negatives are
|
||||
not on file there. Most likely, they were taken by its rival newspaper, The
|
||||
Fort Worth Press, which ceased printing in May 1976 (although a new weekly
|
||||
paper has been recently started under the same banner). The Star-Telegram, as
|
||||
Shaw noted, no longer has all of the negatives of the photos they had taken,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Shaw</ent> noted, no longer has all of the negatives of the photos they had taken,
|
||||
but I was able to find photos on contact sheets (positives made directly from
|
||||
the film strips) there, and most did indeed have negatives available. The
|
||||
photo archives of the Press are said to be in private hands, so I have as yet
|
||||
@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ more likely that the photographers did not turn them all in, or removed them
|
||||
after realizing that they may have some historical value. "We don't polygraph
|
||||
them to make sure they do," he said. In any case, they were not removed by
|
||||
any official body as part of either an investigation or a cover-up, nor most
|
||||
certainly, to protect David Phillips.</p>
|
||||
certainly, to protect <ent type = 'person'>David Phillips</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>While negatives are not available for a number of photos, there is nothing
|
||||
particularly noteworthy about the ones that are missing versus those that are
|
||||
@ -425,31 +425,31 @@ sheets can generally be viewed by the public on request, although it isn't
|
||||
always easy to get copies of them.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The contact sheets turned out to be the solution to the question of who the
|
||||
officer in the FHK photo actually was since, in one of the photos, I was able
|
||||
officer in the <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent> photo actually was since, in one of the photos, I was able
|
||||
to read the name plate on one of the men in one of the contact sheet photos:
|
||||
it read "HW Sinclair," one of the four officers named by his associates.
|
||||
After making a number of phone calls, I was able to locate Sinclair, and
|
||||
phoned him an arranged to visit with him at his home in rural East Texas. Now
|
||||
retired and raising cattle, he doesn't seem to have aged much in the past 29
|
||||
years and looks very much the same as he did the day the photo was taken.
|
||||
Both he and his wife positively identified him in the FHK photo, and also
|
||||
identified Lt Lawrence Wood as the man with him in a photocopy I'd been able
|
||||
Both he and his wife positively identified him in the <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent> photo, and also
|
||||
identified Lt <ent type = 'person'>Lawrence <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent></ent> as the man with him in a photocopy I'd been able
|
||||
to make of a Star-Telegram photo showing both officers.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>(Two of the other officers who had been identified later called me and
|
||||
identified Sinclair as well. It is also worth noting that, in head-on photos
|
||||
of the man in custody, the similarity between him and "Maurice Bishop" and/or
|
||||
David Atlee Phillips is no longer evident. One such photo can be seen in Shaw
|
||||
of the man in custody, the similarity between him and "<ent type = 'person'>Maurice Bishop</ent>" and/or
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>David Atlee Phillips</ent> is no longer evident. One such photo can be seen in <ent type = 'person'>Shaw</ent>
|
||||
and Harris' Cover-Up,[47] and another is on file at The Fort Worth
|
||||
Star-Telegram.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Sinclair is a private man and wouldn't allow our interview to be taped. He
|
||||
was, however, very forthcoming in his recollections of that period. In
|
||||
addition to arresting the man in the picture, Sinclair had also performed
|
||||
security at Miller's Funeral Home while Lee Oswald was being prepared for
|
||||
burial, and also at Rose Hill Cemetery when Oswald was buried. He also
|
||||
security at Miller's Funeral Home while <ent type = 'person'>Lee <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent></ent> was being prepared for
|
||||
burial, and also at Rose Hill Cemetery when <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> was buried. He also
|
||||
pointed out that FWPD kept a guard at the gravesite for many months following
|
||||
Oswald's burial, citing various threats of people digging up the body and
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s burial, citing various threats of people digging up the body and
|
||||
dragging it through the streets of the city.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It was a quirk of fate that got Sinclair involved in these events. Since he
|
||||
@ -466,16 +466,16 @@ FWPD.</p>
|
||||
the east side of Fort Worth, although he couldn't recall the exact location.
|
||||
He had assisted two officers who he thought were on motorcycles to transport
|
||||
the prisoner to city hall. "There were a lot of cops there," he said, adding
|
||||
that he had arrived after the other officers. Lt Wood, whom Sinclair
|
||||
that he had arrived after the other officers. Lt <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent>, whom Sinclair
|
||||
diplomatically said was "not shy of the media," appeared "out of nowhere"
|
||||
when he arrived at city hall with the prisoner. (In fact, Wood was already at
|
||||
city hall, having escorted officers Whistler and Harbour with Donald House
|
||||
from the arrest scene. In the NBC film footage, Wood can be seen alighting
|
||||
from his motorcycle in front of the police cruiser) Wood then helped Sinclair
|
||||
take the man out of the patrol car and escorted him into city hall. Wood is
|
||||
when he arrived at city hall with the prisoner. (In fact, <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> was already at
|
||||
city hall, having escorted officers <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent> and Harbour with <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>ald House
|
||||
from the arrest scene. In the NBC film footage, <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> can be seen alighting
|
||||
from his motorcycle in front of the police cruiser) <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> then helped Sinclair
|
||||
take the man out of the patrol car and escorted him into city hall. <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> is
|
||||
also pictured taking the man out of the cruiser's front seat in one of the
|
||||
photos in Cover-Up,[48] and it is his fingers that can be seen at the
|
||||
prisoner's right elbow in the FHK photo.</p>
|
||||
prisoner's right elbow in the <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent> photo.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Because he had merely assisted in the arrest, Sinclair did not believe that
|
||||
he had filed an arrest report, that duty falling to the actual arresting
|
||||
@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ is no longer available. Beyond these facts and his recollection that it was
|
||||
the only time in his career that he had loosed the shotgun officers carried
|
||||
in their cruisers, he couldn't remember anything particularly striking about
|
||||
the arrest and he was unable to remember what the man's name might have been.
|
||||
He noted that Wood is now deceased, and that he didn't know who the arresting
|
||||
He noted that <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> is now deceased, and that he didn't know who the arresting
|
||||
officers might have been.[49]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Unidentified Man</p>
|
||||
@ -525,24 +525,24 @@ started out like any other day for FWPD (aside from the President's visit
|
||||
that morning). Of the thirty or so arrests officers made that day, many were
|
||||
listed as "juvenile fugitives," and a roughly equal number were for
|
||||
"investigation of theft under $50 (shoplifting)." There was also a report of
|
||||
a man who'd been taken into custody because the police had learned he had VD,
|
||||
a man who'd been taken into custody because the police had learned he had <ent type = 'person'>VD</ent>,
|
||||
and one of a man who had been arrested in the men's room of the local bus
|
||||
station while injecting nitroglycerine into his arm. Maybe the day wasn't so
|
||||
"typical" after all....</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Midway through the day's reports was the arrest report for Donald Wayne
|
||||
<p>Midway through the day's reports was the arrest report for <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>ald Wayne
|
||||
House, which I decided to make a copy of since, after all, I'd been told it
|
||||
hadn't been filed. The very next arrest report was for another man named
|
||||
Kenneth Glenn Wilson, then of 6121 Broadway in Haltom City to the east of
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kenneth Glenn Wilson</ent>, then of 6121 Broadway in Haltom City to the east of
|
||||
Fort Worth. Interestingly, he had also been arrested at the 3400 block of
|
||||
East Belknap Street, 23 minutes after House had been. The arresting officers
|
||||
were listed as Lt LE Wood and HW Sinclair.[50]</p>
|
||||
were listed as Lt LE <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> and HW Sinclair.[50]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>This was an odd coincidence: nobody had mentioned two men having been
|
||||
arrested in that place at that time. Who was this man, and what had he been
|
||||
arrested for? That the arresting officers were the same two men who had been
|
||||
photographed bringing the "unidentified suspect" into city hall made this
|
||||
record all the more intriguing. (It is worth noting that Wood couldn't have
|
||||
record all the more intriguing. (It is worth noting that <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> couldn't have
|
||||
actually been an arresting officer since he'd already left the scene before
|
||||
the man was taken into custody. He was, however, one of the two officers who
|
||||
escorted him into city hall and booked him, and so was included in the
|
||||
@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ he was traveling to Fort Worth to visit his cousin, in addition to mentioning
|
||||
his intent to visit his Army buddy in Dallas.[52] This man Wilson--or rather,
|
||||
his wife--must be who House was going to see.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>When I was talking with WD Roberts earlier, neither of us could figure out
|
||||
<p>When I was talking with WD <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> earlier, neither of us could figure out
|
||||
why he had gotten off of the highway and driven up Riverside Drive since his
|
||||
home was a number of miles farther out the same road. I drove to 6121
|
||||
Broadway, the address given on Wilson's arrest record. While the house no
|
||||
@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ how Wilson knew House had been arrested in the first place, an answer I knew
|
||||
only Wilson could provide.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I was finally able to locate and contact Wilson (he no longer lives in Fort
|
||||
Worth), who verified that he was the same Kenneth Glenn Wilson who had lived
|
||||
Worth), who verified that he was the same <ent type = 'person'>Kenneth Glenn Wilson</ent> who had lived
|
||||
at the 6121 Broadway address nearly 30 years ago. I explained the reason I
|
||||
was calling, to identify a man in a photo which I believed to be him, and
|
||||
wondered if he would be willing to help me. We discussed the circumstances
|
||||
@ -593,8 +593,8 @@ assassination with his picture in it; did I perhaps have the same one? It
|
||||
turned out to be Cover-Up, which of course, I had. I asked him to turn to
|
||||
page 89 where the photos of House and the "unidentified suspect" were, and
|
||||
asked him if he recognized any of them. "Sure," he said. "The three across
|
||||
the top are Don, and the two below that are of me."[53] One of these two
|
||||
photos is the same as that which appears in FHK, as we've already discussed.</p>
|
||||
the top are <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>, and the two below that are of me."[53] One of these two
|
||||
photos is the same as that which appears in <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent>, as we've already discussed.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Satisfied that Wilson and the "unidentified suspect" were one and the same, I
|
||||
arranged to meet with him the following weekend when I could make the time to
|
||||
@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ restaurant near the interstate; he was accompanied by his wife and young
|
||||
grandson, who was visiting for the weekend. We talked for nearly three hours.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Wilson now wears glasses and is, in his words, "a little fatter and deeper in
|
||||
debt," but the similarity with the man in the FHK photo was unmistakable. He
|
||||
debt," but the similarity with the man in the <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent> photo was unmistakable. He
|
||||
parts his hair differently, but facial characteristics like the nose, chin
|
||||
and forehead don't change, and_despite his denial_he still has the same slim
|
||||
build he had back then. When he later posed in the same semi-profile as in
|
||||
@ -620,58 +620,58 @@ Dallas police had contacted his mother_with whom he was living at the time_to
|
||||
determine his whereabouts. After two or three such calls, Mrs House became
|
||||
concerned, and called her niece, Mrs Wilson. (Mrs House is now deceased, so I
|
||||
was unable to determine what DPD had talked with her about during those
|
||||
calls.) Mrs House called the Wilsons' because, whenever Don came to Fort
|
||||
calls.) Mrs House called the Wilsons' because, whenever <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent> came to Fort
|
||||
Worth, he would spend the night with the Wilsons and she expected he would do
|
||||
so this night too. After the calls from DPD, she became worried.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Shortly after the call from her aunt, Mrs Wilson heard a radio broadcast of a
|
||||
suspect, identified as "22-year-old Donald House of Ranger, Texas" having
|
||||
suspect, identified as "22-year-old <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>ald House of Ranger, Texas" having
|
||||
been arrested at 3408 East Belknap in Fort Worth.[55] At first, she said, she
|
||||
didn't recognize the name since "nobody called him Donald," but realized
|
||||
didn't recognize the name since "nobody called him <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>ald," but realized
|
||||
after a moment that it had been her cousin who'd been taken into custody in
|
||||
connection with the slaying.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>She noted that the address was only a couple of blocks from where her husband
|
||||
worked selling auto parts, and called to ask him to check on Don since it
|
||||
worked selling auto parts, and called to ask him to check on <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent> since it
|
||||
appeared he was in some sort of trouble. He excused himself from work and
|
||||
walked the short distance to where House had been arrested. There, he told
|
||||
officers that he thought the car belonged to his wife's cousin, and was taken
|
||||
into custody at 2:20 pm.[56] "I was looking out for Don," Ken Wilson told me,
|
||||
into custody at 2:20 pm.[56] "I was looking out for <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>," <ent type = 'person'>Ken Wilson</ent> told me,
|
||||
"and they ended up taking me to jail!"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>He was not charged with a crime, and as the record of his arrest shows, he
|
||||
was brought in solely as a witness. He was questioned about his relationship
|
||||
with Don House and released 90 minutes later, at 3:50.[57] He returned home
|
||||
with <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent> House and released 90 minutes later, at 3:50.[57] He returned home
|
||||
with his wife, where House joined them a couple of hours later (House wasn't
|
||||
released until 5:15[58]).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>(Mrs Wilson recalled an amusing anecdote from that day: when Don had finally
|
||||
<p>(Mrs Wilson recalled an amusing anecdote from that day: when <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent> had finally
|
||||
come to their house, everyone wanted to know if he'd been nervous. "Nervous?
|
||||
Of course not, I didn't do anything," he said, sitting down... missing the
|
||||
chair completely and sprawling on the floor. Nervous? Who me? I guess not.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Wilson's account also clears up questions about HW Sinclair's recollection of
|
||||
the event and in reconstructing the "arrest:" House had been curbed by
|
||||
Roberts and hurried into Whistler's cruiser with Harbour in the back with
|
||||
House. They in turn sped off to city hall with their prisoner with Lt Wood in
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> and hurried into <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent>'s cruiser with Harbour in the back with
|
||||
House. They in turn sped off to city hall with their prisoner with Lt <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> in
|
||||
the lead, who may well have given orders to secure the scene before
|
||||
departing. Other officers began arriving during and after this period, one of
|
||||
whom was Sinclair. Whether he arrived before or after Wilson is difficult to
|
||||
determine and not really important. He was nevertheless selected to transport
|
||||
Wilson to headquarters, which he did. Obviously, Sinclair did not feel
|
||||
threatened by the mild-mannered Wilson, who rode beside him unmanacled and
|
||||
volunteering information about his wife's cousin, Don House, during the five-
|
||||
volunteering information about his wife's cousin, <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent> House, during the five-
|
||||
or ten-minute ride downtown. From all accounts, it was a relatively pleasant
|
||||
trip, if being under arrest or dealing with suspected Presidential assassins
|
||||
can ever be called "pleasant!"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On arriving at city hall, the two men were met by Lt Wood, who had escorted
|
||||
Whistler, Roberts and House to city hall less than a half-hour before.
|
||||
Undoubtedly, Wood felt a need for additional police presence ushering Wilson
|
||||
<p>On arriving at city hall, the two men were met by Lt <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent>, who had escorted
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> and House to city hall less than a half-hour before.
|
||||
Undoubtedly, <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> felt a need for additional police presence ushering Wilson
|
||||
into city hall because a crowd of people had gathered,[59] and under the
|
||||
circumstances, it wouldn't have been unreasonable to suspect they might have
|
||||
become unruly at the sight of a "suspect" in the assassination being led
|
||||
before them. In fact, Ken Wilson recalled the scene as "a little frightening
|
||||
before them. In fact, <ent type = 'person'>Ken Wilson</ent> recalled the scene as "a little frightening
|
||||
with all those people standing around yelling."[60]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Photos of both House and Wilson were taken by photographers from both the
|
||||
@ -684,9 +684,9 @@ Wilson exists, I haven't seen it.</p>
|
||||
==========</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Beginning with a photograph of an "unidentified man" said to have been
|
||||
arrested in Fort Worth and connected with both the Kennedy murder and the
|
||||
arrested in Fort Worth and connected with both the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> murder and the
|
||||
CIA, along with a vague rumor or two of how the "black sedan" described by
|
||||
Tom Tilson may have been found in Fort Worth, we've come to find that not
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Tom Tilson</ent> may have been found in Fort Worth, we've come to find that not
|
||||
only is there no evidence to support such a connection, but also that it is
|
||||
quite apparent that the black sedan never actually existed and is either a
|
||||
figment of Tilson's imagination, a mis-recollection, or an attempt to portray
|
||||
@ -702,30 +702,30 @@ he was able to leave to visit his cousin. A couple of women at a gas station
|
||||
thought he matched the broadcast description of a suspect, and he was taken
|
||||
into custody, cleared and released.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The second man, Ken Wilson, was only trying to help House, his wife's cousin.
|
||||
<p>The second man, <ent type = 'person'>Ken Wilson</ent>, was only trying to help House, his wife's cousin.
|
||||
He was taken into city hall as a witness, and not as a suspect. He wasn't
|
||||
charged with any crime, and wasn't even handcuffed as he rode to city hall in
|
||||
the front seat with HW Sinclair. He was questioned about his relationship to
|
||||
House, released and went home. He's hardly given a second thought to these
|
||||
events afterward until I spoke with him about them.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>That Ken Wilson remained "unidentified" for nearly 30 years is surprising
|
||||
<p>That <ent type = 'person'>Ken Wilson</ent> remained "unidentified" for nearly 30 years is surprising
|
||||
when you consider that I was able to locate and identify him within two weeks
|
||||
of the time his photo in FHK was brought to my attention, using records which
|
||||
of the time his photo in <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent> was brought to my attention, using records which
|
||||
"don't exist" long after others had apparently attempted the same. None of
|
||||
the police officers involved in these arrests_save Lawrence Wood, who was
|
||||
the police officers involved in these arrests_save <ent type = 'person'>Lawrence <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent></ent>, who was
|
||||
interviewed by The Fort Worth Star-Telegram 20 years later_had ever been
|
||||
contacted by anyone, and it's apparent that the search for the men's arrest
|
||||
records was neither thorough nor tenacious since they were, in fact, quite
|
||||
readily available.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I must admit I had been somewhat surprised that Ken Wilson had never
|
||||
<p>I must admit I had been somewhat surprised that <ent type = 'person'>Ken Wilson</ent> had never
|
||||
attempted to identify himself, especially having seen his photo in Cover-Up
|
||||
along with what could be considered "mysterious" if not "sinister"
|
||||
insinuations made about his being taken into custody. Then again, maybe I
|
||||
shouldn't have been so surprised, since there are many people who are
|
||||
apprehensive or skeptical, even cautious and suspicious of anything to do
|
||||
with the JFK murder, and don't want their names associated with it.</p>
|
||||
with the <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> murder, and don't want their names associated with it.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On the other hand, we've also got to ask ourselves who would Wilson have gone
|
||||
to even had he wished to identify himself? It's not an easy task to reach an
|
||||
@ -734,15 +734,15 @@ and widely circulated, it is not an easy matter to change bits of material,
|
||||
especially when it doesn't add to the story. It is unlikely that Cover-Up
|
||||
will be amended, but will First Hand Knowledge be corrected because we now
|
||||
know for certain that the "unidentified suspect" is no longer unidentified,
|
||||
was never in fact a suspect, and was absolutely not either David Phillips or
|
||||
"Maurice Bishop?" We'll have to wait for the second printing to find out.</p>
|
||||
was never in fact a suspect, and was absolutely not either <ent type = 'person'>David Phillips</ent> or
|
||||
"<ent type = 'person'>Maurice Bishop</ent>?" We'll have to wait for the second printing to find out.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>While the underlying concern of whether it is "better" from a publishing
|
||||
standpoint to maintain the intrigue and aura of mystery, or to ascertain that
|
||||
mundane details_as this has turned out to be_are accurately portrayed remains
|
||||
mundane <ent type = 'person'>details_as</ent> this has turned out to be_are accurately portrayed remains
|
||||
an important one, it is in truth of little consequence whether Wilson's
|
||||
"story" is corrected since, to all those thousands of people who've bought
|
||||
Cover-Up and FHK and not read this article, Ken Wilson will always be a
|
||||
Cover-Up and <ent type = 'person'>FHK</ent> and not read this article, <ent type = 'person'>Ken Wilson</ent> will always be a
|
||||
"mysterious CIA agent" involved in the assassination whose "arrest" was
|
||||
"covered up" by sinister forces. Certainly, I'd like to see the record
|
||||
amended, but I don't expect it will be. I just hope the same mistake won't be
|
||||
@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ made by future authors.</p>
|
||||
<p>It is perhaps unfortunate in some respects that I have brought these men and
|
||||
women to the fore, even despite the fact that it has "cleared" an innocent
|
||||
man from any involvement with the crime, and set the record straight about
|
||||
his detention. Wilson, for example, told me how his wife's cousin, Don House,
|
||||
his detention. Wilson, for example, told me how his wife's cousin, <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent> House,
|
||||
had been "harassed" over the peripheral role he had played in the events of
|
||||
November 22, 1963, and no longer wishes to talk to anyone about it; indeed,
|
||||
Cover-Up states that when the authors attempted to interview House during the
|
||||
@ -777,22 +777,22 @@ aren't we?</p>
|
||||
<p>Copyright c 1993, M. Duke Lane</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The author gratefully acknowledges the advice, assistance and encouragement
|
||||
of Gary Mack, Mary Ferrell, Dave Perry, and other Dallas area researchers in
|
||||
of <ent type = 'person'>Gary Mack</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Mary Ferrell</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Dave Perry</ent>, and other Dallas area researchers in
|
||||
this investigation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>NOTES
|
||||
-----</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1. Interview with Gary Null, WBAI-FM New York, 99.5 FM, October 1992</p>
|
||||
<p>1. Interview with <ent type = 'person'>Gary Null</ent>, WBAI-FM New York, 99.5 FM, October 1992</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>2. See Letters to the Editor of The Third Decade, Volume 9, Number 1,
|
||||
November 1992, pp 36-40; Number 2, January 1993, pp 9-11; and Number 3, March
|
||||
1993, pp 27-28 (all related).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>3. Robert Morrow, First Hand Knowledge, 1992, S.P.I Books/Shapolsky
|
||||
<p>3. Robert <ent type = 'person'>Morrow</ent>, First Hand Knowledge, 1992, S.P.I Books/Shapolsky
|
||||
Publishers, Inc, New York</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>4. Gary Shaw and Larry Ray Harris, Cover-Up, self-published, Cleburne TX,
|
||||
<p>4. <ent type = 'person'>Gary <ent type = 'person'>Shaw</ent></ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Larry Ray Harris</ent>, Cover-Up, self-published, Cleburne TX,
|
||||
1976, page 89</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>5. Obituary, The Washington Post, July 9, 1988, pG5</p>
|
||||
@ -804,29 +804,29 @@ arrested several persons, among them a Fort Worth man who was said to be
|
||||
driving a car linked to the slayer." There was no additional coverage of this
|
||||
event in the paper.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>7. Earl Golz, "Ex-officer suspect he chased `2nd gun'," The Dallas Morning
|
||||
<p>7. <ent type = 'person'>Earl <ent type = 'person'>Golz</ent></ent>, "Ex-officer suspect he chased `2nd gun'," The Dallas Morning
|
||||
News, August 20, 1978, p 42A.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>8. Jim Marrs, Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, 1989, Carroll & Graf
|
||||
<p>8. <ent type = 'person'>Jim Marrs</ent>, Crossfire: The Plot that Killed <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>, 1989, Carroll & Graf
|
||||
Publishers, New York, pp 325-327. This is a nearly verbatim recounting of the
|
||||
aforementioned Golz article.</p>
|
||||
aforementioned <ent type = 'person'>Golz</ent> article.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>9. Golz, "`2nd gun'"</p>
|
||||
<p>9. <ent type = 'person'>Golz</ent>, "`2nd gun'"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>10. "Scenes From an Assassination" (photographic essay), The Dallas
|
||||
Times-Herald, November 20, 1983</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>11. Golz, "`2nd gun'"</p>
|
||||
<p>11. <ent type = 'person'>Golz</ent>, "`2nd gun'"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>12. See Decker Exhibit 5323 (affidavits to Dallas County Sheriffs): 19H500,
|
||||
Malcolm Summers, November 23, 1963; 19H497-98, Jesse James Williams, November
|
||||
22, 1963; 19H501, William Clifford Anderson, November 25, 1963; 19H522-23,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Malcolm Summers</ent>, November 23, 1963; 19H497-98, Jesse <ent type = 'person'>James Williams</ent>, November
|
||||
22, 1963; 19H501, <ent type = 'person'>William Clifford Anderson</ent>, November 25, 1963; 19H522-23,
|
||||
November 22, 1963; and Cover-Up, p 88 (reference to DPD radio logs for
|
||||
11/22/63, time not indicated)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>13. Golz, "`2nd gun'"</p>
|
||||
<p>13. <ent type = 'person'>Golz</ent>, "`2nd gun'"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>14. Interview with WD Roberts by author, December 22, 1992</p>
|
||||
<p>14. Interview with WD <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> by author, December 22, 1992</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>15. "Man Arrested Here Released," The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 23,
|
||||
1963, p9</p>
|
||||
@ -845,17 +845,17 @@ September 28, 1964, page 1 and Cover-Up, p 88.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>21. 19H522-23, November 22, 1963.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>22. Ibid, and arrest report #19560, FWPD, Donald Wayne House. November 22, 1963</p>
|
||||
<p>22. Ibid, and arrest report #19560, FWPD, <ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>ald Wayne House. November 22, 1963</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>23. Roberts interview</p>
|
||||
<p>23. <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> interview</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>24. A six cylinder Plymouth: Roberts interview and House arrest report</p>
|
||||
<p>24. A six cylinder Plymouth: <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> interview and House arrest report</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>25. Interview with BG Whistler, January 5, 1993</p>
|
||||
<p>25. Interview with BG <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent>, January 5, 1993</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>26. House arrest report</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>27. Roberts interview; Whistler interview</p>
|
||||
<p>27. <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> interview; <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent> interview</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>28. House arrest report. Note that this may be "official" as opposed to
|
||||
actual time since an NBC newscast transcript notes the first broadcast that
|
||||
@ -866,20 +866,20 @@ House had already been pulled over and perhaps already taken to city hall.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>29. Cover-up, p 89, upper row of photos</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>30. Wood is now deceased and surviving officers do not recall who the
|
||||
<p>30. <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> is now deceased and surviving officers do not recall who the
|
||||
motorcycle officers were, but news footage taken by KXAS-TV (then WBAP-TV)
|
||||
made available to me by Fort Worth researcher Gary Mack shows Wood getting
|
||||
made available to me by Fort Worth researcher <ent type = 'person'>Gary Mack</ent> shows <ent type = 'person'>Wood</ent> getting
|
||||
off of his motorcycle as House is being driven up in the squad car</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>31. House arrest report; Roberts and Whistler interviews</p>
|
||||
<p>31. House arrest report; <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent> interviews</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>32. Roberts interview</p>
|
||||
<p>32. <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> interview</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>33. Whistler interview</p>
|
||||
<p>33. <ent type = 'person'>Whistler</ent> interview</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>34. Elston Brooks, "An Arrest He'll Never Forget," The Fort Worth
|
||||
<p>34. <ent type = 'person'>Elston Brooks</ent>, "An Arrest He'll Never Forget," The Fort Worth
|
||||
Star-Telegram, November 20, 1983, p 20F (Sunday special section: "Turning
|
||||
Point: The Assassination of JFK")</p>
|
||||
Point: The Assassination of <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>")</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>35. "'Suspect' Seized Here Made History"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ Point: The Assassination of JFK")</p>
|
||||
were dropped after House was questioned, and he was released at 5:15 pm, 3
|
||||
hours and 18 minutes after he'd been arrested</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>43. Roberts interview</p>
|
||||
<p>43. <ent type = 'person'>Roberts</ent> interview</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>44. CD 301</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ hours and 18 minutes after he'd been arrested</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>48. Ibid</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>49. Interview with Mr and Mrs HW Sinclair, December 20, 1992</p>
|
||||
<p>49. Interview with Mr and <ent type = 'person'>Mrs HW Sinclair</ent>, December 20, 1992</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>50. Wilson arrest record #19561, FWPD (shown on back cover), and accompanying
|
||||
disposition report and property record #19561</p>
|
||||
@ -920,9 +920,9 @@ disposition report and property record #19561</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>52. "'Suspect' Arrested Here Makes History."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>53. Telephone interview with Kenneth Glenn Wilson, January 9, 1993</p>
|
||||
<p>53. Telephone interview with <ent type = 'person'>Kenneth Glenn Wilson</ent>, January 9, 1993</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>54. Interview with Mr and Mrs Kenneth Glenn Wilson, January 23, 1993</p>
|
||||
<p>54. Interview with Mr and Mrs <ent type = 'person'>Kenneth Glenn Wilson</ent>, January 23, 1993</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>55. Live WBAP radio broadcast, November 22, 1963 at the time House was
|
||||
brought into the jail. In addition to the newspaper reporters and
|
||||
|
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ device is DARKSUCKER.
|
||||
This newsletter introduces a brief synopsis of the darksucker theory,
|
||||
which proves the existence of dark and establishes the fact that dark has
|
||||
great mass, and further, that dark is the fastest known particle in the
|
||||
universe. Apparently, even the celebrated Dr. Albert Einstein did not
|
||||
universe. Apparently, even the celebrated Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Albert Einstein</ent> did not
|
||||
suspect the truth.. that just as COLD is the absence of HEAT, LIGHT is
|
||||
actually the ABSENCE of DARK... light does not really exist!
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>From "CROSSFIRE" by <person>Jim Marrs</person>
|
||||
<xml><p>From "CROSSFIRE" by <ent type = 'person'>Jim Marrs</ent>
|
||||
ISBN 0-88184-524-8
|
||||
Copyright (c) 1989 by <person>Jim Marrs</person>
|
||||
Copyright (c) 1989 by <ent type = 'person'>Jim Marrs</ent>
|
||||
First published by Carroll & Graf 1989</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Reprinted without permission</p>
|
||||
@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ First published by Carroll & Graf 1989</p>
|
||||
<p> CONVENIENT DEATHS</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In the three-year period which followed the murder of President
|
||||
Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, 18 material witnesses died - six by
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Lee Harvey <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent></ent>, 18 material witnesses died - six by
|
||||
gunfire, three in motor accidents, two by suicide, one from a cut
|
||||
throat, one from a karate chop to the neck, five from natural causes.
|
||||
An actuary, engaged by the London Sunday Times, concluded that on
|
||||
@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ First published by Carroll & Graf 1989</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The above comment on the deaths of assassination witnesses was published in
|
||||
a tabloid companion piece to the movie _Execution Action_, released in 1973.
|
||||
By that time, part of the mythology of the Kennedy assassination included the
|
||||
By that time, part of the mythology of the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> assassination included the
|
||||
mysterious deaths of people who were connected with it.
|
||||
By the mid-1960s, people in Dallas already were whispering about the
|
||||
number of persons who died under strange or questionable circumstances. Well
|
||||
@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ of deaths. The Committee said it could not make a valid actuarial study due
|
||||
to the broad number and types of persons that had to be included in such a
|
||||
study.
|
||||
In response to a letter from the Committee, London Sunday Times legal
|
||||
manager Anthony Whitaker stated:</p>
|
||||
manager <ent type = 'person'>Anthony Whitaker</ent> stated:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Our piece about the odds against the deaths of the Kennedy witnesses
|
||||
<p> Our piece about the odds against the deaths of the <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> witnesses
|
||||
was, I regret to say, based on a careless journalistic mistake and
|
||||
should not have been published. This was realized by The Sunday Times
|
||||
editorial staff after the first edition - the one which goes to the
|
||||
@ -52,14 +52,14 @@ manager Anthony Whitaker stated:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This settled the matter for the House Committee, which apparently made
|
||||
little or no attempt to seriously study the number of deaths that followed
|
||||
the JFK assassination.
|
||||
Jacqueline Hess, the Committee's chief of research for the JFK
|
||||
the <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> assassination.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Jacqueline Hess</ent>, the Committee's chief of research for the <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>
|
||||
investigation, reported:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Our final conclusion on the issue is that the available evidence does
|
||||
not establish anything about the nature of these deaths which would
|
||||
indicate that the deaths were in some manner, either direct or
|
||||
peripheral, caused by the assassination of President Kennedy or by
|
||||
peripheral, caused by the assassination of President <ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent> or by
|
||||
any aspect of the subsequent investigation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> However, an objective look at both the number and the causes of death
|
||||
@ -69,11 +69,11 @@ causes raised eyebrows among those who study such a list.
|
||||
with the assassination and who are now dead are listed according to date of
|
||||
death.
|
||||
This is dealing only with deaths, not with the numerous persons - such as
|
||||
Warren Reynolds, Roger Craig, and Richard Carr - who claim to have been shot
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Warren Reynolds</ent>, <ent type = 'person'>Roger Craig</ent>, and <ent type = 'person'>Richard Carr</ent> - who claim to have been shot
|
||||
at or attacked.
|
||||
This chapter has been entitled "Convenient Deaths" because these deaths
|
||||
certainly would have been convenient for anyone not wishing the truth of the
|
||||
JFK assassination to become public.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> assassination to become public.
|
||||
The CIA has gone to some lengths to discredit the idea of mysterious
|
||||
deaths plaguing assassination witnesses.
|
||||
A 1967 memo from CIA headquarters to station chiefs advised:</p>
|
||||
@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ result of sophisticated chemicals. It states:</p>
|
||||
<p> While it is obvious that the CIA - and hence the mob through operatives who
|
||||
work for both - has the capability of killing, it is less well known that the
|
||||
Agency has developed drugs to induce cancer.
|
||||
Recall that Jack Ruby died of sudden lung cancer just as he had been granted
|
||||
Recall that <ent type = 'person'>Jack <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent></ent> died of sudden lung cancer just as he had been granted
|
||||
a new trial.
|
||||
A 1952 CIA memo reported on the cancer-causing effects of beryllium:
|
||||
"This is certainly the most toxic inorganic element and it produces a
|
||||
@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Others are ruled due to natural causes, such as heart attack.
|
||||
earliest deaths came during the time of the Warren Commission investigation
|
||||
or just afterwards.
|
||||
More deaths took place in the late 1960s as New Orleans District Attorney
|
||||
Jim Garrison was launching his investigation. Other suspicious deaths
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Jim <ent type = 'person'>Garrison</ent></ent> was launching his investigation. Other suspicious deaths
|
||||
occurred during the mid-1970s, as the Senate Intelligence Committee was
|
||||
looking into assassinations by U.S. intelligence agencies. And finally,
|
||||
another spate of deaths came around 1977, just as the House Select Committee
|
||||
@ -153,103 +153,103 @@ begin?</p>
|
||||
<p>Date Name Connection with Case Cause of Death</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>11/63 Karyn Kupcinet* TV host's daughter who was Murdered
|
||||
overheard telling of JFK's
|
||||
overheard telling of <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>'s
|
||||
death prior to 11/22/63</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Warren Commission Investigation</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>12/63 Jack Zangretti* Expressed foreknowledge of Gunshot victim
|
||||
Ruby shooting Oswald</p>
|
||||
<p>12/63 <ent type = 'person'>Jack Zangretti</ent>* Expressed foreknowledge of <ent type = 'person'>Gunshot</ent> victim
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> shooting <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>2/64 Eddy Benavides* Look-alike brother to Tippit Gunshot to head
|
||||
<p>2/64 Eddy Benavides* Look-alike brother to <ent type = 'person'>Tippit</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Gunshot</ent> to head
|
||||
shooting witness, Domingo
|
||||
Benavides</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>3/64 Betty McDonald* Former Ruby employee who Suicide by hanging
|
||||
alibied Warren Reynolds in Dallas jail
|
||||
<p>3/64 Betty McDonald* Former <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> employee who Suicide by hanging
|
||||
alibied <ent type = 'person'>Warren Reynolds</ent> in Dallas jail
|
||||
shooting suspect</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>3/64 Bill Chesher Thought to have information Heart attack
|
||||
linking Oswald and Ruby</p>
|
||||
<p>3/64 <ent type = 'person'>Bill Chesher</ent> Thought to have information Heart attack
|
||||
linking <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>3/64 Hank Killam* Husband of Ruby employee, Throat cut
|
||||
knew Oswald acquaintance</p>
|
||||
<p>3/64 <ent type = 'person'>Hank Killam</ent>* Husband of <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> employee, <ent type = 'person'>Throat</ent> cut
|
||||
knew <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> acquaintance</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>4/64 Bill Hunter* Reporter who was in Ruby's Accidental shooting
|
||||
<p>4/64 <ent type = 'person'>Bill Hunter</ent>* Reporter who was in <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent>'s Accidental shooting
|
||||
apartment on 11/24/63 by policeman</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>5/64 Gary Underhill* CIA agent who claimed Gunshot in head,
|
||||
<p>5/64 <ent type = 'person'>Gary Underhill</ent>* CIA agent who claimed <ent type = 'person'>Gunshot</ent> in head,
|
||||
Agency was involved Ruled suicide</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>5/64 Hugh Ward* Private investigator working Plane crash in
|
||||
with Guy Banister and David Mexico
|
||||
Ferrie</p>
|
||||
<p>5/64 <ent type = 'person'>Hugh Ward</ent>* Private investigator working Plane crash in
|
||||
with <ent type = 'person'>Guy Banister</ent> and David Mexico
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Ferrie</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>5/64 DeLesseps Morrison* New Orleans mayor Passenger in Ward's
|
||||
plane</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>8/64 Teresa Norton* Ruby employee Fatally shot</p>
|
||||
<p>8/64 Teresa Norton* <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> employee Fatally shot</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>6/64 Guy Banister* Ex-FBI agent in New Orleans Heart attack
|
||||
connected to Ferrie, CIA,
|
||||
Carlos Marcello and Oswald</p>
|
||||
<p>6/64 <ent type = 'person'>Guy Banister</ent>* Ex-FBI agent in New Orleans Heart attack
|
||||
connected to <ent type = 'person'>Ferrie</ent>, CIA,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Carlos Marcello</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>9/64 Jim Koethe* Reporter who was in Ruby's Blow to neck
|
||||
<p>9/64 Jim Koethe* Reporter who was in <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent>'s Blow to neck
|
||||
apartment on 11/24/63</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>9/64 C.D. Jackson Life Magazine senior vice Unknown
|
||||
president who bought Zapruder
|
||||
film and locked it away</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>10/64 Mary Pinchot Meyer* JFK mistress whose diary was Murdered
|
||||
<p>10/64 Mary Pinchot Meyer* <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> mistress whose diary was Murdered
|
||||
taken by CIA chief James
|
||||
Angleton after her death</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1/65 Paul Mandal Life writer who told of JFK Cancer
|
||||
<p>1/65 <ent type = 'person'>Paul Mandal</ent> Life writer who told of <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Cancer</ent>
|
||||
turning to rear when shot in
|
||||
throat</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>3/65 Tom Howard* Ruby's first lawyer, was in Heart attack
|
||||
Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63</p>
|
||||
<p>3/65 Tom Howard* <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent>'s first lawyer, was in Heart attack
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent>'s apartment on 11/24/63</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>5/65 Maurice Gatlin* Pilot for Guy Banister Fatal Fall</p>
|
||||
<p>5/65 Maurice Gatlin* Pilot for <ent type = 'person'>Guy Banister</ent> Fatal Fall</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>8/65 Mona B. Saenz* Texas Employment clerk who Hit by Dallas bus
|
||||
interviewed Oswald</p>
|
||||
interviewed <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>?/65 David Goldstein Dallasite who helped FBI Natural causes
|
||||
trace Oswald's pistol</p>
|
||||
trace <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s pistol</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>9/65 Rose Cheramie* Knew of assassination in Hit/run victim
|
||||
<p>9/65 <ent type = 'person'>Rose Cheramie</ent>* Knew of assassination in Hit/run victim
|
||||
advance, told of riding to
|
||||
Dallas with Cubans</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>11/65 Dorothy Kilgallen* Columnist who had private Drug overdose
|
||||
interview with Ruby, pledged
|
||||
to "break" JFK case</p>
|
||||
<p>11/65 <ent type = 'person'>Dorothy <ent type = 'person'>Kilgallen</ent></ent>* Columnist who had private Drug overdose
|
||||
interview with <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent>, pledged
|
||||
to "break" <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> case</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>11/65 Mrs. Earl Smith* Close friend to Dorothy Unknown
|
||||
Kilgallen, died two days
|
||||
<p>11/65 Mrs. <ent type = 'person'>Earl Smith</ent>* Close friend to Dorothy Unknown
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kilgallen</ent>, died two days
|
||||
after columnist, may have
|
||||
kept Kilgallen's notes</p>
|
||||
kept <ent type = 'person'>Kilgallen</ent>'s notes</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>12/65 William Whaley* Cabdriver who reportedly Motor Collision
|
||||
drove Oswald to Oak Cliff (the only Dallas
|
||||
drove <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> to Oak Cliff (the only Dallas
|
||||
taxi driver to
|
||||
die on duty)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1966 Judge Joe Brown Presided over Ruby's trial Heart attack</p>
|
||||
<p>1966 Judge <ent type = 'person'>Joe Brown</ent> Presided over <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent>'s trial Heart attack</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1966 Karen "Little Lynn" Ruby employee who last talked Gunshot victim
|
||||
Carlin* with Ruby before Oswald shooting</p>
|
||||
<p>1966 Karen "Little Lynn" <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> employee who last talked <ent type = 'person'>Gunshot</ent> victim
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Carlin</ent>* with <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> before <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> shooting</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1/66 Earline Roberts Oswald's landlady Heart attack</p>
|
||||
<p>1/66 Earline Roberts <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s landlady Heart attack</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>2/66 Albert Bogard* Car salesman who said Oswald Suicide
|
||||
<p>2/66 Albert Bogard* Car salesman who said <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> Suicide
|
||||
test drove new car</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>6/66 Capt. Frank Martin Dallas police captain who Cancer
|
||||
witnessed Oswald slaying,
|
||||
<p>6/66 Capt. <ent type = 'person'>Frank Martin</ent> Dallas police captain who <ent type = 'person'>Cancer</ent>
|
||||
witnessed <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> slaying,
|
||||
told Warren Commission,
|
||||
"There's a lot to be said,
|
||||
but probably be better if I
|
||||
@ -258,27 +258,27 @@ begin?</p>
|
||||
<p>8/66 Lee Bowers, Jr.* Witnessed men behind picket Motor accident
|
||||
fence on Grassy Knoll</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>9/66 Marilyn "Delilah" Ruby dancer Shot by husband
|
||||
Walle* after one month
|
||||
<p>9/66 Marilyn "Delilah" <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> dancer <ent type = 'person'>Shot</ent> by husband
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Walle</ent>* after one month
|
||||
of marriage</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>10/66 William Pitzer* JFK autopsy photographer Gunshot, ruled
|
||||
<p>10/66 William Pitzer* <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> autopsy photographer <ent type = 'person'>Gunshot</ent>, ruled
|
||||
who described his duty as suicide
|
||||
"horrifying experience"</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>11/66 Jimmy Levens Fort Worth nightclub owner Natural causes
|
||||
who hired Ruby employee</p>
|
||||
<p>11/66 <ent type = 'person'>Jimmy Levens</ent> Fort Worth nightclub owner Natural causes
|
||||
who hired <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> employee</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>11/66 James Worrell, Jr.* Saw man flee rear of Texas Motor accident
|
||||
School Book Depository</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1966 Clarence Oliver D.A. investigator who Unknown
|
||||
worked Ruby case</p>
|
||||
worked <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> case</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>12/66 Hank Suydam Life magazine official in Heart attack
|
||||
charge of JFK stories</p>
|
||||
charge of <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> stories</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Garrison Inquiry</p>
|
||||
<p> The <ent type = 'person'>Garrison</ent> Inquiry</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Date Name Connection with Case Cause of Death</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -286,61 +286,61 @@ begin?</p>
|
||||
helped film _Last Two Days_
|
||||
about assassination</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1/67 Jack Ruby Oswald's slayer Lung cancer (He
|
||||
<p>1/67 <ent type = 'person'>Jack <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent></ent> <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s slayer Lung cancer (He
|
||||
told family he
|
||||
was injected with
|
||||
cancer cells.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>2/67 Harold Russell* Saw escape of Tippit killer Killed by cop in
|
||||
<p>2/67 Harold Russell* Saw escape of <ent type = 'person'>Tippit</ent> killer Killed by cop in
|
||||
bar brawl</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>2/67 David Ferrie* Acquaintance of Oswald, Blow to neck,
|
||||
Garrison suspect, and ruled accidental
|
||||
employee of Guy Banister</p>
|
||||
<p>2/67 <ent type = 'person'>David <ent type = 'person'>Ferrie</ent></ent>* Acquaintance of <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>, Blow to neck,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Garrison</ent> suspect, and ruled accidental
|
||||
employee of <ent type = 'person'>Guy Banister</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>2/67 Eladio Del Valle* Anti-Castro Cuban associate Gunshot wound,
|
||||
of David Ferrie being sought ax wound to head
|
||||
by Garrison</p>
|
||||
<p>2/67 Eladio Del Valle* Anti-<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> Cuban associate <ent type = 'person'>Gunshot</ent> wound,
|
||||
of <ent type = 'person'>David <ent type = 'person'>Ferrie</ent></ent> being sought ax wound to head
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Garrison</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>3/67 Dr. Mary Sherman* Ferrie associate working on Died in fire
|
||||
<p>3/67 Dr. Mary Sherman* <ent type = 'person'>Ferrie</ent> associate working on Died in fire
|
||||
cancer research (possibly shot)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1/68 A.D. Bowie Assistant Dallas D.A. Cancer
|
||||
prosecuting Ruby</p>
|
||||
<p>1/68 A.D. <ent type = 'person'>Bowie</ent> Assistant Dallas D.A. <ent type = 'person'>Cancer</ent>
|
||||
prosecuting <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>4/68 Hiram Ingram Dallas deputy sheriff, close Cancer
|
||||
friend to Roger Craig</p>
|
||||
<p>4/68 Hiram Ingram Dallas deputy sheriff, close <ent type = 'person'>Cancer</ent>
|
||||
friend to <ent type = 'person'>Roger Craig</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>5/68 Dr. Nicholas Chetta New Orleans coroner who ruled Heart attack
|
||||
on death of Ferrie</p>
|
||||
<p>5/68 Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Nicholas Chetta</ent> New Orleans coroner who ruled Heart attack
|
||||
on death of <ent type = 'person'>Ferrie</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>8/68 Phillip Geraci* Friend of Perry Russo, told of Electrocution
|
||||
Oswald/Shaw connection</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>/Shaw connection</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1/69 Henry Delaune* Brother-in-law to coroner Murdered
|
||||
<p>1/69 <ent type = 'person'>Henry Delaune</ent>* Brother-in-law to coroner Murdered
|
||||
Chetta</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1/69 E.R. Walthers* Dallas deputy sheriff who Shot by felon
|
||||
<p>1/69 E.R. Walthers* Dallas deputy sheriff who <ent type = 'person'>Shot</ent> by felon
|
||||
was involved in Depository
|
||||
search, claimed to have found
|
||||
.45-cal slug</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1969 Charles Mentesana Filmed rifle other than Heart attack
|
||||
<p>1969 <ent type = 'person'>Charles Mentesana</ent> Filmed rifle other than Heart attack
|
||||
Mannlicher-Carcano being taken
|
||||
from Depository</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>4/69 Mary Bledsoe Neighbor to Oswald, also Natural causes
|
||||
knew David Ferrie</p>
|
||||
<p>4/69 Mary Bledsoe Neighbor to <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>, also Natural causes
|
||||
knew <ent type = 'person'>David <ent type = 'person'>Ferrie</ent></ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>4/69 John Crawford* Close friend to both Ruby and Crash of private
|
||||
Wesley Frazier, who gave ride plane
|
||||
to Oswald on 11/22/63</p>
|
||||
<p>4/69 <ent type = 'person'>John Crawford</ent>* Close friend to both <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> and Crash of private
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Wesley Frazier</ent>, who gave ride plane
|
||||
to <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> on 11/22/63</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>7/69 Rev. Clyde Johnson* Scheduled to testify about Fatally shot
|
||||
Clay Shaw/Oswald connection</p>
|
||||
<p>7/69 Rev. <ent type = 'person'>Clyde Johnson</ent>* Scheduled to testify about Fatally shot
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Clay Shaw</ent>/<ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> connection</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1970 George McGann* Underworld figure, connected Murdered
|
||||
to Ruby friends; wife, Beverly,
|
||||
<p>1970 <ent type = 'person'>George McGann</ent>* Underworld figure, connected Murdered
|
||||
to <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> friends; wife, <ent type = 'person'>Beverly</ent>,
|
||||
took film in Dealey Plaza</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1/70 Darrell W. Garner Arrested for shooting Warren Drug overdose
|
||||
@ -348,22 +348,22 @@ begin?</p>
|
||||
alibi from Betty McDonald</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>8/70 Bill Decker Dallas sheriff who saw bullet Natural causes
|
||||
hit street in front of JFK</p>
|
||||
hit street in front of <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>8/70 Abraham Zapruder Took famous film of JFK Natural causes
|
||||
<p>8/70 Abraham Zapruder Took famous film of <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> Natural causes
|
||||
assassination</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>12/70 Salvatore Granello* Mobster linked to Hoffa, Murdered
|
||||
Trafficante, and Castro
|
||||
<p>12/70 Salvatore Granello* Mobster linked to <ent type = 'person'>Hoffa</ent>, Murdered
|
||||
Trafficante, and <ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent>
|
||||
assassination plots</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1971 James Plumeri* Mobster tied to mob-CIA Murdered
|
||||
assassination plots</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>3/71 Clayton Fowler Ruby's chief defense attorney Unknown</p>
|
||||
<p>3/71 Clayton Fowler <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent>'s chief defense attorney Unknown</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>4/71 Gen. Charles Cabell* CIA deputy director connected Collapsed and
|
||||
to anti-Castro Cubans died after
|
||||
<p>4/71 Gen. <ent type = 'person'>Charles Cabell</ent>* CIA deputy director connected Collapsed and
|
||||
to anti-<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> Cubans died after
|
||||
physical at Ft.
|
||||
Myers</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -376,60 +376,60 @@ begin?</p>
|
||||
to publicly express doubts flight
|
||||
doubts about findings</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>5/72 J. Edgar Hoover* FBI director who pushed "Lone Heart attack (no
|
||||
assassin" theory in JFK autopsy)
|
||||
<p>5/72 J. <ent type = 'person'>Edgar Hoover</ent>* FBI director who pushed "Lone Heart attack (no
|
||||
assassin" theory in <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> autopsy)
|
||||
assassination</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>9/73 Thomas E. Davis* Gun runner connected to both Electrocuted
|
||||
Ruby and CIA trying to steal
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> and CIA trying to steal
|
||||
wire</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>2/74 J.A. Milteer* Miami right-winger who Heater explosion
|
||||
predicted JFK's death and
|
||||
predicted <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>'s death and
|
||||
capture of scapegoat</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1974 Dave Yaras* Close friend to both Hoffa Murdered
|
||||
and Jack Ruby</p>
|
||||
<p>1974 <ent type = 'person'>Dave Yaras</ent>* Close friend to both <ent type = 'person'>Hoffa</ent> Murdered
|
||||
and <ent type = 'person'>Jack <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent></ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>7/74 Earl Warren Chief justice who reluctantly Heart failure
|
||||
<p>7/74 <ent type = 'person'>Earl Warren</ent> Chief justice who reluctantly Heart failure
|
||||
chaired Warren Commission</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>8/74 Clay Shaw* Prime suspect in Garrison Possible cancer
|
||||
<p>8/74 <ent type = 'person'>Clay Shaw</ent>* Prime suspect in <ent type = 'person'>Garrison</ent> Possible cancer
|
||||
case, reportedly a CIA
|
||||
contact with Ferrie and E.
|
||||
Howard Hunt</p>
|
||||
contact with <ent type = 'person'>Ferrie</ent> and E.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Howard Hunt</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1974 Earle Cabell Mayor of Dallas on 11/22/63, Natural causes
|
||||
whose brother, Gen. Charles
|
||||
Cabell, was fired from CIA by
|
||||
JFK</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>6/75 Sam Giancana* Chicago Mafia boss slated to Murdered
|
||||
<p>6/75 <ent type = 'person'>Sam Giancana</ent>* Chicago Mafia boss slated to Murdered
|
||||
tell about CIA-mob death plots
|
||||
to Senate Committee</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1975 Clyde Tolson J. Edgar Hoover's assistant Natural causes
|
||||
<p>1975 <ent type = 'person'>Clyde Tolson</ent> J. <ent type = 'person'>Edgar Hoover</ent>'s assistant Natural causes
|
||||
and roommate</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>7/75 Allan Sweatt Dallas deputy sheriff involved Natural causes
|
||||
<p>7/75 <ent type = 'person'>Allan Sweatt</ent> Dallas deputy sheriff involved Natural causes
|
||||
in investigation</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>12/75 Gen. Earl Wheeler Contact between JFK and CIA Unknown</p>
|
||||
<p>12/75 Gen. <ent type = 'person'>Earl Wheeler Contact</ent> between <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> and CIA Unknown</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1976 Ralph Paul Ruby's business partner Heart attack
|
||||
<p>1976 Ralph Paul <ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent>'s business partner Heart attack
|
||||
connected with crime figures</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>4/76 James Chaney Dallas motorcycle officer Heart attack
|
||||
to JFK's right rear who said
|
||||
JFK "struck in the face" with
|
||||
<p>4/76 <ent type = 'person'>James Chaney</ent> Dallas motorcycle officer Heart attack
|
||||
to <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>'s right rear who said
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> "struck in the face" with
|
||||
bullet</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>4/76 Dr. Charles Gregory Governor John Connally's Heart attack
|
||||
<p>4/76 Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Charles Gregory</ent> Governor <ent type = 'person'>John Connally</ent>'s Heart attack
|
||||
physician</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>6/76 William Harvey* CIA coordinator for CIA-mob Complications of
|
||||
<p>6/76 <ent type = 'person'>William Harvey</ent>* CIA coordinator for CIA-mob Complications of
|
||||
assassination plans against heart surgery
|
||||
Castro</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>7/76 John Roselli* Mobster who testified to Stabbed and
|
||||
Senate committee, was to stuffed in metal
|
||||
@ -438,32 +438,32 @@ begin?</p>
|
||||
<p> 1977 - A Terrible Year for Many</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The year 1977 produced a bumper crop of candidates for listing under
|
||||
convenient deaths connected with the JFK assassination - including the deaths
|
||||
convenient deaths connected with the <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> assassination - including the deaths
|
||||
of six top FBI officials all of whom were scheduled to testify before the
|
||||
House Select Committee on Assassinations.
|
||||
Topping this list was former number-three man in the FBI, William C.
|
||||
Sullivan, who had already had a preliminary meeting with the investigators
|
||||
for the House Committee. Sullivan was shot with a high-powered rifle near
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Sullivan</ent>, who had already had a preliminary meeting with the investigators
|
||||
for the House Committee. <ent type = 'person'>Sullivan</ent> was shot with a high-powered rifle near
|
||||
his New Hampshire home by a man who claimed to have mistaken him for a deer.
|
||||
The man was charged with a misdemeanor - "shooting a human being by
|
||||
accident" - and released to the custody of his father, a state policeman.
|
||||
There was no further investigation of Sullivan's death.
|
||||
Louis Nichols was a special assistant to J. Edgar Hoover as well as
|
||||
There was no further investigation of <ent type = 'person'>Sullivan</ent>'s death.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Louis Nichols</ent> was a special assistant to J. <ent type = 'person'>Edgar Hoover</ent> as well as
|
||||
Hoover's liaison with the Warren Commission. Alan H. Belmont also was a
|
||||
special assistant to Hoover. James Cadigan was a document expert with access
|
||||
to many classified assassination documents, while J.M. English headed the FBI
|
||||
laboratory where Oswald's rifle and pistol were tested. Donald Kaylor was
|
||||
laboratory where <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent>'s rifle and pistol were tested. <ent type = 'person'>Donald Kaylor</ent> was
|
||||
the FBI fingerprint expert who examined prints found at the assassination
|
||||
scene. None of these six Bureau officials lived to tell what they knew to
|
||||
the House Committee.
|
||||
Other key assassination witnesses, such as George DeMohrenschildt and
|
||||
former Cuban president Carlos Prio Soccaras, died within weeks of each other
|
||||
Other key assassination witnesses, such as <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>DeMohrenschildt</ent></ent> and
|
||||
former Cuban president <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Carlos Prio</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Soccaras</ent></ent>, died within weeks of each other
|
||||
in 1977, just as they, too, were being sought by the House Committee.
|
||||
The ranks of both organized crime and U.S. intelligence agencies were
|
||||
thinned by deaths beginning in 1975, the time of the Senate Intelligence
|
||||
Hearings, and 1978, the closing months of the House Committee.
|
||||
Charles Nicoletti, a mobster connected with the CIA-Mafia assassination
|
||||
plots, was murdered in Chicago, while William Pawley, a former diplomat
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Charles Nicoletti</ent>, a mobster connected with the CIA-Mafia assassination
|
||||
plots, was murdered in Chicago, while <ent type = 'person'>William Pawley</ent>, a former diplomat
|
||||
connected with both organized crime and CIA figures, reportedly committed
|
||||
suicide.
|
||||
Adding to rumors that "hit teams" may have been at work, a Time magazine
|
||||
@ -474,37 +474,37 @@ activities."
|
||||
One FBI source was quoted as saying: "Our main concern is that we may be
|
||||
facing a revival of the old `Murder, Inc.' days."
|
||||
A New York News story concerning this official fear of roving
|
||||
assassination squads even mentions the death of Sam Giancana, who was killed
|
||||
assassination squads even mentions the death of <ent type = 'person'>Sam Giancana</ent>, who was killed
|
||||
one day before he was scheduled to testify about mob-CIA connections and
|
||||
while under government protection.
|
||||
Prior to the House Committee investigation into the JFK assassination,
|
||||
Prior to the House Committee investigation into the <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> assassination,
|
||||
the news media reported the following deaths:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Date Name Connection with Case Cause of Death</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1/77 William Pawley* Former Brazilian ambassador Gunshot, ruled
|
||||
connected to anti-Castro suicide
|
||||
<p>1/77 <ent type = 'person'>William Pawley</ent>* Former Brazilian ambassador <ent type = 'person'>Gunshot</ent>, ruled
|
||||
connected to anti-<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> suicide
|
||||
Cubans, crime figures</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>3/77 George Close friend to both Oswald Gunshot wound,
|
||||
DeMohrenschildt* and Bouvier family (Jackie ruled suicide
|
||||
Kennedy's parents), CIA
|
||||
<p>3/77 George Close friend to both <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Gunshot</ent> wound,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>DeMohrenschildt</ent>* and <ent type = 'person'>Bouvier</ent> family (<ent type = 'person'>Jackie</ent> ruled suicide
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kennedy</ent>'s parents), CIA
|
||||
contract agent</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>3/77 Carlos Prio Former Cuban president, Gunshot wound,
|
||||
Soccaras* money man for anti-Castro ruled suicide
|
||||
<p>3/77 <ent type = 'person'>Carlos Prio</ent> Former Cuban president, <ent type = 'person'>Gunshot</ent> wound,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Soccaras</ent>* money man for anti-<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> ruled suicide
|
||||
Cubans</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>3/77 Paul Raigorodsky Business friend of George Natural causes
|
||||
DeMohrenschildt and wealthy
|
||||
<p>3/77 <ent type = 'person'>Paul Raigorodsky</ent> Business friend of George Natural causes
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>DeMohrenschildt</ent> and wealthy
|
||||
oilmen</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>5/77 Lou Staples* Dallas radio talk show host Gunshot to head,
|
||||
<p>5/77 <ent type = 'person'>Lou Staples</ent>* Dallas radio talk show host <ent type = 'person'>Gunshot</ent> to head,
|
||||
who told friends he would ruled suicide
|
||||
break case</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>6/77 Louis Nichols Former number-three man in Heart attack
|
||||
FBI, worked on JFK
|
||||
<p>6/77 <ent type = 'person'>Louis Nichols</ent> Former number-three man in Heart attack
|
||||
FBI, worked on <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>
|
||||
investigation</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>8/77 Alan Belmont FBI official who testified to "Long illness"
|
||||
@ -513,62 +513,62 @@ the news media reported the following deaths:</p>
|
||||
<p>8/77 James Cadigan FBI document expert who Fall in home
|
||||
testified to Warren Commission</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>8/77 Joseph C. Ayres* Chief steward on JFK's Shooting accident
|
||||
<p>8/77 Joseph C. Ayres* Chief steward on <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>'s Shooting accident
|
||||
Air Force One</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>8/77 Francis G. Powers* U-2 pilot downed over Russia Helicopter crash
|
||||
in 1960 (he reportedly
|
||||
ran out of fuel)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>9/77 Kenneth O'Donnell JFK's closest aide Natural causes</p>
|
||||
<p>9/77 Kenneth O'Donnell <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent>'s closest aide Natural causes</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>10/77 Donald Kaylor FBI fingerprint chemist Heart attack</p>
|
||||
<p>10/77 <ent type = 'person'>Donald Kaylor</ent> FBI fingerprint chemist Heart attack</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>10/77 J.M. English Former head of FBI Forensic Heart attack
|
||||
Sciences Laboratory</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>11/77 William Sullivan* Former number-three man in Hunting accident
|
||||
<p>11/77 William <ent type = 'person'>Sullivan</ent>* Former number-three man in Hunting accident
|
||||
FBI, headed Division 5,
|
||||
counterespionage and
|
||||
domestic intelligence</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1978 C.L. "Lummie" Lewis Dallas deputy sheriff who Natural causes
|
||||
arrested Mafia man Braden in
|
||||
arrested Mafia man <ent type = 'person'>Braden</ent> in
|
||||
Dealey Plaza</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>9/78 Garland Slack Man who said his target was Unknown
|
||||
fired at by Oswald at rifle
|
||||
fired at by <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> at rifle
|
||||
range</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1/79 Billy Lovelady Depository employee said to be Complications
|
||||
<p>1/79 <ent type = 'person'>Billy Lovelady Depository</ent> employee said to be Complications
|
||||
the man in the doorway in AP from heart attack
|
||||
photograph</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>6/80 Dr. John Holbrook Psychiatrist who testified Heart attack, but
|
||||
Ruby was not insane pills, notes found</p>
|
||||
<p>6/80 Dr. <ent type = 'person'>John Holbrook</ent> Psychiatrist who testified Heart attack, but
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Ruby</ent> was not insane pills, notes found</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1/81 Marguerite Oswald Mother of accused assassin Cancer</p>
|
||||
<p>1/81 Marguerite <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> Mother of accused assassin <ent type = 'person'>Cancer</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>10/81 Frank Watts Chief felony prosecutor for Natural causes
|
||||
<p>10/81 <ent type = 'person'>Frank Watts</ent> Chief felony prosecutor for Natural causes
|
||||
Dallas D.A.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>1/82 Peter Gregory Original translator for Natural causes
|
||||
Marina Oswald and Secret
|
||||
Marina <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> and Secret
|
||||
Service</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>5/82 Dr. James Weston Pathologist allowed to see Died while
|
||||
JFK autopsy material for jogging, ruled
|
||||
<p>5/82 Dr. <ent type = 'person'>James Weston</ent> Pathologist allowed to see Died while
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> autopsy material for jogging, ruled
|
||||
HSCA natural causes</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>8/82 Will H. Griffin FBI agent who reportedly Cancer
|
||||
said Oswald was "definitely"
|
||||
<p>8/82 Will H. Griffin FBI agent who reportedly <ent type = 'person'>Cancer</ent>
|
||||
said <ent type = 'person'>Oswald</ent> was "definitely"
|
||||
an FBI informant</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>10/82 W. Marvin Gheesling FBI official who helped Natural causes
|
||||
supervise JFK investigation</p>
|
||||
supervise <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> investigation</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>3/84 Roy Kellerman Secret Service agent in charge Unknown
|
||||
if JFK limousine
|
||||
<p>3/84 <ent type = 'person'>Roy Kellerman</ent> Secret Service agent in charge Unknown
|
||||
if <ent type = 'person'>JFK</ent> limousine
|
||||
|
||||
--- end
|
||||
</p></xml>
|
@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DEMOCRATIZED PRIVILEGE</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>By RICHARD M. EBELING</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith constructed some of the
|
||||
<p>In The Wealth of Nations, <ent type = 'person'>Adam <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent></ent> constructed some of the
|
||||
most devastating arguments against the then-prevailing system
|
||||
of economic policy--mercantilism. In practically every country
|
||||
in Europe, governments regulated, controlled and planned the
|
||||
@ -14,18 +14,18 @@ Austria, the state limited the period in which people could be
|
||||
in mourning so that the dye-makers would not lose the business
|
||||
of selling colored cloth.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Adam Smith demonstrated that rather than bringing prosperity,
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Adam <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent></ent> demonstrated that rather than bringing prosperity,
|
||||
mercantilism had retarded economic progress. Governments, he
|
||||
argued, had neither the wisdom nor the ability to plan the
|
||||
economic affairs of a multitude of people. If governments
|
||||
primarily limited themselves to the protection of life,
|
||||
liberty and property, Smith said, men could be trusted to
|
||||
liberty and property, <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent> said, men could be trusted to
|
||||
manage their own affairs. And when left to do so in an open,
|
||||
competitive market, the natural forces of supply and demand
|
||||
would generate a rising prosperity for all. Free men in free
|
||||
markets were the ultimate source of the wealth of nations.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But having presented the case for free markets, Adam Smith was
|
||||
<p>But having presented the case for free markets, <ent type = 'person'>Adam <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent></ent> was
|
||||
not optimistic about the future. To expect that a regime of
|
||||
free trade would ever be established was, he said, as likely
|
||||
as the establishment of a utopia. "Not only the prejudices of
|
||||
@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ open competition. Special-interest groups, with their
|
||||
government-bestowed privileges, were too strong ever to be
|
||||
defeated.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Within one lifetime, however, Smith was proven to be wrong. By
|
||||
<p>Within one lifetime, however, <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent> was proven to be wrong. By
|
||||
the middle of the 19th century, England was a free-trade
|
||||
nation and many other nations were following its path.</p>
|
||||
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@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ era of democratized privilege.</p>
|
||||
<p>Why have free societies all around the world become
|
||||
battlegrounds for political privilege and economic plunder?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The answer is to be found in one of Adam Smith's most famous
|
||||
ideas: the division of labor. "The division of labor," Smith
|
||||
<p>The answer is to be found in one of <ent type = 'person'>Adam <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent></ent>'s most famous
|
||||
ideas: the division of labor. "The division of labor," <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent>
|
||||
explained, "so far as it can be introduced, occasions in every
|
||||
art, a proportionate increase of the productive powers of
|
||||
labor." By specializing in various lines of production, the
|
||||
@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ we follow in politics will the age of democratized privilege
|
||||
and plunder come to an end. And, alas, we seem a long way off
|
||||
from seeing that day!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Professor Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of
|
||||
<p>Professor <ent type = 'person'>Ebeling</ent> is the <ent type = 'person'>Ludwig von</ent> Mises Professor of
|
||||
Economics at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, and also
|
||||
serves as vice-president of academic affairs for The Future of
|
||||
Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.</p>
|
||||
|
@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>Desktop genetic engineering.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>By <person>Kevin Kelly</person></p>
|
||||
<p>By Kevin Kelly</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>I spent a day recently a biotechnology trade show, snooping around the
|
||||
aisles of plumbing and lob gear to see how close we ore to having gene
|
||||
@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ cumbersome laboratory research instruments, or massive industrial/chemical
|
||||
plumbing for production purposes, there are o couple of items that hove
|
||||
miniaturized the research methods into o suggestive desktop space. The
|
||||
leader in self-contained DNA coding gear is Applied Biosystems. Their star
|
||||
contraption is a table-top box linked to a Macintosh computer that will
|
||||
assemble a short string of DNA from the order that you type into the Mac.
|
||||
contraption is a table-top box linked to a <ent type = 'person'>Mac</ent>intosh computer that will
|
||||
assemble a short string of DNA from the order that you type into the <ent type = 'person'>Mac</ent>.
|
||||
The unit generates the DNA sequence from the some four amino acids that
|
||||
cellular DNA does. in this case the amino acids are provided in small
|
||||
bottles in the front of the box, along with bottles of solvent to drive the
|
||||
@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ systems ore the heart of the hard work; they automate what was tedious and
|
||||
unpredictable toil just a few years ago. I'd guess that true basement
|
||||
biotechnology is still at least a decade away, if only because of the price
|
||||
$50,000 for each of these machines alone)aond the expertise Ph.0) needed to
|
||||
get them going. -<person>Kevin Kelly</person> Information from: Applied Biosystems, inc.,
|
||||
get them going. -<ent type = 'person'>Kevin Kelly Information</ent> from: Applied Biosystems, inc.,
|
||||
850 Lincoln Center Drive, Foster City, CA 94404.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>X-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-X</p>
|
||||
@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ get them going. -<person>Kevin Kelly</person> Information from: Applied Biosyst
|
||||
<p> & the Temple of the Screaming Electron Jeff Hunter 510-935-5845
|
||||
Rat Head Ratsnatcher 510-524-3649
|
||||
Burn This Flag Zardoz 408-363-9766
|
||||
realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 415-567-7043
|
||||
realitycheck <ent type = 'person'>Poindexter Fortran</ent> 415-567-7043
|
||||
Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 415-583-4102</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Specializing in conversations, obscure information, high explosives,
|
||||
|
@ -6,12 +6,12 @@
|
||||
Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Washington, DC -- During the Persian Gulf war and the military buildup
|
||||
leading to it, President George Bush began using the term "New World
|
||||
leading to it, President <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent></ent> began using the term "New World
|
||||
Order," often suggesting that the commitment of so-called multinational
|
||||
forces involved in the military effort was the beginning of this alleged
|
||||
worldwide utopia.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Supposedly using the vehicle of the United Nations, Bush's New World
|
||||
<p> Supposedly using the vehicle of the United Nations, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s New World
|
||||
Order would be the arbitrator of all world problems and the apparatus to
|
||||
enforce globalist dictates through the use of armed forces combined from
|
||||
the armies of member nations. The UN law would be, regardless of the
|
||||
@ -24,20 +24,20 @@ leaders and civil libertarians.</p>
|
||||
<p> SINISTER TECHNOLOGY</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It is also surprising to many critics of the move toward one-world
|
||||
government that Bush would even dare choose the term "New World Order" to
|
||||
government that <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> would even dare choose the term "New World Order" to
|
||||
define his globalist schemes. However, most Americans alive today were
|
||||
born after World War II, when propaganda of the so-called Allied powers
|
||||
used the terms of "New Order" or "New World Order" to describe in a
|
||||
sinister way the military efforts of Japan and, in particular, Germany
|
||||
under Adolf Hitler.</p>
|
||||
under <ent type = 'person'>Adolf Hitler</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Few, it seems, have taken the time to analyze just what Bush has in
|
||||
<p> Few, it seems, have taken the time to analyze just what <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> has in
|
||||
mind for his New World Order, of which America is to become an integral
|
||||
part, starting with supplying about 90 percent of the muscle, and young
|
||||
lives, that tackled and defeated Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein's Arab
|
||||
legions.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> However, patriotic Constitutional scholars know that Bush's New World
|
||||
<p> However, patriotic Constitutional scholars know that <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s New World
|
||||
Order is the worst attack ever on America as a sovereign, independent and
|
||||
free nation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ free nation.</p>
|
||||
<p> Efforts to form a global government are certainly nothing new.
|
||||
American political leaders, who were concerned with America first, were
|
||||
able to overcome the internationalist, one-world government machinations of
|
||||
President Woodrow Wilson following World War I. Wilson was prevented from
|
||||
President <ent type = 'person'>Woodrow Wilson</ent> following World War I. Wilson was prevented from
|
||||
realizing his visions of a New World Order, through the League of Nations,
|
||||
by a powerful Senate opposition, which refused to rubber-stamp for Wilson
|
||||
U.S. membership in the world body.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A few decades later, however, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
|
||||
<p> A few decades later, however, President <ent type = 'person'>Franklin Delano <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent></ent>,
|
||||
near the end of World War II, was able to get his one-world plans under way
|
||||
by laying the groundwork for today's United Nations, which was completed
|
||||
under his successor, Harry S. Truman.</p>
|
||||
@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ America 35,000 young lives.</p>
|
||||
the U.S. Constitution, which has stood as a bulwark against any globalist
|
||||
schemes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Nevertheless, American presidents since Roosevelt have insidiously
|
||||
<p> Nevertheless, American presidents since <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent> have insidiously
|
||||
chipped away at the great powers of the people, written into the
|
||||
Constitution by America's immortal Founding Fathers, with the use of so-
|
||||
called executive orders.</p>
|
||||
@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ suspend the Constitution and convert the nation into a virtual
|
||||
dictatorship. Dissent, peaceful or otherwise, is eliminated.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Those backing efforts to circumvent the Constitution may have gotten
|
||||
the idea from President Abraham Lincoln, whose use of various extraordinary
|
||||
the idea from President <ent type = 'person'>Abraham Lincoln</ent>, whose use of various extraordinary
|
||||
powers of his office -- which many Constitutional scholars still insist was
|
||||
illegal -- suspended various civil rights to curb such problems as draft
|
||||
riots during the Civil War.</p>
|
||||
@ -98,21 +98,21 @@ never intended by the Founding Fathers.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> INDIANS VICTIMIZED</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> President John Tyler used such powers in 1842 to round up Seminole
|
||||
<p> President <ent type = 'person'>John Tyler</ent> used such powers in 1842 to round up Seminole
|
||||
Indians in Georgia and Florida and force-march them -- men, women and
|
||||
children -- to Arkansas. This was probably the first use of internment in
|
||||
America to deal with unpopular minorities. It was not the last.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In 1886, the Geronimo Chiricahua Apache Indians surrendered to U.S.
|
||||
troops in the West, were rounded up by order of President Grover Cleveland,
|
||||
troops in the West, were rounded up by order of President <ent type = 'person'>Grover Cleveland</ent>,
|
||||
and shipped to internment in Florida and Alabama.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Earlier, during the War Between the States, Sioux Indians in
|
||||
Minnesota, when there was a delay in paying them their yearly allowance,
|
||||
began attacking nearby white settlements. Lincoln sent in a hastily raised
|
||||
force of volunteers under Col. H. H. Sibley. Little Crow, leader of the
|
||||
force of volunteers under Col. H. H. Sibley. Little <ent type = 'person'>Crow</ent>, leader of the
|
||||
Kaposia band, was decisively defeated by the Union troops on September 23,
|
||||
1862, and more than 2,000 Sioux were taken captive, although Little Crow
|
||||
1862, and more than 2,000 Sioux were taken captive, although Little <ent type = 'person'>Crow</ent>
|
||||
himself and a few followers escaped.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Through the process of a military tribunal, sanctioned by Lincoln, 36
|
||||
@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ within German-American communities in the United States, were banned.</p>
|
||||
<p> After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, within
|
||||
days the FBI rounded up tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans, guilty
|
||||
only of being of Japanese ancestry, under the authority of an executive
|
||||
order issued by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The lists of those to
|
||||
order issued by President <ent type = 'person'>Franklin Delano <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent></ent>. The lists of those to
|
||||
be apprehended had been drawn up months earlier, before the war.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Held in concentration camps, the perimeters guarded by U.S. soldiers
|
||||
@ -151,18 +151,18 @@ their years of confinement.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> However, no apology or compensation has ever been extended to the more
|
||||
than 8,000 German-Americans who were confined in dozens of jails and camps
|
||||
across the United States, also by order of Roosevelt.</p>
|
||||
across the United States, also by order of <ent type = 'person'>Roosevelt</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Many were not released until 1947, a full two years after the end of
|
||||
the war, in total violation of the Geneva Conventions.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "What happened to me and thousands of others is old history," said
|
||||
Eberhard Fuhr of Cincinnati, who was interned at 17 years of age, "but the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Eberhard <ent type = 'person'>Fuhr</ent></ent> of Cincinnati, who was interned at 17 years of age, "but the
|
||||
next time it could be any other group, which is then not politically
|
||||
correct, or out of favor for any other reason (SPOTLIGHT, May 20, 1991).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Fuhr's warning, of course, had already been proved correct just
|
||||
several months earlier when, under orders of Bush, the FBI hounded
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Fuhr</ent>'s warning, of course, had already been proved correct just
|
||||
several months earlier when, under orders of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>, the FBI hounded
|
||||
thousands of innocent Arab-Americans as the U.S. prepared for the Persian
|
||||
Gulf conflict.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
|
||||
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
DICTATORSHIP POSSIBLE HERE</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> By Lawrence Wilmot and Martin Mann
|
||||
<p> By <ent type = 'person'>Lawrence Wilmot</ent> and Martin Mann
|
||||
Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Washington, DC -- Hidden in the bureaucratic maze Washington politicians
|
||||
@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ to:</p>
|
||||
<p> * Take over all farms, ranches or timberland in order to "utilize them
|
||||
more effectively" as decreed in Executive Order (EO) 11490, the so-
|
||||
called omnibus emergency preparedness decree promulgated by President
|
||||
Richard Nixon on October 28, 1969.</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Richard Nixon</ent> on October 28, 1969.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> * Seize all sources of public power: electric, nuclear, petroleum, etc.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ to:</p>
|
||||
direction, not just in the face of a cataclysmic upheaval, but "[w]henever
|
||||
necessary for assuring the continuity of the federal government in any
|
||||
national emergency type situation," decreed a subsequent White House ukase,
|
||||
EO 11921, issued by President Gerald Ford in April 1976.</p>
|
||||
EO 11921, issued by President <ent type = 'person'>Gerald Ford</ent> in April 1976.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Can such a blueprint for tyranny be clamped on the United States by a
|
||||
force of faceless federal officials? It is the role of FEMA has been
|
||||
@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ explanation of its purpose, aping the secret CIA appropriation."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> FEMA can draw on the defense budget and on the protection of the
|
||||
secrecy reserved for national security projects because it came into being
|
||||
under President Jimmy Carter in a move that merged the civil defense and
|
||||
under President <ent type = 'person'>Jimmy Carter</ent> in a move that merged the civil defense and
|
||||
disaster relief responsibilities formerly shared by the Pentagon, the
|
||||
Commerce Department and the General Services Administration under a single
|
||||
powerful agency.</p>
|
||||
|
@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
|
||||
<xml><p></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> (word processor parameters LM=8, RM=75, TM=2, BM=2)
|
||||
Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
|
||||
Taken from <ent type = 'person'>KeelyNet</ent> BBS (214) 324-3501
|
||||
Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
|
||||
PO BOX 1031
|
||||
Mesquite, TX 75150</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> October 17, 1990</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> listed on KeelyNet as FOOD1.ZIP
|
||||
<p> listed on <ent type = 'person'>KeelyNet</ent> as FOOD1.ZIP
|
||||
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|
||||
FBI License Plate Codes</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -50,16 +50,16 @@
|
||||
--------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> If you have comments or other information relating to such topics as
|
||||
this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the Vangard
|
||||
this paper covers, please upload to <ent type = 'person'>KeelyNet</ent> or send to the Vangard
|
||||
Sciences address as listed on the first page. Thank you for your
|
||||
consideration, interest and support.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Jerry W. Decker...Ron Barker.....Chuck Henderson
|
||||
Vangard Sciences/KeelyNet</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Jerry</ent> W. Decker...<ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Ron</ent> Barker</ent>.....Chuck Henderson
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
<p> --------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
If we can be of service, you may contact
|
||||
Jerry at (214) 324-8741 or Ron at (214) 242-9346
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Jerry</ent> at (214) 324-8741 or <ent type = 'person'>Ron</ent> at (214) 242-9346
|
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|
||||
|
||||
<p></p></xml>
|
@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>Carolee Boyles-SprenkelAbout 2650 words
|
||||
<xml><p><ent type = 'person'>Carolee Boyles</ent>-SprenkelAbout 2650 words
|
||||
Route 3, Box 2180Copyright 1989
|
||||
Quincy, FL 32351Carolee Boyles-Sprenkel
|
||||
Quincy, FL 32351<ent type = 'person'>Carolee Boyles</ent>-Sprenkel
|
||||
(904) 627-2254Second Serial Rights</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> WILD DISEASES
|
||||
By
|
||||
Carolee Boyles-Sprenkel</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Carolee Boyles</ent>-Sprenkel</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A few days after Patsy M. returned home from a trip to
|
||||
<p>A few days after <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Patsy</ent> M</ent>. returned home from a trip to
|
||||
Hawaii, she came down with what she thought was intestinal flu.
|
||||
After a week of nausea and vile-smelling diarrhea she went to her
|
||||
doctor. He couldn't find anything wrong with her and put her on
|
||||
@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ not establish the cause of her illness. Finally she mentioned
|
||||
her symptoms to a colleague at work who recognized them as
|
||||
something he'd heard of before. A little research turned up
|
||||
information on an organism that parasitizes the human digestive
|
||||
tract, Giardia. After only 24 hours on the antibiotic Flagyl,
|
||||
Patsy knew she'd solved the problem. She recovered without
|
||||
tract, <ent type = 'person'>Giardia</ent>. After only 24 hours on the antibiotic Flagyl,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Patsy</ent> knew she'd solved the problem. She recovered without
|
||||
further incident.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Patsy was only one of a number of people who bring back more
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Patsy</ent> was only one of a number of people who bring back more
|
||||
from their outdoor experiences that they bargain for. Any time
|
||||
we go into the woods, we run the risk of encountering illnesses
|
||||
and discomforts our urban neighbors don't ever run into. Few
|
||||
@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ physicians even think about testing for these "exotic" diseases.
|
||||
Untreated, some will run their course in a few days or a few
|
||||
weeks. But not all are so benign. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>According to epidemiologist Dr. Lisa Conti, doctors term
|
||||
<p>According to epidemiologist Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Lisa Conti</ent>, doctors term
|
||||
these diseases "zoonotic." That means they're caused by
|
||||
organisms that infect both animals and humans. Though most
|
||||
affect humans only rarely, a few are relatively common. </p>
|
||||
@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ will, in some cases, kill you. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Lyme Disease may be the most visible of the little shop of
|
||||
horrors found in the woods. Unlike some other diseases, Lyme
|
||||
Disease is not rare. Dr. Robert Craven, a Centers for Disease
|
||||
Disease is not rare. Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Robert <ent type = 'person'>Craven</ent></ent>, a Centers for Disease
|
||||
Control researcher studying Lyme, says doctors reported more than
|
||||
2400 cases during 1988. He believes it's spreading throughout
|
||||
the country.</p>
|
||||
@ -57,17 +57,17 @@ animals to people.</p>
|
||||
the tick attached itself to you. The spot grows. Then fever,
|
||||
headache, and muscle aches start. The spot increases in size
|
||||
until it become a red ring several inches across with a light-
|
||||
colored center. "It's kind of like a bull's-eye," says Craven. </p>
|
||||
colored center. "It's kind of like a bull's-eye," says <ent type = 'person'>Craven</ent>. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>If you don't get treatment, the effects can be severe. "It
|
||||
can eventually cause cardiac problems, usually rhythm
|
||||
disturbances," Craven says. "It can cause arthritis, which can
|
||||
disturbances," <ent type = 'person'>Craven</ent> says. "It can cause arthritis, which can
|
||||
be fairly severe and debilitating. It can cause a whole host of
|
||||
neurologic problems - encephalitis, meningitis type problems,
|
||||
paralyses, that sort of thing."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Lyme Disease is easy to treat with antibiotics. According
|
||||
to Craven, researchers are trying to produce a vaccine, but none
|
||||
to <ent type = 'person'>Craven</ent>, researchers are trying to produce a vaccine, but none
|
||||
is available at this time.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever</p>
|
||||
@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Infected ticks can pass the
|
||||
organism from generation to generation without feeding on a sick
|
||||
animal. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>According to Dr. Michael Wilder, a state public health
|
||||
<p>According to Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Michael <ent type = 'person'>Wilder</ent></ent>, a state public health
|
||||
clinician, the first symptoms are fever, cramping stomach pain
|
||||
and rash. "Stomach-ache seems to be a common early symptom," he
|
||||
says. "There may be some vomiting, but no diarrhea." The rash
|
||||
@ -92,14 +92,14 @@ or hemorrhaging.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Several different types of encephalitis cause problems from
|
||||
time to time. St. Louis Encephalitis follows a 10-year cycle in
|
||||
the Mississippi Valley, according to Craven. Eastern Equine
|
||||
the Mississippi Valley, according to <ent type = 'person'>Craven</ent>. Eastern Equine
|
||||
Encephalitis and Western Equine Encephalitis appear in small
|
||||
scattered outbreaks each summer.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Birds carry the viruses that cause encephalitis, which
|
||||
mosquitoes spread from the birds to humans and other mammals.
|
||||
Early symptoms include confusion and fever. Some varieties of
|
||||
the ailment cause nausea and vomiting. Then, Craven says,
|
||||
the ailment cause nausea and vomiting. Then, <ent type = 'person'>Craven</ent> says,
|
||||
convulsions, coma, and other neurologic involvement may occur.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"Eastern Equine is a particularly virulent form of
|
||||
@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ epidemic conditions.
|
||||
|
||||
Tularemia</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>According to Dr. Thomas Quan with the CDC's Fort Collins,
|
||||
<p>According to Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Thomas <ent type = 'person'>Quan</ent></ent> with the CDC's Fort Collins,
|
||||
Colorado unit, most people acquire tularemia infections from
|
||||
rabbits and hares, and the ticks associated with them. He says
|
||||
people can pick up the versatile organism in a number of ways.</p>
|
||||
@ -136,12 +136,12 @@ follow a tick bite or infection through a cut. For untreated
|
||||
cases, the fatality rate is about 5 to 7 per cent. With
|
||||
antibiotic treatment, patients can expect complete recovery.
|
||||
"The people who get sick with it wish they'd die, but they
|
||||
usually don't," Quan says. "But eventually they overcome it."
|
||||
usually don't," <ent type = 'person'>Quan</ent> says. "But eventually they overcome it."
|
||||
|
||||
Giardia</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Giardia</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>CDC worker Dr. David Addiss says the biggest source of
|
||||
Giardia is contaminated water. Biologists have found the
|
||||
<p>CDC worker Dr. <ent type = 'person'>David Addiss</ent> says the biggest source of
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Giardia</ent> is contaminated water. Biologists have found the
|
||||
organism from many streams and rivers. "It's found fairly
|
||||
commonly throughout the United States in untreated surface
|
||||
water," he says. "You don't find it very much in wells or big
|
||||
@ -151,19 +151,19 @@ lakes, but you do see it in streams."</p>
|
||||
the protozoan that causes the illness. Symptoms include loose
|
||||
stools or full-blown diarrhea, cramping, gas and burping, and
|
||||
rarely nausea and vomiting. The disease may be more chronic than
|
||||
acute. Giardia attaches itself to the wall of the small
|
||||
acute. <ent type = 'person'>Giardia</ent> attaches itself to the wall of the small
|
||||
intestine, where it lives and reproduces. Untreated, the ailment
|
||||
may go away on its own. In many people, through, the infection
|
||||
persists until it's treated with a course of antibiotic. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Don't rely on iodine or chlorine tablets to treat stream
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>'t rely on iodine or chlorine tablets to treat stream
|
||||
water. They may work if the water is warm and only contains a
|
||||
few Giardia cysts. But in cold or heavily infested water,
|
||||
few <ent type = 'person'>Giardia</ent> cysts. But in cold or heavily infested water,
|
||||
they're not particularly effective.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Relapsing Fever</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Craven also works with relapsing fever another tick-borne
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Craven</ent> also works with relapsing fever another tick-borne
|
||||
disease related to Lyme Disease. He says it's fairly rare in the
|
||||
United States. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ does.</p>
|
||||
brucellosis is one problem you probably don't need to worry
|
||||
about. This is not to say the disease isn't found in other
|
||||
species; biologists have reported it in desert rats and other
|
||||
rodents, hares, foxes, goats, sheep, deer, elk and bison, and
|
||||
even dogs and cats. But Dr. Arnold Kaufmann, a physician with
|
||||
rodents, hares, foxes, goats, sheep, deer, elk and <ent type = 'person'>bison</ent>, and
|
||||
even dogs and cats. But Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Arnold <ent type = 'person'>Kaufmann</ent></ent>, a physician with
|
||||
the CDC in Atlanta, says he's never heard of hunters contracting
|
||||
brucellosis from any animal except hogs. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -204,11 +204,11 @@ animals such as cattle are found to have brucellosis, one cure is
|
||||
to send the animals to the slaughterhouse.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In humans, brucellosis is a vague sort of illness, according
|
||||
to Kaufmann. It causes headache, fever, and exhaustion. You may
|
||||
to <ent type = 'person'>Kaufmann</ent>. It causes headache, fever, and exhaustion. You may
|
||||
have achy joints and in general feel like you have a severe case
|
||||
of the flu.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"It goes on and on and doesn't go away," says Kaufmann.
|
||||
<p>"It goes on and on and doesn't go away," says <ent type = 'person'>Kaufmann</ent>.
|
||||
"It's a very complex disease. It can involved a variety of
|
||||
organs." Untreated, most patients eventually recover; for a few,
|
||||
though, it continues as a chronic illness. Treatment is simply a
|
||||
@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ course of antibiotics.</p>
|
||||
<p> Q Fever</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Q or Query Fever may be under reported, according to CDC
|
||||
microbiologist Russell Regnery. As a result, the CDC doesn't
|
||||
microbiologist <ent type = 'person'>Russell Regnery</ent>. As a result, the CDC doesn't
|
||||
have any good data on how many cases occur in this country each
|
||||
year.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ threat. Unlike most of the other diseases you can acquire in the
|
||||
woods, rabies has no treatment - if you get it, you die. It's
|
||||
that simple.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"Any warm-blooded animal can get rabies," says Wilder. "But
|
||||
<p>"Any warm-blooded animal can get rabies," says <ent type = 'person'>Wilder</ent>. "But
|
||||
certain animals seem to play a more important role as a
|
||||
reservoir. The main ones throughout most of the country are
|
||||
insectivorous bats, skunks, foxes, and of course raccoons." Even
|
||||
@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ In rare cases, spelunkers have become infected from inhaling the
|
||||
virus in bat caves. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>If you're bitten by a rabid animal, the first symptom of the
|
||||
disease is what Wilder terms "an unusual sensation" at the site
|
||||
disease is what <ent type = 'person'>Wilder</ent> terms "an unusual sensation" at the site
|
||||
of the bite. "It's an increased sensitivity, a feeling of
|
||||
prickliness, just an odd sensation arising from the healing
|
||||
wound." A fever and stiffening of the neck follow. Then you'll
|
||||
@ -277,20 +277,20 @@ swallow. Death will follow in of days or weeks.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>A post-exposure vaccine for people has been available for
|
||||
many years. Recently, scientists have developed a pre-exposure
|
||||
vaccine. Wilder says whether or not you need to get vaccinated
|
||||
vaccine. <ent type = 'person'>Wilder</ent> says whether or not you need to get vaccinated
|
||||
depends on what you're hunting. Most people don't need to worry
|
||||
about it. But if you're a woodchuck or raccoon hunter, he
|
||||
recommends it. At a cost of about $100, it's cheap insurance.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Wilder also stresses that hunters need to have their dogs
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Wilder</ent> also stresses that hunters need to have their dogs
|
||||
vaccinated against the disease. Some raccoon hunters in
|
||||
particular fear the inoculation will affect the dogs' ability to
|
||||
hunt, and so don't have them vaccinated. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Don't do the vaccination yourself. In Florida and perhaps a
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>'t do the vaccination yourself. In Florida and perhaps a
|
||||
few other state, rabies vaccine is available over the counter at
|
||||
feed stores. "We've been most fortunate that no identified cases
|
||||
of rabies have occurred from this practice," Wilder says.</p>
|
||||
of rabies have occurred from this practice," <ent type = 'person'>Wilder</ent> says.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Plague
|
||||
Remember the bubonic plague, the disease that decimated
|
||||
@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ Europe in the Middle Ages? It's still with us in the western US. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Any rodent in the west can harbor the plague organism.
|
||||
"Most people in the United States who acquire plague are getting
|
||||
it from ground squirrels," Quan says. "On the west coast, it's
|
||||
it from ground squirrels," <ent type = 'person'>Quan</ent> says. "On the west coast, it's
|
||||
the California Ground Squirrel. In the Rocky Mountains it's the
|
||||
Rock Squirrel. Then you have other smaller squirrels and
|
||||
chipmunks." Even if you don't have direct contact with rodents,
|
||||
@ -323,12 +323,12 @@ it out. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"People who see a physician early on after symptoms, and who
|
||||
have the savvy to know they were possibly exposed tend to
|
||||
survive," Quan says. "A large percentage of those who die have
|
||||
survive," <ent type = 'person'>Quan</ent> says. "A large percentage of those who die have
|
||||
septicemic plague, which does not have a bubo." These cases look
|
||||
like a lot of other diseases, are hard to diagnose, and as a
|
||||
result often don't get treated early enough.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Fortunately, plague is rare. Quan says in 1983 doctors
|
||||
<p>Fortunately, plague is rare. <ent type = 'person'>Quan</ent> says in 1983 doctors
|
||||
reported a high of 40 cases, but in general the number is 10 to
|
||||
20. This compares to 200-plus for tularemia each year.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -340,19 +340,19 @@ water or soft drinks with you. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Second, any time you dress game, don't do it bare-handed;
|
||||
wear gloves. "If you don't wear gloves, you're really taking
|
||||
your chances," Quan says. </p>
|
||||
your chances," <ent type = 'person'>Quan</ent> says. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Third, avoid contact with mosquitoes, ticks and fleas.
|
||||
"Most of these things can be prevented with repellents," Craven
|
||||
says. He notes especially Permanone, a permethrin compound that
|
||||
"Most of these things can be prevented with repellents," <ent type = 'person'>Craven</ent>
|
||||
says. He notes especially <ent type = 'person'>Permanone</ent>, a permethrin compound that
|
||||
is both an insecticide and a repellent useful for ticks. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>If, after being in the woods, you begin to show symptoms
|
||||
like any of the ones described here, go straight to the doctor.
|
||||
Don't wait to see if you get better on your own. And be sure you
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Don</ent>'t wait to see if you get better on your own. And be sure you
|
||||
tell him or her what you suspect.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>"Be sure you tell the physician you had the contact," Quan
|
||||
<p>"Be sure you tell the physician you had the contact," <ent type = 'person'>Quan</ent>
|
||||
says. "It's one way we have of making an early, proper
|
||||
diagnosis. Tell the doctor you had contact with such-and-such an
|
||||
animal. Then the physician is at least alerted that tularemia is
|
||||
@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ avoid bringing home these unwanted freeloaders from the woods.</p>
|
||||
<p> & the Temple of the Screaming Electron Jeff Hunter 510-935-5845
|
||||
Rat Head Ratsnatcher 510-524-3649
|
||||
Burn This Flag Zardoz 408-363-9766
|
||||
realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 415-567-7043
|
||||
realitycheck <ent type = 'person'>Poindexter Fortran</ent> 415-567-7043
|
||||
Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 415-583-4102</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Specializing in conversations, obscure information, high explosives,
|
||||
|
@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> DESCRIPTION OF THE SPG:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The SPG shown in Fig. 1 is a further developed form of the machines
|
||||
<p> The SPG shown in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 1 is a further developed form of the machines
|
||||
described [2,3] in earlier issues of this magazine.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A non-magnetic shaft interconnects two mild steel rotors on which
|
||||
@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
|
||||
the shaft through d-c shunts that enable measurements of high d-c
|
||||
current.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The SPG weighs about 150 Kg. and is fabricated out of 120 mm thick
|
||||
<p> The SPG weighs about 150 <ent type = 'person'>Kg</ent>. and is fabricated out of 120 mm thick
|
||||
mild steel plate. The two units enable generation of power at more
|
||||
than 3 volt d-c by appropriate series connections between the two
|
||||
coils. The electromagnet's coils are 16 swg super enamelled wire
|
||||
@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> CONCLUSION:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Mass-energy equation of Einstein brought forth an universal law that
|
||||
<p> Mass-energy equation of <ent type = 'person'>Einstein</ent> brought forth an universal law that
|
||||
an electron like all matter contains in its structure energy. A
|
||||
further enlargement of this law is that electron is itself energy,
|
||||
where "energy" in physical terms is a state of vacuum in rotation.</p>
|
||||
@ -172,16 +172,16 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> REFERENCES:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 1. Paramahamsa Tewari - "Beyond Matter", Printwell Publications,
|
||||
Aligarh, India (1984).</p>
|
||||
<p> 1. <ent type = 'person'>Paramahamsa Tewari</ent> - "Beyond Matter", Printwell Publications,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Aligarh</ent>, India (1984).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 2. Paramahamsa Tewari - "Generation of Electrical Power from
|
||||
<p> 2. <ent type = 'person'>Paramahamsa Tewari</ent> - "Generation of Electrical Power from
|
||||
Absolute Vacuum by High Speed Rotation of conducting Magnetic
|
||||
Cylinder",
|
||||
Magnets in Your Future, Vol. 1 No. 8, August 1986, P.O. Box 580,
|
||||
Temecula, CA 92390, USA.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 3. Paramahamsa Tewari - "Interaction of Electron and Magnetic Field
|
||||
<p> 3. <ent type = 'person'>Paramahamsa Tewari</ent> - "Interaction of Electron and Magnetic Field
|
||||
in Space Power Generation Phenomenon", Magnets in Your Future,
|
||||
Vol. 2 No. 12, December 1987, P.O. Box 580, Temecula, Ca. 92390,
|
||||
USA.</p>
|
||||
@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
|
||||
<p> & the Temple of the Screaming Electron Jeff Hunter 510-935-5845
|
||||
Rat Head Ratsnatcher 510-524-3649
|
||||
Burn This Flag Zardoz 408-363-9766
|
||||
realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 415-567-7043
|
||||
realitycheck <ent type = 'person'>Poindexter Fortran</ent> 415-567-7043
|
||||
Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 415-583-4102</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Specializing in conversations, obscure information, high explosives,
|
||||
|
@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>
|
||||
HOMOPOLAR "FREE-ENERGY" GENERATOR TEST</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>HOMOPOLAR</ent> "FREE-ENERGY" GENERATOR TEST</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Robert Kincheloe
|
||||
Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus)
|
||||
@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> --------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> HOMOPOLAR "FREE-ENERGY" GENERATOR TEST
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>HOMOPOLAR</ent> "FREE-ENERGY" GENERATOR TEST
|
||||
Robert Kincheloe</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ABSTRACT</p>
|
||||
@ -41,17 +41,17 @@
|
||||
tests on this particular machine, summarizes and presents
|
||||
tentative conclusions from the resulting data.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> THE SUNBURST HOMOPOLAR GENERATOR</p>
|
||||
<p> THE SUNBURST <ent type = 'person'>HOMOPOLAR</ent> GENERATOR</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In July, 1985, I became aware of and was invited to examine and
|
||||
test a so-called free-energy generator known as the Sunburst N
|
||||
Machine.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This device, shown in Figs 1a and 1b, was proposed by Bruce
|
||||
DePalma and constructed by Charya Bernard of the Sunburst
|
||||
<p> This device, shown in <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>s</ent> 1a and 1b, was proposed by Bruce
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent> and constructed by <ent type = 'person'>Charya Bernard</ent> of the Sunburst
|
||||
Community in Santa Barbara, CA, about 1979.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The term "free-energy" refers to the claim by DePalma [1]
|
||||
<p> The term "free-energy" refers to the claim by <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent> [1]
|
||||
(and others [2]) that it was capable of producing electrical
|
||||
output power that was not reflected as a mechanical load to the
|
||||
driving mechanism but derived from presumed latent spatial
|
||||
@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> GENERATOR DESCRIPTION</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Details of the generator construction are shown in Figs. 2 and 3.</p>
|
||||
<p> Details of the generator construction are shown in <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>s</ent>. 2 and 3.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It consists essentially of an electromagnet formed by a coil of
|
||||
3605 turns of #10 copper wire around a soft iron core which
|
||||
@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
|
||||
symmetrical around the axis of rotation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> At each end of the magnet are conducting bronze cylindrical
|
||||
plates, on one of which are arranged (as shown in Fig. 3)
|
||||
plates, on one of which are arranged (as shown in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 3)
|
||||
one set of graphite brushes for extracting output current
|
||||
between the shaft and the outer circumference and a second
|
||||
set of metering brushes for independently measuring the induced
|
||||
@ -87,8 +87,8 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The generator may be recognized as a so-called homopolar, or
|
||||
acyclic machine, a device first investigated and described
|
||||
by Michael Faraday [3] in 1831 (Figs. 4,5) and shown
|
||||
schematically in Fig. 6.</p>
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Michael Faraday</ent> [3] in 1831 (<ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>s</ent>. 4,5) and shown
|
||||
schematically in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 6.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It consists of a cylindrical conducting disk immersed in an
|
||||
axial magnetic field, and can be operated as a generator with
|
||||
@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
|
||||
the magnetic field in which the conducting disk (or
|
||||
cylinder) is rotated.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Faraday found, however, (Fig 7) that it does not matter whether
|
||||
<p> Faraday found, however, (<ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent> 7) that it does not matter whether
|
||||
the magnet itself is stationary or rotating with the disk as long
|
||||
as the conductor is moving in the field, but that rotating the
|
||||
magnet with the conducting disk stationary did not produce an
|
||||
@ -125,20 +125,20 @@
|
||||
itself, not attached to the magnet which serves to induce the
|
||||
field [6].</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> DePalma stated [7] that when the conducting disk is attached
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent> stated [7] that when the conducting disk is attached
|
||||
to a rotating magnet, the interaction of the primary magnetic
|
||||
field with that produced by the radial output current results in
|
||||
torque between the disk and the magnet structure which is not
|
||||
reflected back to the mechanical driving source.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Lenz's law therefore does not apply, and the extraction of
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Lenz</ent>'s law therefore does not apply, and the extraction of
|
||||
output energy does not require additional driving power.
|
||||
This is the claimed basis for extracting "free" energy.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Discussions of the torque experienced by a rotating magnet are also
|
||||
discussed in the literature [8].</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Because the simple form shown in Fig. 6 has essentially
|
||||
<p> Because the simple form shown in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 6 has essentially
|
||||
one conducting path, such a homopolar device is characterized
|
||||
by low voltage and high current requiring a large magnetic field
|
||||
for useful operation.</p>
|
||||
@ -185,16 +185,16 @@
|
||||
from this point of view efficiency in producing external
|
||||
power was not required or relevant.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> DEPALMA'S RESULTS WITH THE SUNBURST HOMOPOLAR GENERATOR</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>DEPALMA</ent>'S RESULTS WITH THE SUNBURST <ent type = 'person'>HOMOPOLAR</ent> GENERATOR</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In 1980 DePalma conducted tests with the Sunburst
|
||||
<p> In 1980 <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent> conducted tests with the Sunburst
|
||||
generator, describing his measurement technique and results in an
|
||||
unpublished report [10].</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The generator was driven by a 3 phase a-c 40 horsepower motor
|
||||
by a belt coupling sufficiently long that magnetic fields of
|
||||
the motor and generator would not interact. A table from this
|
||||
report giving his data and results is shown in Fig. 8.</p>
|
||||
report giving his data and results is shown in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 8.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> For a rotational speed of 6000 rpm an output power of 7560 watts
|
||||
was claimed to require an increase of 268 watts of drive power
|
||||
@ -237,25 +237,25 @@
|
||||
<p> Of these, the first assumption seems the most serious, and it is my
|
||||
opinion that the results of this particular test were inaccurate.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Tim Wilhelm of Stelle, Illinois, who witnessed tests of the Sunburst
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Tim <ent type = 'person'>Wilhelm</ent></ent> of Stelle, Illinois, who witnessed tests of the Sunburst
|
||||
generator in 1981, had a similar opinion [11].</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> RECENT TESTS OF THE SUNBURST GENERATOR</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Being intrigued by DePalma's hypothesis, I accepted the offer by
|
||||
Mr. Norman Paulsen, founder of the Sunburst Community, to
|
||||
<p> Being intrigued by <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>'s hypothesis, I accepted the offer by
|
||||
Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Norman Paulsen</ent>, founder of the Sunburst Community, to
|
||||
conduct tests on the generator which apparently had not been
|
||||
used since the tests by DePalma and Bernard in 1979.</p>
|
||||
used since the tests by <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent> and Bernard in 1979.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Experimental Setup</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A schematic diagram of the test arrangement is shown in Fig. 9,
|
||||
with the physical equipment shown in Fig. 10. The generator
|
||||
<p> A schematic diagram of the test arrangement is shown in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 9,
|
||||
with the physical equipment shown in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 10. The generator
|
||||
is shown coupled by a long belt to the drive motor behind it,
|
||||
together with the power supplies and metering both contained
|
||||
within and external to the Sunburst power and metering cabinet.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Figure 10b shows the panel of the test cabinet which provided
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>ure 10b shows the panel of the test cabinet which provided
|
||||
power for the generator magnet and motor field. The 4-1/2 digit
|
||||
meters on the panel were not functional and were not used;
|
||||
external meters were supplied.</p>
|
||||
@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Page 5</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Referring to Figure 9, variacs and full-wave bridge
|
||||
<p> Referring to <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>ure 9, variacs and full-wave bridge
|
||||
rectifiers provided variable d-c supplies for the motor armature
|
||||
and field and the homopolar generator magnet.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -303,39 +303,39 @@
|
||||
direction of rotation were reversed.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Tracking of Vbr and Vg with variation of magnetic field is shown
|
||||
in Fig. 11, in which it is seen that the output voltages are not
|
||||
in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 11, in which it is seen that the output voltages are not
|
||||
quite linearly related to magnet current, probably due to core
|
||||
saturation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The more rapid departure of Vg from linearity may be due to
|
||||
the different brush locations as seen on Fig 3, differences
|
||||
the different brush locations as seen on <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent> 3, differences
|
||||
in the magnetic field at the different brush locations, or other
|
||||
causes not evident. An expanded plot of this voltage
|
||||
difference is shown in Fig. 12, and is seen to considerably
|
||||
difference is shown in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 12, and is seen to considerably
|
||||
exceed meter error tolerances.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Figure 11 also shows an approximate 300 watt increase in drive
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>ure 11 also shows an approximate 300 watt increase in drive
|
||||
motor armature power as the magnet field was increased from
|
||||
0 to 19 amperes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> (The scatter of input power measurements shown in the upper curve
|
||||
of Fig. 11 resulted from the great sensitivity of the motor
|
||||
of <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 11 resulted from the great sensitivity of the motor
|
||||
armature current to small fluctuations in power line voltage,
|
||||
since the large rotary inertia of the 400 pound generator did
|
||||
not allow speed to rapidly follow line voltage changes).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> At first it was thought that this power loss might be due to
|
||||
the fact that the outer output brushes were arranged in a
|
||||
rectangular array as shown in Fig. 3.</p>
|
||||
rectangular array as shown in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 3.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Since they were connected in parallel but not equidistant from
|
||||
the axis the different generated voltages would presumably
|
||||
result in circulating currents and additional power dissipation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Measurement of the generated voltage as a function of
|
||||
radial distance from the axis as shown in Fig. 13, however,
|
||||
radial distance from the axis as shown in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 13, however,
|
||||
showed that almost all of the voltage differential occurred
|
||||
between 5 and 12 cm, presumably because this was the region of
|
||||
between 5 and 12 <ent type = 'person'>cm</ent>, presumably because this was the region of
|
||||
greatest magnetic field due to the centralized iron core.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The voltage in the region of the outer brushes was almost
|
||||
@ -349,7 +349,7 @@
|
||||
<p> In any event, the increase in drive power was only about 10% for
|
||||
the maximum magnet current of 19 amperes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Figure 14 typifies a number of measurements of input power
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>ure 14 typifies a number of measurements of input power
|
||||
and generator performance as a function of speed and various
|
||||
generator conditions.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -386,7 +386,7 @@
|
||||
no output power dissippation).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This component of power (which is related to the increase of
|
||||
drive motor power with increased magnet current as shown in Fig.
|
||||
drive motor power with increased magnet current as shown in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>.
|
||||
11 as discussed above) might also be present whether or not the
|
||||
generator is producing output current and power, although this is
|
||||
not so evident since the output current may affect the
|
||||
@ -406,7 +406,7 @@
|
||||
The measured output current at 6500 rpm was 4776 amperes; the
|
||||
voltage at the metering brushes was 1.07 volts.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Using a correction factor derived from Fig. 12 and assuming a
|
||||
<p> Using a correction factor derived from <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 12 and assuming a
|
||||
common internal voltage drop due to a calculated disk
|
||||
resistance of 38 microohms, a computed internal generated
|
||||
potential of 1.28 volts is obtained which if multiplied by
|
||||
@ -442,19 +442,19 @@
|
||||
motor armature power to obtain total system input power).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It would thus seem that if the above assumptions are valid
|
||||
that DePalma correctly predicted that much of the generated
|
||||
that <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent> correctly predicted that much of the generated
|
||||
power with this kind of machine is not reflected back to the
|
||||
motive source. Figure 15 summarizes the data discussed above.</p>
|
||||
motive source. <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>ure 15 summarizes the data discussed above.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> To further examine the question of the equivalence between
|
||||
the internally generated voltage at the main output brushes and
|
||||
that measured at the metering brushes, a test was made of the
|
||||
metered voltage as a function of speed with the generator magnet
|
||||
energized with a current of 20 amperes both with the output
|
||||
switch open and closed. The resulting data is shown in Fig. 16.</p>
|
||||
switch open and closed. The resulting data is shown in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 16.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The voltage rises to about 1.32 volts at 6000 rpm with the
|
||||
switch open (which is close to that obtained by DePalma) and
|
||||
switch open (which is close to that obtained by <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>) and
|
||||
drops 0.14 volts when the switch is closed and the measured
|
||||
output current is 3755 amperes, corresponding to an effective
|
||||
internal resistance of 37 microohms.</p>
|
||||
@ -486,7 +486,7 @@
|
||||
voltage was calculated by subtracting the IR drop due to the
|
||||
output current in the known (meter shunt) and calculated (disk,
|
||||
shaft, and brush lead) resistances from the assumed
|
||||
internally generated output voltage. The result in Fig. 17
|
||||
internally generated output voltage. The result in <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>. 17
|
||||
shows that the brush drop obtained in this way is even less than
|
||||
that usually assumed, as typified by the superimposed curve
|
||||
taken from one text.</p>
|
||||
@ -533,7 +533,7 @@
|
||||
<p> As discussed above the various data do not seem to support this
|
||||
possibility.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 3. DePalma may have been right in that there is indeed a
|
||||
<p> 3. <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent> may have been right in that there is indeed a
|
||||
situation here whereby energy is being obtained from a
|
||||
previously unknown and unexplained source.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -543,7 +543,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 4. Perhaps other possibilities will occur to the reader.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The data obtained so far seems to have shown that while DePalma's
|
||||
<p> The data obtained so far seems to have shown that while <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>'s
|
||||
numbers were high, his basic premise has not been disproved.
|
||||
While the Sunburst generator does not produce useful output power
|
||||
because of the internal losses inherent in the design, a
|
||||
@ -551,7 +551,7 @@
|
||||
losses, increase the total generated voltage and the
|
||||
fraction of generated power delivered to an external load.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> DePalma's claim of free energy generation could perhaps then
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>'s claim of free energy generation could perhaps then
|
||||
be examined.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> I should mention, however, that the obvious application of using
|
||||
@ -567,21 +567,21 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> FOOTNOTES</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 1. DePalma, 1979a,b,c, 1981, 1983, 1984, etc.
|
||||
2. For example, Satelite News, 1981, Marinov, 1984, etc.
|
||||
3. Martin, 1932, vol. 1, p.381.
|
||||
<p> 1. <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, 1979a,b,c, 1981, 1983, 1984, etc.
|
||||
2. For example, Satelite News, 1981, <ent type = 'person'>Marinov</ent>, 1984, etc.
|
||||
3. <ent type = 'person'>Martin</ent>, 1932, vol. 1, p.381.
|
||||
4. Das Gupta, 1961, 1962; Lamme, 1912, etc.
|
||||
5. See, for example, Bumby, 1983; Bewley, 1952; Kosow, 1964; Nasar,
|
||||
5. See, for example, Bumby, 1983; Bewley, 1952; Kosow, 1964; <ent type = 'person'>Nasar</ent>,
|
||||
1970.
|
||||
6. There has been much discussion on this point in the
|
||||
literature, and about interpretation of flux lines. Bewley,
|
||||
1949; Cohn, 1949a,b; Crooks, 1978; Cullwick, 1957; Savage,
|
||||
1949; Cohn, 1949a,b; Crooks, 1978; <ent type = 'person'>Cullwick</ent>, 1957; Savage,
|
||||
1949.
|
||||
7. DePalma, op. cit.
|
||||
. Kimball, 1926; Zeleny, 1924.
|
||||
7. <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, op. cit.
|
||||
. Kimball, 1926; <ent type = 'person'>Zeleny</ent>, 1924.
|
||||
9. Bumby, Das Gupta, op. cit.
|
||||
10. DePalma, 1980.
|
||||
11. Wilhelm, 1980, and personal communication.
|
||||
10. <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, 1980.
|
||||
11. <ent type = 'person'>Wilhelm</ent>, 1980, and personal communication.
|
||||
12. The increase in motor losses with increased load are
|
||||
neglected in this discussion because of a lack of accurate
|
||||
values for armature and brush resistances, magnetic field
|
||||
@ -589,7 +589,7 @@
|
||||
losses, while small, would be appreciable, however; their
|
||||
inclusion would further increase the ratio of generated to
|
||||
drive power so that the results described are conservative.
|
||||
13. Wilhelm, 1981, and personal communication.</p>
|
||||
13. <ent type = 'person'>Wilhelm</ent>, 1981, and personal communication.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -599,7 +599,7 @@
|
||||
ENGINEERING, Dec. 1949, p.1113-4. (Claims error in Cohn's paper)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Bewley, 1952] - L. V. Bewley, FLUX LINKAGES & ELECTROMAGNETIC
|
||||
INDUCTION, Macmillan, NY, 1952. (Explanation of induction
|
||||
INDUCTION, Ma<ent type = 'person'>cm</ent>illan, NY, 1952. (Explanation of induction
|
||||
phenomena and the Faraday generator)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Bumby, 1983] - J. R. Bumby, SUPERCONDUCTING ROTATING ELECTRICAL
|
||||
@ -610,7 +610,7 @@
|
||||
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, May 1949, p441-7. (Unipolar generator as
|
||||
paradox)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Cohn, 1949b] - George Cohn, letter re [Savage, 1949]; ELECTRICAL
|
||||
<p> [Cohn, 1949b] - <ent type = 'person'>George Cohn</ent>, letter re [Savage, 1949]; ELECTRICAL
|
||||
ENGINEERING, Nov 1949, p1018. (Responds to criticism by Savage)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Crooks, 1978] - M. J. Crooks et al, "One-piece Faraday generator:
|
||||
@ -618,7 +618,7 @@
|
||||
1978, p729-31. (Derives Faraday generator performance using
|
||||
Maxwell's equations)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Cullwick, 1957] - E. G. Cullwick, ELECTROMAGNETISM AND RELATIVITY,
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>Cullwick</ent>, 1957] - E. G. <ent type = 'person'>Cullwick</ent>, ELECTROMAGNETISM AND RELATIVITY,
|
||||
Longmans & Green, London, 1957. (Chapter 10, "A Rotating
|
||||
Conducting Magnet", pp.141-60, discusses question of flux rotation
|
||||
with magnet)</p>
|
||||
@ -633,40 +633,40 @@
|
||||
AIEE Trans. Oct 1962, p399-402. (Discusses very high current low
|
||||
voltage Faraday generators)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [DePalma, 1979a] - Bruce DePalma, EXTRACTION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, 1979a] - <ent type = 'person'>Bruce <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent></ent>, EXTRACTION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY
|
||||
DIRECTLY FROM SPACE: THE N-NACHINE, Simularity Institute, Santa
|
||||
Barbara CA, 6 Mar 1979. (Discusses homopolar generator or N-
|
||||
Machine as free-energy source)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [DePalma, 1979b] - Bruce DePalma, "The N-Machine", Paper given at
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, 1979b] - <ent type = 'person'>Bruce <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent></ent>, "The N-Machine", Paper given at
|
||||
the World Symposium on Humanity, Pasadena, CA, 12 April 1979.
|
||||
(Describes background, development of "free-energy" theories)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [DePalma, 1979c] - Bruce DePalma, ROTATION OF A MAGNETIZED
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, 1979c] - <ent type = 'person'>Bruce <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent></ent>, ROTATION OF A MAGNETIZED
|
||||
GYROSCOPE, Simularity Institute Report #33, 16 July 1979.
|
||||
(Describes design of Sunburst homopolar generator)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [DePalma, 1980] - Bruce DePalma, "Performance of the Sunburst N
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, 1980] - <ent type = 'person'>Bruce <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent></ent>, "Performance of the Sunburst N
|
||||
Machine", Simularity Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, 17 December
|
||||
1980. (Description of tests and results)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [DePalma, 1981] - Bruce DePalma, "Studies on rotation leading to the
|
||||
N-Machine", DePalma Institute, 1981 (transcript of talk?)
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, 1981] - <ent type = 'person'>Bruce <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent></ent>, "Studies on rotation leading to the
|
||||
N-Machine", <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent> Institute, 1981 (transcript of talk?)
|
||||
(Discusses experiments with gravity that led to development of
|
||||
idea of free-energy machine)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [DePalma, 1983] - Bruce DePalma, THE ROTATION OF THE UNIVERSE,
|
||||
DePalma Institute Report #83, Santa Barbara, CA, 25 July 1983.
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, 1983] - <ent type = 'person'>Bruce <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent></ent>, THE ROTATION OF THE UNIVERSE,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent> Institute Report #83, Santa Barbara, CA, 25 July 1983.
|
||||
(Uses Faraday disc to discuss universal principles).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [DePalma, 1984] - Bruce DePalma, THE SECRET OF THE FARADAY DISC,
|
||||
DePalma Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, 2 Feb 1984. (Claims
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, 1984] - <ent type = 'person'>Bruce <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent></ent>, THE SECRET OF THE FARADAY DISC,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent> Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, 2 Feb 1984. (Claims
|
||||
explanation of Faraday disc as a free-energy device)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Kimball, 1926] - A. L. Kimball, Jr., "Torque on revolving
|
||||
cylindrical magnet", PHYS. REV. v.28, Dec 1928, p.1302-8.
|
||||
(Alternative analysis of torque in a homopolar device to that of
|
||||
Zeleny and Page, 1924)</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Zeleny</ent> and Page, 1924)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Kosow, 1964] - Irving L. Kosow, ELECTRICAL MACHINERY & CONTROL,
|
||||
Prentice-Hall, 1964. (Discusses high current homopolar (acyclic)
|
||||
@ -677,35 +677,35 @@
|
||||
p1811-40. (Early discussion of design of high power homopolar
|
||||
generator)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Marinov, 1984]- Stefan Marinov, THE THORNY WAY OF TRUTH, Part II;
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>Marinov</ent>, 1984]- Stefan <ent type = 'person'>Marinov</ent>, THE THORNY WAY OF TRUTH, Part II;
|
||||
Graz, Austria, 1984 (Advertisement in NATURE). (Claims free-
|
||||
energy generator proved by DePalma, Newman)</p>
|
||||
energy generator proved by <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, Newman)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Martin, 1932] - Thomas Martin (ed), FARADAY'S DIARY, Bell, 1932,
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>Martin</ent>, 1932] - Thomas <ent type = 'person'>Martin</ent> (ed), FARADAY'S DIARY, Bell, 1932,
|
||||
in 5 vols. (Transcription and publication of Faraday's original
|
||||
diaries)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Nasar, 1970] - S. Nasar, ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>Nasar</ent>, 1970] - S. <ent type = 'person'>Nasar</ent>, ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES
|
||||
& SYSTEMS, Prentice-Hall, 1970. (Discusses principles and
|
||||
applications of acyclic (homopolar) machines)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Satellite News, 1981] - "Researchers see long-life satellite power
|
||||
systems in 19th century experiment", Research news, SATELLITE
|
||||
NEWS, 15 June 1981. (Reports DePalma's claim for free-energy
|
||||
NEWS, 15 June 1981. (Reports <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>'s claim for free-energy
|
||||
generator)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Savage, 1949] - Norton Savage, letter re [Cohn, 1949a]; ELECTRICAL
|
||||
ENGINEERING, July 1949, p645. (Claims error in Cohn's paper)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Wilhelm, 1980] - Timothy J. Wilhelm, INVESTIGATIONS OF THE N-EFFECT
|
||||
ONE-PIECE HOMOPOLAR DYNAMOS, ETC. (Phase I), Stelle, IL, 12 Sept
|
||||
1980. (Discusses tests on DePalma's N-Machine)</p>
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>Wilhelm</ent>, 1980] - Timothy J. <ent type = 'person'>Wilhelm</ent>, INVESTIGATIONS OF THE N-EFFECT
|
||||
ONE-PIECE <ent type = 'person'>HOMOPOLAR</ent> DYNAMOS, ETC. (Phase I), Stelle, IL, 12 Sept
|
||||
1980. (Discusses tests on <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>'s N-Machine)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Wilhelm, 1981] - Timothy J. Wilhelm, INVESTIGATIONS OF THE N-EFFECT
|
||||
ONE-PIECE HOMOPOLAR DYNAMOS, ETC. (Phase II), Stelle, IL, 10 June
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>Wilhelm</ent>, 1981] - Timothy J. <ent type = 'person'>Wilhelm</ent>, INVESTIGATIONS OF THE N-EFFECT
|
||||
ONE-PIECE <ent type = 'person'>HOMOPOLAR</ent> DYNAMOS, ETC. (Phase II), Stelle, IL, 10 June
|
||||
1981. (Design and tests of improved homopolar generator/motor)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> [Zeleny, 1924] - John Zeleny & Leigh Page, "Torque on a cylindrical
|
||||
<p> [<ent type = 'person'>Zeleny</ent>, 1924] - John <ent type = 'person'>Zeleny</ent> & Leigh Page, "Torque on a cylindrical
|
||||
magnet through which a current is passing", PHYS. REV. v.24, 14
|
||||
July 1924, p.544-59. (Theory and experiment on torque in a
|
||||
homopolar device)</p>
|
||||
@ -714,7 +714,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> (Sysop note: The following figure also had an accompanying drawing)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Figure 5 - Transcription of the first experiment showing generation
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>ure 5 - Transcription of the first experiment showing generation
|
||||
of electrical power in a moving conductor by Michael
|
||||
Faraday</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -744,7 +744,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> (Sysop note: The following figure also had an accompanying drawing)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Figure 7 - Test of a rotating magnet by Michael Faraday, December
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>ure 7 - Test of a rotating magnet by Michael Faraday, December
|
||||
26, 1831.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 255. A copper disc was cemented on the top of a cylinder magnet,
|
||||
@ -774,9 +774,9 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> (Sysop note: The following figure also had an accompanying drawing)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Figure 8 - Test data from report by Bruce DePalma</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>ure 8 - Test data from report by <ent type = 'person'>Bruce <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent></ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> PERFORMANCE OF THE SUNBURST HOMOPOLAR GENERATOR</p>
|
||||
<p> PERFORMANCE OF THE SUNBURST <ent type = 'person'>HOMOPOLAR</ent> GENERATOR</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> machine speed: 6000 r.p.m.
|
||||
drive motor current no load 15 amperes
|
||||
@ -801,14 +801,14 @@
|
||||
appeared in this area) R(brush) = 114.25 " "
|
||||
R(shunt) = 31.25 " "</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> BRUCE DEPALMA
|
||||
<p> BRUCE <ent type = 'person'>DEPALMA</ent>
|
||||
17 DECEMBER 1980</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Page 14</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Figure 15 - Summary of test results at 6500 rpm</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Fig</ent>ure 15 - Summary of test results at 6500 rpm</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> I II III</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -830,7 +830,7 @@
|
||||
GENERATED POWER 0 0 (6113)
|
||||
WATTS</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> HOMOPOLAR GENERATOR TEST - BIG SPRINGS RANCH APRIL 26, 1986</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>HOMOPOLAR</ent> GENERATOR TEST - BIG SPRINGS RANCH APRIL 26, 1986</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -841,7 +841,7 @@
|
||||
<p> & the Temple of the Screaming Electron Jeff Hunter 510-935-5845
|
||||
Rat Head Ratsnatcher 510-524-3649
|
||||
Burn This Flag Zardoz 408-363-9766
|
||||
realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 415-567-7043
|
||||
realitycheck <ent type = 'person'>Poindexter Fortran</ent> 415-567-7043
|
||||
Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 415-583-4102</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Specializing in conversations, obscure information, high explosives,
|
||||
|
@ -61,11 +61,11 @@
|
||||
<p> But, he says, it would have been difficult for him to go on with
|
||||
work on the SVT and the generator were it not for encouragement from
|
||||
two US physicists, John A. Wheeler, director of the Centre for
|
||||
Theoretical Physics at the University of Texas, Austin, and Bruce
|
||||
DePalma, formerly a lecturer in physics at the Massachusetts
|
||||
Theoretical Physics at the University of Texas, <ent type = 'person'>Austin</ent>, and Bruce
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, formerly a lecturer in physics at the Massachusetts
|
||||
Institute of Technology.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "But for DePalma, I wouldn't have been able to tie up my theory,"
|
||||
<p> "But for <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, I wouldn't have been able to tie up my theory,"
|
||||
says Tewari. "He was working on similar ideas and kept sending his
|
||||
results to me."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The SPG was built under Tewari's supervision at the Tarapur Atomic
|
||||
Plant. "Tewari's prototype SPG can be considered a major
|
||||
breakthrough," says S. L. Kati, managing director of NPC.</p>
|
||||
breakthrough," says S. L. <ent type = 'person'>Kati</ent>, managing director of NPC.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Before leaving for Hanover, Tewari addressed a meeting of scientists
|
||||
and engineers at the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre on his theory.</p>
|
||||
@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
|
||||
since it will extract energy from space - as the Hanover conference
|
||||
demonstrated.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In fact, DePalma, the first inventor to create such a machine, is
|
||||
<p> In fact, <ent type = 'person'>DePalma</ent>, the first inventor to create such a machine, is
|
||||
presently conducting experiments in California in anticipation of a
|
||||
breakthrough which could lead to commercial production.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
|
||||
<p> & the Temple of the Screaming Electron Jeff Hunter 510-935-5845
|
||||
Rat Head Ratsnatcher 510-524-3649
|
||||
Burn This Flag Zardoz 408-363-9766
|
||||
realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 415-567-7043
|
||||
realitycheck <ent type = 'person'>Poindexter Fortran</ent> 415-567-7043
|
||||
Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 415-583-4102</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Specializing in conversations, obscure information, high explosives,
|
||||
|
@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>
|
||||
WBAI Pacifica Radio New York
|
||||
Interview with Mark Swaney
|
||||
Interview with <ent type = 'person'>Mark Swaney</ent>
|
||||
By: Paul DeRienzo.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>--------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>WBAI radio interview with Mark Swaney from "Faithful Arkansas"
|
||||
a citizens group, speaking of Bill Clinton's and George Bush's
|
||||
<p>WBAI radio interview with <ent type = 'person'>Mark Swaney</ent> from "Faithful Arkansas"
|
||||
a citizens group, speaking of Bill <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>'s and George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s
|
||||
connection with the CIA covert drug smuggling operation in
|
||||
Mena Arkansas in support of the Contras.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent> Arkansas in support of the Contras.
|
||||
|
||||
MARK SWANEY:
|
||||
. . . . [they] set up a front company in Guadalahara Mexico.
|
||||
@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Resupply stopped when the revelations were made in '86, but
|
||||
they actually continued.
|
||||
|
||||
Anyway in the summer of '87, even as the hearings were going
|
||||
on in Congress, Terry Reed began to suspect they were using
|
||||
on in Congress, <ent type = 'person'>Terry Reed</ent> began to suspect they were using
|
||||
his front company for something other than smuggling weapons.
|
||||
And one day he was looking for a lathe in one of his warehouses
|
||||
by the airport there in Guadalahara and he went in and opened
|
||||
@ -37,26 +37,26 @@ realized he was in a very precarious situation because he was
|
||||
the only one on paper who had anything to do with that company,
|
||||
and if they had ever gotten caught -- there was nobody to stand
|
||||
up and say well this guy didn't know anything -- he was going
|
||||
to be a patsy if anything went wrong. So he decided he wasn't
|
||||
going to play the part of the patsy. The man who was his contact
|
||||
man for the CIA in Mexico was Felix Rodrigez. So he confronted
|
||||
Felix Rodrigez and said well listen I didn't bargain on getting
|
||||
to be a <ent type = 'person'>patsy</ent> if anything went wrong. So he decided he wasn't
|
||||
going to play the part of the <ent type = 'person'>patsy</ent>. The man who was his contact
|
||||
man for the CIA in Mexico was <ent type = 'person'>Felix Rodrigez</ent>. So he confronted
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Felix Rodrigez</ent> and said well listen I didn't bargain on getting
|
||||
into Narcotics smuggling and I'm outa this all together guys
|
||||
-- I'm leaving now -- I refuse to have anything further to do
|
||||
with this. And Felix Rodrigez said ok fine if you want to be
|
||||
with this. And <ent type = 'person'>Felix Rodrigez</ent> said ok fine if you want to be
|
||||
out your out. Now before he was able to return even to Little
|
||||
Rock Arkansas where his home was at the time, Governor Clinton's
|
||||
Chief of Security, a man named Raymond Buddy Young, and
|
||||
another man Tommy Baker, Private Investigator and I'm told
|
||||
Rock Arkansas where his home was at the time, Governor <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>'s
|
||||
Chief of Security, a man named <ent type = 'person'>Raymond Buddy Young</ent>, and
|
||||
another man <ent type = 'person'>Tommy Baker</ent>, Private Investigator and I'm told
|
||||
former member of the Arkansas State Police, were framing
|
||||
Terry Reid for mail fraud. What this involved was the so
|
||||
called project donation that Oliver North had set up. Terry
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Terry Reid</ent> for mail fraud. What this involved was the so
|
||||
called project donation that <ent type = 'person'>Oliver North</ent> had set up. Terry
|
||||
Reid's plane had been stolen a number of years earlier
|
||||
-- and used in drug missions and such without his knowledge
|
||||
-- and he claimed the insurance money for his plane being stolen
|
||||
-- and so to set him up what they did was took the airplane
|
||||
and put it back in his hangar before he got back to Arkansas.
|
||||
Governor Clinton's Chief of Security just supposedly happened
|
||||
Governor <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>'s Chief of Security just supposedly happened
|
||||
--and this is what he tells the press -- he say's "one day I
|
||||
just happened to be walking by this hangar, and the wind just
|
||||
happened to blow the door open and I just happened to look in
|
||||
@ -64,54 +64,54 @@ and see this airplane that was stolen four years earlier in
|
||||
another state and I realized -that was the plane." And so this
|
||||
is how the case got started.
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
How would he have known that was the plane?
|
||||
|
||||
MARK SWANEY: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Oh that's never been explained. Along with a number of aspects
|
||||
in this famous story. We're in contact with Terry Reid's defense
|
||||
attorney in Witchita and she's promised to send us all of the
|
||||
in this famous story. We're in contact with <ent type = 'person'>Terry Reid</ent>'s defense
|
||||
attorney in <ent type = 'person'>Witchita</ent> and she's promised to send us all of the
|
||||
documents --we have some of the documents already that indicate
|
||||
--he was found not guilty --well he never went to trial.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Is that the same Buddy Young by the way who's head of Governor
|
||||
Clinton's security detail.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>'s security detail.
|
||||
|
||||
MARK SWANEY:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Yes he is.
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
Buddy Young, let's keep his name in mind because I want to come
|
||||
back to him. Let's jump now to the sight in Arkansas that was
|
||||
used as the landing sight, the airport in Arkansas in the town
|
||||
of Mena Arkansas --that was determinates of a lot of these
|
||||
of <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent> Arkansas --that was determinates of a lot of these
|
||||
Iran-Contra resupply flights.
|
||||
|
||||
MARK SWANEY:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Yes, in fact Terry Reid has stated in that same article that
|
||||
<p>Yes, in fact <ent type = 'person'>Terry Reid</ent> has stated in that same article that
|
||||
you have that it was the *hub* of the Contra resupply effort.
|
||||
Many people are not aware that Arkansas was very heavily and
|
||||
very deeply involved in the Iran-Contra affair all during the
|
||||
time that Governor Clinton ???? Governor of the state.
|
||||
time that Governor <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> ???? Governor of the state.
|
||||
And there were numerous stories written about it in the press.
|
||||
Well the story about Mena is that Mena is a very small town
|
||||
Well the story about <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent> is that <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent> is a very small town
|
||||
in the middle of the the Washitah (sp) mountains in Southwestern
|
||||
Arkansas and not coincidentally it happens to be in Congressman
|
||||
John Paul Hammerschmidt's district, the Third Congressional
|
||||
district. John Paul Hammerschmidt just happens to be one
|
||||
of George Bush's very closest friend's. He was George Bush's
|
||||
Presidential Campaign Manager for Bush's campaign in '76 and
|
||||
again in 1980. The two people are very close. Anyway Mena
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>John Paul Hammerschmidt</ent>'s district, the Third Congressional
|
||||
district. <ent type = 'person'>John Paul Hammerschmidt</ent> just happens to be one
|
||||
of George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s very closest friend's. He was George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s
|
||||
Presidential Campaign Manager for <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s campaign in '76 and
|
||||
again in 1980. The two people are very close. Anyway <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent>
|
||||
has an airport and it looks from the outside like an ordinary,
|
||||
normal airport. The thing that separates Mena's airport from
|
||||
normal airport. The thing that separates <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent>'s airport from
|
||||
any other is the fact that there are row upon row of hangars
|
||||
--buildings which house aircraft refitting facilities. Now
|
||||
aircraft refitting is an industry that is in demand by two
|
||||
@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ you're a CIA guy and you're going to do covert actions overseas
|
||||
Particularly if you're going to covertly resupply an army that's
|
||||
over a thousand miles away.
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
Hassenfusse's plane was based there.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -130,16 +130,16 @@ MARK SWANEY: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Pardon me.
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
Hassenfusse's plane, the plane that was shot down, was based
|
||||
in Mena Arkansas.
|
||||
in <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent> Arkansas.
|
||||
|
||||
MARK SWANEY:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>That plane was based there formally before Barry Seal was
|
||||
<p>That plane was based there formally before <ent type = 'person'>Barry Seal</ent> was
|
||||
murdered just a few months before it was shot down. That
|
||||
was Barry Seal's own personal airplane. But anyway what
|
||||
was <ent type = 'person'>Barry Seal</ent>'s own personal airplane. But anyway what
|
||||
you need to do, if you're a CIA or a drug smuggler is you
|
||||
need an airplane that can do things that normally airplanes
|
||||
of the civilian variety are not allowed to do. Things like
|
||||
@ -155,51 +155,51 @@ to be able to modify a civilian aircraft that is not legally
|
||||
allowed to have such capability so that it does have those
|
||||
capabilities.
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
And this was done in Mena -- a smalltown airport.
|
||||
And this was done in <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent> -- a smalltown airport.
|
||||
|
||||
MARK SWANEY:
|
||||
|
||||
Right. Now Mena has the second or third largest --I don't
|
||||
Right. Now <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent> has the second or third largest --I don't
|
||||
know which, but one of the largest aircraft refitting
|
||||
facilities in the United States. And as such it was --long
|
||||
before the Nicaruguan episode happened, it was a base of CIA
|
||||
covert operation and remains to this very minute a base of
|
||||
CIA covert operation.
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
Let's jump to another name that comes up in this -- a fella
|
||||
by the name of Larry Nichols, former employee of the state
|
||||
by the name of <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent>, former employee of the state
|
||||
of Arkansas. He was a employee of the Arkansas Development
|
||||
and Finance Authority now I have an Associated Press article
|
||||
that came out just a couple of days ago that Larry Nichols
|
||||
that came out just a couple of days ago that <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent>
|
||||
has dropped a lawsuit that he had instituted in 1990 against
|
||||
Governor Clinton that came after his 1988 dismissal from that
|
||||
Governor <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> that came after his 1988 dismissal from that
|
||||
state job for miss-use of agency telephones.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Can you tell us who Larry Nichols was.
|
||||
<p>Can you tell us who <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> was.
|
||||
|
||||
MARK SWANEY:
|
||||
|
||||
Yeah this is probably the most interesting part of the story
|
||||
-- you see Larry Nichols is the source of all these rumors
|
||||
and the Jennifer Flowers thing and the Governor's sex life.
|
||||
-- you see <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> is the source of all these rumors
|
||||
and the <ent type = 'person'>Jennifer Flowers</ent> thing and the Governor's sex life.
|
||||
The story that the press has yet not picked up on is the
|
||||
fact that Larry Nichols was a big time Contra supporter.
|
||||
fact that <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> was a big time Contra supporter.
|
||||
He has close connections to Mario Collero, Adolpho Collero
|
||||
and Jack Singlove. In fact he served with General Singlove
|
||||
and <ent type = 'person'>Jack Singlove</ent>. In fact he served with General Singlove
|
||||
in Vietnam. He spent the first half of the decade working
|
||||
for the Contras in a connection with an organization that
|
||||
General Singlove had. He spent time with the Contra's on the
|
||||
ground in Honduras. His job was to collect military information.
|
||||
Now I've met with Larry Nichols -- this information that I'm
|
||||
Now I've met with <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> -- this information that I'm
|
||||
about to give you he has told me directly. And we have checked
|
||||
out a great deal of what he's told us and everything that he
|
||||
has told us has checked out totally accurate.
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
So what we're seeing here is a connection between the mistress
|
||||
sex scandal and the Iran-Contra and the Governor of Arkansas.
|
||||
@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ Well what you find out here in a minute is that the sex
|
||||
scandals really have nothing to do with it. I saw his lawsuit
|
||||
several months ago when I was in Little Rock and it was of
|
||||
no interest to me I didn't even bother to make a copy of it.
|
||||
But Larry Nichols, the man, and his relationship to the
|
||||
But <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent>, the man, and his relationship to the
|
||||
Governor is extremely interesting. You see what it is --is
|
||||
that his job was to make military analysis of the situation
|
||||
in Honduras with the Contras. And to take that information
|
||||
@ -220,15 +220,15 @@ Congressmen who are in favor of Contra Aid with a view toward
|
||||
convincing them that the Contra's were an effective military
|
||||
fighting force --that they could win militarily against the
|
||||
Sandanistas. At some point around '85 I believe this job for
|
||||
Larry ran out, and he didn't have any money and he approached
|
||||
Governor Clinton. Now according to Larry, he and Governor Clinton
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> ran out, and he didn't have any money and he approached
|
||||
Governor <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>. Now according to <ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent>, he and Governor <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>
|
||||
are close friends, have known each other for a long time. In
|
||||
fact before the Governor was the Governor. He asked Governor
|
||||
Clinton --hey I'm broke I need a job. Well it's not too usual
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> --hey I'm broke I need a job. Well it's not too usual
|
||||
that somebody could just call up the Governor and say I want
|
||||
a job and the Governor says sure we'll make you Marketing
|
||||
Director for ADFA. That's the Arkansas Development Finance
|
||||
Authority --which figures centrally in Bill Clinton's
|
||||
Authority --which figures centrally in Bill <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>'s
|
||||
relationship to the Contra Resupply network that the state
|
||||
of Arkansas was so heavily involved in. In any case he was
|
||||
there working at ADFA and someone at ADFA a fellow employee
|
||||
@ -236,59 +236,59 @@ had found out about this guy that was working with them who
|
||||
was this romantic jungle fighter type of character. And
|
||||
eventually she began to talk to some friends about it and
|
||||
word reached the ears of a reporter and a reporter began
|
||||
to investigate Larry Nichols --wondering what this big Contra
|
||||
to investigate <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> --wondering what this big Contra
|
||||
supporter was doing working for ADFA. Everyone who holds a
|
||||
top position at ADFA is directly appointed by Bill Clinton --in
|
||||
fact ADFA is a total invention of Bill Clinton's --he created
|
||||
top position at ADFA is directly appointed by Bill <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> --in
|
||||
fact ADFA is a total invention of Bill <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>'s --he created
|
||||
the agency out of thin air and appoints all of the top
|
||||
directors. In any case a reporter approached Bill Clinton
|
||||
in Japan and started to question him about Larry Nichols
|
||||
directors. In any case a reporter approached Bill <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>
|
||||
in Japan and started to question him about <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent>
|
||||
--wanted to know what this guy was doing on state payroll
|
||||
--if he was lobbying for the Contra's or just what the story
|
||||
was. Mr. Clinton, rather precipitously fired Larry Nichols
|
||||
was. Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>, rather precipitously fired <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent>
|
||||
directly after that. And the story that was put out was that
|
||||
he was fired for misusing state telephones that he'd supposedly
|
||||
made hundreds of calls to the Contras and ran up thousands of
|
||||
dollars worth of bills to the Contras -- uhmm that is an
|
||||
unsubstantiated allegation --in fact on Larry Nichols suggestion
|
||||
unsubstantiated allegation --in fact on <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> suggestion
|
||||
the organization I work with received his entire phone records
|
||||
from ADFA through freedom of information act and went over
|
||||
those phone records with him call by call and we did not find
|
||||
any records of calls by him outside the United States on
|
||||
those phone records so it was a phony charge and Larry Nichols
|
||||
those phone records so it was a phony charge and <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent>
|
||||
was in fact wrongfully fired and they made up this story that
|
||||
he was calling the Contras in order to get rid of him.
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
Why do you think that was?
|
||||
|
||||
MARK SWANEY:
|
||||
|
||||
Well I don't know the exact reason but I can tell you this
|
||||
that Larry Nichols and Buddy Young the man I mentioned earlier,
|
||||
that <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> and Buddy Young the man I mentioned earlier,
|
||||
are very close friends.
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
Well that's a point that you just mentioned that Buddy Young was
|
||||
the State Security man who discovered the airplane -- the allegedly
|
||||
stolen airplane belonging to Terry Reid was in fact in a certain
|
||||
stolen airplane belonging to <ent type = 'person'>Terry Reid</ent> was in fact in a certain
|
||||
airport hangar.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
MARK SWANEY:
|
||||
|
||||
Everything to do with that in fact the federal judge is on record
|
||||
for calling Buddy Young a liar in Terry Reid's trial. But see Larry
|
||||
Nichols and Buddy Young knew each other and are close friends
|
||||
for calling Buddy Young a liar in <ent type = 'person'>Terry Reid</ent>'s trial. But see <ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent> and Buddy Young knew each other and are close friends
|
||||
according to the newspaper accounts that were in the newspaper
|
||||
down here in Arkansas yesterday -- they're old buddies.
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
Yes, well that's what the Associated Press report that I'm looking
|
||||
at right now says that Nichols dropped his lawsuit after consulting
|
||||
at right now says that <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent> dropped his lawsuit after consulting
|
||||
with Buddy Young.
|
||||
|
||||
MARK SWANEY:
|
||||
@ -297,45 +297,45 @@ Yes, Now I'm going to say something right now which is rather
|
||||
shocking -- this is the first time this has been made public
|
||||
to my knowledge. A member of my organization who is going to
|
||||
be at a press conference that we're having tomorrow --spoke
|
||||
with Larry Nichols --we've been in contact with him for several
|
||||
with <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> --we've been in contact with him for several
|
||||
months off and on on the telephone, and he's had a conversation
|
||||
with him sometime around the first week of January -- during
|
||||
which Larry Nichols tolde this member of my organization -- that
|
||||
which <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> tolde this member of my organization -- that
|
||||
Buddy Young had called him and told him that he in fact was a
|
||||
dead man -- that was under threat of death.
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
Buddy Young was?
|
||||
|
||||
MARK SWANEY:
|
||||
|
||||
No. Larry Nichols. And at that time Buddy Young was frightened
|
||||
-- he was not threatening Larry Nichols personally he was saying
|
||||
No. <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent>. And at that time Buddy Young was frightened
|
||||
-- he was not threatening <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> personally he was saying
|
||||
that we're all in trouble with this because there's a move in
|
||||
the Governor's office to get rid of me. So Buddy Young was
|
||||
afraid that Governor Clinton was about to axe him in the same
|
||||
way that he axed Larry Nichols. And so serious did he take
|
||||
this possibility that he informed Larry Nichols directly that
|
||||
afraid that Governor <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> was about to axe him in the same
|
||||
way that he axed <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent>. And so serious did he take
|
||||
this possibility that he informed <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> directly that
|
||||
he was a dead man.
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
So Larry Nichols is now saying that Buddy Young the Chief of
|
||||
Governor Clinton's gubernatorial campaign has told him that
|
||||
So <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> is now saying that Buddy Young the Chief of
|
||||
Governor <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>'s gubernatorial campaign has told him that
|
||||
he's a dead man.
|
||||
|
||||
MARK SWANEY:
|
||||
|
||||
Yes, that is the information that Larry Nichols gave to us
|
||||
Yes, that is the information that <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> gave to us
|
||||
-- now as I say that has not been reported anywhere else and
|
||||
I would not bet a lot right now on Mr. Nichols backing that
|
||||
I would not bet a lot right now on Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent> backing that
|
||||
statement up, but I back it up.
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
And this is prior to him dropping this lawsuit against Governor
|
||||
Clinton.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>.
|
||||
|
||||
MARK SWANEY:
|
||||
|
||||
@ -345,11 +345,11 @@ Magazine, and it was approximately two days after the Nation
|
||||
Magazine actually decided to take the information that we had
|
||||
collected on this case very seriously and in fact are now
|
||||
pursuing their own investigative journalism on this, it was
|
||||
about two days after that that Larry Nichols declared that he
|
||||
about two days after that that <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Larry</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Nichols</ent></ent> declared that he
|
||||
was going to drop his lawsuit. Uh, so there's some very strange
|
||||
things that are going on. There's a great deal of other
|
||||
information --uh, connecting Governor Clinton to the operation
|
||||
in Mena. We don't have what you'd call a smoking gun on this
|
||||
information --uh, connecting Governor <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> to the operation
|
||||
in <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent>. We don't have what you'd call a smoking gun on this
|
||||
-- I have in front of me a piece of paper that I've written
|
||||
17 questions for the Governor on that the media has totally
|
||||
overlooked in their haste to salivate over all these sexual
|
||||
@ -357,14 +357,14 @@ stories --they've totally missed what's available. For example,
|
||||
the organization that I work for has been --I don't say I work for,
|
||||
nobody pays us we're getting broke doing this, but in any case
|
||||
we've collected just about everything that's publicly available
|
||||
about Mena and all of its ramifications and its a tremendous
|
||||
about <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent> and all of its ramifications and its a tremendous
|
||||
story, and I'd like to emphasize right now that Governor
|
||||
Clinton's part in this is very minor -- the real big fish in this
|
||||
story is George Bush. The damage that could come from this
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>'s part in this is very minor -- the real big fish in this
|
||||
story is George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>. The damage that could come from this
|
||||
information coming out is in fact far more damaging to George
|
||||
Bush than anyone else, because he's directly responsible for this
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> than anyone else, because he's directly responsible for this
|
||||
-- this operation was run out of the then Vice President George
|
||||
Bush's office. And I'd also like to add that the Arkansas chapter
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s office. And I'd also like to add that the Arkansas chapter
|
||||
of the Iran-Contra story was the one that was most heavily
|
||||
covered up at the time -- it was part of the story they had
|
||||
that they took the most care to see to it that nothing ever
|
||||
@ -373,37 +373,37 @@ it involves massive cocaine smuggling -- we had one pilot that
|
||||
came to the University and spoke directly to us and said
|
||||
"I personally flew for the CIA, guns, Panamanian Defense
|
||||
forces and approximately one ton of cocaine per flight.
|
||||
I flew seven of these flights into Mena Arkansas." So they
|
||||
I flew seven of these flights into <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent> Arkansas." So they
|
||||
wanted to cover it up because it was the one thing that would
|
||||
have exposed the drug connection within the United States
|
||||
most heavily. 2) And the other reason that they were very
|
||||
anxious to coverup Mena's involvement was because the base
|
||||
anxious to coverup <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent>'s involvement was because the base
|
||||
of operations that the CIA was using was in fact still active
|
||||
at the time the hearings were going on. And that base of
|
||||
operations supports covert operations all around the world
|
||||
not just in Central America. For example, there's a current
|
||||
covert operation that was going on there at least as late as
|
||||
May of last year that killed a man from Arkansas and Angola --
|
||||
so the entire time that Barry Seal was operating out of that
|
||||
so the entire time that <ent type = 'person'>Barry Seal</ent> was operating out of that
|
||||
airport the CIA was supporting there covert war with Jonason(sp)
|
||||
and Manunita(sp) in Angola. And we have sources within the
|
||||
United States government that there is covert activity going on
|
||||
in it this very day.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
PAUL DeRIENZO:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>PAUL</ent> DeRIENZO:
|
||||
|
||||
Thank you very much Mark Swaney --this is an amazing story and
|
||||
Thank you very much <ent type = 'person'>Mark Swaney</ent> --this is an amazing story and
|
||||
the amazing thing about it is that this is the *real* story about
|
||||
Governor Bill Clinton and that what we're getting served to us from
|
||||
Governor Bill <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> and that what we're getting served to us from
|
||||
all the media from start to finish from morning to night headlines
|
||||
in all the New York papers, is this thing about Governor Clinton
|
||||
and this woman Jennifer Flowers and her association with the
|
||||
in all the New York papers, is this thing about Governor <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent>
|
||||
and this woman <ent type = 'person'>Jennifer Flowers</ent> and her association with the
|
||||
Governor who is married for 14 years, and the real story which
|
||||
you get on WBAI underneath it all from our contacts in Arkansas
|
||||
is that in fact the Governor of Arkansas is covering up an illegal
|
||||
operation that began in the Vice President's office who is now
|
||||
President of the United States -- George Bush. Which makes me
|
||||
President of the United States -- George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>. Which makes me
|
||||
wonder why should I even bother voting -- who's there to vote for.
|
||||
I mean both sides the Democrats and the Republicans are involved.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -411,17 +411,17 @@ MARK SWANEY: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>That's another part of the story --you know the best way to buy
|
||||
off an election is to pay off both candidates. There's significant
|
||||
Republican interest in seeing Bill Clinton get the nomination
|
||||
Republican interest in seeing Bill <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> get the nomination
|
||||
from the standpoint that they will be assured then that none
|
||||
of the issues of the Iran-Contra affair are likely to be talked
|
||||
about. Certainly Clinton doesn't want to talk about them.</p>
|
||||
about. Certainly <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> doesn't want to talk about them.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We tried before we knew that Mr. Clinton was involved in this --
|
||||
<p>We tried before we knew that Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> was involved in this --
|
||||
we only came across this information 5 or 6 months ago and
|
||||
for two years now we've been doing demonstrations, writing
|
||||
letters collecting petitions holding informational gatherings
|
||||
to try to get this story to the people, and we have on several
|
||||
occasions sent Bill Clinton signatures, petitions of Arkansan's
|
||||
occasions sent <ent type = 'person'>Bill <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> s</ent>ignatures, petitions of Arkansan's
|
||||
asking for a state investigation and he refused to do anything
|
||||
about them he would do nothing more than have an aide send us a
|
||||
two sentence letter saying we have received your petition and
|
||||
@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ we'd be willing to talk to you or any one of your aides so that
|
||||
we could talk to you about this major crime problem in our state
|
||||
that we're concerned about that we'd like to get to the bottom
|
||||
of -- and he refused that. During the 4 or 5 years now that
|
||||
the press has covered this story about Mena and Barry Seal --
|
||||
the press has covered this story about <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Barry Seal</ent> --
|
||||
you know this is a story about people who have been murdered --
|
||||
this is a very, very serious affair and during all of this time
|
||||
talk of massive Cocaine smuggling, corruption of local officials
|
||||
@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ there was total silence from the Governor, not a word. And it
|
||||
was not until our organization had a large demonstration
|
||||
-- it wasn't really a large demonstration but it was very well
|
||||
covered in the Arkansas press --that reporters approached
|
||||
Mr. Clinton about Mena. He talked about it for the first time
|
||||
Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Clinton</ent> about <ent type = 'person'>Mena</ent>. He talked about it for the first time
|
||||
in 4 or 5 years and what he had to say at that time was that
|
||||
he had in fact authorized some money for lonely little Polk County,
|
||||
which is a poor county in Southwestern Arkansas to run an
|
||||
@ -459,6 +459,6 @@ people along...all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked
|
||||
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
|
||||
country to danger. It works the same in any country.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Hermann Goering, 1936
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Hermann Goering</ent>, 1936
|
||||
|
||||
</p></xml>
|
@ -2,36 +2,36 @@
|
||||
CONTRAS USED COCAINE TO BUY ARMS
|
||||
BY VINCE BIELSKI and DENNIS BERNSTEIN</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> WASHINGTON--Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) and his staff said recently
|
||||
<p> WASHINGTON--Senator <ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent></ent> (D-Mass) and his staff said recently
|
||||
they are "confident" that money from the sale of narcotics helped finance
|
||||
the contras and that the arms network set up by Lt. Col. Oliver North could
|
||||
the contras and that the arms network set up by Lt. Col. <ent type = 'person'>Oliver North</ent> could
|
||||
be involved.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> North was fired from the staff of the National Security Council by
|
||||
President Reagan this week after the Administration discovered that North
|
||||
President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> this week after the Administration discovered that North
|
||||
arranged for the transfer $30 million from the sale of arms to Iran to
|
||||
Swiss bank accounts controlled by the contras.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "I'm confident that the contras have received drug money. They have
|
||||
received illegal shipments of weapons and that U.S. officials knew of it,"
|
||||
Kerry said, in calling for a special prosecutor to look into these other
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent> said, in calling for a special prosecutor to look into these other
|
||||
allegations.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> John Weiner, a Kerry aide, said while congressional investigators do
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Weiner</ent></ent>, a <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent> aide, said while congressional investigators do
|
||||
not know if North was directly involved, they do have evidence linking the
|
||||
"North network" to the cocaine-arms operation. According to a report
|
||||
produced by Kerry's staff, North established a network, involving retired
|
||||
Army Gen. John Singlaub, U.S. mercenaries and Cuban-Americans, to provide
|
||||
produced by <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent>'s staff, North established a network, involving retired
|
||||
Army Gen. <ent type = 'person'>John <ent type = 'person'>Singlaub</ent></ent>, U.S. mercenaries and Cuban-Americans, to provide
|
||||
arms to the contras during the two-year congressional ban on U.S. support.
|
||||
After the downing of the C-123 cargo plane over Nicaragua, Administration
|
||||
officials also acknowledged that North set up the private arms operation to
|
||||
the contras.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Weiner and several other sources charge that individuals involved in
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Weiner</ent> and several other sources charge that individuals involved in
|
||||
the network traffic in cocaine to help buy weapons for the contras.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "We have received a variety of allegations about drug connections to
|
||||
the contras and to parts of the North network. As to whether Oliver North
|
||||
the contras and to parts of the North network. As to whether <ent type = 'person'>Oliver North</ent>
|
||||
was directly involved in that I can't say. But parts of the North network
|
||||
allegedly were. And that needs to be looked at very seriously," he said.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -40,19 +40,19 @@ these charges when Congress reconvenes in January.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The role that cocaine played in funding the network has been part of a
|
||||
two-year investigation carried out by the Christic Institute, a Washington-
|
||||
based law firm. Dan Sheehan, the attorney directing the investigation, said
|
||||
based law firm. <ent type = 'person'>Dan <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent></ent>, the attorney directing the investigation, said
|
||||
the proceeds from the sale of cocaine has been "one significant source of
|
||||
funding for the contras. He said he has subsantial evidence to prove that
|
||||
the contras and their Cuban-American supporters are smuggling one ton of
|
||||
cocaine into the United States each week.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that one ton of cocaine
|
||||
has a street value of between $26 and $50 million. Sheehan said a portion
|
||||
has a street value of between $26 and $50 million. <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> said a portion
|
||||
the profits are used to purchase weapons.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The cocaine ring, involving mostly major Columbian cocaine trafficker,
|
||||
or "cocaine lords," and Cuban-Americans from Miami had been operating for
|
||||
years before the North network began in 1984. John Mattes, an attorney for
|
||||
years before the North network began in 1984. <ent type = 'person'>John Mattes</ent>, an attorney for
|
||||
one of the Cuban-Americans involved in the North network, said that the
|
||||
cocaine traffickers and the arms network "got together as a marriage of
|
||||
convenience."</p>
|
||||
@ -66,52 +66,52 @@ each plane carry cocaine which landed in Costa Rica for refueling. The
|
||||
Christic Institute's allegations are all contained in a civil suit filed in
|
||||
May 1986 in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The suit is brought by two U.S. journalists, Martha Honey and Tony
|
||||
<p> The suit is brought by two U.S. journalists, <ent type = 'person'>Martha Honey</ent> and Tony
|
||||
Avirgan, who charge that the cocaine/arms conspiracy was responsible for
|
||||
the May 1984 assassination attempt on contra leader Eden Pastora in La
|
||||
Penca, Nicaragua. The journalists are sueing for personal injuries they
|
||||
suffered resulting from a bomb explosion at a press conference which killed
|
||||
8 people and injured Pastora. "As amazing as it sounds," Sheehan said, "the
|
||||
8 people and injured Pastora. "As amazing as it sounds," <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> said, "the
|
||||
conspiracy is continuing to bring about one ton or 1,000 kilos of cocaine
|
||||
into the United States each week." Jesus Garcia, a former corrections
|
||||
into the United States each week." <ent type = 'person'>Jesus <ent type = 'person'>Garcia</ent></ent>, a former corrections
|
||||
officer in Dade County, Florida, said he was actively involved in the
|
||||
cocaine-arms operation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> He is one of Sheehan and Kerry's main sources of information. In a
|
||||
telephone interview from prison, where Garcia is no serving a three-year
|
||||
<p> He is one of <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent>'s main sources of information. In a
|
||||
telephone interview from prison, where <ent type = 'person'>Garcia</ent> is no serving a three-year
|
||||
term for possession of a firearm, he said "it is common knowledge here in
|
||||
Miami that that this whole contra operation in Costa Rica was paid for with
|
||||
cocaine. Everyone involved knows it. I actually saw the cocaine and the
|
||||
weapons together under one roof, weapons that I helped ship to Costa Rica."
|
||||
In May of 1983, according to the suit, two Cuban-Americans, Rene Corbo and
|
||||
Felipe Vidal joined forces with John Hull, a U.S. citizen who owns 1,750
|
||||
In May of 1983, according to the suit, two Cuban-Americans, <ent type = 'person'>Rene Corbo</ent> and
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Felipe <ent type = 'person'>Vidal</ent></ent> joined forces with <ent type = 'person'>John Hull</ent>, a U.S. citizen who owns 1,750
|
||||
acres of land in northern Costa Rica, "to recruit, train, finance (and)
|
||||
arm" a Cuban-American mercenary force to attack Nicaragua.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> To finance the mercenary force, the Cuban-Americans, Hull and others
|
||||
made arrangements with two known Columbian cocaine trafficers, Pablo
|
||||
Escobar and Jorge Ochoa, "to provide hundreds of pounds of cocaine on a
|
||||
regular basis," according to the suit. Garcia said that individuals
|
||||
involved in the arms supply operation told him that Ochoa was supplying
|
||||
Escobar and <ent type = 'person'>Jorge <ent type = 'person'>Ochoa</ent></ent>, "to provide hundreds of pounds of cocaine on a
|
||||
regular basis," according to the suit. <ent type = 'person'>Garcia</ent> said that individuals
|
||||
involved in the arms supply operation told him that <ent type = 'person'>Ochoa</ent> was supplying
|
||||
cocaine to the contras.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The cocaine was flown from Columbia to Hull's ranch, Sheehan said,
|
||||
where the planes would refuel. Sheehan said he has obtained records of
|
||||
<p> The cocaine was flown from Columbia to Hull's ranch, <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> said,
|
||||
where the planes would refuel. <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> said he has obtained records of
|
||||
Corbo buying huge gasoline tanks in Costa Rica which are used for refueling
|
||||
the planes. The Christic Institute learned about the cocaine shipments from
|
||||
members of Costa Rican Rural Guard, workers on Hull's land who unloaded the
|
||||
illegal substance from the small planes, and the pilots who transported the
|
||||
cocaine.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Corbo and Vidal belong to the Brigade 2506, an anti-Castro group in
|
||||
<p> Corbo and <ent type = 'person'>Vidal</ent> belong to the Brigade 2506, an anti-<ent type = 'person'>Castro</ent> group in
|
||||
Miami whose members were recruited and hired by the CIA to fight in the Bay
|
||||
of Pigs invasion agaisnt Cuba. Kerry's staff report charges that "Hull...
|
||||
of Pigs invasion agaisnt Cuba. <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent>'s staff report charges that "Hull...
|
||||
has been identified by a wide range of sources, including Eden Pastora,
|
||||
mercenaries, Costa Rican officials, and contra supporters as "deeply
|
||||
involved with military support for the contras...and has been identified by
|
||||
a wide-range of sources...as a CIA or NSC liaison to the contras."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> According to Steven Carr and Peter Glibbery, two mercenaries based on
|
||||
<p> According to <ent type = 'person'>Steven <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent></ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Peter <ent type = 'person'>Glibbery</ent></ent>, two mercenaries based on
|
||||
land operated by Hull who were captured by the Costa Rican Rural Guard in
|
||||
1985, Hull introduced himself to them as "the chief liaison for the FDN
|
||||
(National Democratic Force) and the CIA." Hull received $10,000 a month
|
||||
@ -121,70 +121,70 @@ to Hull.</p>
|
||||
<p> Hull has denied that he is assisting the contras and that he is
|
||||
working for the U.S. government.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Sheehan said that the cocaine is flown from the land operated by Hull
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> said that the cocaine is flown from the land operated by Hull
|
||||
to Memphis and then to Denver. The drug is also packed into container ships
|
||||
at the Costa Rican port of Limon and transported to Miami, New Orleans and
|
||||
at the Costa Rican port of <ent type = 'person'>Limon</ent> and transported to Miami, New Orleans and
|
||||
San Francisco.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Francisco Chanes, a Cuban-American, is the major importer and
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Francisco Chanes</ent>, a Cuban-American, is the major importer and
|
||||
distributor of the cocaine coming in from Costa Rica, according to the
|
||||
suit. Sheehan said he learned of Chanes' role from Drug Enforcement
|
||||
Administration agents who investigated Chanes, Corbo and Vidal.</p>
|
||||
suit. <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> said he learned of Chanes' role from Drug Enforcement
|
||||
Administration agents who investigated Chanes, Corbo and <ent type = 'person'>Vidal</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> During a January 1986 interview with FBI agents, Garcia said he told
|
||||
<p> During a January 1986 interview with FBI agents, <ent type = 'person'>Garcia</ent> said he told
|
||||
the agents that Chanes and Corbo were also involved in the contra supply
|
||||
operation.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Garcia said the agents responded by saying that Chanes and Corbo were
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Garcia</ent> said the agents responded by saying that Chanes and Corbo were
|
||||
already the subjects of a FBI narcotics trafficing investigation. Mattes,
|
||||
Garcia's attorney who was present at the interview, said he also heard the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Garcia</ent>'s attorney who was present at the interview, said he also heard the
|
||||
agents say that the FBI was investigating Chanes and Corbo.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Sheehan said money from the sale of cocaine is deposited in one bank
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Sheehan</ent> said money from the sale of cocaine is deposited in one bank
|
||||
in Miami and two in Central America and then withdrawn to purchase weapons
|
||||
and explosives.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Garcia said he was personally involved in a March 1985 shipment of 6
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Garcia</ent> said he was personally involved in a March 1985 shipment of 6
|
||||
tons of arms to Costa Rica from Miami. In July 1986, an official from the
|
||||
U.S. Attorney's office in Miami confirmed to the Miami Herald that "we now
|
||||
believe there were some weapons" illegally shipped to the contras by their
|
||||
U.S. supporters from the Fort Lauderdale International airport in 1985.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Garcia said he saw both these weapons and three kilograms of cocaine
|
||||
stored at the home of Chanes in Miami in the company of Chanes and Carr.</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Garcia</ent> said he saw both these weapons and three kilograms of cocaine
|
||||
stored at the home of Chanes in Miami in the company of Chanes and <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "They cocaine was kept in a dresser, about ten feet away from the
|
||||
weapons. Carr told me that the three keys (kilograms) was what was left
|
||||
from a larger shipment," Garcia said.[EP</p>
|
||||
weapons. <ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> told me that the three keys (kilograms) was what was left
|
||||
from a larger shipment," <ent type = 'person'>Garcia</ent> said.[EP</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> He said he had no direct evidence that the weapons in Chanes' home
|
||||
were purchased with the proceeds from the sale of cocaine. He said that
|
||||
Carr told him that the three kilograms were part of a larger shipment of
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Carr</ent> told him that the three kilograms were part of a larger shipment of
|
||||
cocaine brought to the United States from Costa Rica in container ships
|
||||
belonging Ocean Hunter, a seafood importing company owned by Chanes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Garcia said he helped load the weapons into a van which were then
|
||||
taken to the aiport in Miami. Glibbery said he witnessed the arrival of
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Garcia</ent> said he helped load the weapons into a van which were then
|
||||
taken to the aiport in Miami. <ent type = 'person'>Glibbery</ent> said he witnessed the arrival of
|
||||
these weapons on airstrips located on land operated by Hull in Costa Rica,
|
||||
according to the Kerry report.</p>
|
||||
according to the <ent type = 'person'>Kerry</ent> report.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The suit also names Theodore Shackley, former CIA associate deputy
|
||||
<p> The suit also names <ent type = 'person'>Theodore Shackley</ent>, former CIA associate deputy
|
||||
director for world wide covert operations, and retired Army Gen. John
|
||||
Singlaub as the main weapons suppliers.</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Singlaub</ent> as the main weapons suppliers.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> According to the suit, Shackley "knowingly accept(ed) the proceeds
|
||||
from illegal sales of narcotics in payment for illegal arms shipments."
|
||||
Singlaub has made "admissions to various reporters that he has sent guns
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Singlaub</ent> has made "admissions to various reporters that he has sent guns
|
||||
and bullets to the contras," according to the report.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>********************
|
||||
Reasearch and Editorial Assistance: Connie Blitt</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reasearch</ent> and Editorial Assistance: Connie Blitt</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Articles by Vince Bielski (San Fransisco-based) and Dennis Bernstein
|
||||
<p> Articles by <ent type = 'person'>Vince Bielski</ent> (San Fransisco-based) and <ent type = 'person'>Dennis Bernstein</ent>
|
||||
(new York) have appeared in Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, Plain Dealer,
|
||||
Denver Post, Dallas Times Herald, Dallas Morning News, Baltimore Sun, San
|
||||
Fransisco Examiner, Oakland Tribune, San Jose Mercury, Arizona Daily Star,
|
||||
Seattle Times, Minnieapolis Star and Tribune, and others.
|
||||
Seattle Times, <ent type = 'person'>Minnieapolis Star</ent> and Tribune, and others.
|
||||
--------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>X-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-X</p>
|
||||
@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ Seattle Times, Minnieapolis Star and Tribune, and others.
|
||||
<p> & the Temple of the Screaming Electron Jeff Hunter 510-935-5845
|
||||
Rat Head Ratsnatcher 510-524-3649
|
||||
Burn This Flag Zardoz 408-363-9766
|
||||
realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 415-567-7043
|
||||
realitycheck <ent type = 'person'>Poindexter Fortran</ent> 415-567-7043
|
||||
Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 415-583-4102</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Specializing in conversations, obscure information, high explosives,
|
||||
|
@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ MORTUARY INDUSTRY, BUT HE IS A FORMER CHIEF OF PATHOLOGY AT SAN FRANCISCO
|
||||
GENERAL HOSPITAL AND PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
|
||||
MEDICAL SCHOOL, AND HERE'S WHAT HE HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> AN EXHUMED BODY IS A REPUGNANT, MOLDY, FOUL-LOOKING OBJECT. IT'S NOT
|
||||
THE IMAGE OF ONE WHO HAS BEEN LOVED . . . THE BODY ITSELF MAY BE
|
||||
<p> AN EXHUMED BODY IS A REPUGNANT, <ent type = 'person'>MOLD</ent>Y, FOUL-LOOKING OBJECT. IT'S NOT
|
||||
THE IMAGE OF ONE WHO HAS <ent type = 'person'>BEEN</ent> LOVED . . . THE BODY ITSELF MAY BE
|
||||
INTACT, AS FAR AS CONTOURS AND SO ON; BUT THE SILK LINING OF THE
|
||||
CASKET IS ALL STAINED WITH BODY FLUIDS, THE WOOD IS ROTTING, AND THE
|
||||
BODY IS COVERED WITH MOLD . . . IF YOU SEAL UP A CASKET SO IT IS
|
||||
BODY IS COVERED WITH <ent type = 'person'>MOLD</ent> . . . IF YOU SEAL UP A CASKET SO IT IS
|
||||
MORE OR LESS AIRTIGHT, YOU SEAL IN THE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA - THE KIND
|
||||
THAT THRIVE IN AN AIRLESS ATMOSPHERE, YOU SEE. THESE ARE THE
|
||||
PUTREFACTIVE BACTERIA, AND THE RESULTS OF THEIR GROWTH ARE PRETTY
|
||||
@ -47,13 +47,13 @@ MEDICAL SCHOOL, AND HERE'S WHAT HE HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT:</p>
|
||||
<p> ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////
|
||||
// The PIRATES' HOLLOW //
|
||||
// 415-236-2371 //
|
||||
// over 12 Megs of Elite Text Files //
|
||||
// over 12 <ent type = 'person'>Megs</ent> of Elite Text Files //
|
||||
// ROR-ALUCARD //
|
||||
// Sysop: Doctor Murdock //
|
||||
// C0-Sysops: That One, Sir Death, Sid Gnarly & Finn //
|
||||
// //
|
||||
// "The Gates of Hell are open night and day; //
|
||||
// Smooth is the Descent, and Easy is the way.." //
|
||||
// <ent type = 'person'>Smooth</ent> is the Descent, and Easy is the way.." //
|
||||
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> </p>
|
||||
@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ MEDICAL SCHOOL, AND HERE'S WHAT HE HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT:</p>
|
||||
<p> & the Temple of the Screaming Electron Jeff Hunter 510-935-5845
|
||||
Rat Head Ratsnatcher 510-524-3649
|
||||
Burn This Flag Zardoz 408-363-9766
|
||||
realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 415-567-7043
|
||||
realitycheck <ent type = 'person'>Poindexter Fortran</ent> 415-567-7043
|
||||
Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 415-583-4102</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Specializing in conversations, obscure information, high explosives,
|
||||
|
@ -15,34 +15,34 @@ Jupiter missiles, the Americans set up elaborate listening devices in Turkey
|
||||
to monitor Soviet activity. Cat and mouse games to gauge Soviet readiness
|
||||
were played out almost on a daily basis. The Americans sent fighter planes to
|
||||
the proximity of the Soviet border while the men on the ground checked the
|
||||
responses of the Soviet defenses. Captain Gregor Schwinghammer, now a Pan Am
|
||||
responses of the Soviet defenses. Captain <ent type = 'person'>Gregor <ent type = 'person'>Schwinghammer</ent></ent>, now a Pan Am
|
||||
instructor and pilot, was one of the players in this game. Since Ararat is
|
||||
near the Soviet border, there were many fly-bys around the mountain. During
|
||||
one such excursion, a Turkish pilot participating in the maneuvers volunteered
|
||||
to show some of the American pilots Noah's Ark. Schwinghammer took all this in
|
||||
to show some of the American pilots <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark. <ent type = 'person'>Schwinghammer</ent> took all this in
|
||||
a light vein but went along. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The editor of AR discussed this incident with Schwinghammer about two years
|
||||
<p> The editor of AR discussed this incident with <ent type = 'person'>Schwinghammer</ent> about two years
|
||||
ago. The only thing really clear in his memory was that it definitely looked
|
||||
like a structure of some kind. He likened it to the long rectangular chicken
|
||||
houses he had seen in the midwest. It didn't really hit him that this could
|
||||
be Noah's Ark until he saw the movie In Search of Noah's Ark on TV.
|
||||
Schwinghammer still is not sure what it was but he maintains it definitely was
|
||||
be <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark until he saw the movie In Search of <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark on TV.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Schwinghammer</ent> still is not sure what it was but he maintains it definitely was
|
||||
a structure. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> An interesting thing to note here about Schwinghammer is that he later flew
|
||||
<p> An interesting thing to note here about <ent type = 'person'>Schwinghammer</ent> is that he later flew
|
||||
many bombing missions in Vietnam with the particular responsibility of
|
||||
spotting the targets on the ground. We mention this to point out that the man
|
||||
was trained to spot objects from a plane.
|
||||
|
||||
To read more on the Schwinghammer experience, see Berlitz' first book
|
||||
To read more on the <ent type = 'person'>Schwinghammer</ent> experience, see Berlitz' first book
|
||||
Doomsday 1999 A.D. and the update in his latest book mentioned in this issue.
|
||||
Schwinghammer now claims that the object he saw looked like the Hagopian
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Schwinghammer</ent> now claims that the object he saw looked like the Hagopian
|
||||
description as drawn by Elfred Lee. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Schwinghammer had a recollection of the U-2 pilots also seeing something in
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Schwinghammer</ent> had a recollection of the U-2 pilots also seeing something in
|
||||
photos. They flew out of the same base in Adana. As you will recall from the
|
||||
Gary Powers' incident the Americans were flying reconnoissance missions deep
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Gary Powers</ent>' incident the Americans were flying reconnoissance missions deep
|
||||
into the heart of the Soviet Union. On many occasions this took them right
|
||||
over Ararat. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ perplexity these men had over a certain object high in the snows of Ararat. </p
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It seems they could not figure out what the Turks could have built of that
|
||||
size at that extreme altitude. What could it be? Finally, he recalled
|
||||
hearing one of them jokingly exclaim: "It must be Noah's Ark!" Being a
|
||||
hearing one of them jokingly exclaim: "It must be <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark!" Being a
|
||||
Christian at the time, our friend pricked up his ears and went over for a
|
||||
closer look. Basically, what he remembers is a barge-like object sticking out
|
||||
of the ice with most of it still buried. Since he was in top security he told
|
||||
@ -75,99 +75,99 @@ Ark's whereabouts. </p>
|
||||
college near this Air Force base to prepare for the ministry. While at this
|
||||
college, he recalls another incident while strolling around the student lounge
|
||||
one day. To his surprise he noticed on the bulletin board a photo cut out of
|
||||
a newspaper with the caption "Could this be Noah's Ark?" He did a double take
|
||||
a newspaper with the caption "Could this be <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark?" He did a double take
|
||||
when he realized it was from the roll he had processed only a few years
|
||||
previously in the lab. He wondered who dared disclose the photograph because
|
||||
he remembered how his superiors drilled into them the subject of secrecy and
|
||||
the penalty involved. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> To this day he does not know if it was Noah's Ark but he wonders what else
|
||||
<p> To this day he does not know if it was <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark but he wonders what else
|
||||
it could have been. This man (who wishes to remain anonymous) was once a
|
||||
pastor of a large Baptist church in Kansas City. Today he is a marriage and
|
||||
family counselor in a large clinic in Dallas. We know this man personally and
|
||||
can attest that his reputation is impeccable.
|
||||
|
||||
To add further authenticity to this story, in the summer of '85, Col. Jim
|
||||
Irwin met an American two-star General in Turkey who also claimed to have seen
|
||||
a file labeled Noah's Ark and a slide purporting to be the Ark while stationed
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Irwin</ent> met an American two-star General in Turkey who also claimed to have seen
|
||||
a file labeled <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark and a slide purporting to be the Ark while stationed
|
||||
at an Air Force base in the midwest (not the same base). We are not privy to
|
||||
all the details of the General's testimony, but as far as we know, nothing new
|
||||
has turned up despite the General's promise to try and locate the photographs. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In 1953 an American employed by an American oil company not only claimed to
|
||||
have seen the Ark while flying by in a helicopter, he also took a number of
|
||||
photographs. Upon returning to the states this man, George J. Greene, was
|
||||
photographs. Upon returning to the states this man, George J. <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent>, was
|
||||
unsuccessful in trying to raise support for a ground expedition. Some time
|
||||
later he died, or was murdered in South America. Many people however, saw his
|
||||
photographs, too many in fact for this to have been a fictitious story. A
|
||||
more complete account of Greene's discovery can be found in Noah's Ark: Fact
|
||||
or Fable by Violet Cummings (213ff). </p>
|
||||
more complete account of <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent>'s discovery can be found in <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark: Fact
|
||||
or Fable by Violet <ent type = 'person'>Cummings</ent> (213ff). </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> For two very good reasons we are now 99% convinced that what George Greene
|
||||
<p> For two very good reasons we are now 99% convinced that what George <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent>
|
||||
saw was a large rock formation that is known to most Ark researchers. The
|
||||
particular formation we refer to came to light in the mid-seventies as a
|
||||
result of an expedition led by Tom Crotser of the Holy Ground Mission. The
|
||||
movie, In Search of Noah's Ark, which we refer to elsewhere in this issue,
|
||||
zooms in on the Crotser photograph and shows an object with planking clearly
|
||||
result of an expedition led by <ent type = 'person'>Tom <ent type = 'person'>Crotser</ent></ent> of the Holy Ground Mission. The
|
||||
movie, In Search of <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark, which we refer to elsewhere in this issue,
|
||||
zooms in on the <ent type = 'person'>Crotser</ent> photograph and shows an object with planking clearly
|
||||
visible. Ark researchers have looked this photo over carefully and have
|
||||
questioned its authenticity. It appeared to have been retouched. We now know
|
||||
for a fact that it was indeed retouched, but not with any fraudulent intent,
|
||||
so says Mr. David Fry, of Cleburne, TX a former acquaintance of Crotser's. </p>
|
||||
so says Mr. <ent type = 'person'>David <ent type = 'person'>Fry</ent></ent>, of Cleburne, TX a former acquaintance of <ent type = 'person'>Crotser</ent>'s. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Fry met Crotser in a photo print shop in Dallas where he noticed Crotser's
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Fry</ent> met <ent type = 'person'>Crotser</ent> in a photo print shop in Dallas where he noticed <ent type = 'person'>Crotser</ent>'s
|
||||
scenic mountain photos. When he was informed that the mountain scenery was
|
||||
Ararat, the two learned they had a mutual interest in Biblical history. Fry
|
||||
agreed to assist Crotser in the analysis of the photo containing an
|
||||
Ararat, the two learned they had a mutual interest in Biblical history. <ent type = 'person'>Fry</ent>
|
||||
agreed to assist <ent type = 'person'>Crotser</ent> in the analysis of the photo containing an
|
||||
interesting ship-shaped object. Since they had shots of the object from
|
||||
different angles Fry studied it stereo-scopically. While doing so, he noticed
|
||||
different angles <ent type = 'person'>Fry</ent> studied it stereo-scopically. While doing so, he noticed
|
||||
lines that seemed to run parallel length-wise on the object when viewed
|
||||
through a magnifying lense. Fry simply enhanced these lines and presented the
|
||||
photo to Crotser who then proceded to publicly proclaim the lines as planking
|
||||
through a magnifying lense. <ent type = 'person'>Fry</ent> simply enhanced these lines and presented the
|
||||
photo to <ent type = 'person'>Crotser</ent> who then proceded to publicly proclaim the lines as planking
|
||||
on a structure. He also began announcing to the press that the structure was
|
||||
Noah's Ark. </p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The object in question is positively located on the eastern rim of the
|
||||
Ahora Gorge at approximately 12,000 feet. It was photographed by Bob Stuplich
|
||||
Ahora Gorge at approximately 12,000 feet. It was photographed by <ent type = 'person'>Bob Stuplich</ent>
|
||||
from the air in 1983 and by expeditions on the ground. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> There are two reasons to link the Greene and Crotser sightings. Our first
|
||||
reason for concluding that Greene's and Crotser's objects are one and the same
|
||||
is their similarity to the sketch made by Fred Drake who claimed to have
|
||||
viewed Greene's photographs. </p>
|
||||
<p> There are two reasons to link the <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Crotser</ent> sightings. Our first
|
||||
reason for concluding that <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent>'s and <ent type = 'person'>Crotser</ent>'s objects are one and the same
|
||||
is their similarity to the sketch made by <ent type = 'person'>Fred <ent type = 'person'>Drake</ent></ent> who claimed to have
|
||||
viewed <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent>'s photographs. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Mr. Fry was kind enough to lend us a photograph of the object which he
|
||||
said was made from one of the Crotser's slides. The object was shot at eye
|
||||
level from the western rim of the gorge much the same as Greene would have
|
||||
<p> Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Fry</ent> was kind enough to lend us a photograph of the object which he
|
||||
said was made from one of the <ent type = 'person'>Crotser</ent>'s slides. The object was shot at eye
|
||||
level from the western rim of the gorge much the same as <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent> would have
|
||||
done from the helicopter, only from further away. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> To us the similarity is striking! The object lies almost due north and
|
||||
south exactly as Greene described it. The object is on a kind of rock shelf
|
||||
south exactly as <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent> described it. The object is on a kind of rock shelf
|
||||
over-looking a shear drop-off. When viewing Stuplich's aerial photos it
|
||||
appears that a side shot would also look just as Drake sketched it. Cummings
|
||||
also reports that Greene was flying over the northeastern side of the mountain
|
||||
appears that a side shot would also look just as <ent type = 'person'>Drake</ent> sketched it. <ent type = 'person'>Cummings</ent>
|
||||
also reports that <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent> was flying over the northeastern side of the mountain
|
||||
(p.219). </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The fact that the object is at about 12,000 feet also supports our
|
||||
contention. This is about the ceiling for a helicopter in the early '50s. We
|
||||
did some checking on this awhile back and found that there was a high
|
||||
performance French helicopter that could have flown to the summit of the
|
||||
mountain, but it is doubtful that Greene would have had one of these at his
|
||||
mountain, but it is doubtful that <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent> would have had one of these at his
|
||||
disposal. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This of course does not seal the case in concrete. We will never know for
|
||||
certain until we actually see Greene's photos. However, we said that there
|
||||
were two reasons why we are convinced that Greene saw the same rock formation
|
||||
that Crotser photographed in 1974. </p>
|
||||
certain until we actually see <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent>'s photos. However, we said that there
|
||||
were two reasons why we are convinced that <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent> saw the same rock formation
|
||||
that <ent type = 'person'>Crotser</ent> photographed in 1974. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Rod Younquist, engineer and veteran of several trips to Ararat, related to
|
||||
AR that he once met members of Crotser's expedition who informed him that they
|
||||
had shown their photographs to people who had also viewed Greene's missing
|
||||
AR that he once met members of <ent type = 'person'>Crotser</ent>'s expedition who informed him that they
|
||||
had shown their photographs to people who had also viewed <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent>'s missing
|
||||
photographs. Upon viewing the Holy Ground Mission photographs their response
|
||||
was: "Oh, where did you get George Greene's photographs?" Hence our second
|
||||
reason is the fact that Greene's friends mistakenly identified the Crotser
|
||||
photographs as Greene's. </p>
|
||||
was: "Oh, where did you get George <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent>'s photographs?" Hence our second
|
||||
reason is the fact that <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent>'s friends mistakenly identified the <ent type = 'person'>Crotser</ent>
|
||||
photographs as <ent type = 'person'>Greene</ent>'s. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> When Fry saw some of our slides of this object from different vantage
|
||||
<p> When <ent type = 'person'>Fry</ent> saw some of our slides of this object from different vantage
|
||||
points he too became doubtful. However, he said it really looks convincing
|
||||
when viewed stereo-scopically. He would like to see more photographs to have
|
||||
added confirmation. We agree. Perhaps one of our readers may have a close up
|
||||
@ -221,13 +221,13 @@ arises. </p>
|
||||
<p>ARK MOVIES </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> We've had several responses to our inquiry in the January issue concerning
|
||||
the Bart LaRue movie, The Ark of Noah. We now have our own copy and have
|
||||
the <ent type = 'person'>Bart <ent type = 'person'>LaRue</ent></ent> movie, The Ark of <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>. We now have our own copy and have
|
||||
viewed it several times with great interest. Our tape library now contains
|
||||
quite a few hours of various Ark films and we thought it might be a service to
|
||||
our readers to review what we've learned about other Ark films and where our
|
||||
readers might have access to them. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> What intrigues us is that more than four films about the search for Noah's
|
||||
<p> What intrigues us is that more than four films about the search for <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s
|
||||
Ark appeared in one year, 1976! Incidentally, we know of at least eight or
|
||||
nine books on the subject of the Ark and the Flood that appeared between '72
|
||||
and '76. Certainly this must have inspired film-makers to take advantage of
|
||||
@ -235,35 +235,35 @@ the interest generated by the books. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> We don't know who qualifies as being first, but two of the films produced
|
||||
that year are feature-length and were shown in theaters. A videotape of the
|
||||
aforementioned Bart LaRue film can still be ordered from: United
|
||||
Entertainment, Inc., 6535 E. Skelley Dr., Tulsa, OK 74145. The cost is
|
||||
aforementioned <ent type = 'person'>Bart <ent type = 'person'>LaRue</ent></ent> film can still be ordered from: United
|
||||
Entertainment, Inc., 6535 E. Skelley Dr., <ent type = 'person'>Tulsa</ent>, OK 74145. The cost is
|
||||
$39.95. Their phone number is 918-622-6460. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This movie is of interest to Ark researchers because of its historic
|
||||
footage from Navarra, Search Foundation, and the Archaeological Research
|
||||
Foundation. The movie itself plods along, contains many historical
|
||||
inaccuracies, and is anti-Turkish in tone. LaRue himself is persona non-grata
|
||||
inaccuracies, and is anti-Turkish in tone. <ent type = 'person'>LaRue</ent> himself is persona non-grata
|
||||
in Turkey due to his illegal climb of the mountain while filming for the
|
||||
movie. Viewers will also have difficulty discerning the real thing from what
|
||||
is re-enactment. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Another major feature length movie, In Search of Noah's Ark, was made in
|
||||
<p> Another major feature length movie, In Search of <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark, was made in
|
||||
1976 by Sunn Classic Pictures. A major book of the same title was released
|
||||
the same year. The authors of the book are Dave Balsiger and Charles E.
|
||||
the same year. The authors of the book are <ent type = 'person'>Dave Balsiger</ent> and Charles E.
|
||||
Sellier, Jr. Balsiger was the ghost-writer for the English version of
|
||||
Navarra's book: Noah's Ark: I Touched It. Sellier is also the producer of the
|
||||
Navarra's book: <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark: I Touched It. Sellier is also the producer of the
|
||||
family-oriented TV show "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams." In Search of
|
||||
Noah's Ark has been seen by millions and is frequently shown on late night TV.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark has been seen by millions and is frequently shown on late night TV.
|
||||
A video of this movie can probably be ordered from your local video store.
|
||||
This is a better film, but it leaves you with the impression that the Ark has
|
||||
been found and that the evidence is more credible than we would allow. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Ken Anderson Films of Winona Lake, IN produced the film Noah's Ark and the
|
||||
Genesis Flood. Jack Dabner, now with Seven Star Productions, in Long Beach,
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Ken Anderson</ent> Films</ent> of Winona Lake, IN produced the film <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark and the
|
||||
Genesis Flood. <ent type = 'person'>Jack Dabner</ent>, now with Seven Star Productions, in Long Beach,
|
||||
CA headed up the research effort and narrated this film. It appeared first in
|
||||
1976. It is approximately an hour in length and rents for $52.
|
||||
Unfortunately, it is not available on videotape. The film can be rented
|
||||
through local rental agencies who handle Ken Anderson films. </p>
|
||||
through local rental agencies who handle <ent type = 'person'>Ken Anderson</ent> films. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Films for Christ, distributes a film mainly dealing with the Genesis
|
||||
Flood. It has been translated into many languages and is still used
|
||||
@ -273,27 +273,27 @@ presentation of the many flood stories found in cultures on all the continents
|
||||
of the world. On the whole, it is a very instructional film. It is about 35
|
||||
minutues in length. A video of this film can be rented for $27 from Films for
|
||||
Christ, 2628 W. Birchwood Cir., Mesa, AZ 85202. We were told that this film
|
||||
is based on a book of the same name authored by Dr. John Whitcomb of Grace
|
||||
is based on a book of the same name authored by Dr. <ent type = 'person'>John Whitcomb</ent> of Grace
|
||||
Theological Seminary. We are acquainted with this book, and can attest that
|
||||
it is a work of high quality. We highly recommend it to our readers. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Last summer, a Dutch film crew joined the Irwin team for the purpose of
|
||||
<p> Last summer, a Dutch film crew joined the <ent type = 'person'>Irwin</ent> team for the purpose of
|
||||
making a documentary for Dutch television. A video (VHS) of this is available
|
||||
from High Flight Foundation, Box 1387, Colorado Springs, CO 80901. Purchase
|
||||
price is $20, or $10 to rent. The title of this video is: Waar is De Ark Van
|
||||
price is $20, or $10 to rent. The title of this video is: <ent type = 'person'>Waar</ent> is De Ark Van
|
||||
Noach? Some of the dialogue is in Dutch but the majority is English. It
|
||||
contains footage from a rare flight over the mountain, has a sense of drama,
|
||||
and contains clear gospel testimonies by Col. Irwin and his team members. </p>
|
||||
and contains clear gospel testimonies by Col. <ent type = 'person'>Irwin</ent> and his team members. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> We are also aware of another film released in '86 produced by Montana
|
||||
Film, a German Company. This film is 43 minutes in length and has been shown
|
||||
on German television. This company films mountain-climbing events all over
|
||||
the world and the fact that they included footage about the search for the Ark
|
||||
was incidental to their purpose. Dr. John Baumgardner and Ron Wyatt are
|
||||
was incidental to their purpose. Dr. <ent type = 'person'>John Baumgardner</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Ron Wyatt</ent> are
|
||||
interviewed on the film. It also apparently contains some spectacular footage
|
||||
shot on the summit of Ararat and the Parrot glacier area. It leaves you with
|
||||
the impression that the ship-shaped formation southeast of Ararat is likely
|
||||
the Ark of Noah. An English-version video cassette is available, but we are
|
||||
the Ark of <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>. An English-version video cassette is available, but we are
|
||||
not aware of any U.S. distributors at this time. Inquiries can be sent to
|
||||
their German address: Montana Film, Am Fort Elisabeth 15, D-6500 Mainz, W.
|
||||
Germany. </p>
|
||||
@ -310,22 +310,22 @@ share that information. </p>
|
||||
<p>GOPHER WOOD---A PROCESS? </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>submitted by
|
||||
Dr. Don Shockey
|
||||
Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Don Shockey</ent>
|
||||
Albuquerque, NM </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> When asked what the Ark of Noah was constructed from we all immediately
|
||||
<p> When asked what the Ark of <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent> was constructed from we all immediately
|
||||
know the answer. We can respond without hesitation by replying--"gopher
|
||||
wood." That is correct, and is exactly what the KJV of the Bible states.
|
||||
Genesis 6:14: "make thee an ark of gopher wood." The New International
|
||||
Version says it a little differently: "So make yourself an ark of cypress
|
||||
wood." The footnote tells the reader that cypress would be more likely the
|
||||
wood of choice since the Hebrew meaning of go'phir is uncertain. Still no
|
||||
problem since we know without reservation that whatever God told Noah would be
|
||||
Version says it a little differently: "So make yourself an ark of <ent type = 'person'>cypress</ent>
|
||||
wood." The footnote tells the reader that <ent type = 'person'>cypress</ent> would be more likely the
|
||||
wood of choice since the Hebrew meaning of go'<ent type = 'person'>phir</ent> is uncertain. Still no
|
||||
problem since we know without reservation that whatever God told <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent> would be
|
||||
the absolute best to sustain the craft during the deluge to follow. One of
|
||||
the primary objectives of the re-discovery of the Ark will be to
|
||||
scientifically examine the wood and attempt to resolve once and for all what
|
||||
type of wood was used in its construction. All seem to agree that it would be
|
||||
some type of hard wood. Guesses have included white oak, cypress, etc. even a
|
||||
some type of hard wood. Guesses have included white oak, <ent type = 'person'>cypress</ent>, etc. even a
|
||||
type of tree no longer on earth has been suggested. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The following is offered to our AR readers and Ark researchers as a
|
||||
@ -342,15 +342,15 @@ the joint between two pieces of wood. After letting it dry over-night, he
|
||||
will not be able to break the joint. The wood will break before the joined
|
||||
seam. This has been used in our area of the world for centuries, although it
|
||||
is not used very often in modern times since this sap will discolor any wood
|
||||
it happens to come into contact with. This is what Noah used to construct the
|
||||
it happens to come into contact with. This is what <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent> used to construct the
|
||||
Ark. `Gopher wood' or `gophering' is a process not a particular tree."
|
||||
(Emphasis mine). </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> He further suggested that Noah used the "gophering process" to fashion the
|
||||
<p> He further suggested that <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent> used the "gophering process" to fashion the
|
||||
large timbers from many different pieces of hardwood that could have been some
|
||||
type of hard oak tree. What, specifically, we can only guess. This
|
||||
information turned on a light within my thinking. What he described would be
|
||||
like our process of making plywood. If this is a valid assumption, then Noah
|
||||
like our process of making plywood. If this is a valid assumption, then <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>
|
||||
could have constructed large timbers needed of any size, thickness, or length,
|
||||
without being dependent upon single, mammoth trees to accomplish God's
|
||||
command. The original meaning should be traced back to determine if a gopher
|
||||
@ -360,13 +360,13 @@ about this resin which we will test. I will update AR on this project. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>BOOKS </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In the November issue we noted that Charles Berlitz, author of the Bermuda
|
||||
Triangle would be authoring a book on Noah's Ark and the Flood. We are
|
||||
<p> In the November issue we noted that <ent type = 'person'>Charles Berlitz</ent>, author of the Bermuda
|
||||
Triangle would be authoring a book on <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark and the Flood. We are
|
||||
pleased to announce that this book is now available in major bookstore chains.
|
||||
The book is titled The Lost Ship of Noah. It is published by G.P. Putnam's
|
||||
The book is titled The Lost Ship of <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>. It is published by G.P. Putnam's
|
||||
Sons, and sells for $17.95 (hardback), 187 pp. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Berlitz is an author of the Erich von Daniken mold. He is particularly
|
||||
<p> Berlitz is an author of the <ent type = 'person'>Erich</ent> von Daniken mold. He is particularly
|
||||
interested in the myths and symbols of ancient cultures. It is his thesis
|
||||
that behind them are actual historical events from which they arose. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -379,8 +379,8 @@ prophecies from a variety of cultures and religions. He sees the majority of
|
||||
these prophecies as being authentic revelations that are this very moment
|
||||
moving toward fulfillment. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In The Lost Ship of Noah Berlitz seeks to bring his readers up-to-date on
|
||||
the search for Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat, and sets forth the cases for a
|
||||
<p> In The Lost Ship of <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent> Berlitz seeks to bring his readers up-to-date on
|
||||
the search for <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark on Mt. Ararat, and sets forth the cases for a
|
||||
previous world-wide deluge, and the probability of future global destruction.
|
||||
Since most of the previous books on the Ark were written in the 70s Berlitz
|
||||
does those who are interested in the search a service. He is not writing from
|
||||
@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ catastrophic flood-waters. In fact, he cites evidence of other ships being
|
||||
found in mountains and anticipates that more will undoubtedly be uncovered
|
||||
(see p. 166ff). </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> All Ark enthusiasts will appreciate the many photos by Ahmet Arslan and Jay
|
||||
<p> All Ark enthusiasts will appreciate the many photos by <ent type = 'person'>Ahmet Arslan</ent> and Jay
|
||||
Bitzer, who was this editor's photographer in a 1985 expedition. While most
|
||||
Christians will not accept his multiple ark theory we commend him for making a
|
||||
clear case for a universal flood. SUMMER OF '87 </p>
|
||||
@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ much prayer to pull this off. </p>
|
||||
<p> It is also our hope that the ship-shaped formation southeast of Ararat will
|
||||
be properly excavated this summer. We will also endeavor to keep you up-to-
|
||||
date on this strange shape which the Turkish government is claiming to be the
|
||||
Ark of Noah.
|
||||
Ark of <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>.
|
||||
</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>POLITICAL AND WEATHER WATCH </p>
|
||||
@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ Party, Kurdish Workers Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> According to Western analysts, following the Turkish bombing of Kurdish
|
||||
camps in Iraq last August, the flow of arms (some believed to be a gift of
|
||||
Libya's Col. Muammar Quaddafi) across the Syrian border is beginning to
|
||||
Libya's Col. <ent type = 'person'>Muammar Quaddafi</ent>) across the Syrian border is beginning to
|
||||
increase in numbers and sophistication." </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This one appeared in the Rocky Mountain News, 3/9/87: </p>
|
||||
@ -465,8 +465,8 @@ southeastern Turkey." </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A note of interest with regard to the previous news article: The incident
|
||||
referred to took place very close to one of the traditional resting places of
|
||||
Noah's Ark--Nisibis. We will be doing a major article on the other
|
||||
traditional resting places of Noah's Ark in a future issue. </p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark--Nisibis. We will be doing a major article on the other
|
||||
traditional resting places of <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark in a future issue. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>BITS AND PIECES </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ June. </p>
|
||||
<p>* Back issues of ARARAT REPORT are available on the same donation basis. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>* A continuously updated outline and bibliography is available on the search
|
||||
for Noah's Ark. Please send $2.00 for postage and copying. </p>
|
||||
for <ent type = 'person'>Noah</ent>'s Ark. Please send $2.00 for postage and copying. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>* A comprehensive bibliography on the subject of "Kibowtology" (Ark research)
|
||||
is under preparation. Target date: early summer. </p>
|
||||
@ -488,9 +488,9 @@ REPORT, is a faith ministry. That is, we depend on the gifts of God's people
|
||||
to sustain us. The ARARAT REPORT is sent as a free gift to those who enable
|
||||
this ministry to continue through their giving. If you own a personal
|
||||
computer equipped with a modem and are interested in knowing more about THE
|
||||
INFORMED CHRISTIAN NETWORK, write or call to receive a password. All back
|
||||
INFORMED <ent type = 'person'>CHRISTIAN NETWORK</ent>, write or call to receive a password. All back
|
||||
issues of ARARAT REPORT are downloadable from our database. THE INFORMED
|
||||
CHRISTIAN NETWORK is a growing library of Christian Information that we are
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>CHRISTIAN NETWORK</ent> is a growing library of Christian Information that we are
|
||||
seeking to make available to the Body of Christ. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>* We would like to make our readers aware of Origins Research & Information
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||||
|
@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ their use.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
The September issue of THE OSTRICH reprinted a story from the
|
||||
CBA BULLETIN which listed the following principal civilian concentra-
|
||||
tion camps established in GULAG USA under the =Rex '84= program:
|
||||
tion camps established in GULAG USA under the =<ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent> '84= program:
|
||||
Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas; Ft. Drum, New York; Ft. Indian Gap, Penn-
|
||||
sylvania; Camp A. P. Hill, Virginia; Oakdale, California; Eglin
|
||||
Air Force Base, Florida; Vendenberg AFB, California; Ft. Mc Coy,
|
||||
@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ their use.</p>
|
||||
as THE OSTRICH has been reporting. The map on this page and
|
||||
the list of executive orders available for imposition of an "emergency"
|
||||
are from 1970s files of the late Gen. =P. A. Del Valle's= ALERT,
|
||||
sent us by =Merritt Newby=, editor of the now defunct AMERICAN
|
||||
sent us by =<ent type = 'person'>Merritt Newby</ent>=, editor of the now defunct AMERICAN
|
||||
CHALLENGE.
|
||||
=Wake up Americans!= The Bushoviks have approved =Gorbachev's=
|
||||
imposition of "Emergency" to suppress unrest. =Henry Kissinger=
|
||||
=Wake up Americans!= The <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>oviks</ent> have approved =<ent type = 'person'>Gorbachev</ent>'s=
|
||||
imposition of "Emergency" to suppress unrest. =<ent type = 'person'>Henry Kissinger</ent>=
|
||||
and his clients hardly missed a day's profits in their deals with
|
||||
the butchers of Tiananmen Sqaure. Are you next?
|
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*************************************************************************
|
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@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ SUBJECT: Executive Orders
|
||||
Budget.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> E. O. 11490 is a compilation of some 23 previous Executive Orders,
|
||||
signed by Nixon on Oct. 28, 1969, and outlining emergency functions
|
||||
signed by <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> on Oct. 28, 1969, and outlining emergency functions
|
||||
which are to be performed by some 28 Executive Departments and
|
||||
Agencies whenever the President of the United States declares
|
||||
a national emergency (as in defiance of an impeachment edict,
|
||||
@ -145,19 +145,19 @@ SUBJECT: Executive Orders
|
||||
|
||||
<p>--> Executive Order 11647 provides the regional and local mechanisms
|
||||
--> and manpower for carrying out the provisions of E. O. 11490.
|
||||
--> Signed by Richard Nixon on Feb. 10, 1972, this Order sets up Ten
|
||||
--> Signed by Richard <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> on Feb. 10, 1972, this Order sets up Ten
|
||||
--> Federal Regional Councils to govern Ten Federal Regions made up
|
||||
--> of the fifty still existing States of the Union.
|
||||
|
||||
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||||
Don sez: </p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Don sez</ent>: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>*Check out this book for the inside scoop on the "secret" Constitution.*
|
||||
|
||||
SUBJECT: - "The Proposed Constitutional Model" Pages 595-621
|
||||
Book Title - The Emerging Constitution
|
||||
Author - Rexford G. Tugwell
|
||||
Publisher - Harpers Magazine Press,Harper and Row
|
||||
Author - <ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent>ford G. Tugwell
|
||||
Publisher - <ent type = 'person'>Harper</ent>s Magazine Press,<ent type = 'person'>Harper</ent> and Row
|
||||
Dewey Decimal - 342.73 T915E
|
||||
ISBN - 0-06-128225-10
|
||||
Note Chapter 14
|
||||
@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
Virginia, District of Columbia.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Philadelphia
|
||||
REGION IV: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi,
|
||||
North Carolina, Tennessee.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>North</ent> Carolina, Tennessee.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Atlanta
|
||||
REGION V: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Chicago
|
||||
@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Dallas-Fort Worth
|
||||
REGION VII: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Kansas City
|
||||
REGION VIII: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota,
|
||||
REGION VIII: Colorado, Montana, <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> Dakota, South Dakota,
|
||||
Utah, Wyoming.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Denver
|
||||
REGION IX: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada.
|
||||
@ -228,19 +228,19 @@ Followup-To: alt.activism.d
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Lines: 691</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>>Sender: Activists Mailing List <special>ACTIV-L@UMCVMB.BITNET</special>
|
||||
>From: dave 'who can do? ratmandu!' ratcliffe
|
||||
> <special>dave@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com</special></p>
|
||||
>From: <ent type = 'person'>dave</ent> 'who can do? ratmandu!' ratcliffe
|
||||
> <special><ent type = 'person'>dave</ent>@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com</special></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Keywords: "To preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, so help me God."
|
||||
Lines: 696</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Bushie-Tail used the Gulf War Show to greatly expand the powers of the
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>ie-Tail used the Gulf War Show to greatly expand the powers of the
|
||||
presidency. During this shell game event, the Executive Orders signed
|
||||
into "law" continued Bushie's methodical and detailed program to bury
|
||||
into "law" continued <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>ie's methodical and detailed program to bury
|
||||
any residual traces of the constitutional rights and protections of U.S.
|
||||
citizens. The Bill of Rights--[almost too late to] use 'em or lose 'em:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> || The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to ||
|
||||
<p> || The record of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s fast and loose approach to ||
|
||||
|| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of ||
|
||||
|| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial ||
|
||||
|| executive. ||</p>
|
||||
@ -250,26 +250,26 @@ Lines: 696</p>
|
||||
bottom 2 pages for subscription & back issues info on this quarterly):</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Domestic Consequences of the Gulf War
|
||||
Diana Reynolds
|
||||
Reprinted with permission of CAIB. Copyright 1991</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>
|
||||
Reprinted with permission of <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>. Copyright 1991</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Diana Reynolds is a Research Associate at the Edward R. Murrow Center,
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent> is a Research Associate at the Edward R. Murrow Center,
|
||||
Fletcher School for Public Policy, Tufts University. She is also an
|
||||
Assistant Professor of Politics at Broadford College and a Lecturer at
|
||||
Merrimack College.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A war, even the most victorious, is a national misfortune.
|
||||
--Helmuth Von Moltke, Prussian field marshall</p>
|
||||
--<ent type = 'person'>Helmuth Von Moltke</ent>, Prussian field marshall</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> George Bush put the United States on the road to its second war in
|
||||
<p> George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> put the United States on the road to its second war in
|
||||
two years by declaring a national emergency on August 2,1990. In
|
||||
response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Bush issued two Executive
|
||||
response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> issued two Executive
|
||||
Orders (12722 and 12723) which restricted trade and travel with Iraq
|
||||
and froze Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets within the U.S. and those in the
|
||||
possession of U.S. persons abroad. At least 15 other executive orders
|
||||
followed these initial restrictions and enabled the President to
|
||||
mobilize the country's human and productive resources for war. Under
|
||||
the national emergency, Bush was able unilaterally to break his 1991
|
||||
the national emergency, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> was able unilaterally to break his 1991
|
||||
budget agreement with Congress which had frozen defense spending, to
|
||||
entrench further the U.S. economy in the mire of the military-
|
||||
industrial complex, to override environmental protection regulations,
|
||||
@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ Lines: 696</p>
|
||||
Security Council and administered, where appropriate, under the
|
||||
general umbrella of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[1]
|
||||
There is no requirement that Congress be consulted before an emergency
|
||||
is declared or findings signed. The only restriction on Bush is that
|
||||
is declared or findings signed. The only restriction on <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> is that
|
||||
he must inform Congress in a "timely" fashion--he being the sole
|
||||
arbiter of timeliness.
|
||||
Ultimately, the president's perception of the severity of a
|
||||
@ -302,30 +302,30 @@ Lines: 696</p>
|
||||
appointed officers determine the nature of any state of emergency.
|
||||
For this reason, those who were aware of the modern development of
|
||||
presidential emergency powers were apprehensive about the domestic
|
||||
ramifications of any national emergency declared by George Bush. In
|
||||
light of Bush's record (see "Bush Chips Away at Constitution" Box
|
||||
ramifications of any national emergency declared by George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>. In
|
||||
light of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s record (see "<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Chips Away at Constitution" Box
|
||||
below) and present performance, their fears appear well-founded.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The War at Home
|
||||
It is too early to know all of the emergency powers, executive
|
||||
orders and findings issued under classified National Security
|
||||
Directives[2] implemented by Bush in the name of the Gulf War. In
|
||||
Directives[2] implemented by <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> in the name of the Gulf War. In
|
||||
addition to the emergency powers necessary to the direct mobilization
|
||||
of active and reserve armed forces of the United States, there are
|
||||
some 120 additional emergency powers that can be used in a national
|
||||
emergency or state of war (declared or undeclared by Congress). The
|
||||
"Federal Register" records some 15 Executive Orders (EO) signed by
|
||||
Bush from August 2,1990 to February 14,1991. (See "Bush's Executive
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> from August 2,1990 to February 14,1991. (See "<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s Executive
|
||||
Orders" box, below)
|
||||
It may take many years before most of the executive findings and
|
||||
use of powers come to light, if indeed they ever do. But evidence is
|
||||
emerging that at least some of Bush's emergency powers were activated
|
||||
emerging that at least some of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s emergency powers were activated
|
||||
in secret. Although only five of the 15 EOs that were published were
|
||||
directed at non-military personnel, the costs directly attributable to
|
||||
the exercise of the authorities conferred by the declaration of
|
||||
national emergency from August 2, 1990 to February 1, 1991 for non-
|
||||
military activities are estimated at approximately $1.3 billion.
|
||||
According to a February 11, 1991 letter from Bush to congressional
|
||||
According to a February 11, 1991 letter from <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to congressional
|
||||
leaders reporting on the "National Emergency With Respect to Iraq,"
|
||||
these costs represent wage and salary costs for the Departments of
|
||||
Treasury, State, Agriculture, and Transportation, U.S. Customs,
|
||||
@ -338,21 +338,21 @@ Lines: 696</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ____________________________________________________________________
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| Bush Chips Away at Constitution |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Chips Away at Constitution |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| George Bush, perhaps more than any other individual in |
|
||||
| George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>, perhaps more than any other individual in |
|
||||
| U.S. history, has expanded the emergency powers of |
|
||||
| presidency. In 1976, as Director of Central Intelligence, |
|
||||
| he convened Team B, a group of rabidly anti-communist |
|
||||
| intellectuals and former government officials to reevaluate |
|
||||
| CIA inhouse intelligence estimates on Soviet military |
|
||||
| strength. The resulting report recommended draconian civil |
|
||||
| defense measures which led to President Ford's Executive |
|
||||
| defense measures which led to President <ent type = 'person'>Ford</ent>'s Executive |
|
||||
| Order 11921 authorizing plans to establish government |
|
||||
| control of the means of production, distribution, energy |
|
||||
| sources, wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money |
|
||||
| in U.S. financial institutions in a national emergency.[1] |
|
||||
| As Vice President, Bush headed the Task Force on |
|
||||
| As Vice President, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> headed the Task Force on |
|
||||
| Combatting Terrorism, that recommended: extended and |
|
||||
| flexible emergency presidential powers to combat terrorism; |
|
||||
| restrictions on congressional oversight in counter- |
|
||||
@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ Lines: 696</p>
|
||||
| President's use of force in a terrorist situation, and |
|
||||
| lifted the requirement that the President consult Congress |
|
||||
| before sanctioning deadly force. |
|
||||
| From 1982 to 1988, Bush led the Defense Mobilization |
|
||||
| From 1982 to 1988, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> led the Defense Mobilization |
|
||||
| Planning Systems Agency (DMPSA), a secret government |
|
||||
| organization, and spent more than $3 billion upgrading |
|
||||
| command, control, and communications in FEMA's continuity |
|
||||
@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ Lines: 696</p>
|
||||
| planning for martial rule. Under this state, the executive |
|
||||
| would take upon itself powers far beyond those necessary to |
|
||||
| address national emergency contingencies.[5] |
|
||||
| Bush's "anything goes" anti-drug strategy, announced |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s "anything goes" anti-drug strategy, announced |
|
||||
| on September 6, 1989, suggested that executive emergency |
|
||||
| powers be used: to oust those suspected of associating |
|
||||
| with drug users or sellers from public and private housing; |
|
||||
@ -398,27 +398,27 @@ Lines: 696</p>
|
||||
| drugs in the continental U.S.; to confiscate private |
|
||||
| property belonging to drug users, and to incarcerate first |
|
||||
| time offenders in work camps.[6] |
|
||||
| The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to |
|
||||
| The record of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s fast and loose approach to |
|
||||
| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of |
|
||||
| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial |
|
||||
| executive. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 1. Executive Order 11921, "Emergency preparedness Functions, |
|
||||
| June 11, 1976. Federal Register, vol. 41, no. 116. The |
|
||||
| report was attacked by such notables as Ray Cline, the |
|
||||
| report was attacked by such notables as <ent type = 'person'>Ray <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent></ent>, the |
|
||||
| CIA's former Deputy Director, retired CIA intelligence |
|
||||
| analyst Arthur Macy Cox, and the former head of the U.S. |
|
||||
| Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Paul Warnke for |
|
||||
| Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, <ent type = 'person'>Paul Warnke</ent> for |
|
||||
| blatantly manipulating CIA intelligence to achieve the |
|
||||
| political ends of Team B's rightwing members. See Cline, |
|
||||
| quoted in "Carter to Inherit Intense Dispute on Soviet |
|
||||
| Intentions," Mary Marder, "Washington Post," January 2, |
|
||||
| political ends of Team B's rightwing members. See <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>, |
|
||||
| quoted in "<ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> to Inherit Intense Dispute on Soviet |
|
||||
| Intentions," <ent type = 'person'>Mary Marder</ent>, "Washington Post," January 2, |
|
||||
| 1977; Arthur Macy Cox, "Why the U.S. Since 1977 Has |
|
||||
| Been Mis-perceiving Soviet Military Strength," "New York |
|
||||
| Times," October 20, 1980; Paul Warnke, "George Bush and |
|
||||
| Times," October 20, 1980; <ent type = 'person'>Paul Warnke</ent>, "George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> and |
|
||||
| Team B," "New York Times," September 24, 1988. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 2. George Bush, "Public Report of the Vice President's Task |
|
||||
| 2. George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>, "Public Report of the Vice President's Task |
|
||||
| Force On Combatting Terrorism" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. |
|
||||
| Government Printing Office), February 1986. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
@ -427,22 +427,22 @@ Lines: 696</p>
|
||||
| Border Control Committee" (Washington, DC), October 1, |
|
||||
| 1988. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 4. Steven Emerson, "America's Doomsday Project," "U.S. News |
|
||||
| 4. <ent type = 'person'>Steven Emerson</ent>, "America's Doomsday Project," "U.S. News |
|
||||
| & World Report," August 7, 1989. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 5. See: Diana Reynolds, "FEMA and the NSC: The Rise of the |
|
||||
| National Security State," "CAIB," Number 33 (Winter 1990); |
|
||||
| Keenan Peck, "The Take-Charge Gang," "The Progressive," |
|
||||
| 5. See: <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>, "FEMA and the NSC: The Rise of the |
|
||||
| National Security State," "<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>," Number 33 (Winter 1990); |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Keenan Peck</ent>, "The Take-Charge Gang," "The Progressive," |
|
||||
| May 1985; Jack Anderson, "FEMA Wants to Lead Economic |
|
||||
| War," "Washington Post," January 10, 1985. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 6. These Presidential powers were authorized by the Anti- |
|
||||
| Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Public Law 100-690: 100th |
|
||||
| Congress. See also: Diana Reynolds, "The Golden Lie," |
|
||||
| "The Humanist," September/October 1990; Michael Isikoff, |
|
||||
| "Is This Determination or Using a Howitzer to Kill a |
|
||||
| Congress. See also: <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>, "The Golden Lie," |
|
||||
| "The Humanist," September/October 1990; <ent type = 'person'>Michael Isikoff</ent>, |
|
||||
| "Is This Determination or Using a <ent type = 'person'>Howitzer</ent> to Kill a |
|
||||
| Fly?" "Washington Post National Weekly," August 27-, |
|
||||
| September 2, 1990; Bernard Weintraub, "Bush Considers |
|
||||
| September 2, 1990; Bernard Weintraub, "<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Considers |
|
||||
| Calling Guard To Fight Drug Violence in Capital," "New |
|
||||
| York Times," March 21, 1989. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Even those Executive Orders which have been made public tend to
|
||||
raise as many questions as they answer about what actions were
|
||||
considered and actually implemented. On January 8, 1991, Bush signed
|
||||
considered and actually implemented. On January 8, 1991, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> signed
|
||||
Executive Order 12742, National Security Industrial Responsiveness,
|
||||
which ordered the rapid mobilization of resources such as food,
|
||||
energy, construction materials and civil transportation to meet
|
||||
@ -478,8 +478,8 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
<p> Wasting the Environment
|
||||
In one case the use of secret powers was discovered by a watchdog
|
||||
group and revealed in the press. In August 1990, correspondence
|
||||
passed between Colin McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
|
||||
Production and Logistics and Michael Deland, Chair of the White House
|
||||
passed between <ent type = 'person'>Colin McMillan</ent>, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
|
||||
Production and Logistics and <ent type = 'person'>Michael Deland</ent>, Chair of the White House
|
||||
Council on Environmental Quality. The letters responded to
|
||||
presidential and National Security Council directives to deal with
|
||||
increased industrial production and logistics arising from the
|
||||
@ -510,12 +510,12 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
also defer destruction of up to 10 percent of lethal chemical agents
|
||||
and munitions that existed on November 8, 1985.[10]
|
||||
One Executive Order which was made public dealt with "Chemical and
|
||||
Biological Weapons Proliferation." Signed by Bush on November 16,
|
||||
1990, EO 12735 leaves the impression that Bush is ordering an
|
||||
Biological Weapons Proliferation." Signed by <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> on November 16,
|
||||
1990, EO 12735 leaves the impression that <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> is ordering an
|
||||
increased effort to end the proliferation of chemical and biological
|
||||
weapons. The order states that these weapons "constitute a threat to
|
||||
national security and foreign policy" and declares a national
|
||||
emergency to deal with the threat. To confront this threat, Bush
|
||||
emergency to deal with the threat. To confront this threat, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>
|
||||
ordered international negotiations, the imposition of controls,
|
||||
licenses, and sanctions against foreign persons and countries for
|
||||
proliferation. Conveniently, the order grants the Secretaries of
|
||||
@ -523,14 +523,14 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
In February of 1991, the Omnibus Export Amendments Act was passed
|
||||
by Congress compatible with EO 12735. It imposed sanctions on
|
||||
countries and companies developing or using chemical or biological
|
||||
weapons. Bush signed the law, although he had rejected the identical
|
||||
weapons. <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> signed the law, although he had rejected the identical
|
||||
measure the year before because it did not give him the executive
|
||||
power to waive all sanctions if he thought the national interest
|
||||
required it.[11] The new bill, however, met Bush's requirements.</p>
|
||||
required it.[11] The new bill, however, met <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s requirements.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ____________________________________________________________________
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| BUSH'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>BUSH</ent>'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| * EO 12722 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and |
|
||||
| Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 2, 1990. |
|
||||
@ -584,16 +584,16 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
--------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Going Off Budget
|
||||
Although some of the powers which Bush assumed in order to conduct
|
||||
Although some of the powers which <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> assumed in order to conduct
|
||||
the Gulf War were taken openly, they received little public discussion
|
||||
or reporting by the media.
|
||||
In October, when the winds of the Gulf War were merely a breeze,
|
||||
Bush used his executive emergency powers to extend his budget
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> used his executive emergency powers to extend his budget
|
||||
authority. This action made the 1991 fiscal budget agreement between
|
||||
Congress and the President one of the first U.S. casualties of the
|
||||
war. While on one hand the deal froze arms spending through 1996, it
|
||||
also allowed Bush to put the cost of the Gulf War "off budget." Thus,
|
||||
using its emergency powers, the Bush administration could:</p>
|
||||
also allowed <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to put the cost of the Gulf War "off budget." Thus,
|
||||
using its emergency powers, the <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> administration could:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> * incur a deficit which exceeds congressional budget authority;</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
<p> * and exempt the Pentagon from congressional restrictions on
|
||||
hiring private contractors.[13]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> While there is no published evidence on which powers Bush actually
|
||||
<p> While there is no published evidence on which powers <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> actually
|
||||
invoked, the administration was able to push through the 1990 Omnibus
|
||||
Reconciliation Act. This legislation put a cap on domestic spending,
|
||||
created a record $300 billion deficit, and undermined the Gramm-
|
||||
@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
companion "dire emergency supplemental appropriation,"[14] it
|
||||
specified that the supplemental budget should not be used to finance
|
||||
costs the Pentagon would normally experience.[15]
|
||||
Lawrence Korb, a Pentagon official in the Reagan administration,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Lawrence Korb</ent>, a Pentagon official in the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> administration,
|
||||
believes that the Pentagon has already violated the spirit of the 1990
|
||||
Omnibus Reconciliation Act. It switched funding for the Patriot,
|
||||
Tomahawk, Hellfire and HARM missiles from its regular budget to the
|
||||
@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
<p> Pool of Disinformation
|
||||
Emergency powers to control the means of communications in the U.S.
|
||||
in the name of national security were never formally declared. There
|
||||
was no need for Bush to do so since most of the media voluntarily and
|
||||
was no need for <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to do so since most of the media voluntarily and
|
||||
even eagerly cooperated in their own censorship. Reporters covering
|
||||
the Coalition forces in the Gulf region operated under restrictions
|
||||
imposed by the U.S. military. They were, among other things, barred
|
||||
@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
domestic affairs. It is likely, however, that with a post-war
|
||||
presidential approval rating exceeding 75 percent, the domestic
|
||||
casualties will continue to mount with few objections. Paradoxically,
|
||||
even though the U.S. public put pressure on Bush to send relief for
|
||||
even though the U.S. public put pressure on <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to send relief for
|
||||
the 500,000 Iraqi Kurdish refugees, it is unlikely the same outcry
|
||||
will be heard for the 37 million Americans without health insurance,
|
||||
the 32 million living in poverty, or the country's five million hungry
|
||||
@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> FOOTNOTES:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 1. The administrative guideline was established under Reagan in Executive
|
||||
<p> 1. The administrative guideline was established under <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> in Executive
|
||||
Order 12656, November 18,1988, "Federal Register," vol. 23, no. 266.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 2. For instance, National Security Council policy papers or National
|
||||
@ -708,26 +708,26 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
a top security classified state and are not shared with Congress. For
|
||||
an excellent discussion see: Harold C. Relyea, The Coming of Secret
|
||||
Law, "Government Information Quarterly," Vol. 5, November 1988; see
|
||||
also: Eve Pell, "The Backbone of Hidden Government," "The Nation,"
|
||||
also: <ent type = 'person'>Eve Pell</ent>, "The Backbone of Hidden Government," "The Nation,"
|
||||
June 19,1990.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 3. "Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting on the National Emergency
|
||||
With Respect to Iraq," February, 11, 1991, "Weekly Compilation of
|
||||
Presidential Documents: Administration of George Bush," (Washington,
|
||||
Presidential Documents: Administration of George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>," (Washington,
|
||||
DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), pp. 158-61.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 4. The U.S. now has states of emergency with Iran, Iraq and Syria.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 5. Allanna Sullivan, "U.S. Oil Concerns Confident Of Riding Out Short Gulf
|
||||
<p> 5. <ent type = 'person'>Allanna Sullivan</ent>, "U.S. Oil Concerns Confident Of Riding Out Short Gulf
|
||||
War," "Wall Street Journal Europe," January 7, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 6. Colin McMillan, Letter to Michael Deland, Chairman, Council on
|
||||
<p> 6. <ent type = 'person'>Colin McMillan</ent>, Letter to <ent type = 'person'>Michael Deland</ent>, Chairman, Council on
|
||||
Environmental Quality (Washington, DC: Executive Office of the
|
||||
President), August 24, 1990; Michael R. Deland, Letter to Colin
|
||||
McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics
|
||||
(Washington, DC: Department of Defense), August 29,1990.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 7. Keith Schneider, "Pentagon Wins Waiver Of Environmental Rule," "New York
|
||||
<p> 7. <ent type = 'person'>Keith Schneider</ent>, "Pentagon Wins Waiver Of Environmental Rule," "New York
|
||||
Times," January 30, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 8. 33 U.S. Code (USC) sec. 1902 9(b).</p>
|
||||
@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 10. 50 USC sec. 1521(b) (3)(A).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ll. Adam Clymer, "New Bill Mandates Sanctions On Makers of Chemical Arms,"
|
||||
<p> ll. <ent type = 'person'>Adam Clymer</ent>, "New Bill Mandates Sanctions On Makers of Chemical Arms,"
|
||||
"New York Times," February 22, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 12. 31 USC O10005 (f); 2 USC O632 (i), 6419 (d), 907a (b); and Public
|
||||
@ -754,12 +754,12 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
the Congressional Budget office estimates that cost at only $40
|
||||
billion, $16 billion less than allied pledges.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 15. Michael Kamish, "After The War: At Home, An Unconquered Recession,"
|
||||
"Boston Globe," March 6, 1991; Peter Passell, "The Big Spoils From a
|
||||
Bargain War," "New York Times," March 3, 1991; and Alan Abelson, "A
|
||||
War Dividend For The Defense Industry?" "Barron's," March 18, 1991.</p>
|
||||
<p> 15. <ent type = 'person'>Michael Kamish</ent>, "After The War: At Home, An Unconquered Recession,"
|
||||
"Boston Globe," March 6, 1991; <ent type = 'person'>Peter Passell</ent>, "The Big Spoils From a
|
||||
Bargain War," "New York Times," March 3, 1991; and <ent type = 'person'>Alan Abelson</ent>, "A
|
||||
War Dividend For The Defense Industry?" "<ent type = 'person'>Barron</ent>'s," March 18, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 16. Lawrence Korb, "The Pentagon's Creative Budgetry Is Out of Line,"
|
||||
<p> 16. <ent type = 'person'>Lawrence Korb</ent>, "The Pentagon's Creative Budgetry Is Out of Line,"
|
||||
"International Herald Tribune," April 5, 199l.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 17. Many of the powers against aliens are automatically invoked during a
|
||||
@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
imposition of travel restrictions on aliens within the U.S. (8 USC sec.
|
||||
1185); and requiring aliens to be fingerprinted (8 USC sec. 1302).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 18. Ann Talamas, "FBI Targets Arab-Americans," "CAIB," Spring 1991, p. 4.</p>
|
||||
<p> 18. <ent type = 'person'>Ann Talamas</ent>, "FBI Targets Arab-Americans," "<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>," Spring 1991, p. 4.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 19. "Anti-Repression Project Bulletin" (New York: Center for
|
||||
Constitutional Rights), January 23, 1991.</p>
|
||||
@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
<p> 20. James DeParle, "Long Series of Military Decisions Led to Gulf War News
|
||||
Censorship," "New York Times," May 5, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 21. James LeMoyne, "A Correspondent's Tale: Pentagon's Strategy for the
|
||||
<p> 21. <ent type = 'person'>James LeMoyne</ent>, "A Correspondent's Tale: Pentagon's Strategy for the
|
||||
Press: Good News or No News," "New York Times," February 17, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>______________________________________________________________________________
|
||||
@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
<p>No. 1 (July 1978): Agee on CIA; Cuban exile trial; consumer research-Jamaica.*
|
||||
No. 2 (Oct. 1978): How CIA recruits diplomats; researching undercover
|
||||
officers; double agent in CIA.*
|
||||
No. 3 (Jan. 1979): CIA attacks CAIB; secret supp. to Army field manual;
|
||||
No. 3 (Jan. 1979): CIA attacks <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>; secret supp. to Army field manual;
|
||||
spying on host countries.*
|
||||
No. 4 (Apr.-May 1979): U.S. spies in Italian services; CIA in Spain; CIA
|
||||
recruiting for Africa; subversive academics; Angola.*
|
||||
@ -804,28 +804,28 @@ No. 6 (Oct. 1979): U.S. in Caribbean; Cuban exile terrorists; CIA plans
|
||||
No. 7 (Dec. 1979-Jan. 1980): Media destabilization in Jamaica; Robert
|
||||
Moss; CIA budget; media operations; UNITA; Iran.*
|
||||
No. 8 (Mar.-Apr. 1980): Attacks on Agee; U.S. intelligence legislation;
|
||||
CAIB statement to Congress; Zimbabwe; Northern Ireland.
|
||||
No. 9 (June 1980): NSA in Norway; Glomar Explorer; mind control; NSA.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent> statement to Congress; Zimbabwe; <ent type = 'person'>North</ent>ern Ireland.
|
||||
No. 9 (June 1980): NSA in Norway; <ent type = 'person'>Glomar Explorer</ent>; mind control; NSA.
|
||||
No. 10 (Aug.-Sept. 1980): Caribbean; destabilization in Jamaica; Guyana;
|
||||
Grenada bombing; "The Spike"; deep cover manual.
|
||||
Grenada bombing; "The <ent type = 'person'>Spike</ent>"; deep cover manual.
|
||||
No. 11 (Dec. 1980): Rightwing terrorism; South Korea; KCIA; Portugal;
|
||||
Guyana; Caribbean; AFIO; NSA interview.
|
||||
No. 12 (Apr. 1981): U.S. in Salvador and Guatemala; New Right; William
|
||||
Casey; CIA in Mozambique; mail surveillance.*
|
||||
No. 13 (July-Aug. 1981): South Africa documents; Namibia; mercenaries;
|
||||
the Klan; Globe Aero; Angola; Mozambique; BOSS; Central America;
|
||||
Max Hugel; mail surveillance.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Max Hugel</ent>; mail surveillance.
|
||||
No. 14-15 (Oct. 1981): Complete index to nos. 1-12; review of intelligence
|
||||
legislation; CAIB plans; extended Naming Names.
|
||||
legislation; <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent> plans; extended Naming Names.
|
||||
No. 16 (Mar. 1982): Green Beret torture in Salvador; Argentine death squads;
|
||||
CIA media ops; Seychelles; Angola; Mozambique; the Klan; Nugan Hand.*
|
||||
No. 17 (Summer 1982): CBW History; Cuban dengue epidemic; Scott Barnes
|
||||
No. 17 (Summer 1982): CBW History; Cuban dengue epidemic; <ent type = 'person'>Scott Barnes</ent>
|
||||
and yellow rain lies; mystery death in Bangkok.*
|
||||
No. 18 (Winter 1983): CIA & religion; "secret" war in Nicaragua; Opus Dei;
|
||||
Miskitos; evangelicals-Guatemala; Summer Inst. of Linguistics; World
|
||||
Medical Relief; CIA & BOSS; torture S. Africa; Vietnam defoliation.*
|
||||
No. 19 (Spring-Summer 1983): CIA & media; history of disinformation;
|
||||
"plot" against Pope; Grenada airport; Georgie Anne Geyer.
|
||||
"plot" against Pope; Grenada airport; <ent type = 'person'>Georgie Anne Geyer</ent>.
|
||||
No. 20 (Winter 1984): Invasion of Grenada; war in Nicaragua; Ft. Huachuca;
|
||||
Israel and South Korea in Central America; KAL flight 007.
|
||||
No. 21 (Spring 1984): N.Y. Times and the Salvador election; Time and
|
||||
@ -839,11 +839,11 @@ No. 24 (Summer 1985): State repression, infiltrators, provocateurs;
|
||||
NASSCO strike; Arnaud de Borchgrave, Moon, and Moss; Tetra Tech.
|
||||
No. 25 (Winter 1986): U.S., Nazis, and the Vatican; Knights of Malta;
|
||||
Greek civil war and Eleni; WACL and Nicaragua; torture.
|
||||
No. 26 (Summer 1986): U.S. state terrorism; Vernon Walters; Libya bombing;
|
||||
No. 26 (Summer 1986): U.S. state terrorism; <ent type = 'person'>Vernon Walters</ent>; Libya bombing;
|
||||
contra agents; Israel and South Africa; Duarte; media in Costa
|
||||
Rica; democracy in Nicaragua; plus complete index to nos. 13-25.*
|
||||
No. 27 (Spring 1987): Special: Religious Right; New York Times and Pope
|
||||
Plot; Carlucci; Southern Air Transport; Michael Ledeen.*
|
||||
Plot; Carlucci; Southern Air Transport; <ent type = 'person'>Michael Ledeen</ent>.*
|
||||
No. 28 (Summer 1987): Special: CIA and drugs: S.E. Asia, Afghanistan,
|
||||
Central America; Nugan Hand; MKULTRA in Canada; Delta Force;
|
||||
special section on AIDS theories and CBW.*
|
||||
@ -855,21 +855,21 @@ No. 30 (Summer 1989): Special: Middle East: The intifada, Israeli arms
|
||||
Buckley; the Afghan arms pipeline and contra lobby.
|
||||
No. 31 (Winter 1989): Special issue on domestic surveillance. The FBI; CIA
|
||||
on campus; Office of Public Diplomacy; Lexington Prison; Puerto Rico.
|
||||
No. 32 (Summer 1989): Tenth Year Anniversary Issue: The Best of CAIB.
|
||||
No. 32 (Summer 1989): Tenth Year Anniversary Issue: The Best of <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>.
|
||||
Includes articles from our earliest issues, Naming Names, CIA at home,
|
||||
abroad, and in the media. Ten-year perspective by Philip Agee.
|
||||
No. 33 (Winter 1990): The Bush Issue: CIA agents for Bush; Terrorism Task
|
||||
abroad, and in the media. Ten-year perspective by <ent type = 'person'>Philip Agee</ent>.
|
||||
No. 33 (Winter 1990): The <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Issue: CIA agents for <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>; Terrorism Task
|
||||
Force; El Salvador and Nicaragua intervention; Republicans and Nazis.
|
||||
No. 34 (Summer 1990): Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr; Nicaraguan
|
||||
elections; South African death squads; U.S. and Pol Pot; Pan Am
|
||||
Flight 103; Noriega and the CIA; Council for National Policy.
|
||||
No. 35 (Fall 1990): Special: Eastern Europe; Analysis-Persian Gulf and
|
||||
Cuba; massacres in Indonesia; CIA and Banks; Iran-contra
|
||||
Cuba; massacres in Indonesia; CIA and <ent type = 'person'>Banks</ent>; Iran-contra
|
||||
No. 36 (Spring 1991): Racism & Nat. Security: FBI v. Arab-Americans & Black
|
||||
Officials; Special: Destabilizing Africa: Chad, Uganda, S. Africa,
|
||||
Officials; Special: <ent type = 'person'>Destabilizing Africa</ent>: Chad, Uganda, S. Africa,
|
||||
Angola, Mozambique, Zaire; Haiti; Panama; Gulf War; COINTELPRO "art."
|
||||
No. 37 (Summer 1990): Special: Gulf War: Media; U.N.; Libya; Iran;
|
||||
Domestic costs; North Korea Next? Illegal Arms Deals.</p>
|
||||
Domestic costs; <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> Korea Next? Illegal Arms Deals.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> * Available in Photocopy only</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ No. 37 (Summer 1990): Special: Gulf War: Media; U.N.; Libya; Iran;
|
||||
<p> BACK ISSUES: Circle above, or list below. $6 per copy in U.S.
|
||||
Airmail: Canada/Mexico add $2; other countries add $4.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> CAIB, P.O. Box 34583, Washington, DC 20043</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>, P.O. Box 34583, Washington, DC 20043</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> KOYAANISQATSI</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -917,18 +917,18 @@ Lines: 72</p>
|
||||
** Written 8:11 pm Jan 17, 1991 by nlgclc in cdp:mideast.forum **
|
||||
An excellent book which deals with the REX 84 detention plan is:
|
||||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|
||||
``Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North,'' by Ben
|
||||
Bradlee Jr.(Donald I. Fine, $21.95. 573 pp.)
|
||||
``Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of <ent type = 'person'>Oliver <ent type = 'person'>North</ent></ent>,'' by Ben
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bradlee</ent> Jr.(Donald I. Fine, $21.95. 573 pp.)
|
||||
------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
Reviewed by Dennis M. Culnan Copyright 1990, Gannett News Service All
|
||||
Rights Reserved Short excerpt posted here under applicable copyright
|
||||
laws</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[Oliver] North managed to network himself into the highest levels of
|
||||
<p>[Oliver] <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> managed to network himself into the highest levels of
|
||||
the CIA and power centers around the world. There he lied and
|
||||
boastfully ignored the constitutional process, Bradlee writes.</p>
|
||||
boastfully ignored the constitutional process, <ent type = 'person'>Bradlee</ent> writes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Yet more terrifying is the plan hatched by North and other Reagan
|
||||
<p>Yet more terrifying is the plan hatched by <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> and other <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
people in the Federal Emergency Manpower Agency (FEMA): A blueprint
|
||||
for the military takeover of the United States. The plan called for
|
||||
FEMA to become ``emergency czar'' in the event of a national emergency
|
||||
@ -939,8 +939,8 @@ commanders and run state and local governments. Finally, it would
|
||||
have the authority to order suspect aliens into concentration camps
|
||||
and seize their property.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>When then-Attorney General William French Smith got wind of the plan,
|
||||
he killed it. After Smith left the administration, North and his FEMA
|
||||
<p>When then-Attorney General <ent type = 'person'>William French <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent></ent> got wind of the plan,
|
||||
he killed it. After <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent> left the administration, <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> and his FEMA
|
||||
cronies came up with the Defense Resource Act, designed to suspendend
|
||||
the First Amendment by imposing censorship and banning strikes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -950,20 +950,20 @@ with the president's declaration of a state of national emergency
|
||||
concurrent with a mythical U.S. military invasion of an unspecified
|
||||
Central American country, presumably Nicaragua.''</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Bradlee writes that the Rex exercise was designed to test FEMA's
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Bradlee</ent> writes that the <ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent> exercise was designed to test FEMA's
|
||||
readiness to assume authority over the Department of Defense, the
|
||||
National Guard in all 50 states, and ``a number of state defense
|
||||
forces to be established by state legislatures.'' The military would
|
||||
then be ``deputized,'' thus making an end run around federal law
|
||||
forbidding military involvement in domestic law enforcement.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Rex, which ran concurrently with the first annual U.S. show of force
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent>, which ran concurrently with the first annual U.S. show of force
|
||||
in Honduras in April 1984, was also designed to test FEMA's ability to
|
||||
round up 400,000 undocumented Central American aliens in the United
|
||||
States and its ability to distribute hundreds of tons of small arms to
|
||||
``state defense forces.''</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Incredibly, REX 84 was similar to a plan secretly adopted by Reagan
|
||||
<p>Incredibly, REX 84 was similar to a plan secretly adopted by <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
while governor of California. His two top henchmen then were Edwin
|
||||
Meese, who recently resigned as U.S. attorney general, and Louis
|
||||
Guiffrida, the FEMA director in 1984.</p>
|
||||
@ -991,15 +991,15 @@ patriots.
|
||||
------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> WILL GULF WAR LEAD TO REPRESSION AT HOME?
|
||||
by Paul DeRienzo and Bill Weinberg</p>
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Paul DeRienzo</ent> and Bill Weinberg</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On August 2, 1990, as Saddam Hussein's army was consolidating control
|
||||
over Kuwait, President George Bush responded by signing two executive
|
||||
over Kuwait, President George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> responded by signing two executive
|
||||
orders that were the first step toward martial law in the United
|
||||
States and suspending the Constitution.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On the surface, Executive Orders 12722 and 12723, declaring a
|
||||
"national emergency," merely invoked laws that allowed Bush to freeze
|
||||
"national emergency," merely invoked laws that allowed <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to freeze
|
||||
Iraqi assets in the United States.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The International Emergency Executive Powers Act permits the president
|
||||
@ -1007,11 +1007,11 @@ to freeze foreign assets after declaring a "national emergency," a
|
||||
move that has been made three times before -- against Panama in 1987,
|
||||
Nicaragua in 1985 and Iran in 1979.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>According to Professor Diana Reynolds, of the Fletcher School of
|
||||
Diplomacy at Boston's Tufts University, when Bush declared a national
|
||||
<p>According to Professor <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>, of the Fletcher School of
|
||||
Diplomacy at Boston's Tufts University, when <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> declared a national
|
||||
emergency he "activated one part of a contingency national security
|
||||
emergency plan." That plan is made up of a series of laws passed since
|
||||
the presidency of Richard Nixon, which Reynolds says give the
|
||||
the presidency of Richard <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>, which Reynolds says give the
|
||||
president "boundless" powers.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>According to Reynolds, such laws as the Defense Industrial
|
||||
@ -1050,22 +1050,22 @@ agency.</p>
|
||||
and corporate leaders who helped mobilize the nation's industries to
|
||||
support the war effort. The idea of a central national response to
|
||||
large-scale emergencies was reintroduced in the early 1970s by Louis
|
||||
Giuffrida, a close associate of then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan and
|
||||
his chief aide Edwin Meese.</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent>, a close associate of then-California Gov. Ronald <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> and
|
||||
his chief aide <ent type = 'person'>Edwin Meese</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Reagan appointed Giuffrida head of the California National Guard in
|
||||
1969. With Meese, Giuffrida organized "war-games" to prepare for
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> appointed <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> head of the California National Guard in
|
||||
1969. With Meese, <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> organized "war-games" to prepare for
|
||||
"statewide martial law" in the event that Black nationalists and
|
||||
anti-war protesters "challenged the authority of the state." In 1981,
|
||||
Reagan as president moved Giuffrida up to the big leagues, appointing
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> as president moved <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> up to the big leagues, appointing
|
||||
him director of FEMA.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>According to Reynolds, however, it was the actions of George Bush in
|
||||
<p>According to Reynolds, however, it was the actions of George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> in
|
||||
1976, while he was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency
|
||||
(CIA), that provided the stimulus for centralization of vast powers in
|
||||
FEMA.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Bush assembled a group of hawkish outsiders, called Team B, that
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> assembled a group of hawkish outsiders, called Team B, that
|
||||
released a report claiming the CIA ("Team A") had underestimated the
|
||||
dangers of Soviet nuclear attack. The report advised the development
|
||||
of elaborate plans for "civil defense" and post-nuclear government.
|
||||
@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ Three years later, in 1979, FEMA was given ultimate responsibility for
|
||||
developing these plans.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Aware of the bad publicity FEMA was getting because of its role in
|
||||
organizing for a post-nuclear world, Reagan's FEMA chief Giuffrida
|
||||
organizing for a post-nuclear world, <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>'s FEMA chief <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent>
|
||||
publicly argued that the 1865 Posse Comitatus Act prohibited the
|
||||
military from arresting civilians.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ to arrest civilians. The National Guard, under the control of state
|
||||
governors in peace time, is also exempt from the act and can arrest
|
||||
civilians.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FEMA Inspector General John Brinkerhoff has written a memo contending
|
||||
<p>FEMA Inspector General <ent type = 'person'>John Brinkerhoff</ent> has written a memo contending
|
||||
that the government doesn't need to suspend the Constitution to use
|
||||
the full range of powers Congress has given the agency. FEMA has
|
||||
prepared legislation to be introduced in Congress in the event of a
|
||||
@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ right to "deputize" National Guard and police forces is included in
|
||||
the package. But Reynolds believes that actual martial law need not be
|
||||
declared publicly.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Giuffrida has written that "Martial Rule comes into existence upon a
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> has written that "Martial Rule comes into existence upon a
|
||||
determination (not a declaration) by the senior military commander
|
||||
that the civil government must be replaced because it is no longer
|
||||
functioning anyway." He adds that "Martial Rule is limited only by the
|
||||
@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@ know how many are enacted."</p>
|
||||
<p>DOMESTIC SPYING</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Throughout the 1980s, FEMA was prohibited from engaging in
|
||||
intelligence gathering. But on July 6, 1989, Bush signed Executive
|
||||
intelligence gathering. But on July 6, 1989, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> signed Executive
|
||||
Order 12681, pronouncing that FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate
|
||||
would "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence,
|
||||
investigative, or national security work." Recent events indicate that
|
||||
@ -1162,22 +1162,22 @@ The NY Transfer BBS 718-448-2358 & 718-448-2683</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>DATE OF UPLOAD: November 17, 1989
|
||||
ORIGIN OF UPLOAD: Omni Magazine
|
||||
CONTRIBUTED BY: Donald Goldberg
|
||||
CONTRIBUTED BY: <ent type = 'person'>Donald Goldberg</ent>
|
||||
========================================================
|
||||
PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE BBS
|
||||
========================================================
|
||||
Although this article does not deal directly with UFOs,
|
||||
ParaNet felt it important as an offering to our readers who
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>ParaNet</ent> felt it important as an offering to our readers who
|
||||
depend so much upon communications as a way to stay informed.
|
||||
This article raises some interesting implications for the future
|
||||
of communications.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>THE NATIONAL GUARDS
|
||||
(C) 1987 OMNI MAGAZINE MAY 1987
|
||||
(Reprinted with permission and license to ParaNet Information
|
||||
(Reprinted with permission and license to <ent type = 'person'>ParaNet</ent> Information
|
||||
Service and its affiliates.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>By Donald Goldberg</p>
|
||||
<p>By <ent type = 'person'>Donald Goldberg</ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The mountains bend as the fjord and the sea beyond stretch
|
||||
out before the viewer's eyes. First over the water, then a sharp
|
||||
@ -1223,7 +1223,7 @@ databases.
|
||||
military's increasing efforts to keep information not only from
|
||||
the public but from industry experts, scientists, and even other
|
||||
government officials as well. "That's like classifying a road
|
||||
map for fear of invasion," says Paul Wolff, assistant
|
||||
map for fear of invasion," says <ent type = 'person'>Paul Wolff</ent>, assistant
|
||||
administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
|
||||
Administration, of the attempted restrictions.
|
||||
These attempts to keep unclassified data out of the hands of
|
||||
@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ are a part of an alarming trend that has seen the military take
|
||||
an ever-increasing role in controlling the flow of information
|
||||
and communications through American society, a role traditionally
|
||||
-- and almost exclusively -- left to civilians. Under the
|
||||
approving gaze of the Reagan administration, Department of
|
||||
approving gaze of the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> administration, Department of
|
||||
Defense (DoD) officials have quietly implemented a number of
|
||||
policies, decisions, and orders that give the military
|
||||
unprecedented control over both the content and public use of
|
||||
@ -1254,13 +1254,13 @@ emergency is restricted to times of natural disaster, war, or
|
||||
when national security is specifically threatened. Now the
|
||||
military has attempted to redefine emergency.
|
||||
The point man in the Pentagon's onslaught on communications
|
||||
is Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. Latham, a former NSA
|
||||
deputy chief. Latham now heads up an interagency committee in
|
||||
is Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent>, a former NSA
|
||||
deputy chief. <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> now heads up an interagency committee in
|
||||
charge of writing and implementing many of the policies that have
|
||||
put the military in charge of the flow of civilian information
|
||||
and communication. He is also the architect of National Security
|
||||
Decision Directive 145 (NSDD 145), signed by Defense Secretary
|
||||
Caspar Weinberger in 1984, which sets out the national policy on
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Caspar <ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent></ent> in 1984, which sets out the national policy on
|
||||
telecommunications and computer-systems security.
|
||||
First NSDD 145 set up a steering group of top-level
|
||||
administration officials. Their job is to recommend ways to
|
||||
@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ agencies but by private companies as well. And last October the
|
||||
steering group issued a memorandum that defined sensitive
|
||||
information and gave federal agencies broad new powers to keep it
|
||||
from the public.
|
||||
According to Latham, this new category includes such data as
|
||||
According to <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent>, this new category includes such data as
|
||||
all medical records on government databases -- from the files of
|
||||
the National Cancer Institute to information on every veteran who
|
||||
has ever applied for medical aid from the Veterans Administration
|
||||
@ -1278,7 +1278,7 @@ has ever applied for medical aid from the Veterans Administration
|
||||
the Internal Revenue Service's computers. Even agricultural
|
||||
statistics, he argues, can be used by a foreign power against the
|
||||
United States.
|
||||
In his oversize yet Spartan Pentagon office, Latham cuts
|
||||
In his oversize yet Spartan Pentagon office, <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> cuts
|
||||
anything but an intimidating figure. Articulate and friendly, he
|
||||
could pass for a network anchorman or a television game show
|
||||
host. When asked how the government's new definition of
|
||||
@ -1286,7 +1286,7 @@ sensitive information will be used, he defends the necessity for
|
||||
it and tries to put to rest concerns about a new restrictiveness.
|
||||
"The debate that somehow the DoD and NSA are going to
|
||||
monitor or get into private databases isn't the case at all,"
|
||||
Latham insists. "The definition is just a guideline, just an
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> insists. "The definition is just a guideline, just an
|
||||
advisory. It does not give the DoD the right to go into private
|
||||
records."
|
||||
Yet the Defense Department invoked the NSDD 145 guidelines
|
||||
@ -1295,18 +1295,18 @@ sale of data that are now unclassified and publicly available
|
||||
from privately owned computer systems. The excuse if offered was
|
||||
that these data often include technical information that might be
|
||||
valuable to a foreign adversary like the Soviet Union.
|
||||
Mead Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest
|
||||
computer databases, such as Lexis and Nexis, and has nearly
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Mead</ent> Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest
|
||||
computer databases, such as <ent type = 'person'>Lexis</ent> and Nexis, and has nearly
|
||||
200,000 users -- says it has already been approached by a team of
|
||||
agents from the Air Force and officials from the CIA and the FBI
|
||||
who asked for the names of subscribers and inquired what Mead
|
||||
who asked for the names of subscribers and inquired what <ent type = 'person'>Mead</ent>
|
||||
officials might do if information restrictions were imposed. In
|
||||
response to government pressure, Mead Data Central in effect
|
||||
response to government pressure, <ent type = 'person'>Mead</ent> Data Central in effect
|
||||
censured itself. It purged all unclassified government-supplied
|
||||
technical data from its system and completely dropped the
|
||||
National Technical Information System from its database rather
|
||||
than risk a confrontation.
|
||||
Representative Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat who chairs the
|
||||
Representative <ent type = 'person'>Jack <ent type = 'person'>Brooks</ent></ent>, a Texas Democrat who chairs the
|
||||
House Government Operations Committee, is an outspoken critic of
|
||||
the NSA's role in restricting civilian information. He notes
|
||||
that in 1985 the NSA -- under the authority granted by NSDD 145
|
||||
@ -1315,19 +1315,19 @@ local and federal elections in 1984. The computer system was
|
||||
used to count more than one third of all votes cast in the United
|
||||
States. While probing the system's vulnerability to outside
|
||||
manipulation, the NSA obtained a detailed knowledge of that
|
||||
computer program. "In my view," Brooks says, "this is an
|
||||
computer program. "In my view," <ent type = 'person'>Brooks</ent> says, "this is an
|
||||
unprecedented and ill-advised expansion of the military's
|
||||
influence in our society."
|
||||
There are other NSA critics. "The computer systems used by
|
||||
counties to collect and process votes have nothing to do with
|
||||
national security, and I'm really concerned about the NSA's
|
||||
involvement," says Democratic congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas,
|
||||
involvement," says Democratic congressman <ent type = 'person'>Dan Glickman</ent> of Kansas,
|
||||
chairman of the House science and technology subcommittee
|
||||
concerned with computer security.
|
||||
Also, under NSDD 145 the Pentagon has issued an order,
|
||||
virtually unknown to all but a few industry executives, that
|
||||
affects commercial communications satellites. The policy was
|
||||
made official by Defense Secretary Weinberger in June of 1985 and
|
||||
made official by Defense Secretary <ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent> in June of 1985 and
|
||||
requires that all commercial satellite operators that carry such
|
||||
unclassified government data traffic as routine Pentagon supply
|
||||
information and payroll data (and that compete for lucrative
|
||||
@ -1337,7 +1337,7 @@ affect the data over satellite channels, but it does make the NSA
|
||||
privy to vital information about the essential signals needed to
|
||||
operate a satellite. With this information it could take control
|
||||
of any satellite it chooses.
|
||||
Latham insists this, too, is a voluntary policy and that
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> insists this, too, is a voluntary policy and that
|
||||
only companies that wish to install protection will have their
|
||||
systems evaluated by the NSA. He also says industry officials
|
||||
are wholly behind the move, and argues that the protective
|
||||
@ -1372,7 +1372,7 @@ argue, could cripple a company competing against less expensive
|
||||
communications networks.
|
||||
Americans get much of their information through forms of
|
||||
electronic communications, from the telephone, television and
|
||||
radio, and information printed in many newspapers. Banks send
|
||||
radio, and information printed in many newspapers. <ent type = 'person'>Banks</ent> send
|
||||
important financial data, businesses their spreadsheets, and
|
||||
stockbrokers their investment portfolios, all over the same
|
||||
channels, from satellite signals to computer hookups carried on
|
||||
@ -1401,9 +1401,9 @@ Department officials. (The bill failed to pass the House for
|
||||
unrelated reasons.)
|
||||
"I think it is quite clear that they have snuck in there
|
||||
some powers that are dangerous for us as a company and for the
|
||||
public at large," said MCI vice president Kenneth Cox before the
|
||||
public at large," said MCI vice president <ent type = 'person'>Kenneth Cox</ent> before the
|
||||
Senate vote.
|
||||
Since President Reagan took office, the Pentagon has stepped
|
||||
Since President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> took office, the Pentagon has stepped
|
||||
up its efforts to rewrite the definition of national emergency
|
||||
and give the military expanded powers in the United States. "The
|
||||
declaration of 'emergency' has always been vague," says one
|
||||
@ -1412,7 +1412,7 @@ after ten years in top policy posts. "Different presidents have
|
||||
invoked it differently. This administration would declare a
|
||||
convenient 'emergency.'" In other words, what is a nuisance to
|
||||
one administration might qualify as a burgeoning crisis to
|
||||
another. For example, the Reagan administration might decide
|
||||
another. For example, the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> administration might decide
|
||||
that a series of protests on or near military bases constituted a
|
||||
national emergency.
|
||||
Should the Pentagon ever be given the green light, its base
|
||||
@ -1465,9 +1465,9 @@ day Ma Bell's monopoly over the telephone network of the entire
|
||||
United States was finally broken. The timing was no coincidence.
|
||||
Pentagon officials had argued for years along with AT&T against
|
||||
the divestiture of Ma Bell, on grounds of national security.
|
||||
Defense Secretary Weinberger personally urged the attorney
|
||||
Defense Secretary <ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent> personally urged the attorney
|
||||
general to block the lawsuit that resulted in the breakup, as had
|
||||
his predecessor, Harold Brown. The reason was that rather than
|
||||
his predecessor, <ent type = 'person'>Harold Brown</ent>. The reason was that rather than
|
||||
construct its own communications network, the Pentagon had come
|
||||
to rely extensively on the phone company. After the breakup the
|
||||
dependence continued. The Pentagon still used commercial
|
||||
@ -1492,11 +1492,11 @@ staff the National Coordinating Center. The meetings, which
|
||||
continued over the next three years, were held at the White
|
||||
House, the State Department, the Strategic Air Command (SAC)
|
||||
headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, and at the
|
||||
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>North</ent> American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado
|
||||
Springs.
|
||||
The industry officials attending constituted the National
|
||||
Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee -- called NSTAC
|
||||
(pronounced N-stack) -- set up by President Reagan to address
|
||||
Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee -- called <ent type = 'person'>NSTAC</ent>
|
||||
(pronounced N-stack) -- set up by President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> to address
|
||||
those same problems that worried the Pentagon. It was at these
|
||||
secret meetings, according to the minutes, that the idea of a
|
||||
communications watch center for national emergencies -- the NCC
|
||||
@ -1544,7 +1544,7 @@ military's peacetime communications center.
|
||||
control over the nation's vast communications and information
|
||||
network. For years the Pentagon has been studying how to take
|
||||
over the common carriers' facilities. That research was prepared
|
||||
by NSTAC at the DoD's request and is contained in a series of
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>NSTAC</ent> at the DoD's request and is contained in a series of
|
||||
internal Pentagon documents obtained by Omni. Collectively this
|
||||
series is known as the Satellite Survivability Report. Completed
|
||||
in 1984, it is the only detailed analysis to date of the
|
||||
@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ of all information in the United States. As one high-ranking
|
||||
White House communications official put it: "Whoever controls
|
||||
communications, controls the country." His remark was made after
|
||||
our State Department could not communicate directly with our
|
||||
embassy in Manila during the anti-Marcos revolution last year.
|
||||
embassy in Manila during the anti-<ent type = 'person'>Marcos</ent> revolution last year.
|
||||
To get through, the State Department had to relay all its
|
||||
messages through the Philippine government.
|
||||
Government officials have offered all kinds of scenarios to
|
||||
@ -1613,5 +1613,5 @@ courtesy of the Pentagon.</p>
|
||||
*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*
|
||||
The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very
|
||||
use of the law is the instrument of illegality.
|
||||
-- Ralph Nader @ Harvard Law School, 1/15/92
|
||||
-- <ent type = 'person'>Ralph Nader</ent> @ Harvard Law School, 1/15/92
|
||||
</p></xml>
|
@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SUBJECT: FEMA GULAG</p>
|
||||
|
||||
The September issue of THE OSTRICH reprinted a story from the
|
||||
CBA BULLETIN which listed the following principal civilian concentra-
|
||||
tion camps established in GULAG USA under the =Rex '84= program:
|
||||
tion camps established in GULAG USA under the =<ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent> '84= program:
|
||||
Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas; Ft. Drum, New York; Ft. Indian Gap, Penn-
|
||||
sylvania; Camp A. P. Hill, Virginia; Oakdale, California; Eglin
|
||||
Air Force Base, Florida; Vendenberg AFB, California; Ft. Mc Coy,
|
||||
@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ SUBJECT: FEMA GULAG</p>
|
||||
as THE OSTRICH has been reporting. The map on this page and
|
||||
the list of executive orders available for imposition of an "emergency"
|
||||
are from 1970s files of the late Gen. =P. A. Del Valle's= ALERT,
|
||||
sent us by =Merritt Newby=, editor of the now defunct AMERICAN
|
||||
sent us by =<ent type = 'person'>Merritt Newby</ent>=, editor of the now defunct AMERICAN
|
||||
CHALLENGE.
|
||||
=Wake up Americans!= The Bushoviks have approved =Gorbachev's=
|
||||
imposition of "Emergency" to suppress unrest. =Henry Kissinger=
|
||||
=Wake up Americans!= The <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>oviks</ent> have approved =<ent type = 'person'>Gorbachev</ent>'s=
|
||||
imposition of "Emergency" to suppress unrest. =<ent type = 'person'>Henry Kissinger</ent>=
|
||||
and his clients hardly missed a day's profits in their deals with
|
||||
the butchers of Tiananmen Sqaure. Are you next?
|
||||
*************************************************************************
|
||||
@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ SUBJECT: Executive Orders
|
||||
Budget.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> E. O. 11490 is a compilation of some 23 previous Executive Orders,
|
||||
signed by Nixon on Oct. 28, 1969, and outlining emergency functions
|
||||
signed by <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> on Oct. 28, 1969, and outlining emergency functions
|
||||
which are to be performed by some 28 Executive Departments and
|
||||
Agencies whenever the President of the United States declares
|
||||
a national emergency (as in defiance of an impeachment edict,
|
||||
@ -124,19 +124,19 @@ SUBJECT: Executive Orders
|
||||
|
||||
<p>--> Executive Order 11647 provides the regional and local mechanisms
|
||||
--> and manpower for carrying out the provisions of E. O. 11490.
|
||||
--> Signed by Richard Nixon on Feb. 10, 1972, this Order sets up Ten
|
||||
--> Signed by Richard <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> on Feb. 10, 1972, this Order sets up Ten
|
||||
--> Federal Regional Councils to govern Ten Federal Regions made up
|
||||
--> of the fifty still existing States of the Union.
|
||||
|
||||
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||||
Don sez: </p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Don sez</ent>: </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>*Check out this book for the inside scoop on the "secret" Constitution.*
|
||||
|
||||
SUBJECT: - "The Proposed Constitutional Model" Pages 595-621
|
||||
Book Title - The Emerging Constitution
|
||||
Author - Rexford G. Tugwell
|
||||
Publisher - Harpers Magazine Press,Harper and Row
|
||||
Author - <ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent>ford G. Tugwell
|
||||
Publisher - <ent type = 'person'>Harper</ent>s Magazine Press,<ent type = 'person'>Harper</ent> and Row
|
||||
Dewey Decimal - 342.73 T915E
|
||||
ISBN - 0-06-128225-10
|
||||
Note Chapter 14
|
||||
@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
Virginia, District of Columbia.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Philadelphia
|
||||
REGION IV: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi,
|
||||
North Carolina, Tennessee.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>North</ent> Carolina, Tennessee.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Atlanta
|
||||
REGION V: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Chicago
|
||||
@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Dallas-Fort Worth
|
||||
REGION VII: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Kansas City
|
||||
REGION VIII: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota,
|
||||
REGION VIII: Colorado, Montana, <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> Dakota, South Dakota,
|
||||
Utah, Wyoming.
|
||||
Regional Capitol: Denver
|
||||
REGION IX: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada.
|
||||
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<p>>Sender: Activists Mailing List <special>ACTIV-L@UMCVMB.BITNET</special>
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>From: dave 'who can do? ratmandu!' ratcliffe
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> <special>dave@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com</special></p>
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>From: <ent type = 'person'>dave</ent> 'who can do? ratmandu!' ratcliffe
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> <special><ent type = 'person'>dave</ent>@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com</special></p>
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<p>Keywords: "To preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, so help me God."
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<p> Bushie-Tail used the Gulf War Show to greatly expand the powers of the
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<p> <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>ie-Tail used the Gulf War Show to greatly expand the powers of the
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presidency. During this shell game event, the Executive Orders signed
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into "law" continued Bushie's methodical and detailed program to bury
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into "law" continued <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>ie's methodical and detailed program to bury
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any residual traces of the constitutional rights and protections of U.S.
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citizens. The Bill of Rights--[almost too late to] use 'em or lose 'em:</p>
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<p> || The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to ||
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<p> || The record of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s fast and loose approach to ||
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|| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of ||
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|| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial ||
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|| executive. ||</p>
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bottom 2 pages for subscription & back issues info on this quarterly):</p>
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<p> Domestic Consequences of the Gulf War
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Diana Reynolds
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Reprinted with permission of CAIB. Copyright 1991</p>
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<ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>
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Reprinted with permission of <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>. Copyright 1991</p>
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<p> Diana Reynolds is a Research Associate at the Edward R. Murrow Center,
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<p> <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent> is a Research Associate at the Edward R. Murrow Center,
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Fletcher School for Public Policy, Tufts University. She is also an
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Assistant Professor of Politics at Broadford College and a Lecturer at
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Merrimack College.</p>
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<p> A war, even the most victorious, is a national misfortune.
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--Helmuth Von Moltke, Prussian field marshall</p>
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--<ent type = 'person'>Helmuth Von Moltke</ent>, Prussian field marshall</p>
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<p> George Bush put the United States on the road to its second war in
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<p> George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> put the United States on the road to its second war in
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two years by declaring a national emergency on August 2,1990. In
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response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Bush issued two Executive
|
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response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> issued two Executive
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Orders (12722 and 12723) which restricted trade and travel with Iraq
|
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and froze Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets within the U.S. and those in the
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possession of U.S. persons abroad. At least 15 other executive orders
|
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followed these initial restrictions and enabled the President to
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mobilize the country's human and productive resources for war. Under
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the national emergency, Bush was able unilaterally to break his 1991
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the national emergency, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> was able unilaterally to break his 1991
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budget agreement with Congress which had frozen defense spending, to
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entrench further the U.S. economy in the mire of the military-
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industrial complex, to override environmental protection regulations,
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Security Council and administered, where appropriate, under the
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general umbrella of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[1]
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There is no requirement that Congress be consulted before an emergency
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is declared or findings signed. The only restriction on Bush is that
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is declared or findings signed. The only restriction on <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> is that
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he must inform Congress in a "timely" fashion--he being the sole
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arbiter of timeliness.
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Ultimately, the president's perception of the severity of a
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appointed officers determine the nature of any state of emergency.
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For this reason, those who were aware of the modern development of
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presidential emergency powers were apprehensive about the domestic
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ramifications of any national emergency declared by George Bush. In
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||||
light of Bush's record (see "Bush Chips Away at Constitution" Box
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ramifications of any national emergency declared by George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>. In
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||||
light of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s record (see "<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Chips Away at Constitution" Box
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below) and present performance, their fears appear well-founded.</p>
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<p> The War at Home
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It is too early to know all of the emergency powers, executive
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||||
orders and findings issued under classified National Security
|
||||
Directives[2] implemented by Bush in the name of the Gulf War. In
|
||||
Directives[2] implemented by <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> in the name of the Gulf War. In
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||||
addition to the emergency powers necessary to the direct mobilization
|
||||
of active and reserve armed forces of the United States, there are
|
||||
some 120 additional emergency powers that can be used in a national
|
||||
emergency or state of war (declared or undeclared by Congress). The
|
||||
"Federal Register" records some 15 Executive Orders (EO) signed by
|
||||
Bush from August 2,1990 to February 14,1991. (See "Bush's Executive
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> from August 2,1990 to February 14,1991. (See "<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s Executive
|
||||
Orders" box, below)
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It may take many years before most of the executive findings and
|
||||
use of powers come to light, if indeed they ever do. But evidence is
|
||||
emerging that at least some of Bush's emergency powers were activated
|
||||
emerging that at least some of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s emergency powers were activated
|
||||
in secret. Although only five of the 15 EOs that were published were
|
||||
directed at non-military personnel, the costs directly attributable to
|
||||
the exercise of the authorities conferred by the declaration of
|
||||
national emergency from August 2, 1990 to February 1, 1991 for non-
|
||||
military activities are estimated at approximately $1.3 billion.
|
||||
According to a February 11, 1991 letter from Bush to congressional
|
||||
According to a February 11, 1991 letter from <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to congressional
|
||||
leaders reporting on the "National Emergency With Respect to Iraq,"
|
||||
these costs represent wage and salary costs for the Departments of
|
||||
Treasury, State, Agriculture, and Transportation, U.S. Customs,
|
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<p> ____________________________________________________________________
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| |
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| Bush Chips Away at Constitution |
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| <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Chips Away at Constitution |
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| |
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| George Bush, perhaps more than any other individual in |
|
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| George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>, perhaps more than any other individual in |
|
||||
| U.S. history, has expanded the emergency powers of |
|
||||
| presidency. In 1976, as Director of Central Intelligence, |
|
||||
| he convened Team B, a group of rabidly anti-communist |
|
||||
| intellectuals and former government officials to reevaluate |
|
||||
| CIA inhouse intelligence estimates on Soviet military |
|
||||
| strength. The resulting report recommended draconian civil |
|
||||
| defense measures which led to President Ford's Executive |
|
||||
| defense measures which led to President <ent type = 'person'>Ford</ent>'s Executive |
|
||||
| Order 11921 authorizing plans to establish government |
|
||||
| control of the means of production, distribution, energy |
|
||||
| sources, wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money |
|
||||
| in U.S. financial institutions in a national emergency.[1] |
|
||||
| As Vice President, Bush headed the Task Force on |
|
||||
| As Vice President, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> headed the Task Force on |
|
||||
| Combatting Terrorism, that recommended: extended and |
|
||||
| flexible emergency presidential powers to combat terrorism; |
|
||||
| restrictions on congressional oversight in counter- |
|
||||
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|
||||
| President's use of force in a terrorist situation, and |
|
||||
| lifted the requirement that the President consult Congress |
|
||||
| before sanctioning deadly force. |
|
||||
| From 1982 to 1988, Bush led the Defense Mobilization |
|
||||
| From 1982 to 1988, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> led the Defense Mobilization |
|
||||
| Planning Systems Agency (DMPSA), a secret government |
|
||||
| organization, and spent more than $3 billion upgrading |
|
||||
| command, control, and communications in FEMA's continuity |
|
||||
@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ Lines: 696</p>
|
||||
| planning for martial rule. Under this state, the executive |
|
||||
| would take upon itself powers far beyond those necessary to |
|
||||
| address national emergency contingencies.[5] |
|
||||
| Bush's "anything goes" anti-drug strategy, announced |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s "anything goes" anti-drug strategy, announced |
|
||||
| on September 6, 1989, suggested that executive emergency |
|
||||
| powers be used: to oust those suspected of associating |
|
||||
| with drug users or sellers from public and private housing; |
|
||||
@ -377,27 +377,27 @@ Lines: 696</p>
|
||||
| drugs in the continental U.S.; to confiscate private |
|
||||
| property belonging to drug users, and to incarcerate first |
|
||||
| time offenders in work camps.[6] |
|
||||
| The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to |
|
||||
| The record of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s fast and loose approach to |
|
||||
| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of |
|
||||
| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial |
|
||||
| executive. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 1. Executive Order 11921, "Emergency preparedness Functions, |
|
||||
| June 11, 1976. Federal Register, vol. 41, no. 116. The |
|
||||
| report was attacked by such notables as Ray Cline, the |
|
||||
| report was attacked by such notables as <ent type = 'person'>Ray <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent></ent>, the |
|
||||
| CIA's former Deputy Director, retired CIA intelligence |
|
||||
| analyst Arthur Macy Cox, and the former head of the U.S. |
|
||||
| Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Paul Warnke for |
|
||||
| Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, <ent type = 'person'>Paul Warnke</ent> for |
|
||||
| blatantly manipulating CIA intelligence to achieve the |
|
||||
| political ends of Team B's rightwing members. See Cline, |
|
||||
| quoted in "Carter to Inherit Intense Dispute on Soviet |
|
||||
| Intentions," Mary Marder, "Washington Post," January 2, |
|
||||
| political ends of Team B's rightwing members. See <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>, |
|
||||
| quoted in "<ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> to Inherit Intense Dispute on Soviet |
|
||||
| Intentions," <ent type = 'person'>Mary Marder</ent>, "Washington Post," January 2, |
|
||||
| 1977; Arthur Macy Cox, "Why the U.S. Since 1977 Has |
|
||||
| Been Mis-perceiving Soviet Military Strength," "New York |
|
||||
| Times," October 20, 1980; Paul Warnke, "George Bush and |
|
||||
| Times," October 20, 1980; <ent type = 'person'>Paul Warnke</ent>, "George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> and |
|
||||
| Team B," "New York Times," September 24, 1988. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 2. George Bush, "Public Report of the Vice President's Task |
|
||||
| 2. George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>, "Public Report of the Vice President's Task |
|
||||
| Force On Combatting Terrorism" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. |
|
||||
| Government Printing Office), February 1986. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
@ -406,22 +406,22 @@ Lines: 696</p>
|
||||
| Border Control Committee" (Washington, DC), October 1, |
|
||||
| 1988. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 4. Steven Emerson, "America's Doomsday Project," "U.S. News |
|
||||
| 4. <ent type = 'person'>Steven Emerson</ent>, "America's Doomsday Project," "U.S. News |
|
||||
| & World Report," August 7, 1989. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 5. See: Diana Reynolds, "FEMA and the NSC: The Rise of the |
|
||||
| National Security State," "CAIB," Number 33 (Winter 1990); |
|
||||
| Keenan Peck, "The Take-Charge Gang," "The Progressive," |
|
||||
| 5. See: <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>, "FEMA and the NSC: The Rise of the |
|
||||
| National Security State," "<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>," Number 33 (Winter 1990); |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Keenan Peck</ent>, "The Take-Charge Gang," "The Progressive," |
|
||||
| May 1985; Jack Anderson, "FEMA Wants to Lead Economic |
|
||||
| War," "Washington Post," January 10, 1985. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 6. These Presidential powers were authorized by the Anti- |
|
||||
| Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Public Law 100-690: 100th |
|
||||
| Congress. See also: Diana Reynolds, "The Golden Lie," |
|
||||
| "The Humanist," September/October 1990; Michael Isikoff, |
|
||||
| "Is This Determination or Using a Howitzer to Kill a |
|
||||
| Congress. See also: <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>, "The Golden Lie," |
|
||||
| "The Humanist," September/October 1990; <ent type = 'person'>Michael Isikoff</ent>, |
|
||||
| "Is This Determination or Using a <ent type = 'person'>Howitzer</ent> to Kill a |
|
||||
| Fly?" "Washington Post National Weekly," August 27-, |
|
||||
| September 2, 1990; Bernard Weintraub, "Bush Considers |
|
||||
| September 2, 1990; Bernard Weintraub, "<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Considers |
|
||||
| Calling Guard To Fight Drug Violence in Capital," "New |
|
||||
| York Times," March 21, 1989. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Even those Executive Orders which have been made public tend to
|
||||
raise as many questions as they answer about what actions were
|
||||
considered and actually implemented. On January 8, 1991, Bush signed
|
||||
considered and actually implemented. On January 8, 1991, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> signed
|
||||
Executive Order 12742, National Security Industrial Responsiveness,
|
||||
which ordered the rapid mobilization of resources such as food,
|
||||
energy, construction materials and civil transportation to meet
|
||||
@ -457,8 +457,8 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
<p> Wasting the Environment
|
||||
In one case the use of secret powers was discovered by a watchdog
|
||||
group and revealed in the press. In August 1990, correspondence
|
||||
passed between Colin McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
|
||||
Production and Logistics and Michael Deland, Chair of the White House
|
||||
passed between <ent type = 'person'>Colin McMillan</ent>, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
|
||||
Production and Logistics and <ent type = 'person'>Michael Deland</ent>, Chair of the White House
|
||||
Council on Environmental Quality. The letters responded to
|
||||
presidential and National Security Council directives to deal with
|
||||
increased industrial production and logistics arising from the
|
||||
@ -489,12 +489,12 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
also defer destruction of up to 10 percent of lethal chemical agents
|
||||
and munitions that existed on November 8, 1985.[10]
|
||||
One Executive Order which was made public dealt with "Chemical and
|
||||
Biological Weapons Proliferation." Signed by Bush on November 16,
|
||||
1990, EO 12735 leaves the impression that Bush is ordering an
|
||||
Biological Weapons Proliferation." Signed by <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> on November 16,
|
||||
1990, EO 12735 leaves the impression that <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> is ordering an
|
||||
increased effort to end the proliferation of chemical and biological
|
||||
weapons. The order states that these weapons "constitute a threat to
|
||||
national security and foreign policy" and declares a national
|
||||
emergency to deal with the threat. To confront this threat, Bush
|
||||
emergency to deal with the threat. To confront this threat, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>
|
||||
ordered international negotiations, the imposition of controls,
|
||||
licenses, and sanctions against foreign persons and countries for
|
||||
proliferation. Conveniently, the order grants the Secretaries of
|
||||
@ -502,14 +502,14 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
In February of 1991, the Omnibus Export Amendments Act was passed
|
||||
by Congress compatible with EO 12735. It imposed sanctions on
|
||||
countries and companies developing or using chemical or biological
|
||||
weapons. Bush signed the law, although he had rejected the identical
|
||||
weapons. <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> signed the law, although he had rejected the identical
|
||||
measure the year before because it did not give him the executive
|
||||
power to waive all sanctions if he thought the national interest
|
||||
required it.[11] The new bill, however, met Bush's requirements.</p>
|
||||
required it.[11] The new bill, however, met <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s requirements.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ____________________________________________________________________
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| BUSH'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>BUSH</ent>'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| * EO 12722 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and |
|
||||
| Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 2, 1990. |
|
||||
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|
||||
--------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Going Off Budget
|
||||
Although some of the powers which Bush assumed in order to conduct
|
||||
Although some of the powers which <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> assumed in order to conduct
|
||||
the Gulf War were taken openly, they received little public discussion
|
||||
or reporting by the media.
|
||||
In October, when the winds of the Gulf War were merely a breeze,
|
||||
Bush used his executive emergency powers to extend his budget
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> used his executive emergency powers to extend his budget
|
||||
authority. This action made the 1991 fiscal budget agreement between
|
||||
Congress and the President one of the first U.S. casualties of the
|
||||
war. While on one hand the deal froze arms spending through 1996, it
|
||||
also allowed Bush to put the cost of the Gulf War "off budget." Thus,
|
||||
using its emergency powers, the Bush administration could:</p>
|
||||
also allowed <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to put the cost of the Gulf War "off budget." Thus,
|
||||
using its emergency powers, the <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> administration could:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> * incur a deficit which exceeds congressional budget authority;</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
<p> * and exempt the Pentagon from congressional restrictions on
|
||||
hiring private contractors.[13]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> While there is no published evidence on which powers Bush actually
|
||||
<p> While there is no published evidence on which powers <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> actually
|
||||
invoked, the administration was able to push through the 1990 Omnibus
|
||||
Reconciliation Act. This legislation put a cap on domestic spending,
|
||||
created a record $300 billion deficit, and undermined the Gramm-
|
||||
@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
companion "dire emergency supplemental appropriation,"[14] it
|
||||
specified that the supplemental budget should not be used to finance
|
||||
costs the Pentagon would normally experience.[15]
|
||||
Lawrence Korb, a Pentagon official in the Reagan administration,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Lawrence Korb</ent>, a Pentagon official in the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> administration,
|
||||
believes that the Pentagon has already violated the spirit of the 1990
|
||||
Omnibus Reconciliation Act. It switched funding for the Patriot,
|
||||
Tomahawk, Hellfire and HARM missiles from its regular budget to the
|
||||
@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
<p> Pool of Disinformation
|
||||
Emergency powers to control the means of communications in the U.S.
|
||||
in the name of national security were never formally declared. There
|
||||
was no need for Bush to do so since most of the media voluntarily and
|
||||
was no need for <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to do so since most of the media voluntarily and
|
||||
even eagerly cooperated in their own censorship. Reporters covering
|
||||
the Coalition forces in the Gulf region operated under restrictions
|
||||
imposed by the U.S. military. They were, among other things, barred
|
||||
@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
domestic affairs. It is likely, however, that with a post-war
|
||||
presidential approval rating exceeding 75 percent, the domestic
|
||||
casualties will continue to mount with few objections. Paradoxically,
|
||||
even though the U.S. public put pressure on Bush to send relief for
|
||||
even though the U.S. public put pressure on <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to send relief for
|
||||
the 500,000 Iraqi Kurdish refugees, it is unlikely the same outcry
|
||||
will be heard for the 37 million Americans without health insurance,
|
||||
the 32 million living in poverty, or the country's five million hungry
|
||||
@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> FOOTNOTES:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 1. The administrative guideline was established under Reagan in Executive
|
||||
<p> 1. The administrative guideline was established under <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> in Executive
|
||||
Order 12656, November 18,1988, "Federal Register," vol. 23, no. 266.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 2. For instance, National Security Council policy papers or National
|
||||
@ -687,26 +687,26 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
a top security classified state and are not shared with Congress. For
|
||||
an excellent discussion see: Harold C. Relyea, The Coming of Secret
|
||||
Law, "Government Information Quarterly," Vol. 5, November 1988; see
|
||||
also: Eve Pell, "The Backbone of Hidden Government," "The Nation,"
|
||||
also: <ent type = 'person'>Eve Pell</ent>, "The Backbone of Hidden Government," "The Nation,"
|
||||
June 19,1990.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 3. "Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting on the National Emergency
|
||||
With Respect to Iraq," February, 11, 1991, "Weekly Compilation of
|
||||
Presidential Documents: Administration of George Bush," (Washington,
|
||||
Presidential Documents: Administration of George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>," (Washington,
|
||||
DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), pp. 158-61.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 4. The U.S. now has states of emergency with Iran, Iraq and Syria.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 5. Allanna Sullivan, "U.S. Oil Concerns Confident Of Riding Out Short Gulf
|
||||
<p> 5. <ent type = 'person'>Allanna Sullivan</ent>, "U.S. Oil Concerns Confident Of Riding Out Short Gulf
|
||||
War," "Wall Street Journal Europe," January 7, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 6. Colin McMillan, Letter to Michael Deland, Chairman, Council on
|
||||
<p> 6. <ent type = 'person'>Colin McMillan</ent>, Letter to <ent type = 'person'>Michael Deland</ent>, Chairman, Council on
|
||||
Environmental Quality (Washington, DC: Executive Office of the
|
||||
President), August 24, 1990; Michael R. Deland, Letter to Colin
|
||||
McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics
|
||||
(Washington, DC: Department of Defense), August 29,1990.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 7. Keith Schneider, "Pentagon Wins Waiver Of Environmental Rule," "New York
|
||||
<p> 7. <ent type = 'person'>Keith Schneider</ent>, "Pentagon Wins Waiver Of Environmental Rule," "New York
|
||||
Times," January 30, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 8. 33 U.S. Code (USC) sec. 1902 9(b).</p>
|
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@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 10. 50 USC sec. 1521(b) (3)(A).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> ll. Adam Clymer, "New Bill Mandates Sanctions On Makers of Chemical Arms,"
|
||||
<p> ll. <ent type = 'person'>Adam Clymer</ent>, "New Bill Mandates Sanctions On Makers of Chemical Arms,"
|
||||
"New York Times," February 22, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 12. 31 USC O10005 (f); 2 USC O632 (i), 6419 (d), 907a (b); and Public
|
||||
@ -733,12 +733,12 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
the Congressional Budget office estimates that cost at only $40
|
||||
billion, $16 billion less than allied pledges.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 15. Michael Kamish, "After The War: At Home, An Unconquered Recession,"
|
||||
"Boston Globe," March 6, 1991; Peter Passell, "The Big Spoils From a
|
||||
Bargain War," "New York Times," March 3, 1991; and Alan Abelson, "A
|
||||
War Dividend For The Defense Industry?" "Barron's," March 18, 1991.</p>
|
||||
<p> 15. <ent type = 'person'>Michael Kamish</ent>, "After The War: At Home, An Unconquered Recession,"
|
||||
"Boston Globe," March 6, 1991; <ent type = 'person'>Peter Passell</ent>, "The Big Spoils From a
|
||||
Bargain War," "New York Times," March 3, 1991; and <ent type = 'person'>Alan Abelson</ent>, "A
|
||||
War Dividend For The Defense Industry?" "<ent type = 'person'>Barron</ent>'s," March 18, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 16. Lawrence Korb, "The Pentagon's Creative Budgetry Is Out of Line,"
|
||||
<p> 16. <ent type = 'person'>Lawrence Korb</ent>, "The Pentagon's Creative Budgetry Is Out of Line,"
|
||||
"International Herald Tribune," April 5, 199l.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 17. Many of the powers against aliens are automatically invoked during a
|
||||
@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
imposition of travel restrictions on aliens within the U.S. (8 USC sec.
|
||||
1185); and requiring aliens to be fingerprinted (8 USC sec. 1302).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 18. Ann Talamas, "FBI Targets Arab-Americans," "CAIB," Spring 1991, p. 4.</p>
|
||||
<p> 18. <ent type = 'person'>Ann Talamas</ent>, "FBI Targets Arab-Americans," "<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>," Spring 1991, p. 4.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 19. "Anti-Repression Project Bulletin" (New York: Center for
|
||||
Constitutional Rights), January 23, 1991.</p>
|
||||
@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
<p> 20. James DeParle, "Long Series of Military Decisions Led to Gulf War News
|
||||
Censorship," "New York Times," May 5, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 21. James LeMoyne, "A Correspondent's Tale: Pentagon's Strategy for the
|
||||
<p> 21. <ent type = 'person'>James LeMoyne</ent>, "A Correspondent's Tale: Pentagon's Strategy for the
|
||||
Press: Good News or No News," "New York Times," February 17, 1991.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>______________________________________________________________________________
|
||||
@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ Lines: 467</p>
|
||||
<p>No. 1 (July 1978): Agee on CIA; Cuban exile trial; consumer research-Jamaica.*
|
||||
No. 2 (Oct. 1978): How CIA recruits diplomats; researching undercover
|
||||
officers; double agent in CIA.*
|
||||
No. 3 (Jan. 1979): CIA attacks CAIB; secret supp. to Army field manual;
|
||||
No. 3 (Jan. 1979): CIA attacks <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>; secret supp. to Army field manual;
|
||||
spying on host countries.*
|
||||
No. 4 (Apr.-May 1979): U.S. spies in Italian services; CIA in Spain; CIA
|
||||
recruiting for Africa; subversive academics; Angola.*
|
||||
@ -783,28 +783,28 @@ No. 6 (Oct. 1979): U.S. in Caribbean; Cuban exile terrorists; CIA plans
|
||||
No. 7 (Dec. 1979-Jan. 1980): Media destabilization in Jamaica; Robert
|
||||
Moss; CIA budget; media operations; UNITA; Iran.*
|
||||
No. 8 (Mar.-Apr. 1980): Attacks on Agee; U.S. intelligence legislation;
|
||||
CAIB statement to Congress; Zimbabwe; Northern Ireland.
|
||||
No. 9 (June 1980): NSA in Norway; Glomar Explorer; mind control; NSA.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent> statement to Congress; Zimbabwe; <ent type = 'person'>North</ent>ern Ireland.
|
||||
No. 9 (June 1980): NSA in Norway; <ent type = 'person'>Glomar Explorer</ent>; mind control; NSA.
|
||||
No. 10 (Aug.-Sept. 1980): Caribbean; destabilization in Jamaica; Guyana;
|
||||
Grenada bombing; "The Spike"; deep cover manual.
|
||||
Grenada bombing; "The <ent type = 'person'>Spike</ent>"; deep cover manual.
|
||||
No. 11 (Dec. 1980): Rightwing terrorism; South Korea; KCIA; Portugal;
|
||||
Guyana; Caribbean; AFIO; NSA interview.
|
||||
No. 12 (Apr. 1981): U.S. in Salvador and Guatemala; New Right; William
|
||||
Casey; CIA in Mozambique; mail surveillance.*
|
||||
No. 13 (July-Aug. 1981): South Africa documents; Namibia; mercenaries;
|
||||
the Klan; Globe Aero; Angola; Mozambique; BOSS; Central America;
|
||||
Max Hugel; mail surveillance.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Max Hugel</ent>; mail surveillance.
|
||||
No. 14-15 (Oct. 1981): Complete index to nos. 1-12; review of intelligence
|
||||
legislation; CAIB plans; extended Naming Names.
|
||||
legislation; <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent> plans; extended Naming Names.
|
||||
No. 16 (Mar. 1982): Green Beret torture in Salvador; Argentine death squads;
|
||||
CIA media ops; Seychelles; Angola; Mozambique; the Klan; Nugan Hand.*
|
||||
No. 17 (Summer 1982): CBW History; Cuban dengue epidemic; Scott Barnes
|
||||
No. 17 (Summer 1982): CBW History; Cuban dengue epidemic; <ent type = 'person'>Scott Barnes</ent>
|
||||
and yellow rain lies; mystery death in Bangkok.*
|
||||
No. 18 (Winter 1983): CIA & religion; "secret" war in Nicaragua; Opus Dei;
|
||||
Miskitos; evangelicals-Guatemala; Summer Inst. of Linguistics; World
|
||||
Medical Relief; CIA & BOSS; torture S. Africa; Vietnam defoliation.*
|
||||
No. 19 (Spring-Summer 1983): CIA & media; history of disinformation;
|
||||
"plot" against Pope; Grenada airport; Georgie Anne Geyer.
|
||||
"plot" against Pope; Grenada airport; <ent type = 'person'>Georgie Anne Geyer</ent>.
|
||||
No. 20 (Winter 1984): Invasion of Grenada; war in Nicaragua; Ft. Huachuca;
|
||||
Israel and South Korea in Central America; KAL flight 007.
|
||||
No. 21 (Spring 1984): N.Y. Times and the Salvador election; Time and
|
||||
@ -818,11 +818,11 @@ No. 24 (Summer 1985): State repression, infiltrators, provocateurs;
|
||||
NASSCO strike; Arnaud de Borchgrave, Moon, and Moss; Tetra Tech.
|
||||
No. 25 (Winter 1986): U.S., Nazis, and the Vatican; Knights of Malta;
|
||||
Greek civil war and Eleni; WACL and Nicaragua; torture.
|
||||
No. 26 (Summer 1986): U.S. state terrorism; Vernon Walters; Libya bombing;
|
||||
No. 26 (Summer 1986): U.S. state terrorism; <ent type = 'person'>Vernon Walters</ent>; Libya bombing;
|
||||
contra agents; Israel and South Africa; Duarte; media in Costa
|
||||
Rica; democracy in Nicaragua; plus complete index to nos. 13-25.*
|
||||
No. 27 (Spring 1987): Special: Religious Right; New York Times and Pope
|
||||
Plot; Carlucci; Southern Air Transport; Michael Ledeen.*
|
||||
Plot; Carlucci; Southern Air Transport; <ent type = 'person'>Michael Ledeen</ent>.*
|
||||
No. 28 (Summer 1987): Special: CIA and drugs: S.E. Asia, Afghanistan,
|
||||
Central America; Nugan Hand; MKULTRA in Canada; Delta Force;
|
||||
special section on AIDS theories and CBW.*
|
||||
@ -834,21 +834,21 @@ No. 30 (Summer 1989): Special: Middle East: The intifada, Israeli arms
|
||||
Buckley; the Afghan arms pipeline and contra lobby.
|
||||
No. 31 (Winter 1989): Special issue on domestic surveillance. The FBI; CIA
|
||||
on campus; Office of Public Diplomacy; Lexington Prison; Puerto Rico.
|
||||
No. 32 (Summer 1989): Tenth Year Anniversary Issue: The Best of CAIB.
|
||||
No. 32 (Summer 1989): Tenth Year Anniversary Issue: The Best of <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>.
|
||||
Includes articles from our earliest issues, Naming Names, CIA at home,
|
||||
abroad, and in the media. Ten-year perspective by Philip Agee.
|
||||
No. 33 (Winter 1990): The Bush Issue: CIA agents for Bush; Terrorism Task
|
||||
abroad, and in the media. Ten-year perspective by <ent type = 'person'>Philip Agee</ent>.
|
||||
No. 33 (Winter 1990): The <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Issue: CIA agents for <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>; Terrorism Task
|
||||
Force; El Salvador and Nicaragua intervention; Republicans and Nazis.
|
||||
No. 34 (Summer 1990): Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr; Nicaraguan
|
||||
elections; South African death squads; U.S. and Pol Pot; Pan Am
|
||||
Flight 103; Noriega and the CIA; Council for National Policy.
|
||||
No. 35 (Fall 1990): Special: Eastern Europe; Analysis-Persian Gulf and
|
||||
Cuba; massacres in Indonesia; CIA and Banks; Iran-contra
|
||||
Cuba; massacres in Indonesia; CIA and <ent type = 'person'>Banks</ent>; Iran-contra
|
||||
No. 36 (Spring 1991): Racism & Nat. Security: FBI v. Arab-Americans & Black
|
||||
Officials; Special: Destabilizing Africa: Chad, Uganda, S. Africa,
|
||||
Officials; Special: <ent type = 'person'>Destabilizing Africa</ent>: Chad, Uganda, S. Africa,
|
||||
Angola, Mozambique, Zaire; Haiti; Panama; Gulf War; COINTELPRO "art."
|
||||
No. 37 (Summer 1990): Special: Gulf War: Media; U.N.; Libya; Iran;
|
||||
Domestic costs; North Korea Next? Illegal Arms Deals.</p>
|
||||
Domestic costs; <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> Korea Next? Illegal Arms Deals.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> * Available in Photocopy only</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ No. 37 (Summer 1990): Special: Gulf War: Media; U.N.; Libya; Iran;
|
||||
<p> BACK ISSUES: Circle above, or list below. $6 per copy in U.S.
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Airmail: Canada/Mexico add $2; other countries add $4.</p>
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|
||||
<p> CAIB, P.O. Box 34583, Washington, DC 20043</p>
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>, P.O. Box 34583, Washington, DC 20043</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> KOYAANISQATSI</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -896,18 +896,18 @@ Lines: 72</p>
|
||||
** Written 8:11 pm Jan 17, 1991 by nlgclc in cdp:mideast.forum **
|
||||
An excellent book which deals with the REX 84 detention plan is:
|
||||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|
||||
``Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North,'' by Ben
|
||||
Bradlee Jr.(Donald I. Fine, $21.95. 573 pp.)
|
||||
``Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of <ent type = 'person'>Oliver <ent type = 'person'>North</ent></ent>,'' by Ben
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bradlee</ent> Jr.(Donald I. Fine, $21.95. 573 pp.)
|
||||
------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
Reviewed by Dennis M. Culnan Copyright 1990, Gannett News Service All
|
||||
Rights Reserved Short excerpt posted here under applicable copyright
|
||||
laws</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[Oliver] North managed to network himself into the highest levels of
|
||||
<p>[Oliver] <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> managed to network himself into the highest levels of
|
||||
the CIA and power centers around the world. There he lied and
|
||||
boastfully ignored the constitutional process, Bradlee writes.</p>
|
||||
boastfully ignored the constitutional process, <ent type = 'person'>Bradlee</ent> writes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Yet more terrifying is the plan hatched by North and other Reagan
|
||||
<p>Yet more terrifying is the plan hatched by <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> and other <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
people in the Federal Emergency Manpower Agency (FEMA): A blueprint
|
||||
for the military takeover of the United States. The plan called for
|
||||
FEMA to become ``emergency czar'' in the event of a national emergency
|
||||
@ -918,8 +918,8 @@ commanders and run state and local governments. Finally, it would
|
||||
have the authority to order suspect aliens into concentration camps
|
||||
and seize their property.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>When then-Attorney General William French Smith got wind of the plan,
|
||||
he killed it. After Smith left the administration, North and his FEMA
|
||||
<p>When then-Attorney General <ent type = 'person'>William French <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent></ent> got wind of the plan,
|
||||
he killed it. After <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent> left the administration, <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> and his FEMA
|
||||
cronies came up with the Defense Resource Act, designed to suspendend
|
||||
the First Amendment by imposing censorship and banning strikes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -929,20 +929,20 @@ with the president's declaration of a state of national emergency
|
||||
concurrent with a mythical U.S. military invasion of an unspecified
|
||||
Central American country, presumably Nicaragua.''</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Bradlee writes that the Rex exercise was designed to test FEMA's
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Bradlee</ent> writes that the <ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent> exercise was designed to test FEMA's
|
||||
readiness to assume authority over the Department of Defense, the
|
||||
National Guard in all 50 states, and ``a number of state defense
|
||||
forces to be established by state legislatures.'' The military would
|
||||
then be ``deputized,'' thus making an end run around federal law
|
||||
forbidding military involvement in domestic law enforcement.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Rex, which ran concurrently with the first annual U.S. show of force
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent>, which ran concurrently with the first annual U.S. show of force
|
||||
in Honduras in April 1984, was also designed to test FEMA's ability to
|
||||
round up 400,000 undocumented Central American aliens in the United
|
||||
States and its ability to distribute hundreds of tons of small arms to
|
||||
``state defense forces.''</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Incredibly, REX 84 was similar to a plan secretly adopted by Reagan
|
||||
<p>Incredibly, REX 84 was similar to a plan secretly adopted by <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
while governor of California. His two top henchmen then were Edwin
|
||||
Meese, who recently resigned as U.S. attorney general, and Louis
|
||||
Guiffrida, the FEMA director in 1984.</p>
|
||||
@ -970,15 +970,15 @@ patriots.
|
||||
------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> WILL GULF WAR LEAD TO REPRESSION AT HOME?
|
||||
by Paul DeRienzo and Bill Weinberg</p>
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Paul DeRienzo</ent> and Bill Weinberg</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On August 2, 1990, as Saddam Hussein's army was consolidating control
|
||||
over Kuwait, President George Bush responded by signing two executive
|
||||
over Kuwait, President George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> responded by signing two executive
|
||||
orders that were the first step toward martial law in the United
|
||||
States and suspending the Constitution.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On the surface, Executive Orders 12722 and 12723, declaring a
|
||||
"national emergency," merely invoked laws that allowed Bush to freeze
|
||||
"national emergency," merely invoked laws that allowed <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to freeze
|
||||
Iraqi assets in the United States.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The International Emergency Executive Powers Act permits the president
|
||||
@ -986,11 +986,11 @@ to freeze foreign assets after declaring a "national emergency," a
|
||||
move that has been made three times before -- against Panama in 1987,
|
||||
Nicaragua in 1985 and Iran in 1979.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>According to Professor Diana Reynolds, of the Fletcher School of
|
||||
Diplomacy at Boston's Tufts University, when Bush declared a national
|
||||
<p>According to Professor <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>, of the Fletcher School of
|
||||
Diplomacy at Boston's Tufts University, when <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> declared a national
|
||||
emergency he "activated one part of a contingency national security
|
||||
emergency plan." That plan is made up of a series of laws passed since
|
||||
the presidency of Richard Nixon, which Reynolds says give the
|
||||
the presidency of Richard <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent>, which Reynolds says give the
|
||||
president "boundless" powers.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>According to Reynolds, such laws as the Defense Industrial
|
||||
@ -1029,22 +1029,22 @@ agency.</p>
|
||||
and corporate leaders who helped mobilize the nation's industries to
|
||||
support the war effort. The idea of a central national response to
|
||||
large-scale emergencies was reintroduced in the early 1970s by Louis
|
||||
Giuffrida, a close associate of then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan and
|
||||
his chief aide Edwin Meese.</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent>, a close associate of then-California Gov. Ronald <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> and
|
||||
his chief aide <ent type = 'person'>Edwin Meese</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Reagan appointed Giuffrida head of the California National Guard in
|
||||
1969. With Meese, Giuffrida organized "war-games" to prepare for
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> appointed <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> head of the California National Guard in
|
||||
1969. With Meese, <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> organized "war-games" to prepare for
|
||||
"statewide martial law" in the event that Black nationalists and
|
||||
anti-war protesters "challenged the authority of the state." In 1981,
|
||||
Reagan as president moved Giuffrida up to the big leagues, appointing
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> as president moved <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> up to the big leagues, appointing
|
||||
him director of FEMA.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>According to Reynolds, however, it was the actions of George Bush in
|
||||
<p>According to Reynolds, however, it was the actions of George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> in
|
||||
1976, while he was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency
|
||||
(CIA), that provided the stimulus for centralization of vast powers in
|
||||
FEMA.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Bush assembled a group of hawkish outsiders, called Team B, that
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> assembled a group of hawkish outsiders, called Team B, that
|
||||
released a report claiming the CIA ("Team A") had underestimated the
|
||||
dangers of Soviet nuclear attack. The report advised the development
|
||||
of elaborate plans for "civil defense" and post-nuclear government.
|
||||
@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ Three years later, in 1979, FEMA was given ultimate responsibility for
|
||||
developing these plans.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Aware of the bad publicity FEMA was getting because of its role in
|
||||
organizing for a post-nuclear world, Reagan's FEMA chief Giuffrida
|
||||
organizing for a post-nuclear world, <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>'s FEMA chief <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent>
|
||||
publicly argued that the 1865 Posse Comitatus Act prohibited the
|
||||
military from arresting civilians.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ to arrest civilians. The National Guard, under the control of state
|
||||
governors in peace time, is also exempt from the act and can arrest
|
||||
civilians.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FEMA Inspector General John Brinkerhoff has written a memo contending
|
||||
<p>FEMA Inspector General <ent type = 'person'>John Brinkerhoff</ent> has written a memo contending
|
||||
that the government doesn't need to suspend the Constitution to use
|
||||
the full range of powers Congress has given the agency. FEMA has
|
||||
prepared legislation to be introduced in Congress in the event of a
|
||||
@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ right to "deputize" National Guard and police forces is included in
|
||||
the package. But Reynolds believes that actual martial law need not be
|
||||
declared publicly.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Giuffrida has written that "Martial Rule comes into existence upon a
|
||||
<p><ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> has written that "Martial Rule comes into existence upon a
|
||||
determination (not a declaration) by the senior military commander
|
||||
that the civil government must be replaced because it is no longer
|
||||
functioning anyway." He adds that "Martial Rule is limited only by the
|
||||
@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ know how many are enacted."</p>
|
||||
<p>DOMESTIC SPYING</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Throughout the 1980s, FEMA was prohibited from engaging in
|
||||
intelligence gathering. But on July 6, 1989, Bush signed Executive
|
||||
intelligence gathering. But on July 6, 1989, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> signed Executive
|
||||
Order 12681, pronouncing that FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate
|
||||
would "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence,
|
||||
investigative, or national security work." Recent events indicate that
|
||||
@ -1141,22 +1141,22 @@ The NY Transfer BBS 718-448-2358 & 718-448-2683</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>DATE OF UPLOAD: November 17, 1989
|
||||
ORIGIN OF UPLOAD: Omni Magazine
|
||||
CONTRIBUTED BY: Donald Goldberg
|
||||
CONTRIBUTED BY: <ent type = 'person'>Donald Goldberg</ent>
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========================================================
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PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE BBS
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========================================================
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Although this article does not deal directly with UFOs,
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ParaNet felt it important as an offering to our readers who
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<ent type = 'person'>ParaNet</ent> felt it important as an offering to our readers who
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depend so much upon communications as a way to stay informed.
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This article raises some interesting implications for the future
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of communications.</p>
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<p>THE NATIONAL GUARDS
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(C) 1987 OMNI MAGAZINE MAY 1987
|
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(Reprinted with permission and license to ParaNet Information
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(Reprinted with permission and license to <ent type = 'person'>ParaNet</ent> Information
|
||||
Service and its affiliates.)</p>
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|
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<p>By Donald Goldberg</p>
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||||
<p>By <ent type = 'person'>Donald Goldberg</ent></p>
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||||
|
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<p> The mountains bend as the fjord and the sea beyond stretch
|
||||
out before the viewer's eyes. First over the water, then a sharp
|
||||
@ -1202,7 +1202,7 @@ databases.
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||||
military's increasing efforts to keep information not only from
|
||||
the public but from industry experts, scientists, and even other
|
||||
government officials as well. "That's like classifying a road
|
||||
map for fear of invasion," says Paul Wolff, assistant
|
||||
map for fear of invasion," says <ent type = 'person'>Paul Wolff</ent>, assistant
|
||||
administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
|
||||
Administration, of the attempted restrictions.
|
||||
These attempts to keep unclassified data out of the hands of
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||||
@ -1211,7 +1211,7 @@ are a part of an alarming trend that has seen the military take
|
||||
an ever-increasing role in controlling the flow of information
|
||||
and communications through American society, a role traditionally
|
||||
-- and almost exclusively -- left to civilians. Under the
|
||||
approving gaze of the Reagan administration, Department of
|
||||
approving gaze of the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> administration, Department of
|
||||
Defense (DoD) officials have quietly implemented a number of
|
||||
policies, decisions, and orders that give the military
|
||||
unprecedented control over both the content and public use of
|
||||
@ -1233,13 +1233,13 @@ emergency is restricted to times of natural disaster, war, or
|
||||
when national security is specifically threatened. Now the
|
||||
military has attempted to redefine emergency.
|
||||
The point man in the Pentagon's onslaught on communications
|
||||
is Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. Latham, a former NSA
|
||||
deputy chief. Latham now heads up an interagency committee in
|
||||
is Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent>, a former NSA
|
||||
deputy chief. <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> now heads up an interagency committee in
|
||||
charge of writing and implementing many of the policies that have
|
||||
put the military in charge of the flow of civilian information
|
||||
and communication. He is also the architect of National Security
|
||||
Decision Directive 145 (NSDD 145), signed by Defense Secretary
|
||||
Caspar Weinberger in 1984, which sets out the national policy on
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Caspar <ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent></ent> in 1984, which sets out the national policy on
|
||||
telecommunications and computer-systems security.
|
||||
First NSDD 145 set up a steering group of top-level
|
||||
administration officials. Their job is to recommend ways to
|
||||
@ -1249,7 +1249,7 @@ agencies but by private companies as well. And last October the
|
||||
steering group issued a memorandum that defined sensitive
|
||||
information and gave federal agencies broad new powers to keep it
|
||||
from the public.
|
||||
According to Latham, this new category includes such data as
|
||||
According to <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent>, this new category includes such data as
|
||||
all medical records on government databases -- from the files of
|
||||
the National Cancer Institute to information on every veteran who
|
||||
has ever applied for medical aid from the Veterans Administration
|
||||
@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ has ever applied for medical aid from the Veterans Administration
|
||||
the Internal Revenue Service's computers. Even agricultural
|
||||
statistics, he argues, can be used by a foreign power against the
|
||||
United States.
|
||||
In his oversize yet Spartan Pentagon office, Latham cuts
|
||||
In his oversize yet Spartan Pentagon office, <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> cuts
|
||||
anything but an intimidating figure. Articulate and friendly, he
|
||||
could pass for a network anchorman or a television game show
|
||||
host. When asked how the government's new definition of
|
||||
@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ sensitive information will be used, he defends the necessity for
|
||||
it and tries to put to rest concerns about a new restrictiveness.
|
||||
"The debate that somehow the DoD and NSA are going to
|
||||
monitor or get into private databases isn't the case at all,"
|
||||
Latham insists. "The definition is just a guideline, just an
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> insists. "The definition is just a guideline, just an
|
||||
advisory. It does not give the DoD the right to go into private
|
||||
records."
|
||||
Yet the Defense Department invoked the NSDD 145 guidelines
|
||||
@ -1274,18 +1274,18 @@ sale of data that are now unclassified and publicly available
|
||||
from privately owned computer systems. The excuse if offered was
|
||||
that these data often include technical information that might be
|
||||
valuable to a foreign adversary like the Soviet Union.
|
||||
Mead Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest
|
||||
computer databases, such as Lexis and Nexis, and has nearly
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Mead</ent> Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest
|
||||
computer databases, such as <ent type = 'person'>Lexis</ent> and Nexis, and has nearly
|
||||
200,000 users -- says it has already been approached by a team of
|
||||
agents from the Air Force and officials from the CIA and the FBI
|
||||
who asked for the names of subscribers and inquired what Mead
|
||||
who asked for the names of subscribers and inquired what <ent type = 'person'>Mead</ent>
|
||||
officials might do if information restrictions were imposed. In
|
||||
response to government pressure, Mead Data Central in effect
|
||||
response to government pressure, <ent type = 'person'>Mead</ent> Data Central in effect
|
||||
censured itself. It purged all unclassified government-supplied
|
||||
technical data from its system and completely dropped the
|
||||
National Technical Information System from its database rather
|
||||
than risk a confrontation.
|
||||
Representative Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat who chairs the
|
||||
Representative <ent type = 'person'>Jack <ent type = 'person'>Brooks</ent></ent>, a Texas Democrat who chairs the
|
||||
House Government Operations Committee, is an outspoken critic of
|
||||
the NSA's role in restricting civilian information. He notes
|
||||
that in 1985 the NSA -- under the authority granted by NSDD 145
|
||||
@ -1294,19 +1294,19 @@ local and federal elections in 1984. The computer system was
|
||||
used to count more than one third of all votes cast in the United
|
||||
States. While probing the system's vulnerability to outside
|
||||
manipulation, the NSA obtained a detailed knowledge of that
|
||||
computer program. "In my view," Brooks says, "this is an
|
||||
computer program. "In my view," <ent type = 'person'>Brooks</ent> says, "this is an
|
||||
unprecedented and ill-advised expansion of the military's
|
||||
influence in our society."
|
||||
There are other NSA critics. "The computer systems used by
|
||||
counties to collect and process votes have nothing to do with
|
||||
national security, and I'm really concerned about the NSA's
|
||||
involvement," says Democratic congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas,
|
||||
involvement," says Democratic congressman <ent type = 'person'>Dan Glickman</ent> of Kansas,
|
||||
chairman of the House science and technology subcommittee
|
||||
concerned with computer security.
|
||||
Also, under NSDD 145 the Pentagon has issued an order,
|
||||
virtually unknown to all but a few industry executives, that
|
||||
affects commercial communications satellites. The policy was
|
||||
made official by Defense Secretary Weinberger in June of 1985 and
|
||||
made official by Defense Secretary <ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent> in June of 1985 and
|
||||
requires that all commercial satellite operators that carry such
|
||||
unclassified government data traffic as routine Pentagon supply
|
||||
information and payroll data (and that compete for lucrative
|
||||
@ -1316,7 +1316,7 @@ affect the data over satellite channels, but it does make the NSA
|
||||
privy to vital information about the essential signals needed to
|
||||
operate a satellite. With this information it could take control
|
||||
of any satellite it chooses.
|
||||
Latham insists this, too, is a voluntary policy and that
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> insists this, too, is a voluntary policy and that
|
||||
only companies that wish to install protection will have their
|
||||
systems evaluated by the NSA. He also says industry officials
|
||||
are wholly behind the move, and argues that the protective
|
||||
@ -1351,7 +1351,7 @@ argue, could cripple a company competing against less expensive
|
||||
communications networks.
|
||||
Americans get much of their information through forms of
|
||||
electronic communications, from the telephone, television and
|
||||
radio, and information printed in many newspapers. Banks send
|
||||
radio, and information printed in many newspapers. <ent type = 'person'>Banks</ent> send
|
||||
important financial data, businesses their spreadsheets, and
|
||||
stockbrokers their investment portfolios, all over the same
|
||||
channels, from satellite signals to computer hookups carried on
|
||||
@ -1380,9 +1380,9 @@ Department officials. (The bill failed to pass the House for
|
||||
unrelated reasons.)
|
||||
"I think it is quite clear that they have snuck in there
|
||||
some powers that are dangerous for us as a company and for the
|
||||
public at large," said MCI vice president Kenneth Cox before the
|
||||
public at large," said MCI vice president <ent type = 'person'>Kenneth Cox</ent> before the
|
||||
Senate vote.
|
||||
Since President Reagan took office, the Pentagon has stepped
|
||||
Since President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> took office, the Pentagon has stepped
|
||||
up its efforts to rewrite the definition of national emergency
|
||||
and give the military expanded powers in the United States. "The
|
||||
declaration of 'emergency' has always been vague," says one
|
||||
@ -1391,7 +1391,7 @@ after ten years in top policy posts. "Different presidents have
|
||||
invoked it differently. This administration would declare a
|
||||
convenient 'emergency.'" In other words, what is a nuisance to
|
||||
one administration might qualify as a burgeoning crisis to
|
||||
another. For example, the Reagan administration might decide
|
||||
another. For example, the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> administration might decide
|
||||
that a series of protests on or near military bases constituted a
|
||||
national emergency.
|
||||
Should the Pentagon ever be given the green light, its base
|
||||
@ -1444,9 +1444,9 @@ day Ma Bell's monopoly over the telephone network of the entire
|
||||
United States was finally broken. The timing was no coincidence.
|
||||
Pentagon officials had argued for years along with AT&T against
|
||||
the divestiture of Ma Bell, on grounds of national security.
|
||||
Defense Secretary Weinberger personally urged the attorney
|
||||
Defense Secretary <ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent> personally urged the attorney
|
||||
general to block the lawsuit that resulted in the breakup, as had
|
||||
his predecessor, Harold Brown. The reason was that rather than
|
||||
his predecessor, <ent type = 'person'>Harold Brown</ent>. The reason was that rather than
|
||||
construct its own communications network, the Pentagon had come
|
||||
to rely extensively on the phone company. After the breakup the
|
||||
dependence continued. The Pentagon still used commercial
|
||||
@ -1471,11 +1471,11 @@ staff the National Coordinating Center. The meetings, which
|
||||
continued over the next three years, were held at the White
|
||||
House, the State Department, the Strategic Air Command (SAC)
|
||||
headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, and at the
|
||||
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>North</ent> American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado
|
||||
Springs.
|
||||
The industry officials attending constituted the National
|
||||
Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee -- called NSTAC
|
||||
(pronounced N-stack) -- set up by President Reagan to address
|
||||
Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee -- called <ent type = 'person'>NSTAC</ent>
|
||||
(pronounced N-stack) -- set up by President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> to address
|
||||
those same problems that worried the Pentagon. It was at these
|
||||
secret meetings, according to the minutes, that the idea of a
|
||||
communications watch center for national emergencies -- the NCC
|
||||
@ -1523,7 +1523,7 @@ military's peacetime communications center.
|
||||
control over the nation's vast communications and information
|
||||
network. For years the Pentagon has been studying how to take
|
||||
over the common carriers' facilities. That research was prepared
|
||||
by NSTAC at the DoD's request and is contained in a series of
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>NSTAC</ent> at the DoD's request and is contained in a series of
|
||||
internal Pentagon documents obtained by Omni. Collectively this
|
||||
series is known as the Satellite Survivability Report. Completed
|
||||
in 1984, it is the on</p></xml>
|
@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ important of these is that it might be refractory to the
|
||||
immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to
|
||||
maintain our relative freedom from infectious diseases." (See -
|
||||
A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Chemical and
|
||||
Biological Warfare by R. Harris and J. Paxman, p 266, Hill and
|
||||
Biological Warfare by R. <ent type = 'person'>Harris</ent> and J. <ent type = 'person'>Paxman</ent>, p 266, Hill and
|
||||
Wang, pubs.) The funds were approved.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>AIDS appeared within the requested time frame, and has the exact
|
||||
@ -66,14 +66,14 @@ times as swiftly. And over 80% of the children with AIDS and 90%
|
||||
of infants born with it are among these minorities. "Ethnic
|
||||
weapons" that would strike certain racial groups more heavily
|
||||
than others have been a long-standing U.S. Army BW objective.
|
||||
(Harris and Paxman, p 265)</p>
|
||||
(<ent type = 'person'>Harris</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Paxman</ent>, p 265)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Under the current U.S. administration biological warfare research
|
||||
spending has increased 500 percent, primarily in the area of
|
||||
genetic engineering of new disease organisms.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The "discovery" of the AIDS virus (HTLV3) was announced by Dr.
|
||||
Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute, which is on the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Robert Gallo</ent> at the National Cancer Institute, which is on the
|
||||
grounds of Fort Detrick, Maryland, a primary U.S. Army biological
|
||||
warfare research facility. Actually, the AIDS virus looks and
|
||||
acts much more like a cross between a bovine leukemial virus and
|
||||
@ -113,14 +113,14 @@ intelligence establishment following WW II. U.S. military
|
||||
priorities were then re-oriented from defeating Nazis to
|
||||
"defeating" communism at any cost, and strengthening military
|
||||
control of economic and foreign policy decisions (See - Project
|
||||
Paperclip by Clarence Lasby, Atheneum 214, NY, and Gehlen: Spy of
|
||||
Paperclip by <ent type = 'person'>Clarence Lasby</ent>, Atheneum 214, NY, and Gehlen: Spy of
|
||||
the Century by E.H. Cookridge, Random House.) There's no proof
|
||||
those Nazis ever gave up their long-term goals of conquest and
|
||||
genocide, just because they changed countries. Fascism was and
|
||||
is an international phenomenon.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>It's not as if this was total reversal of previous U.S. military
|
||||
policy, however. Hitler claimed to have gotten his inspiration
|
||||
policy, however. <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> claimed to have gotten his inspiration
|
||||
for the "final solution" from the extermination of Native
|
||||
Americans in the U.S. For that matter the first example of germ
|
||||
warfare in the U.S. was in 1763 when some of the European
|
||||
@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ published in the Patriot newspaper in New Delhi, India, on July
|
||||
4, 1984. It is hard to say where the investigations of this
|
||||
story in the Indian press might have led, if they had not been
|
||||
sidetracked by two major domestic disasters shortly thereafter:
|
||||
the assassination of Indira Gandhi on Oct. 31 and the Bhopal
|
||||
the assassination of <ent type = 'person'>Indira Gandhi</ent> on Oct. 31 and the Bhopal
|
||||
Union Carbide plant "accident" that killed several thousand and
|
||||
injured over 200,000 on Dec. 3.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ have to do something about it.</p>
|
||||
are: Covert Action Information Bulletin #28 ($5), Box 50272,
|
||||
Washington, D.C. 20004; Bio-Attack Alert ($20), Dr. Robert
|
||||
Strecker, 1501 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90041; Radio Free
|
||||
America #16 by Dave Emery and Nip Tuck (3 tapes, $10), Davkore
|
||||
America #16 by <ent type = 'person'>Dave Emery</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Nip Tuck</ent> (3 tapes, $10), Davkore
|
||||
Co., 1300-D Space Park Way, Mountain View, CA 94043.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>This report was originally printed in - Critique - Exposing
|
||||
|
@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ that communications systems and service providers continue
|
||||
to accomodate lawful government communications intercepts.
|
||||
The regulations are not intended to cover federal government
|
||||
communications systems. Procedure already exist by which
|
||||
the Federal Bureau of Investigation amy obtain federal agency
|
||||
the Federal Bureau of Investigation <ent type = 'person'>amy</ent> obtain federal agency
|
||||
cooperation in implementing lawful orders or authorizations
|
||||
applicable to such systems. Further, there would be no
|
||||
obligation on the part of the service providers or any other party
|
||||
|
@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SUBJECT: FEMA GULAG
|
||||
|
||||
The September issue of THE OSTRICH reprinted a story from the
|
||||
CBA BULLETIN which listed the following principal civilian concentra-
|
||||
tion camps established in GULAG USA under the =Rex '84= program:
|
||||
tion camps established in GULAG USA under the =<ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent> '84= program:
|
||||
Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas; Ft. Drum, New York; Ft. Indian Gap, Penn-
|
||||
sylvania; Camp A. P. Hill, Virginia; Oakdale, California; Eglin
|
||||
Air Force Base, Florida; Vendenberg AFB, California; Ft. Mc Coy,
|
||||
@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ SUBJECT: FEMA GULAG
|
||||
as THE OSTRICH has been reporting. The map on this page and
|
||||
the list of executive orders available for imposition of an "emergency"
|
||||
are from 1970s files of the late Gen. =P. A. Del Valle's= ALERT,
|
||||
sent us by =Merritt Newby=, editor of the now defunct AMERICAN
|
||||
sent us by =<ent type = 'person'>Merritt Newby</ent>=, editor of the now defunct AMERICAN
|
||||
CHALLENGE.
|
||||
=Wake up Americans!= The Bushoviks have approved =Gorbachev's=
|
||||
imposition of "Emergency" to suppress unrest. =Henry Kissinger=
|
||||
=Wake up Americans!= The <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>oviks</ent> have approved =<ent type = 'person'>Gorbachev</ent>'s=
|
||||
imposition of "Emergency" to suppress unrest. =<ent type = 'person'>Henry Kissinger</ent>=
|
||||
and his clients hardly missed a day's profits in their deals with
|
||||
the butchers of Tiananmen Sqaure. Are you next?
|
||||
*************************************************************************
|
||||
@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ SUBJECT: Executive Orders
|
||||
Budget.
|
||||
|
||||
E. O. 11490 is a compilation of some 23 previous Executive Orders,
|
||||
signed by Nixon on Oct. 28, 1969, and outlining emergency functions
|
||||
signed by <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> on Oct. 28, 1969, and outlining emergency functions
|
||||
which are to be performed by some 28 Executive Departments and
|
||||
Agencies whenever the President of the United States declares
|
||||
a national emergency (as in defiance of an impeachment edict,
|
||||
@ -127,19 +127,19 @@ SUBJECT: Executive Orders
|
||||
|
||||
--> Executive Order 11647 provides the regional and local mechanisms
|
||||
--> and manpower for carrying out the provisions of E. O. 11490.
|
||||
--> Signed by Richard Nixon on Feb. 10, 1972, this Order sets up Ten
|
||||
--> Signed by Richard <ent type = 'person'>Nixon</ent> on Feb. 10, 1972, this Order sets up Ten
|
||||
--> Federal Regional Councils to govern Ten Federal Regions made up
|
||||
--> of the fifty still existing States of the Union.
|
||||
|
||||
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
||||
Don sez:
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Don sez</ent>:
|
||||
|
||||
*Check out this book for the inside scoop on the "secret" Constitution.*
|
||||
|
||||
SUBJECT: - "The Proposed Constitutional Model" Pages 595-621
|
||||
Book Title - The Emerging Constitution
|
||||
Author - Rexford G. Tugwell
|
||||
Publisher - Harpers Magazine Press,Harper and Row
|
||||
Author - <ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent>ford G. Tugwell
|
||||
Publisher - <ent type = 'person'>Harper</ent>s Magazine Press,<ent type = 'person'>Harper</ent> and Row
|
||||
Dewey Decimal - 342.73 T915E
|
||||
ISBN - 0-06-128225-10
|
||||
Note Chapter 14
|
||||
@ -207,13 +207,13 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
--------------------------------REF2:FEMA---------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Bushie-Tail used the Gulf War Show to greatly expand the powers of the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>ie-Tail used the Gulf War Show to greatly expand the powers of the
|
||||
presidency. During this shell game event, the Executive Orders signed
|
||||
into "law" continued Bushie's methodical and detailed program to bury
|
||||
into "law" continued <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>ie's methodical and detailed program to bury
|
||||
any residual traces of the constitutional rights and protections of U.S.
|
||||
citizens. The Bill of Rights--[almost too late to] use 'em or lose 'em:
|
||||
|
||||
|| The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to ||
|
||||
|| The record of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s fast and loose approach to ||
|
||||
|| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of ||
|
||||
|| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial ||
|
||||
|| executive. ||
|
||||
@ -223,26 +223,26 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
bottom 2 pages for subscription & back issues info on this quarterly):
|
||||
|
||||
Domestic Consequences of the Gulf War
|
||||
Diana Reynolds
|
||||
Reprinted with permission of CAIB. Copyright 1991
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>
|
||||
Reprinted with permission of <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>. Copyright 1991
|
||||
|
||||
Diana Reynolds is a Research Associate at the Edward R. Murrow Center,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent> is a Research Associate at the Edward R. Murrow Center,
|
||||
Fletcher School for Public Policy, Tufts University. She is also an
|
||||
Assistant Professor of Politics at Broadford College and a Lecturer at
|
||||
Merrimack College.
|
||||
|
||||
A war, even the most victorious, is a national misfortune.
|
||||
--Helmuth Von Moltke, Prussian field marshall
|
||||
--<ent type = 'person'>Helmuth Von Moltke</ent>, Prussian field marshall
|
||||
|
||||
George Bush put the United States on the road to its second war in
|
||||
George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> put the United States on the road to its second war in
|
||||
two years by declaring a national emergency on August 2,1990. In
|
||||
response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Bush issued two Executive
|
||||
response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> issued two Executive
|
||||
Orders (12722 and 12723) which restricted trade and travel with Iraq
|
||||
and froze Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets within the U.S. and those in the
|
||||
possession of U.S. persons abroad. At least 15 other executive orders
|
||||
followed these initial restrictions and enabled the President to
|
||||
mobilize the country's human and productive resources for war. Under
|
||||
the national emergency, Bush was able unilaterally to break his 1991
|
||||
the national emergency, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> was able unilaterally to break his 1991
|
||||
budget agreement with Congress which had frozen defense spending, to
|
||||
entrench further the U.S. economy in the mire of the military-
|
||||
industrial complex, to override environmental protection regulations,
|
||||
@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
Security Council and administered, where appropriate, under the
|
||||
general umbrella of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[1]
|
||||
There is no requirement that Congress be consulted before an emergency
|
||||
is declared or findings signed. The only restriction on Bush is that
|
||||
is declared or findings signed. The only restriction on <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> is that
|
||||
he must inform Congress in a "timely" fashion--he being the sole
|
||||
arbiter of timeliness.
|
||||
Ultimately, the president's perception of the severity of a
|
||||
@ -275,30 +275,30 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
appointed officers determine the nature of any state of emergency.
|
||||
For this reason, those who were aware of the modern development of
|
||||
presidential emergency powers were apprehensive about the domestic
|
||||
ramifications of any national emergency declared by George Bush. In
|
||||
light of Bush's record (see "Bush Chips Away at Constitution" Box
|
||||
ramifications of any national emergency declared by George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>. In
|
||||
light of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s record (see "<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Chips Away at Constitution" Box
|
||||
below) and present performance, their fears appear well-founded.
|
||||
|
||||
The War at Home
|
||||
It is too early to know all of the emergency powers, executive
|
||||
orders and findings issued under classified National Security
|
||||
Directives[2] implemented by Bush in the name of the Gulf War. In
|
||||
Directives[2] implemented by <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> in the name of the Gulf War. In
|
||||
addition to the emergency powers necessary to the direct mobilization
|
||||
of active and reserve armed forces of the United States, there are
|
||||
some 120 additional emergency powers that can be used in a national
|
||||
emergency or state of war (declared or undeclared by Congress). The
|
||||
"Federal Register" records some 15 Executive Orders (EO) signed by
|
||||
Bush from August 2,1990 to February 14,1991. (See "Bush's Executive
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> from August 2,1990 to February 14,1991. (See "<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s Executive
|
||||
Orders" box, below)
|
||||
It may take many years before most of the executive findings and
|
||||
use of powers come to light, if indeed they ever do. But evidence is
|
||||
emerging that at least some of Bush's emergency powers were activated
|
||||
emerging that at least some of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s emergency powers were activated
|
||||
in secret. Although only five of the 15 EOs that were published were
|
||||
directed at non-military personnel, the costs directly attributable to
|
||||
the exercise of the authorities conferred by the declaration of
|
||||
national emergency from August 2, 1990 to February 1, 1991 for non-
|
||||
military activities are estimated at approximately $1.3 billion.
|
||||
According to a February 11, 1991 letter from Bush to congressional
|
||||
According to a February 11, 1991 letter from <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to congressional
|
||||
leaders reporting on the "National Emergency With Respect to Iraq,"
|
||||
these costs represent wage and salary costs for the Departments of
|
||||
Treasury, State, Agriculture, and Transportation, U.S. Customs,
|
||||
@ -311,21 +311,21 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
|
||||
____________________________________________________________________
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| Bush Chips Away at Constitution |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Chips Away at Constitution |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| George Bush, perhaps more than any other individual in |
|
||||
| George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>, perhaps more than any other individual in |
|
||||
| U.S. history, has expanded the emergency powers of |
|
||||
| presidency. In 1976, as Director of Central Intelligence, |
|
||||
| he convened Team B, a group of rabidly anti-communist |
|
||||
| intellectuals and former government officials to reevaluate |
|
||||
| CIA inhouse intelligence estimates on Soviet military |
|
||||
| strength. The resulting report recommended draconian civil |
|
||||
| defense measures which led to President Ford's Executive |
|
||||
| defense measures which led to President <ent type = 'person'>Ford</ent>'s Executive |
|
||||
| Order 11921 authorizing plans to establish government |
|
||||
| control of the means of production, distribution, energy |
|
||||
| sources, wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money |
|
||||
| in U.S. financial institutions in a national emergency.[1] |
|
||||
| As Vice President, Bush headed the Task Force on |
|
||||
| As Vice President, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> headed the Task Force on |
|
||||
| Combatting Terrorism, that recommended: extended and |
|
||||
| flexible emergency presidential powers to combat terrorism; |
|
||||
| restrictions on congressional oversight in counter- |
|
||||
@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
| President's use of force in a terrorist situation, and |
|
||||
| lifted the requirement that the President consult Congress |
|
||||
| before sanctioning deadly force. |
|
||||
| From 1982 to 1988, Bush led the Defense Mobilization |
|
||||
| From 1982 to 1988, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> led the Defense Mobilization |
|
||||
| Planning Systems Agency (DMPSA), a secret government |
|
||||
| organization, and spent more than $3 billion upgrading |
|
||||
| command, control, and communications in FEMA's continuity |
|
||||
@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
| planning for martial rule. Under this state, the executive |
|
||||
| would take upon itself powers far beyond those necessary to |
|
||||
| address national emergency contingencies.[5] |
|
||||
| Bush's "anything goes" anti-drug strategy, announced |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s "anything goes" anti-drug strategy, announced |
|
||||
| on September 6, 1989, suggested that executive emergency |
|
||||
| powers be used: to oust those suspected of associating |
|
||||
| with drug users or sellers from public and private housing; |
|
||||
@ -371,27 +371,27 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
| drugs in the continental U.S.; to confiscate private |
|
||||
| property belonging to drug users, and to incarcerate first |
|
||||
| time offenders in work camps.[6] |
|
||||
| The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to |
|
||||
| The record of <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s fast and loose approach to |
|
||||
| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of |
|
||||
| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial |
|
||||
| executive. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 1. Executive Order 11921, "Emergency preparedness Functions, |
|
||||
| June 11, 1976. Federal Register, vol. 41, no. 116. The |
|
||||
| report was attacked by such notables as Ray Cline, the |
|
||||
| report was attacked by such notables as <ent type = 'person'>Ray <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent></ent>, the |
|
||||
| CIA's former Deputy Director, retired CIA intelligence |
|
||||
| analyst Arthur Macy Cox, and the former head of the U.S. |
|
||||
| Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Paul Warnke for |
|
||||
| Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, <ent type = 'person'>Paul Warnke</ent> for |
|
||||
| blatantly manipulating CIA intelligence to achieve the |
|
||||
| political ends of Team B's rightwing members. See Cline, |
|
||||
| quoted in "Carter to Inherit Intense Dispute on Soviet |
|
||||
| Intentions," Mary Marder, "Washington Post," January 2, |
|
||||
| political ends of Team B's rightwing members. See <ent type = 'person'>Cline</ent>, |
|
||||
| quoted in "<ent type = 'person'>Carter</ent> to Inherit Intense Dispute on Soviet |
|
||||
| Intentions," <ent type = 'person'>Mary Marder</ent>, "Washington Post," January 2, |
|
||||
| 1977; Arthur Macy Cox, "Why the U.S. Since 1977 Has |
|
||||
| Been Mis-perceiving Soviet Military Strength," "New York |
|
||||
| Times," October 20, 1980; Paul Warnke, "George Bush and |
|
||||
| Times," October 20, 1980; <ent type = 'person'>Paul Warnke</ent>, "George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> and |
|
||||
| Team B," "New York Times," September 24, 1988. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 2. George Bush, "Public Report of the Vice President's Task |
|
||||
| 2. George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>, "Public Report of the Vice President's Task |
|
||||
| Force On Combatting Terrorism" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. |
|
||||
| Government Printing Office), February 1986. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
@ -400,22 +400,22 @@ Note Chapter 14
|
||||
| Border Control Committee" (Washington, DC), October 1, |
|
||||
| 1988. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 4. Steven Emerson, "America's Doomsday Project," "U.S. News |
|
||||
| 4. <ent type = 'person'>Steven Emerson</ent>, "America's Doomsday Project," "U.S. News |
|
||||
| & World Report," August 7, 1989. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 5. See: Diana Reynolds, "FEMA and the NSC: The Rise of the |
|
||||
| National Security State," "CAIB," Number 33 (Winter 1990); |
|
||||
| Keenan Peck, "The Take-Charge Gang," "The Progressive," |
|
||||
| 5. See: <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>, "FEMA and the NSC: The Rise of the |
|
||||
| National Security State," "<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>," Number 33 (Winter 1990); |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>Keenan Peck</ent>, "The Take-Charge Gang," "The Progressive," |
|
||||
| May 1985; Jack Anderson, "FEMA Wants to Lead Economic |
|
||||
| War," "Washington Post," January 10, 1985. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| 6. These Presidential powers were authorized by the Anti- |
|
||||
| Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Public Law 100-690: 100th |
|
||||
| Congress. See also: Diana Reynolds, "The Golden Lie," |
|
||||
| "The Humanist," September/October 1990; Michael Isikoff, |
|
||||
| "Is This Determination or Using a Howitzer to Kill a |
|
||||
| Congress. See also: <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>, "The Golden Lie," |
|
||||
| "The Humanist," September/October 1990; <ent type = 'person'>Michael Isikoff</ent>, |
|
||||
| "Is This Determination or Using a <ent type = 'person'>Howitzer</ent> to Kill a |
|
||||
| Fly?" "Washington Post National Weekly," August 27-, |
|
||||
| September 2, 1990; Bernard Weintraub, "Bush Considers |
|
||||
| September 2, 1990; Bernard Weintraub, "<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Considers |
|
||||
| Calling Guard To Fight Drug Violence in Capital," "New |
|
||||
| York Times," March 21, 1989. |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
|
@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
Even those Executive Orders which have been made public tend to
|
||||
raise as many questions as they answer about what actions were
|
||||
considered and actually implemented. On January 8, 1991, Bush signed
|
||||
considered and actually implemented. On January 8, 1991, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> signed
|
||||
Executive Order 12742, National Security Industrial Responsiveness,
|
||||
which ordered the rapid mobilization of resources such as food,
|
||||
energy, construction materials and civil transportation to meet
|
||||
@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
|
||||
Wasting the Environment
|
||||
In one case the use of secret powers was discovered by a watchdog
|
||||
group and revealed in the press. In August 1990, correspondence
|
||||
passed between Colin McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
|
||||
Production and Logistics and Michael Deland, Chair of the White House
|
||||
passed between <ent type = 'person'>Colin McMillan</ent>, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
|
||||
Production and Logistics and <ent type = 'person'>Michael Deland</ent>, Chair of the White House
|
||||
Council on Environmental Quality. The letters responded to
|
||||
presidential and National Security Council directives to deal with
|
||||
increased industrial production and logistics arising from the
|
||||
@ -58,12 +58,12 @@
|
||||
also defer destruction of up to 10 percent of lethal chemical agents
|
||||
and munitions that existed on November 8, 1985.[10]
|
||||
One Executive Order which was made public dealt with "Chemical and
|
||||
Biological Weapons Proliferation." Signed by Bush on November 16,
|
||||
1990, EO 12735 leaves the impression that Bush is ordering an
|
||||
Biological Weapons Proliferation." Signed by <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> on November 16,
|
||||
1990, EO 12735 leaves the impression that <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> is ordering an
|
||||
increased effort to end the proliferation of chemical and biological
|
||||
weapons. The order states that these weapons "constitute a threat to
|
||||
national security and foreign policy" and declares a national
|
||||
emergency to deal with the threat. To confront this threat, Bush
|
||||
emergency to deal with the threat. To confront this threat, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>
|
||||
ordered international negotiations, the imposition of controls,
|
||||
licenses, and sanctions against foreign persons and countries for
|
||||
proliferation. Conveniently, the order grants the Secretaries of
|
||||
@ -71,14 +71,14 @@
|
||||
In February of 1991, the Omnibus Export Amendments Act was passed
|
||||
by Congress compatible with EO 12735. It imposed sanctions on
|
||||
countries and companies developing or using chemical or biological
|
||||
weapons. Bush signed the law, although he had rejected the identical
|
||||
weapons. <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> signed the law, although he had rejected the identical
|
||||
measure the year before because it did not give him the executive
|
||||
power to waive all sanctions if he thought the national interest
|
||||
required it.[11] The new bill, however, met Bush's requirements.
|
||||
required it.[11] The new bill, however, met <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>'s requirements.
|
||||
|
||||
____________________________________________________________________
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| BUSH'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS |
|
||||
| <ent type = 'person'>BUSH</ent>'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS |
|
||||
| |
|
||||
| * EO 12722 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and |
|
||||
| Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 2, 1990. |
|
||||
@ -132,16 +132,16 @@
|
||||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Going Off Budget
|
||||
Although some of the powers which Bush assumed in order to conduct
|
||||
Although some of the powers which <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> assumed in order to conduct
|
||||
the Gulf War were taken openly, they received little public discussion
|
||||
or reporting by the media.
|
||||
In October, when the winds of the Gulf War were merely a breeze,
|
||||
Bush used his executive emergency powers to extend his budget
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> used his executive emergency powers to extend his budget
|
||||
authority. This action made the 1991 fiscal budget agreement between
|
||||
Congress and the President one of the first U.S. casualties of the
|
||||
war. While on one hand the deal froze arms spending through 1996, it
|
||||
also allowed Bush to put the cost of the Gulf War "off budget." Thus,
|
||||
using its emergency powers, the Bush administration could:
|
||||
also allowed <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to put the cost of the Gulf War "off budget." Thus,
|
||||
using its emergency powers, the <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> administration could:
|
||||
|
||||
* incur a deficit which exceeds congressional budget authority;
|
||||
|
||||
@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
|
||||
* and exempt the Pentagon from congressional restrictions on
|
||||
hiring private contractors.[13]
|
||||
|
||||
While there is no published evidence on which powers Bush actually
|
||||
While there is no published evidence on which powers <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> actually
|
||||
invoked, the administration was able to push through the 1990 Omnibus
|
||||
Reconciliation Act. This legislation put a cap on domestic spending,
|
||||
created a record $300 billion deficit, and undermined the Gramm-
|
||||
@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
|
||||
companion "dire emergency supplemental appropriation,"[14] it
|
||||
specified that the supplemental budget should not be used to finance
|
||||
costs the Pentagon would normally experience.[15]
|
||||
Lawrence Korb, a Pentagon official in the Reagan administration,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Lawrence Korb</ent>, a Pentagon official in the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> administration,
|
||||
believes that the Pentagon has already violated the spirit of the 1990
|
||||
Omnibus Reconciliation Act. It switched funding for the Patriot,
|
||||
Tomahawk, Hellfire and HARM missiles from its regular budget to the
|
||||
@ -198,7 +198,7 @@
|
||||
Pool of Disinformation
|
||||
Emergency powers to control the means of communications in the U.S.
|
||||
in the name of national security were never formally declared. There
|
||||
was no need for Bush to do so since most of the media voluntarily and
|
||||
was no need for <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to do so since most of the media voluntarily and
|
||||
even eagerly cooperated in their own censorship. Reporters covering
|
||||
the Coalition forces in the Gulf region operated under restrictions
|
||||
imposed by the U.S. military. They were, among other things, barred
|
||||
@ -231,7 +231,7 @@
|
||||
domestic affairs. It is likely, however, that with a post-war
|
||||
presidential approval rating exceeding 75 percent, the domestic
|
||||
casualties will continue to mount with few objections. Paradoxically,
|
||||
even though the U.S. public put pressure on Bush to send relief for
|
||||
even though the U.S. public put pressure on <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to send relief for
|
||||
the 500,000 Iraqi Kurdish refugees, it is unlikely the same outcry
|
||||
will be heard for the 37 million Americans without health insurance,
|
||||
the 32 million living in poverty, or the country's five million hungry
|
||||
@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
FOOTNOTES:
|
||||
|
||||
1. The administrative guideline was established under Reagan in Executive
|
||||
1. The administrative guideline was established under <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> in Executive
|
||||
Order 12656, November 18,1988, "Federal Register," vol. 23, no. 266.
|
||||
|
||||
2. For instance, National Security Council policy papers or National
|
||||
@ -256,26 +256,26 @@
|
||||
a top security classified state and are not shared with Congress. For
|
||||
an excellent discussion see: Harold C. Relyea, The Coming of Secret
|
||||
Law, "Government Information Quarterly," Vol. 5, November 1988; see
|
||||
also: Eve Pell, "The Backbone of Hidden Government," "The Nation,"
|
||||
also: <ent type = 'person'>Eve Pell</ent>, "The Backbone of Hidden Government," "The Nation,"
|
||||
June 19,1990.
|
||||
|
||||
3. "Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting on the National Emergency
|
||||
With Respect to Iraq," February, 11, 1991, "Weekly Compilation of
|
||||
Presidential Documents: Administration of George Bush," (Washington,
|
||||
Presidential Documents: Administration of George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>," (Washington,
|
||||
DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), pp. 158-61.
|
||||
|
||||
4. The U.S. now has states of emergency with Iran, Iraq and Syria.
|
||||
|
||||
5. Allanna Sullivan, "U.S. Oil Concerns Confident Of Riding Out Short Gulf
|
||||
5. <ent type = 'person'>Allanna Sullivan</ent>, "U.S. Oil Concerns Confident Of Riding Out Short Gulf
|
||||
War," "Wall Street Journal Europe," January 7, 1991.
|
||||
|
||||
6. Colin McMillan, Letter to Michael Deland, Chairman, Council on
|
||||
6. <ent type = 'person'>Colin McMillan</ent>, Letter to <ent type = 'person'>Michael Deland</ent>, Chairman, Council on
|
||||
Environmental Quality (Washington, DC: Executive Office of the
|
||||
President), August 24, 1990; Michael R. Deland, Letter to Colin
|
||||
McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics
|
||||
(Washington, DC: Department of Defense), August 29,1990.
|
||||
|
||||
7. Keith Schneider, "Pentagon Wins Waiver Of Environmental Rule," "New York
|
||||
7. <ent type = 'person'>Keith Schneider</ent>, "Pentagon Wins Waiver Of Environmental Rule," "New York
|
||||
Times," January 30, 1991.
|
||||
|
||||
8. 33 U.S. Code (USC) sec. 1902 9(b).
|
||||
@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
10. 50 USC sec. 1521(b) (3)(A).
|
||||
|
||||
ll. Adam Clymer, "New Bill Mandates Sanctions On Makers of Chemical Arms,"
|
||||
ll. <ent type = 'person'>Adam Clymer</ent>, "New Bill Mandates Sanctions On Makers of Chemical Arms,"
|
||||
"New York Times," February 22, 1991.
|
||||
|
||||
12. 31 USC O10005 (f); 2 USC O632 (i), 6419 (d), 907a (b); and Public
|
||||
@ -302,12 +302,12 @@
|
||||
the Congressional Budget office estimates that cost at only $40
|
||||
billion, $16 billion less than allied pledges.
|
||||
|
||||
15. Michael Kamish, "After The War: At Home, An Unconquered Recession,"
|
||||
"Boston Globe," March 6, 1991; Peter Passell, "The Big Spoils From a
|
||||
Bargain War," "New York Times," March 3, 1991; and Alan Abelson, "A
|
||||
War Dividend For The Defense Industry?" "Barron's," March 18, 1991.
|
||||
15. <ent type = 'person'>Michael Kamish</ent>, "After The War: At Home, An Unconquered Recession,"
|
||||
"Boston Globe," March 6, 1991; <ent type = 'person'>Peter Passell</ent>, "The Big Spoils From a
|
||||
Bargain War," "New York Times," March 3, 1991; and <ent type = 'person'>Alan Abelson</ent>, "A
|
||||
War Dividend For The Defense Industry?" "<ent type = 'person'>Barron</ent>'s," March 18, 1991.
|
||||
|
||||
16. Lawrence Korb, "The Pentagon's Creative Budgetry Is Out of Line,"
|
||||
16. <ent type = 'person'>Lawrence Korb</ent>, "The Pentagon's Creative Budgetry Is Out of Line,"
|
||||
"International Herald Tribune," April 5, 199l.
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|
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17. Many of the powers against aliens are automatically invoked during a
|
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@ -322,7 +322,7 @@
|
||||
imposition of travel restrictions on aliens within the U.S. (8 USC sec.
|
||||
1185); and requiring aliens to be fingerprinted (8 USC sec. 1302).
|
||||
|
||||
18. Ann Talamas, "FBI Targets Arab-Americans," "CAIB," Spring 1991, p. 4.
|
||||
18. <ent type = 'person'>Ann Talamas</ent>, "FBI Targets Arab-Americans," "<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>," Spring 1991, p. 4.
|
||||
|
||||
19. "Anti-Repression Project Bulletin" (New York: Center for
|
||||
Constitutional Rights), January 23, 1991.
|
||||
@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
|
||||
20. James DeParle, "Long Series of Military Decisions Led to Gulf War News
|
||||
Censorship," "New York Times," May 5, 1991.
|
||||
|
||||
21. James LeMoyne, "A Correspondent's Tale: Pentagon's Strategy for the
|
||||
21. <ent type = 'person'>James LeMoyne</ent>, "A Correspondent's Tale: Pentagon's Strategy for the
|
||||
Press: Good News or No News," "New York Times," February 17, 1991.
|
||||
|
||||
______________________________________________________________________________
|
||||
@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ ______________________________________________________________________________
|
||||
No. 1 (July 1978): Agee on CIA; Cuban exile trial; consumer research-Jamaica.*
|
||||
No. 2 (Oct. 1978): How CIA recruits diplomats; researching undercover
|
||||
officers; double agent in CIA.*
|
||||
No. 3 (Jan. 1979): CIA attacks CAIB; secret supp. to Army field manual;
|
||||
No. 3 (Jan. 1979): CIA attacks <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>; secret supp. to Army field manual;
|
||||
spying on host countries.*
|
||||
No. 4 (Apr.-May 1979): U.S. spies in Italian services; CIA in Spain; CIA
|
||||
recruiting for Africa; subversive academics; Angola.*
|
||||
@ -352,28 +352,28 @@ No. 6 (Oct. 1979): U.S. in Caribbean; Cuban exile terrorists; CIA plans
|
||||
No. 7 (Dec. 1979-Jan. 1980): Media destabilization in Jamaica; Robert
|
||||
Moss; CIA budget; media operations; UNITA; Iran.*
|
||||
No. 8 (Mar.-Apr. 1980): Attacks on Agee; U.S. intelligence legislation;
|
||||
CAIB statement to Congress; Zimbabwe; Northern Ireland.
|
||||
No. 9 (June 1980): NSA in Norway; Glomar Explorer; mind control; NSA.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent> statement to Congress; Zimbabwe; Northern Ireland.
|
||||
No. 9 (June 1980): NSA in Norway; <ent type = 'person'>Glomar Explorer</ent>; mind control; NSA.
|
||||
No. 10 (Aug.-Sept. 1980): Caribbean; destabilization in Jamaica; Guyana;
|
||||
Grenada bombing; "The Spike"; deep cover manual.
|
||||
Grenada bombing; "The <ent type = 'person'>Spike</ent>"; deep cover manual.
|
||||
No. 11 (Dec. 1980): Rightwing terrorism; South Korea; KCIA; Portugal;
|
||||
Guyana; Caribbean; AFIO; NSA interview.
|
||||
No. 12 (Apr. 1981): U.S. in Salvador and Guatemala; New Right; William
|
||||
Casey; CIA in Mozambique; mail surveillance.*
|
||||
No. 13 (July-Aug. 1981): South Africa documents; Namibia; mercenaries;
|
||||
the Klan; Globe Aero; Angola; Mozambique; BOSS; Central America;
|
||||
Max Hugel; mail surveillance.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Max Hugel</ent>; mail surveillance.
|
||||
No. 14-15 (Oct. 1981): Complete index to nos. 1-12; review of intelligence
|
||||
legislation; CAIB plans; extended Naming Names.
|
||||
legislation; <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent> plans; extended Naming Names.
|
||||
No. 16 (Mar. 1982): Green Beret torture in Salvador; Argentine death squads;
|
||||
CIA media ops; Seychelles; Angola; Mozambique; the Klan; Nugan Hand.*
|
||||
No. 17 (Summer 1982): CBW History; Cuban dengue epidemic; Scott Barnes
|
||||
No. 17 (Summer 1982): CBW History; Cuban dengue epidemic; <ent type = 'person'>Scott Barnes</ent>
|
||||
and yellow rain lies; mystery death in Bangkok.*
|
||||
No. 18 (Winter 1983): CIA & religion; "secret" war in Nicaragua; Opus Dei;
|
||||
Miskitos; evangelicals-Guatemala; Summer Inst. of Linguistics; World
|
||||
Medical Relief; CIA & BOSS; torture S. Africa; Vietnam defoliation.*
|
||||
No. 19 (Spring-Summer 1983): CIA & media; history of disinformation;
|
||||
"plot" against Pope; Grenada airport; Georgie Anne Geyer.
|
||||
"plot" against Pope; Grenada airport; <ent type = 'person'>Georgie Anne Geyer</ent>.
|
||||
No. 20 (Winter 1984): Invasion of Grenada; war in Nicaragua; Ft. Huachuca;
|
||||
Israel and South Korea in Central America; KAL flight 007.
|
||||
No. 21 (Spring 1984): N.Y. Times and the Salvador election; Time and
|
||||
@ -387,11 +387,11 @@ No. 24 (Summer 1985): State repression, infiltrators, provocateurs;
|
||||
NASSCO strike; Arnaud de Borchgrave, Moon, and Moss; Tetra Tech.
|
||||
No. 25 (Winter 1986): U.S., Nazis, and the Vatican; Knights of Malta;
|
||||
Greek civil war and Eleni; WACL and Nicaragua; torture.
|
||||
No. 26 (Summer 1986): U.S. state terrorism; Vernon Walters; Libya bombing;
|
||||
No. 26 (Summer 1986): U.S. state terrorism; <ent type = 'person'>Vernon Walters</ent>; Libya bombing;
|
||||
contra agents; Israel and South Africa; Duarte; media in Costa
|
||||
Rica; democracy in Nicaragua; plus complete index to nos. 13-25.*
|
||||
No. 27 (Spring 1987): Special: Religious Right; New York Times and Pope
|
||||
Plot; Carlucci; Southern Air Transport; Michael Ledeen.*
|
||||
Plot; Carlucci; Southern Air Transport; <ent type = 'person'>Michael Ledeen</ent>.*
|
||||
No. 28 (Summer 1987): Special: CIA and drugs: S.E. Asia, Afghanistan,
|
||||
Central America; Nugan Hand; MKULTRA in Canada; Delta Force;
|
||||
special section on AIDS theories and CBW.*
|
||||
@ -403,10 +403,10 @@ No. 30 (Summer 1989): Special: Middle East: The intifada, Israeli arms
|
||||
Buckley; the Afghan arms pipeline and contra lobby.
|
||||
No. 31 (Winter 1989): Special issue on domestic surveillance. The FBI; CIA
|
||||
on campus; Office of Public Diplomacy; Lexington Prison; Puerto Rico.
|
||||
No. 32 (Summer 1989): Tenth Year Anniversary Issue: The Best of CAIB.
|
||||
No. 32 (Summer 1989): Tenth Year Anniversary Issue: The Best of <ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>.
|
||||
Includes articles from our earliest issues, Naming Names, CIA at home,
|
||||
abroad, and in the media. Ten-year perspective by Philip Agee.
|
||||
No. 33 (Winter 1990): The Bush Issue: CIA agents for Bush; Terrorism Task
|
||||
abroad, and in the media. Ten-year perspective by <ent type = 'person'>Philip Agee</ent>.
|
||||
No. 33 (Winter 1990): The <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> Issue: CIA agents for <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent>; Terrorism Task
|
||||
Force; El Salvador and Nicaragua intervention; Republicans and Nazis.
|
||||
No. 34 (Summer 1990): Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr; Nicaraguan
|
||||
elections; South African death squads; U.S. and Pol Pot; Pan Am
|
||||
@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ No. 34 (Summer 1990): Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr; Nicaraguan
|
||||
No. 35 (Fall 1990): Special: Eastern Europe; Analysis-Persian Gulf and
|
||||
Cuba; massacres in Indonesia; CIA and Banks; Iran-contra
|
||||
No. 36 (Spring 1991): Racism & Nat. Security: FBI v. Arab-Americans & Black
|
||||
Officials; Special: Destabilizing Africa: Chad, Uganda, S. Africa,
|
||||
Officials; Special: <ent type = 'person'>Destabilizing Africa</ent>: Chad, Uganda, S. Africa,
|
||||
Angola, Mozambique, Zaire; Haiti; Panama; Gulf War; COINTELPRO "art."
|
||||
No. 37 (Summer 1990): Special: Gulf War: Media; U.N.; Libya; Iran;
|
||||
Domestic costs; North Korea Next? Illegal Arms Deals.
|
||||
@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ No. 37 (Summer 1990): Special: Gulf War: Media; U.N.; Libya; Iran;
|
||||
BACK ISSUES: Circle above, or list below. $6 per copy in U.S.
|
||||
Airmail: Canada/Mexico add $2; other countries add $4.
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||||
|
||||
CAIB, P.O. Box 34583, Washington, DC 20043
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>CAIB</ent>, P.O. Box 34583, Washington, DC 20043
|
||||
|
||||
--
|
||||
daveus rattus
|
||||
|
@ -9,18 +9,18 @@
|
||||
An excellent book which deals with the REX 84 detention plan is:
|
||||
|
||||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|
||||
``Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North,'' by Ben
|
||||
Bradlee Jr. (Donald I. Fine, $21.95. 573 pp.)
|
||||
``Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of <ent type = 'person'>Oliver <ent type = 'person'>North</ent></ent>,'' by Ben
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bradlee</ent> Jr. (Donald I. Fine, $21.95. 573 pp.)
|
||||
------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
Reviewed by Dennis M. Culnan Copyright 1990, Gannett News Service All
|
||||
Rights Reserved Short excerpt posted here under applicable copyright
|
||||
laws
|
||||
|
||||
[Oliver] North managed to network himself into the highest levels of
|
||||
[<ent type = 'person'>Oliver] <ent type = 'person'>North</ent></ent> managed to network himself into the highest levels of
|
||||
the CIA and power centers around the world. There he lied and
|
||||
boastfully ignored the constitutional process, Bradlee writes.
|
||||
boastfully ignored the constitutional process, <ent type = 'person'>Bradlee</ent> writes.
|
||||
|
||||
Yet more terrifying is the plan hatched by North and other Reagan
|
||||
Yet more terrifying is the plan hatched by <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> and other <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
people in the Federal Emergency Manpower Agency (FEMA): A blueprint
|
||||
for the military takeover of the United States. The plan called for
|
||||
FEMA to become ``emergency czar'' in the event of a national emergency
|
||||
@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ commanders and run state and local governments. Finally, it would
|
||||
have the authority to order suspect aliens into concentration camps
|
||||
and seize their property.
|
||||
|
||||
When then-Attorney General William French Smith got wind of the plan,
|
||||
he killed it. After Smith left the administration, North and his FEMA
|
||||
When then-Attorney General <ent type = 'person'>William French <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent></ent> got wind of the plan,
|
||||
he killed it. After <ent type = 'person'>Smith</ent> left the administration, <ent type = 'person'>North</ent> and his FEMA
|
||||
cronies came up with the Defense Resource Act, designed to suspendend
|
||||
the First Amendment by imposing censorship and banning strikes.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -42,20 +42,20 @@ with the president's declaration of a state of national emergency
|
||||
concurrent with a mythical U.S. military invasion of an unspecified
|
||||
Central American country, presumably Nicaragua.''
|
||||
|
||||
Bradlee writes that the Rex exercise was designed to test FEMA's
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bradlee</ent> writes that the <ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent> exercise was designed to test FEMA's
|
||||
readiness to assume authority over the Department of Defense, the
|
||||
National Guard in all 50 states, and ``a number of state defense
|
||||
forces to be established by state legislatures.'' The military would
|
||||
then be ``deputized,'' thus making an end run around federal law
|
||||
forbidding military involvement in domestic law enforcement.
|
||||
|
||||
Rex, which ran concurrently with the first annual U.S. show of force
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Rex</ent>, which ran concurrently with the first annual U.S. show of force
|
||||
in Honduras in April 1984, was also designed to test FEMA's ability to
|
||||
round up 400,000 undocumented Central American aliens in the United
|
||||
States and its ability to distribute hundreds of tons of small arms to
|
||||
``state defense forces.''
|
||||
|
||||
Incredibly, REX 84 was similar to a plan secretly adopted by Reagan
|
||||
Incredibly, REX 84 was similar to a plan secretly adopted by <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>
|
||||
while governor of California. His two top henchmen then were Edwin
|
||||
Meese, who recently resigned as U.S. attorney general, and Louis
|
||||
Guiffrida, the FEMA director in 1984.
|
||||
@ -78,15 +78,15 @@ patriots.
|
||||
------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
WILL GULF WAR LEAD TO REPRESSION AT HOME?
|
||||
by Paul DeRienzo and Bill Weinberg
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>Paul DeRienzo</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Bill Weinberg</ent>
|
||||
|
||||
On August 2, 1990, as Saddam Hussein's army was consolidating control
|
||||
over Kuwait, President George Bush responded by signing two executive
|
||||
over Kuwait, President <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent></ent> responded by signing two executive
|
||||
orders that were the first step toward martial law in the United
|
||||
States and suspending the Constitution.
|
||||
|
||||
On the surface, Executive Orders 12722 and 12723, declaring a
|
||||
"national emergency," merely invoked laws that allowed Bush to freeze
|
||||
"national emergency," merely invoked laws that allowed <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> to freeze
|
||||
Iraqi assets in the United States.
|
||||
|
||||
The International Emergency Executive Powers Act permits the president
|
||||
@ -94,11 +94,11 @@ to freeze foreign assets after declaring a "national emergency," a
|
||||
move that has been made three times before -- against Panama in 1987,
|
||||
Nicaragua in 1985 and Iran in 1979.
|
||||
|
||||
According to Professor Diana Reynolds, of the Fletcher School of
|
||||
Diplomacy at Boston's Tufts University, when Bush declared a national
|
||||
According to Professor <ent type = 'person'>Diana Reynolds</ent>, of the Fletcher School of
|
||||
Diplomacy at Boston's Tufts University, when <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> declared a national
|
||||
emergency he "activated one part of a contingency national security
|
||||
emergency plan." That plan is made up of a series of laws passed since
|
||||
the presidency of Richard Nixon, which Reynolds says give the
|
||||
the presidency of <ent type = 'person'>Richard Nixon</ent>, which Reynolds says give the
|
||||
president "boundless" powers.
|
||||
|
||||
According to Reynolds, such laws as the Defense Industrial
|
||||
@ -137,22 +137,22 @@ FEMA has its roots in the World War I partnership between government
|
||||
and corporate leaders who helped mobilize the nation's industries to
|
||||
support the war effort. The idea of a central national response to
|
||||
large-scale emergencies was reintroduced in the early 1970s by Louis
|
||||
Giuffrida, a close associate of then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan and
|
||||
his chief aide Edwin Meese.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent>, a close associate of then-California Gov. Ronald <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> and
|
||||
his chief aide <ent type = 'person'>Edwin Meese</ent>.
|
||||
|
||||
Reagan appointed Giuffrida head of the California National Guard in
|
||||
1969. With Meese, Giuffrida organized "war-games" to prepare for
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> appointed <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> head of the California National Guard in
|
||||
1969. With Meese, <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> organized "war-games" to prepare for
|
||||
"statewide martial law" in the event that Black nationalists and
|
||||
anti-war protesters "challenged the authority of the state." In 1981,
|
||||
Reagan as president moved Giuffrida up to the big leagues, appointing
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> as president moved <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> up to the big leagues, appointing
|
||||
him director of FEMA.
|
||||
|
||||
According to Reynolds, however, it was the actions of George Bush in
|
||||
According to Reynolds, however, it was the actions of <ent type = 'person'>George <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent></ent> in
|
||||
1976, while he was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency
|
||||
(CIA), that provided the stimulus for centralization of vast powers in
|
||||
FEMA.
|
||||
|
||||
Bush assembled a group of hawkish outsiders, called Team B, that
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> assembled a group of hawkish outsiders, called Team B, that
|
||||
released a report claiming the CIA ("Team A") had underestimated the
|
||||
dangers of Soviet nuclear attack. The report advised the development
|
||||
of elaborate plans for "civil defense" and post-nuclear government.
|
||||
@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Three years later, in 1979, FEMA was given ultimate responsibility for
|
||||
developing these plans.
|
||||
|
||||
Aware of the bad publicity FEMA was getting because of its role in
|
||||
organizing for a post-nuclear world, Reagan's FEMA chief Giuffrida
|
||||
organizing for a post-nuclear world, <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent>'s FEMA chief <ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent>
|
||||
publicly argued that the 1865 Posse Comitatus Act prohibited the
|
||||
military from arresting civilians.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ to arrest civilians. The National Guard, under the control of state
|
||||
governors in peace time, is also exempt from the act and can arrest
|
||||
civilians.
|
||||
|
||||
FEMA Inspector General John Brinkerhoff has written a memo contending
|
||||
FEMA Inspector General <ent type = 'person'>John Brinkerhoff</ent> has written a memo contending
|
||||
that the government doesn't need to suspend the Constitution to use
|
||||
the full range of powers Congress has given the agency. FEMA has
|
||||
prepared legislation to be introduced in Congress in the event of a
|
||||
@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ right to "deputize" National Guard and police forces is included in
|
||||
the package. But Reynolds believes that actual martial law need not be
|
||||
declared publicly.
|
||||
|
||||
Giuffrida has written that "Martial Rule comes into existence upon a
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Giuffrida</ent> has written that "Martial Rule comes into existence upon a
|
||||
determination (not a declaration) by the senior military commander
|
||||
that the civil government must be replaced because it is no longer
|
||||
functioning anyway." He adds that "Martial Rule is limited only by the
|
||||
@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ know how many are enacted."
|
||||
DOMESTIC SPYING
|
||||
|
||||
Throughout the 1980s, FEMA was prohibited from engaging in
|
||||
intelligence gathering. But on July 6, 1989, Bush signed Executive
|
||||
intelligence gathering. But on July 6, 1989, <ent type = 'person'>Bush</ent> signed Executive
|
||||
Order 12681, pronouncing that FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate
|
||||
would "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence,
|
||||
investigative, or national security work." Recent events indicate that
|
||||
@ -243,13 +243,13 @@ York, NY 10011
|
||||
|
||||
DATE OF UPLOAD: November 17, 1989
|
||||
ORIGIN OF UPLOAD: Omni Magazine
|
||||
CONTRIBUTED BY: Donald Goldberg
|
||||
CONTRIBUTED BY: <ent type = 'person'>Donald Goldberg</ent>
|
||||
|
||||
========================================================
|
||||
PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE BBS
|
||||
========================================================
|
||||
Although this article does not deal directly with UFOs,
|
||||
ParaNet felt it important as an offering to our readers who
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>ParaNet</ent> felt it important as an offering to our readers who
|
||||
depend so much upon communications as a way to stay informed.
|
||||
This article raises some interesting implications for the future
|
||||
of communications.
|
||||
@ -257,10 +257,10 @@ of communications.
|
||||
|
||||
THE NATIONAL GUARDS
|
||||
(C) 1987 OMNI MAGAZINE MAY 1987
|
||||
(Reprinted with permission and license to ParaNet Information
|
||||
(Reprinted with permission and license to <ent type = 'person'>ParaNet</ent> Information
|
||||
Service and its affiliates.)
|
||||
|
||||
By Donald Goldberg
|
||||
By <ent type = 'person'>Donald Goldberg</ent>
|
||||
|
||||
The mountains bend as the fjord and the sea beyond stretch
|
||||
out before the viewer's eyes. First over the water, then a sharp
|
||||
@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ databases.
|
||||
military's increasing efforts to keep information not only from
|
||||
the public but from industry experts, scientists, and even other
|
||||
government officials as well. "That's like classifying a road
|
||||
map for fear of invasion," says Paul Wolff, assistant
|
||||
map for fear of invasion," says <ent type = 'person'>Paul Wolff</ent>, assistant
|
||||
administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
|
||||
Administration, of the attempted restrictions.
|
||||
These attempts to keep unclassified data out of the hands of
|
||||
@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ are a part of an alarming trend that has seen the military take
|
||||
an ever-increasing role in controlling the flow of information
|
||||
and communications through American society, a role traditionally
|
||||
-- and almost exclusively -- left to civilians. Under the
|
||||
approving gaze of the Reagan administration, Department of
|
||||
approving gaze of the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> administration, Department of
|
||||
Defense (DoD) officials have quietly implemented a number of
|
||||
policies, decisions, and orders that give the military
|
||||
unprecedented control over both the content and public use of
|
||||
@ -337,13 +337,13 @@ emergency is restricted to times of natural disaster, war, or
|
||||
when national security is specifically threatened. Now the
|
||||
military has attempted to redefine emergency.
|
||||
The point man in the Pentagon's onslaught on communications
|
||||
is Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. Latham, a former NSA
|
||||
deputy chief. Latham now heads up an interagency committee in
|
||||
is Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent>, a former NSA
|
||||
deputy chief. <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> now heads up an interagency committee in
|
||||
charge of writing and implementing many of the policies that have
|
||||
put the military in charge of the flow of civilian information
|
||||
and communication. He is also the architect of National Security
|
||||
Decision Directive 145 (NSDD 145), signed by Defense Secretary
|
||||
Caspar Weinberger in 1984, which sets out the national policy on
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Caspar <ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent></ent> in 1984, which sets out the national policy on
|
||||
telecommunications and computer-systems security.
|
||||
First NSDD 145 set up a steering group of top-level
|
||||
administration officials. Their job is to recommend ways to
|
||||
@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ agencies but by private companies as well. And last October the
|
||||
steering group issued a memorandum that defined sensitive
|
||||
information and gave federal agencies broad new powers to keep it
|
||||
from the public.
|
||||
According to Latham, this new category includes such data as
|
||||
According to <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent>, this new category includes such data as
|
||||
all medical records on government databases -- from the files of
|
||||
the National Cancer Institute to information on every veteran who
|
||||
has ever applied for medical aid from the Veterans Administration
|
||||
@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ has ever applied for medical aid from the Veterans Administration
|
||||
the Internal Revenue Service's computers. Even agricultural
|
||||
statistics, he argues, can be used by a foreign power against the
|
||||
United States.
|
||||
In his oversize yet Spartan Pentagon office, Latham cuts
|
||||
In his oversize yet Spartan Pentagon office, <ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> cuts
|
||||
anything but an intimidating figure. Articulate and friendly, he
|
||||
could pass for a network anchorman or a television game show
|
||||
host. When asked how the government's new definition of
|
||||
@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ sensitive information will be used, he defends the necessity for
|
||||
it and tries to put to rest concerns about a new restrictiveness.
|
||||
"The debate that somehow the DoD and NSA are going to
|
||||
monitor or get into private databases isn't the case at all,"
|
||||
Latham insists. "The definition is just a guideline, just an
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> insists. "The definition is just a guideline, just an
|
||||
advisory. It does not give the DoD the right to go into private
|
||||
records."
|
||||
Yet the Defense Department invoked the NSDD 145 guidelines
|
||||
@ -378,18 +378,18 @@ sale of data that are now unclassified and publicly available
|
||||
from privately owned computer systems. The excuse if offered was
|
||||
that these data often include technical information that might be
|
||||
valuable to a foreign adversary like the Soviet Union.
|
||||
Mead Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest
|
||||
computer databases, such as Lexis and Nexis, and has nearly
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Mead</ent> Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest
|
||||
computer databases, such as <ent type = 'person'>Lexis</ent> and Nexis, and has nearly
|
||||
200,000 users -- says it has already been approached by a team of
|
||||
agents from the Air Force and officials from the CIA and the FBI
|
||||
who asked for the names of subscribers and inquired what Mead
|
||||
who asked for the names of subscribers and inquired what <ent type = 'person'>Mead</ent>
|
||||
officials might do if information restrictions were imposed. In
|
||||
response to government pressure, Mead Data Central in effect
|
||||
response to government pressure, <ent type = 'person'>Mead</ent> Data Central in effect
|
||||
censured itself. It purged all unclassified government-supplied
|
||||
technical data from its system and completely dropped the
|
||||
National Technical Information System from its database rather
|
||||
than risk a confrontation.
|
||||
Representative Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat who chairs the
|
||||
Representative <ent type = 'person'>Jack <ent type = 'person'>Brooks</ent></ent>, a Texas Democrat who chairs the
|
||||
House Government Operations Committee, is an outspoken critic of
|
||||
the NSA's role in restricting civilian information. He notes
|
||||
that in 1985 the NSA -- under the authority granted by NSDD 145
|
||||
@ -398,19 +398,19 @@ local and federal elections in 1984. The computer system was
|
||||
used to count more than one third of all votes cast in the United
|
||||
States. While probing the system's vulnerability to outside
|
||||
manipulation, the NSA obtained a detailed knowledge of that
|
||||
computer program. "In my view," Brooks says, "this is an
|
||||
computer program. "In my view," <ent type = 'person'>Brooks</ent> says, "this is an
|
||||
unprecedented and ill-advised expansion of the military's
|
||||
influence in our society."
|
||||
There are other NSA critics. "The computer systems used by
|
||||
counties to collect and process votes have nothing to do with
|
||||
national security, and I'm really concerned about the NSA's
|
||||
involvement," says Democratic congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas,
|
||||
involvement," says Democratic congressman <ent type = 'person'>Dan Glickman</ent> of Kansas,
|
||||
chairman of the House science and technology subcommittee
|
||||
concerned with computer security.
|
||||
Also, under NSDD 145 the Pentagon has issued an order,
|
||||
virtually unknown to all but a few industry executives, that
|
||||
affects commercial communications satellites. The policy was
|
||||
made official by Defense Secretary Weinberger in June of 1985 and
|
||||
made official by Defense Secretary <ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent> in June of 1985 and
|
||||
requires that all commercial satellite operators that carry such
|
||||
unclassified government data traffic as routine Pentagon supply
|
||||
information and payroll data (and that compete for lucrative
|
||||
@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ affect the data over satellite channels, but it does make the NSA
|
||||
privy to vital information about the essential signals needed to
|
||||
operate a satellite. With this information it could take control
|
||||
of any satellite it chooses.
|
||||
Latham insists this, too, is a voluntary policy and that
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Latham</ent> insists this, too, is a voluntary policy and that
|
||||
only companies that wish to install protection will have their
|
||||
systems evaluated by the NSA. He also says industry officials
|
||||
are wholly behind the move, and argues that the protective
|
||||
@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ argue, could cripple a company competing against less expensive
|
||||
communications networks.
|
||||
Americans get much of their information through forms of
|
||||
electronic communications, from the telephone, television and
|
||||
radio, and information printed in many newspapers. Banks send
|
||||
radio, and information printed in many newspapers. <ent type = 'person'>Banks</ent> send
|
||||
important financial data, businesses their spreadsheets, and
|
||||
stockbrokers their investment portfolios, all over the same
|
||||
channels, from satellite signals to computer hookups carried on
|
||||
@ -484,9 +484,9 @@ Department officials. (The bill failed to pass the House for
|
||||
unrelated reasons.)
|
||||
"I think it is quite clear that they have snuck in there
|
||||
some powers that are dangerous for us as a company and for the
|
||||
public at large," said MCI vice president Kenneth Cox before the
|
||||
public at large," said MCI vice president <ent type = 'person'>Kenneth Cox</ent> before the
|
||||
Senate vote.
|
||||
Since President Reagan took office, the Pentagon has stepped
|
||||
Since President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> took office, the Pentagon has stepped
|
||||
up its efforts to rewrite the definition of national emergency
|
||||
and give the military expanded powers in the United States. "The
|
||||
declaration of 'emergency' has always been vague," says one
|
||||
@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ after ten years in top policy posts. "Different presidents have
|
||||
invoked it differently. This administration would declare a
|
||||
convenient 'emergency.'" In other words, what is a nuisance to
|
||||
one administration might qualify as a burgeoning crisis to
|
||||
another. For example, the Reagan administration might decide
|
||||
another. For example, the <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> administration might decide
|
||||
that a series of protests on or near military bases constituted a
|
||||
national emergency.
|
||||
Should the Pentagon ever be given the green light, its base
|
||||
@ -548,9 +548,9 @@ day Ma Bell's monopoly over the telephone network of the entire
|
||||
United States was finally broken. The timing was no coincidence.
|
||||
Pentagon officials had argued for years along with AT&T against
|
||||
the divestiture of Ma Bell, on grounds of national security.
|
||||
Defense Secretary Weinberger personally urged the attorney
|
||||
Defense Secretary <ent type = 'person'>Weinberger</ent> personally urged the attorney
|
||||
general to block the lawsuit that resulted in the breakup, as had
|
||||
his predecessor, Harold Brown. The reason was that rather than
|
||||
his predecessor, <ent type = 'person'>Harold Brown</ent>. The reason was that rather than
|
||||
construct its own communications network, the Pentagon had come
|
||||
to rely extensively on the phone company. After the breakup the
|
||||
dependence continued. The Pentagon still used commercial
|
||||
@ -575,11 +575,11 @@ staff the National Coordinating Center. The meetings, which
|
||||
continued over the next three years, were held at the White
|
||||
House, the State Department, the Strategic Air Command (SAC)
|
||||
headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, and at the
|
||||
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>North</ent> American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado
|
||||
Springs.
|
||||
The industry officials attending constituted the National
|
||||
Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee -- called NSTAC
|
||||
(pronounced N-stack) -- set up by President Reagan to address
|
||||
Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee -- called <ent type = 'person'>NSTAC</ent>
|
||||
(pronounced N-stack) -- set up by President <ent type = 'person'>Reagan</ent> to address
|
||||
those same problems that worried the Pentagon. It was at these
|
||||
secret meetings, according to the minutes, that the idea of a
|
||||
communications watch center for national emergencies -- the NCC
|
||||
@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ military's peacetime communications center.
|
||||
control over the nation's vast communications and information
|
||||
network. For years the Pentagon has been studying how to take
|
||||
over the common carriers' facilities. That research was prepared
|
||||
by NSTAC at the DoD's request and is contained in a series of
|
||||
by <ent type = 'person'>NSTAC</ent> at the DoD's request and is contained in a series of
|
||||
internal Pentagon documents obtained by Omni. Collectively this
|
||||
series is known as the Satellite Survivability Report. Completed
|
||||
in 1984, it is the only detailed analysis to date of the
|
||||
@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ of all information in the United States. As one high-ranking
|
||||
White House communications official put it: "Whoever controls
|
||||
communications, controls the country." His remark was made after
|
||||
our State Department could not communicate directly with our
|
||||
embassy in Manila during the anti-Marcos revolution last year.
|
||||
embassy in Manila during the anti-<ent type = 'person'>Marcos</ent> revolution last year.
|
||||
To get through, the State Department had to relay all its
|
||||
messages through the Philippine government.
|
||||
Government officials have offered all kinds of scenarios to
|
||||
|
@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> HELP BUNGLED AND DISORGANIZED</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> By <person>Martin Mann</person> and George Nicholas
|
||||
<p> By <ent type = 'person'>Martin Mann</ent> and George Nicholas
|
||||
Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Washington, DC -- One after another, two violent, cataclysmic disasters
|
||||
@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ damage in its wake.</p>
|
||||
were entitled to expect "quick and efficient help" from it in the face of
|
||||
such shattering calamities. But the response by the Federal Emergency
|
||||
Management Agency (FEMA) to these upheavals was "bungled" and
|
||||
"disorganized," says Ray Groover, who reported on the hurricane for a San
|
||||
"disorganized," says <ent type = 'person'>Ray Groover</ent>, who reported on the hurricane for a San
|
||||
Juan, Puerto Rico, newspaper and is now studying for a graduate degree in
|
||||
journalism at Columbia University in New York.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -60,12 +60,12 @@ yet been provided with housing assistance from FEMA."</p>
|
||||
<p> DIRECTORS SHELL GAME</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Warned that the GAO report will expose FEMA as incompetent and
|
||||
wasteful, President George Bush fired agency Director Julius Becton, an
|
||||
wasteful, President <ent type = 'person'>George Bush</ent> fired agency Director <ent type = 'person'>Julius Becton</ent>, an
|
||||
elderly three-star general, whose principal qualifications for flag rank
|
||||
was Henry Kissinger's wish to promote "minority" officers, Defense
|
||||
was <ent type = 'person'>Henry Kissinger</ent>'s wish to promote "minority" officers, Defense
|
||||
Department sources say.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Becton was replace by Wallace Stickney, a former New Hampshire state
|
||||
<p> Becton was replace by <ent type = 'person'>Wallace Stickney</ent>, a former New Hampshire state
|
||||
official whose colorless and low-profile reputation is expected to dampen
|
||||
the fireworks the GAO report might otherwise touch off about the inadequacy
|
||||
of federal relief operations.</p>
|
||||
@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Groover.</p>
|
||||
<p> The answer, a SPOTLIGHT investigation has found, is that FEMA's
|
||||
leadership is developing programs that will not merely "[ensure] the
|
||||
continuity of the federal government in any national emergency-type
|
||||
situation," as decreed by President Gerald Ford in Executive Order 11921,
|
||||
situation," as decreed by President <ent type = 'person'>Gerald Ford</ent> in Executive Order 11921,
|
||||
but REPLACE the nation's Constitutional statecraft with a centralized
|
||||
"command system."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
|
||||
<xml><p><person>FEVERFEW</person>: A HERBAL REMEDY FOR MIGRAINE?
|
||||
<xml><p><ent type = 'person'>FEVERFEW</ent>: A HERBAL REMEDY FOR MIGRAINE?
|
||||
|
||||
"Some of the world's most effective medicines began their
|
||||
careers as herbal remedies: digitalis came from foxglove, aspirin
|
||||
from willow bark, and morphine from poppy blossoms. Potentially
|
||||
the newest plant to cross over from folklore to mainstream
|
||||
treatment is a member of the chyrsanthemum family known as common
|
||||
treatment is a member of the <ent type = 'person'>chyrsanthemum</ent> family known as common
|
||||
feverfew or, botanically, Tanacetum parthenium.
|
||||
|
||||
"The name 'feverfew' indicates the belief, dating from the
|
||||
@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ effective in preventing migraine attacks.
|
||||
feverfew, but that was to be expected, as they had been taking
|
||||
the herb for some time. People who had tried the plaint and then
|
||||
quit because they couldn't tolerate would have been excluded from
|
||||
this study. Feverfew is capable of producing rather marked
|
||||
this study. <ent type = 'person'>Feverfew</ent> is capable of producing rather marked
|
||||
allergic reactions; some people who try it develop sores in the
|
||||
mouth or, less commonly, a generalized inflammation of the mouth
|
||||
and tongue.
|
||||
|
@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ was considered essential if the human inclination toward
|
||||
political abuse of power was to be prevented. "No political
|
||||
truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped
|
||||
with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty,"
|
||||
stated James Madison in The Federalist Papers, "than that
|
||||
stated <ent type = 'person'>James Madison</ent> in The Federalist Papers, "than that
|
||||
. . . [t]he accumulation of all power, legislative, executive
|
||||
and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or
|
||||
many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may
|
||||
@ -32,15 +32,15 @@ or minorities.</p>
|
||||
deep concern to the Founding Fathers for the same reason. When
|
||||
the matter came up at the convention as to which branch of
|
||||
government would have the authority to "make war,"
|
||||
disagreement arose. Pierce Butler of South Carolina wanted
|
||||
disagreement arose. <ent type = 'person'>Pierce Butler</ent> of South Carolina wanted
|
||||
that power to reside in the President who, he said, "will have
|
||||
all the requisite qualities." James Madison and Elbridge Gerry
|
||||
all the requisite qualities." <ent type = 'person'>James Madison</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Elbridge Gerry</ent>
|
||||
of Massachusetts were for "leaving to the Executive the power
|
||||
to repel sudden attacks" but proposed changing the wording to
|
||||
"declare" rather than "make war," and then only with the
|
||||
approval of both Houses of Congress. Oliver Ellsworth of
|
||||
approval of both Houses of Congress. <ent type = 'person'>Oliver Ellsworth</ent> of
|
||||
Connecticut agreed, saying that "It should be more easy to get
|
||||
out of war than into it." And George Mason of Virginia also
|
||||
out of war than into it." And <ent type = 'person'>George Mason</ent> of Virginia also
|
||||
was "against giving the power of war to the Executive, because
|
||||
[he was] not safely to be trusted with it." Mason "was for
|
||||
clogging rather than facilitating war."</p>
|
||||
@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ execution.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The Founding Fathers possessed no misconceptions about the
|
||||
potentially aggressive nature of governments toward their
|
||||
neighbors. John Jay, in The Federalist Papers, insightfully
|
||||
neighbors. <ent type = 'person'>John Jay</ent>, in The Federalist Papers, insightfully
|
||||
enumerated the various motives, rationales and passions that
|
||||
had led nations down the road to war through the ages.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Why, then, did we intervene?</p>
|
||||
the years preceding World War I, and then again in the 1930s,
|
||||
American intellectuals and politicians undertook grand
|
||||
experiments in social engineering. The Progressive Era of
|
||||
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and the New Deal days
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Theodore Roosevelt</ent> and <ent type = 'person'>Woodrow Wilson</ent>, and the New Deal days
|
||||
of Franklin D. Roosevelt, were the crucial decades for the
|
||||
implementation of the politics of government intervention and
|
||||
economic regulation. It was the duty and responsibility of the
|
||||
@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ suffering in squalor and ignorance, the victims of tribal
|
||||
despots and imperialist exploitors--easy prey to that even
|
||||
greater threat of communist propaganda and revolution?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>America's first crusade was in 1917, when Woodrow Wilson,
|
||||
<p>America's first crusade was in 1917, when <ent type = 'person'>Woodrow Wilson</ent>,
|
||||
insisting that the United States had the moral duty to take
|
||||
the lead and "make the world safe for democracy," had asked
|
||||
for, and got, a declaration of war from Congress. Americans,
|
||||
@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ spoils for the victorious European allies.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But World War II seemed to offer the opportunity for a second
|
||||
chance. The American "arsenal of democracy" would free the
|
||||
world of Hitler and Imperial Japan and then pursue an
|
||||
world of <ent type = 'person'>Hitler</ent> and Imperial Japan and then pursue an
|
||||
international course of permanent foreign intervention to
|
||||
create "a better world." What the world got was the Cold War,
|
||||
with the Soviet Union gaining an Eastern European empire, and
|
||||
@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ the private sector for four decades; and even more tens of
|
||||
billions of dollars in military and foreign aid to any
|
||||
government, in any part of the world, no matter how corrupt,
|
||||
just as long as it declared itself "anti-communist." And as
|
||||
one of the founders of Human Events, Felix Morley, pointed out
|
||||
one of the founders of Human Events, <ent type = 'person'>Felix Morley</ent>, pointed out
|
||||
in his book, Freedom and Federalism, in the heyday of
|
||||
Keynesian economics in the 1950s and 1960s, defense spending
|
||||
became a tool for "priming the pump" and guaranteeing "full
|
||||
@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ military entanglements, and follow George Washington's wise
|
||||
advice of free commercial relationships with all, but foreign
|
||||
alliances and intrigues with none.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Professor Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of
|
||||
<p>Professor <ent type = 'person'>Ebeling</ent> is the <ent type = 'person'>Ludwig von</ent> Mises Professor of
|
||||
Economics at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, and also
|
||||
serves as vice-president of academic affairs of The Future of
|
||||
Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.
|
||||
|
@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
|
||||
<xml><p>FOIA FILES KIT - INSTRUCTIONS</p>
|
||||
<xml><p>FOIA <ent type = 'person'>FILES KIT</ent> - INSTRUCTIONS</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>USING THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
|
||||
REVISED EDITION
|
||||
@ -50,11 +50,11 @@ Be sure to keep a copy of each letter.
|
||||
Step 3: Addressing the letters: Consult list of agency
|
||||
addresses.
|
||||
FBI: A complete request requires a minimum of two letters.
|
||||
Sen done letter to FBI Headquarters and separate letter to each
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Sen</ent> done letter to FBI Headquarters and separate letter to each
|
||||
FBI field office nearest the location of the individual, the
|
||||
organization or the subject matter/event. Consdier the location
|
||||
organization or the subject matter/event. <ent type = 'person'>Consdier</ent> the location
|
||||
of residences, schools, work and other activities.
|
||||
INS: Send a request letter to each district office nearest
|
||||
INS: <ent type = 'person'>Sen</ent>d a request letter to each district office nearest
|
||||
the location of the individual, the organization or the subject
|
||||
matter/event.
|
||||
Address each letter to the FOIA/PA office of the appropraite
|
||||
@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ to those you requested.
|
||||
Next step: Check your original request to be sure you have
|
||||
not overlooked anything. If you receive documents from other
|
||||
agencies, review them for indications that there is matieral in
|
||||
teh files of the agency claiming it has none. For example, look
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>teh</ent> files of the agency claiming it has none. For example, look
|
||||
for correspondence, or references to correspondence, to or from
|
||||
that agency. If you determine that there are reasonable grounds,
|
||||
file an administrative appeal (see instructions below).</p>
|
||||
@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ serial number and separated the documents into their proper
|
||||
office batches, make a list of all the serial numbers in each
|
||||
batch to see if there any any missing numbers. If there are
|
||||
missing serial numbers and some documents have been withheld, try
|
||||
to determine if teh missing numbers might reasonably correspond
|
||||
to determine if <ent type = 'person'>teh</ent> missing numbers might reasonably correspond
|
||||
to the withheld documents. If not, the realease may be incomplete
|
||||
and an administrative appeal should be made.
|
||||
Step 2: Read all the document released to you. Keep a list
|
||||
@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ conclusions from discrepancies in the totals and missing document
|
||||
numbers.
|
||||
Another thing to look for when reading the released
|
||||
documents if the names of persons or agencies to whom the
|
||||
document has been disseminated. the lower left-hadn corncer is a
|
||||
document has been disseminated. the lower left-<ent type = 'person'>hadn corncer</ent> is a
|
||||
common location for the typed list of agencies or offices to whom
|
||||
the document has been directed. In addition, there may be
|
||||
additional distribution recorded by hand, there or elsewhere on
|
||||
@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ that will help in deciphering these notaitons when they are not
|
||||
clear. Contact FOIA, Inc., if you need assistance in deciphering
|
||||
the text.
|
||||
Finally, any other file numbers that appear on the document
|
||||
should be noted, particularaly in the subject of the file is of
|
||||
should be noted, <ent type = 'person'>particularaly</ent> in the subject of the file is of
|
||||
interest and is one you have not requested. You may want to make
|
||||
an additional request for some of these files.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ sub files, "DO NOT FILE" files, and control files. I also request
|
||||
a search of the ELSUR Index,a nd the COINTELPRO Index. I request
|
||||
that all records be produced with the administrative pges.
|
||||
I wish to be sent copies of "see reference" cards,
|
||||
abstracts, serach slips, including search slips used to process
|
||||
abstracts, <ent type = 'person'>serach</ent> slips, including search slips used to process
|
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this request, file covers, multiple copies of the same documents
|
||||
if they appear in a file, and tapes of any electronic
|
||||
surveillances.
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@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ document denied. Please provide a complete itemized inventory and
|
||||
a detailed factual justification of total or partial denial of
|
||||
documents. Give the number of pages in each document and the
|
||||
total number of pages pertaining to this request. For
|
||||
"classified" material denied pleae include the following
|
||||
"classified" material denied <ent type = 'person'>pleae</ent> include the following
|
||||
information: the classification (confidential, secret or top
|
||||
secret); identity of the classifer; date or event for automatic
|
||||
declassification, classification review, or down-grading; if
|
||||
@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ secregable portion of a record shall be provided to any eprson
|
||||
requesting such record after deletion of the portions which are
|
||||
exempt," I believe that your agency has not complied with the
|
||||
FOIA. I believe that there must be (additional) segregble
|
||||
portions which do not fall wihtin FOIA exemptions and which must
|
||||
portions which do not fall <ent type = 'person'>wihtin</ent> FOIA exemptions and which must
|
||||
be released.
|
||||
[Optional paragraph, to be used in the agency has used the
|
||||
(b)(1) exemption for national security, to withhold information]
|
||||
@ -487,12 +487,12 @@ ultimately not to file suit.]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>signature: ___________________________________________</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>[Mark clearly on envelope: Attention: Freedom of Information
|
||||
<p>[<ent type = 'person'>Mark</ent> clearly on envelope: Attention: Freedom of Information
|
||||
Appeals]</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FBI ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>FBI Headquarters, J. Edgar Hoover Bldg, Washington, D.C., 20535,
|
||||
<p>FBI Headquarters, J. <ent type = 'person'>Edgar Hoover</ent> Bldg, Washington, D.C., 20535,
|
||||
202-324-5520 (FOI/PA Unit)</p>
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||||
|
||||
<p>Field Offices
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@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ Boston, MA 02203, J.F. Kennedy Federal Office Bldg., 617-742-5533
|
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Buffalo, NY 14202, 111 W. Huron St., 716-856-7800
|
||||
Butte, MT 59701, U.S. Courthouse and Federal Bldg., 406-792-2304
|
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Charlotte, NC 28202, Jefferson Standard Life Bldg., 704-372-5485
|
||||
Chicago, IL 60604, Everett McKinley Dirksen Bldg., 312-431-1333
|
||||
Chicago, IL 60604, <ent type = 'person'>Everett McKinley</ent> Dirksen Bldg., 312-431-1333
|
||||
Cincinnati, OH 45202, 400 U.S. Post Office & Crthse Bldg., 513-421-4310
|
||||
Cleveland, OH 44199, Federal Office Bldg., 216-522-1401
|
||||
Columbia, SC 29201, 1529 Hampton St., 803-254-3011
|
||||
@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ Dallas TX 75201, 1810 Commrce St., 214-741-1851
|
||||
Denver, CO 80202, Federal Office Bldg., 303-629-7171
|
||||
Detroit, MI 48226, 477 Michigan Ave., 313-965-2323
|
||||
El Paso, TX 79901, 202 U.S. Courthosue Bldg., 915-533-7451
|
||||
Honolulu, HI 96850, 300 Ala Moana Blvd., 808-521-1411
|
||||
Honolulu, HI 96850, 300 <ent type = 'person'>Ala Moana Blvd</ent>., 808-521-1411
|
||||
Houston, TX 77002, 6015 Fed. Bldg and U.S.Courthouse, 713-224-1511
|
||||
Indianapolis, IN 46202, 575 N. Pennsylvania St., 317-639-3301
|
||||
Jackson, MS 39205, Unifirst Federal and Loan Bldg., 601-948-5000
|
||||
@ -526,12 +526,12 @@ Las Vegas, NV 89101, Federal Office Bldg., 702-385-1281
|
||||
Little Rock, AR 72201, 215 U.S Post Office Bldg., 501-372-7211
|
||||
Los Angeles, CA 90024, 11000 Wilshire Blvd, 213-272-6161
|
||||
Louisville, KY 40202, Federal Bldg., 502-583-3941
|
||||
Memphis, TN 38103, Clifford Davis Federal bldg., 901-525-7373
|
||||
Memphis, TN 38103, <ent type = 'person'>Clifford Davis</ent> Federal bldg., 901-525-7373
|
||||
Miami, FL 33137, 3801 Biscayne Blvd., 305-573-3333
|
||||
Milwaukee, WI 53202, Federal Bldg and U.S. Courthouse, 414-276-4681
|
||||
Minneapolis, MN 55401, 392 Federal Bldg., 612-339-7846
|
||||
Mobile, AL 36602, Federal Bldg., 205-438-3675
|
||||
Newark, NJ 07101, Gateway I, Market St., 201-622-5613
|
||||
Newark, NJ 07101, Gateway I, <ent type = 'person'>Mark</ent>et St., 201-622-5613
|
||||
New Haven, CT 06510, 170 Orange St., 203-777-6311
|
||||
New Orleans, LA 70113, 701 Loyola Ave., 504-522-4671
|
||||
New York, NY 10007, 26 Federal Plaza, 212-553-2700
|
||||
|
@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> TO
|
||||
Henry L. Mencken
|
||||
Dean of American Letters and Critics
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Dean</ent> of American Letters and Critics
|
||||
Theologian Emeritus of
|
||||
a Treaties on the Gods</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "The time has come for honest men to denounce
|
||||
false teachers and attack false gods."
|
||||
Luther Burbank</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Luther</ent> Burbank</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> MAN IS A RELIGIOUS ANIMAL -- is incurably religious," are
|
||||
commonplaces of clerical rhetoric. The priestly "Doctors of
|
||||
@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ their thralling dominion over the mind and money of man. The first
|
||||
recorded priestly ban -- by threat and fear of death -- was on
|
||||
Nature's own Golden Specific for superstition and priestcraft, --
|
||||
the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge: "Thou shalt not eat of it: for
|
||||
in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (Gen.
|
||||
in the day that <ent type = 'person'>thou eatest</ent> thereof thou shalt surely die." (Gen.
|
||||
ii, 17.) A warden with a flaming sword was posted to guard the
|
||||
Tree: sword, and rack, and stake, civil and political outlawry,
|
||||
social and business ostracism and loss of living, odious Odium
|
||||
@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Theologicum and foul calumny, have ever since been -- so far as
|
||||
possible yet are the consecrated weapons of priestcraft to keep
|
||||
mankind ignorant and obedient to the priests. "No beast in nature
|
||||
is so implacable as an offended saint," is axiomatic of those who
|
||||
prate of loving their enemies. As Jurgen picturesquely says: "The
|
||||
prate of loving their enemies. As <ent type = 'person'>Jurgen</ent> picturesquely says: "The
|
||||
largest lake in Hell is formed by the blood which the followers of
|
||||
the 'Prince of Peace' have shed in advancing his cause," -- and
|
||||
their selfish own, -- as we shall abundantly see in the following
|
||||
@ -96,14 +96,14 @@ pages.</p>
|
||||
<p> FAITH IN A FATAL DECLINE</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Howbeit, their pulpits and their press are lugubriously vocal
|
||||
with Jeremiads bewailing the ever-swelling tide of Unbelief in the
|
||||
with <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Jeremiad</ent>s</ent> bewailing the ever-swelling tide of Unbelief in the
|
||||
land, -- throughout Christendom. The Church statistics, notoriously
|
||||
padded after the Biblical model of the Censuses in the Wilderness,
|
||||
can claim at most some forty-odd millions of adherents -- many of
|
||||
them by lip-service and non-paying (therefore negligible), and
|
||||
others many non-distinguished for piety or common honesty -- out of
|
||||
the hundred and twenty-odd millions of our American population. The
|
||||
Reverend Rector of Trinity Church in New York City -- (one of the
|
||||
Reverend Rector of Trinity Church in New <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk City -- (one of the
|
||||
wealthiest dead-hand tax-free land monopolists in America) -- thus
|
||||
bewails: "In America we are dealing with a country, the majority of
|
||||
whose inhabitants are pagans. ... Only forty percent of the
|
||||
@ -174,18 +174,18 @@ interest in religion among women of the United States. ... It was
|
||||
also found [in this present Survey] that only 18 percent of the
|
||||
country population is in Church membership, although it is
|
||||
customary to think of country people as highly religious. -- [They,
|
||||
too, are becoming more educated.] In New York City, the Church
|
||||
too, are becoming more educated.] In New <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk City, the Church
|
||||
population is reported equally divided among Protestants, Roman
|
||||
Catholics and Jews. Only about eight percent of the population are
|
||||
members of the Protestant churches," -- thus only some 24% of the
|
||||
people of New York City among all three much-divided sects. (N.Y.
|
||||
people of New <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk City among all three much-divided sects. (N.Y.
|
||||
Times, May 5, 1930.) In a recent abusive set of letters by three
|
||||
True Believers of the same family name (one a Rev.), addressed to
|
||||
the Editor of a Metropolitan paper for writing sanely about the
|
||||
Tabooed Subject of Birth Control, this was denounced as an "insult
|
||||
to over 2,000,000" Faithful in this City. (Herald-Tribune, April
|
||||
12, 1930.) But the Faithful boast of their 444 churches in Greater
|
||||
New York: if each had the exaggerated membership of 1,000, -- let
|
||||
New <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk: if each had the exaggerated membership of 1,000, -- let
|
||||
the reader do his own figuring and note the result. And foreign
|
||||
immigration of the Faithful has been sadly curtailed of late by
|
||||
law.</p>
|
||||
@ -220,10 +220,10 @@ we shall see, -- is not so much to be wondered.</p>
|
||||
<p> So far as Russia is concerned -- (and the fact and the reason
|
||||
for it apply as well to every other "Christian" country), -- the
|
||||
reason is truly stated by the pious Editor of Atlantis in a
|
||||
Jeremiad of confession before the Institute of Citizenship just
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Jeremiad</ent> of confession before the Institute of Citizenship just
|
||||
held in Atlanta: "For a thousand years, ever since Russia became a
|
||||
Christian country, and more especially in the last 200 years, when
|
||||
the Czar became the official head of the Church, the State religion
|
||||
the <ent type = 'person'>Czar</ent> became the official head of the Church, the State religion
|
||||
in Russia was one of the means whereby the Russian people were
|
||||
oppressed, exploited and kept in ignorance. The Russian people had
|
||||
a score to settle with the Church after the revolution, and they
|
||||
@ -231,9 +231,9 @@ took full advantage of it" (N.Y. Times, April 8, 1930), a like
|
||||
chance for which all Christendom is looking. The very religious
|
||||
Editor continues to confess: "It is useless to deny that the
|
||||
Church, in most instances, has lost its hold upon vast majorities
|
||||
of the people." (Ibid.) At the Christian Herald Institute of
|
||||
of the people." (<ent type = 'person'>Ibid</ent>.) At the Christian Herald Institute of
|
||||
Religion held this year at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., a perfect
|
||||
symposium of Jeremiads bewailed Faith on the Toboggan: "Unless
|
||||
symposium of <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Jeremiad</ent>s</ent> bewailed Faith on the Toboggan: "Unless
|
||||
emphasis on elaborate creeds does not cease, we will deliver
|
||||
ourselves into the hands of the Humanists for the defeat which we
|
||||
deserve." ... "The Church is simply going to pieces in the small
|
||||
@ -245,11 +245,11 @@ in personalities and prejudices." (Herald-Tribune, May 15, 1930.)
|
||||
Thus today, after nearly two thousand years of the "Sweetness and
|
||||
light" of our Divine Christian religion, "personalities and
|
||||
prejudices" among those taught to love even their enemies persist
|
||||
and keep the Fold of Christ divided into mutually-hating Flocks;
|
||||
precisely so that the olden Pagan sneer at the early Christians is
|
||||
and keep the Fold of Christ divided into mutually-hating <ent type = 'person'>Flock</ent>s;
|
||||
precisely so that the olden <ent type = 'person'>Pagan</ent> sneer at the early Christians is
|
||||
perfectly befitting their successors today: "There is no wild beast
|
||||
so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith."
|
||||
(Lecky, Rationalism in Europe, ii, 31.)</p>
|
||||
(<ent type = 'person'>Lecky</ent>, Rationalism in Europe, ii, 31.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> BANK of WISDOM
|
||||
Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
|
||||
@ -267,12 +267,12 @@ the divine inspiration and authority of the Bible," -- Due to
|
||||
increasing knowledge of its true character, as herein revealed.
|
||||
(Herald-Tribune, May 26, 1930.) And the ghastly irony and joke of
|
||||
the whole huge bankruptcy of Faith is thus exposed by the egregious
|
||||
Pastor of a Brooklyn Baptist Flock, who images the Missionary
|
||||
Pastor of a Brooklyn Baptist <ent type = 'person'>Flock</ent>, who images the Missionary
|
||||
"selling" the Faith to the benighted Heathen: "'I have a religion
|
||||
here that will do you poor heathen a lot of good. Of course it
|
||||
hasn't succeeded very well at home, but we are sure it will do you
|
||||
a lot of good.'" (Ibid.) It's just like God told the Jews: You
|
||||
shan't sell the dead carcasses found by the way to the Chosen; "but
|
||||
a lot of good.'" (<ent type = 'person'>Ibid</ent>.) It's just like God told the Jews: <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>u
|
||||
shan't sell the dead carcasses found by the way to the <ent type = 'person'>Chosen</ent>; "but
|
||||
thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he
|
||||
may eat it; or thou mayst sell it unto an alien"! (Deut. xiv, 21.)
|
||||
So the dead cats of Faith are flung out of the sanctuary as unfit
|
||||
@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ for the Knowing, but are peddled to the ignorant heathen for
|
||||
whatever the refuse may bring of clerical revenue.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Like conditions exist in all priest-ridden lands. The Rt. Rev.
|
||||
Archbishop of Canterbury in his call for the decennial Lambeth
|
||||
Archbishop of <ent type = 'person'>Canterbury</ent> in his call for the decennial Lambeth
|
||||
Conference for 1930, at which over sixty of the Episcopal bishops
|
||||
of this country are to attend, sounds a fateful monition: "The new
|
||||
knowledge of the Bible and still more of the universe in which we
|
||||
@ -307,10 +307,10 @@ people in the pews as well as among the parsons, does it become
|
||||
more difficult and embarrassing for the pulpiteers to "put over"
|
||||
their tales of myth and magic to the hearers of the Word. Even the
|
||||
clergy are becoming awakened to the stinging truth aimed at priests
|
||||
and the priest-taught by Prof. Shotwell: "Where we can understand,
|
||||
and the priest-taught by Prof. <ent type = 'person'>Shotwell</ent>: "Where we can understand,
|
||||
it is a moral crime to cherish the ununderstood," and are beginning
|
||||
to feel the humiliation of their false Position. A noted clerical
|
||||
educator, Dr. Reinold Niebuhr, professor of Christian Ethics in
|
||||
educator, Dr. <ent type = 'person'>Reinold <ent type = 'person'>Niebuhr</ent></ent>, professor of Christian Ethics in
|
||||
that hotbed of every heresy, the Union Theological Seminary, in his
|
||||
textbook suggestively entitled 'Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed
|
||||
Cynic,' makes this confession of recognized Dishonesty in the mass </p>
|
||||
@ -328,11 +328,11 @@ circumspectly with the whole religious inheritance lest the virtues
|
||||
[?] which are involved in the older traditions perish through your
|
||||
iconoclasm. That is a formidable task and a harassing one; for one
|
||||
can never be quite sure where pedagogical caution ends AND
|
||||
DISHONESTY BEGINS"! (Quoted by Alva Johnston in N.Y. Herald-
|
||||
DISHONESTY BEGINS"! (Quoted by <ent type = 'person'>Alva Johnston</ent> in N.Y. Herald-
|
||||
Tribune, March 8, 1930.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The great Church Father, Bishop St. Augustine (of whom more
|
||||
hereafter), was wise to the psychology of -- at least -- Pagan
|
||||
<p> The great Church Father, Bishop St. <ent type = 'person'>Augustine</ent> (of whom more
|
||||
hereafter), was wise to the psychology of -- at least -- <ent type = 'person'>Pagan</ent>
|
||||
religion -- the mode of its incipience and the manner of its age-
|
||||
long persistence. The priests and the priest-taught, he tells,
|
||||
instilled the virus of superstition into their victims when "small
|
||||
@ -340,26 +340,26 @@ and weak," when they knew not to resist or healthily to react
|
||||
against the contaminating inoculation; "then, afterwards, it was
|
||||
necessary that succeeding generations should preserve the
|
||||
traditions of their ancestors, drinking in this superstition with
|
||||
their mother's milk." (Augustine, City of God, xxii, 6.) Thinks one
|
||||
that this cunning modus operandi is confined only to Pagan
|
||||
their mother's milk." (<ent type = 'person'>Augustine</ent>, City of God, xxii, 6.) Thinks one
|
||||
that this cunning modus operandi is confined only to <ent type = 'person'>Pagan</ent>
|
||||
priestcrafts and superstitions?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> If, instead of the saintly Doctors of Hebrew-Christian
|
||||
Divinity, injecting their saving "opiate of the people" into the
|
||||
cradled babes of Christ, it were the abhorred Doctors of Mohammedan
|
||||
cradled babes of Christ, it were the abhorred Doctors of <ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Mohammed</ent>an</ent>
|
||||
or Mormon Divinity who got to the cradles first, -- those infant
|
||||
souls would all but surely be lost to the Christ, and in their
|
||||
God's tender mercy, as assured by the sainted Augustine, would
|
||||
God's tender mercy, as assured by the sainted <ent type = 'person'>Augustine</ent>, would
|
||||
spend eternity crawling on the candent floors of Hell, playing with
|
||||
the "worm that never dies": hardly from the cradle to the grave
|
||||
could all the Christian purges for Sin and pills for Salvation of
|
||||
could all the Christian purges for <ent type = 'person'>Sin</ent> and pills for Salvation of
|
||||
Soul, later administered, serve for effective catharsis of the
|
||||
venom of those Christianly-hated "superstitions, drunk in with
|
||||
their mother's milk."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This truth is strikingly stated in an eloquent period by
|
||||
Ingersoll, and stunningly confirmed and confessed by the syndicated
|
||||
Prophet of Protestantism below to be quoted. The former opens his
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Prophet</ent> of Protestantism below to be quoted. The former opens his
|
||||
classic Why I Am an Agnostic, with these trenchant words:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs
|
||||
@ -368,10 +368,10 @@ garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned
|
||||
by our surroundings. Environment is a sculptor -- a painter.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "If we had been born in Constantinople, the most of us would
|
||||
have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his
|
||||
have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and <ent type = 'person'>Mohammed</ent> is his
|
||||
prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we
|
||||
would have been worshippers of Siva, longing for the heaven of
|
||||
Nirvana.</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Nirvana</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they
|
||||
teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother
|
||||
@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ Children are sometimes superior to their parents, modify their
|
||||
ideas, change their customs, and arrive at different conclusions."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The truth thus uttered by the great Agnostic finds its
|
||||
confirmation curiously wrung from the lips of the Bellwether of
|
||||
confirmation curiously wrung from the lips of the <ent type = 'person'>Bellwether</ent> of
|
||||
would-be "reconciliationists" of primitive Superstition and modern
|
||||
Science. In a metropolitan newspaper carrying his syndicated "Daily
|
||||
Counsel" to the lovelorn and the misty-minded, a Virginia Believer
|
||||
@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ had chanced to be "born that way"! Allah would to him -- and to
|
||||
millions -- be true and living God and Jehovah a crude barbarian
|
||||
myth, but for the accident of birth and teaching, -- a reversal of
|
||||
the whole scheme of salvation! Thus the Cradle determines the
|
||||
Creed; it is the virus of the superstition-germ first injected
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Creed</ent>; it is the virus of the superstition-germ first injected
|
||||
which infects the credulity-center of the brain and colors too-oft
|
||||
through life the whole concept of "religious truth" in the mind of
|
||||
the patient.</p>
|
||||
@ -422,10 +422,10 @@ the patient.</p>
|
||||
<p> The psychology of the priestly maxim -- "Disce primum quod
|
||||
credendum est -- Learn first what is to be believed," and the
|
||||
persistent virulence of the virus thus injected, is aptly signified
|
||||
by the Rev. Wenner, 83-year old Bellwether of Lutheranism in
|
||||
by the Rev. <ent type = 'person'>Wenner</ent>, 83-year old <ent type = 'person'>Bellwether</ent> of <ent type = 'person'>Luther</ent>anism in
|
||||
America, and for 61 years pastor of one of its oldest sheep-folds
|
||||
in New York City: "I do not think that time has produced many
|
||||
changes in the attitude of Lutheran worshippers, -- because of the
|
||||
in New <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk City: "I do not think that time has produced many
|
||||
changes in the attitude of <ent type = 'person'>Luther</ent>an worshippers, -- because of the
|
||||
stable nature of the religious education we give the youth of our
|
||||
sect. From the age of six onward we instruct them in the tenets of
|
||||
our faith, and they usually abide." (N.Y. Herald-Tribune, Oct. 10,
|
||||
@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ we've got it cinched for life," is the ghoulish axiom of all the </p>
|
||||
FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Faiths: "Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the
|
||||
Kingdom of Heaven," -- as of the heathen Nirvana. How godly a work
|
||||
Kingdom of Heaven," -- as of the heathen <ent type = 'person'>Nirvana</ent>. How godly a work
|
||||
is it to sear the thoughtless child mind with the brand of Faith;
|
||||
how infamous and damnable to offer to the "immature" and inept
|
||||
youth in college freedom from the stigma of credulity! How crude
|
||||
@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ to Catholic and non-Catholic alike, is forbidden to Catholic
|
||||
children," as such a school is not "a fit place for Catholic
|
||||
students," who must be baited with "the supernatural." (Current
|
||||
History, March 1930, p. 1091, passim.) Yet the banned and cursed
|
||||
Public Schools of New York City, forbidden to the Faithful child,
|
||||
Public Schools of New <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk City, forbidden to the Faithful child,
|
||||
the ecclesiastical' City government fills with Faithful teachers
|
||||
for the purpose of "boot-legging" the forbidden supernaturalism
|
||||
into them; a work so wide-spread and active, that the Cardinal
|
||||
@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ priestcraft.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In an ironical letter to the English press, in which he
|
||||
"enters the lists against the British critics of Moscow's anti-
|
||||
clerical policy," George Bernard Shaw, writing under a transparent
|
||||
clerical policy," <ent type = 'person'>George Bernard Shaw</ent>, writing under a transparent
|
||||
Russian pseudonym, says: "In Russia we take religious questions </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> BANK of WISDOM
|
||||
@ -529,23 +529,23 @@ means nothing but hypocrisy and humbug." (Herald-Tribune, April 7,
|
||||
1930.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Thus the Church enchains the Reason. The proudest boast today
|
||||
of the Church for its ex-Pagan Saint Augustine, is that: "as soon
|
||||
of the Church for its ex-<ent type = 'person'>Pagan</ent> Saint <ent type = 'person'>Augustine</ent>, is that: "as soon
|
||||
as a contradiction -- [between his "philosophy" and his religious
|
||||
doctrines] -- arises, he never hesitates to subordinate his
|
||||
philosophy to religion, reason to faith"! (Cath. Encyc. ii, 86.) So
|
||||
this great ex-Pagan Saint of the Church surrenders his reason to
|
||||
faith, and avers: "I would not believe the Gospels to be true,
|
||||
this great ex-<ent type = 'person'>Pagan</ent> Saint of the Church surrenders his reason to
|
||||
faith, and avers: "I would not believe the <ent type = 'person'>Gospel</ent>s to be true,
|
||||
unless the authority of the Catholic Church constrained me"!
|
||||
(Augustine, De Genesi.)</p>
|
||||
(<ent type = 'person'>Augustine</ent>, De Genesi.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Ingersoll, in one of his glowing, devastating periods of
|
||||
oratory, said: "Somebody ought to tell the truth about the Bible!"
|
||||
That I have already essayed quite comprehensively to do. In my
|
||||
recent work, Is It God's Word? (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York,
|
||||
recent work, Is It God's Word? (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk,
|
||||
1926, 2nd and 3rd Editions), I devote some five hundred pages to
|
||||
"An Exposition of the Fables and Mythology of the Bible and of the
|
||||
Impostures of Theology," as my thesis is defined in my sub-title.
|
||||
"A farrago of palpable nonsense," in the words of the Dean of
|
||||
"A farrago of palpable nonsense," in the words of the <ent type = 'person'>Dean</ent> of
|
||||
American critics, is about all that remains of Holy Writ as the
|
||||
pretended "Word of God," as the result of that searching analysis.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ and forgeries of religion and the Church.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Taking up now more particularly the second phase of my
|
||||
subject, I here propose to treat of the inveterate forgeries,
|
||||
frauds, impostures, and mendacities of Priestcraft and its
|
||||
frauds, impostures, and mendacities of <ent type = 'person'>Priest</ent>craft and its
|
||||
Theology. I shall be explicit and plain spoken, and unmistakably
|
||||
state my purpose and my proofs. For nearly two thousand years the
|
||||
priestcraft of Christendom, for purposes of domination by fear and
|
||||
@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ to dissent or to protest; the priestly word "miscreant," </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>misbeliever, has become the synonym for everything foul and
|
||||
criminal in human nature. The day of reckoning and of repudiation
|
||||
is at hand; Priestcraft has here its destroying answer, in very
|
||||
is at hand; <ent type = 'person'>Priest</ent>craft has here its destroying answer, in very
|
||||
plain and unafraid words.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This book is a grave indictment, impossible to be made or to
|
||||
@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ ecclesiastical graft and aggrandizement through conscious and most
|
||||
unconscionable imposture.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 6. That every conceivable form of religious lie, fraud and
|
||||
imposture has ever been the work of Priests; and through all the
|
||||
imposture has ever been the work of <ent type = 'person'>Priest</ent>s; and through all the
|
||||
history of the Christian Church, as through all human history, has
|
||||
been -- and, so far as they have not been shamed out of it by
|
||||
skeptical ridicule and exposure, yet is, the age-long stock in
|
||||
@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ priestcraft are concerned.</p>
|
||||
.
|
||||
FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> As the Catholic-Protestant-Skeptic Bayle, of seventeenth
|
||||
<p> As the Catholic-Protestant-Skeptic <ent type = 'person'>Bayle</ent>, of seventeenth
|
||||
century fame, said: "I am most truly a Protestant; for I protest
|
||||
indifferently against all systems and all sects" of religious
|
||||
imposture.</p>
|
||||
@ -655,8 +655,8 @@ he doth never know." The same critical cleric at another place
|
||||
said: "Still less was it ever intended that men should so
|
||||
prostitute their reason, as to believe with infallible faith what
|
||||
they are unable to prove with infallible arguments."
|
||||
(Chillingworth, Religion of Protestants, pp. 66, 412.) With
|
||||
infallible facts I purpose to blast the false pretenses of Priest-
|
||||
(<ent type = 'person'>Chillingworth</ent>, Religion of Protestants, pp. 66, 412.) With
|
||||
infallible facts I purpose to blast the false pretenses of <ent type = 'person'>Priest</ent>-
|
||||
forged Faith.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It is matter of fact, that for some 1500 years of this Era
|
||||
@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ which had come under his notice." (CE. vi, 136.)</p>
|
||||
Ages; they begin even with the beginning of the Church and infest
|
||||
every period of its history for fifteen hundred years and defile
|
||||
nearly every document, both of "Scriptures" and of Church
|
||||
aggrandizement. As truly said by Collins, in his celebrated
|
||||
aggrandizement. As truly said by <ent type = 'person'>Collins</ent>, in his celebrated
|
||||
Discourse of Free Thinking:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "In short, these frauds are very common in all books which are
|
||||
@ -789,8 +789,8 @@ may plead the authority of the Fathers for Forgery, Corruption and
|
||||
mangling of Authors, with more reason than for any of their
|
||||
Articles of Faith." (p. 96.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, the great "Father of Church
|
||||
History" (324 A.D.) whom Niebuhr terms "a very dishonest writer,"
|
||||
<p> Bishop <ent type = 'person'>Eusebius</ent> of <ent type = 'person'>Caesarea</ent>, the great "Father of Church
|
||||
History" (324 A.D.) whom <ent type = 'person'>Niebuhr</ent> terms "a very dishonest writer,"
|
||||
-- of which we shall see many notable instances, -- says this: "But
|
||||
it is not our place to describe the sad misfortunes which finally
|
||||
came upon [the Christians], as we do not think it proper, moreover,
|
||||
@ -802,28 +802,28 @@ introduce into this history in general only those events which may
|
||||
be useful first to ourselves and afterwards to posterity."
|
||||
(Ecclesiastical History, viii, 2; N&PNF. i, 323-324.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Eusebius himself fraudulently "subscribed to the [Trinitarian]
|
||||
Creed formed by the Council of Nicra, but making no secret, in the
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Eusebius</ent> himself fraudulently "subscribed to the [Trinitarian]
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Creed</ent> formed by the Council of Nicra, but making no secret, in the
|
||||
letter which he wrote to his own Church, of the non-natural sense
|
||||
in which he accepted it." (Cath. Encyc. v, 619.) As St. Jerome
|
||||
says, "Eusebius is the most open champion of the Arian heresy,"
|
||||
which denies the Trinity. (Jerome, Epist. 84, 2; N&PNF. vi, 176.)
|
||||
Bishop Eusebius, as we shall see, was one of the most prolific
|
||||
in which he accepted it." (Cath. Encyc. v, 619.) As St. <ent type = 'person'>Jerome</ent>
|
||||
says, "<ent type = 'person'>Eusebius</ent> is the most open champion of the Arian heresy,"
|
||||
which denies the Trinity. (<ent type = 'person'>Jerome</ent>, Epist. 84, 2; N&PNF. vi, 176.)
|
||||
Bishop <ent type = 'person'>Eusebius</ent>, as we shall see, was one of the most prolific
|
||||
forgers and liars of his age of the Church, and a great romancer;
|
||||
in his hair-raising histories of the holy Martyrs, he assures us
|
||||
"that on some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been
|
||||
devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were
|
||||
found alive in their stomachs, even after having been fully
|
||||
digested"! (quoted, Gibbon, History, Ch. 37; Lardner, iv, p. 91;
|
||||
digested"! (quoted, <ent type = 'person'>Gibbon</ent>, History, Ch. 37; Lardner, iv, p. 91;
|
||||
Diegesis, p. 272). To such an extent had the "pious frauds of the
|
||||
theologians been thus early systematized and raised to the dignity
|
||||
of a regular doctrine," that Bishop Eusebius, "in one of the most
|
||||
of a regular doctrine," that Bishop <ent type = 'person'>Eusebius</ent>, "in one of the most
|
||||
learned and elaborate works that antiquity has left us, the Thirty-
|
||||
second Chapter of the Twelfth Book of his Evangelical Preparation,
|
||||
bears for its title this scandalous proposition: 'How it may be
|
||||
Lawful and Fitting to use Falsehood as a Medicine, and for the
|
||||
Benefit of those who Want to be Deceived'" -- (quoting the Greek
|
||||
title; Gibbon, Vindication, p. 76).</p>
|
||||
title; <ent type = 'person'>Gibbon</ent>, Vindication, p. 76).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> BANK of WISDOM
|
||||
Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
|
||||
@ -831,31 +831,31 @@ title; Gibbon, Vindication, p. 76).</p>
|
||||
.
|
||||
FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> St. John Chrysostom, the "'Golden Mouthed," in his work 'On
|
||||
the Priesthood,' has a curious panegyric on the clerical habit of
|
||||
<p> St. <ent type = 'person'>John Chrysostom</ent>, the "'Golden Mouthed," in his work 'On
|
||||
the <ent type = 'person'>Priest</ent>hood,' has a curious panegyric on the clerical habit of
|
||||
telling lies -- "Great is the force of deceit! provided it is not
|
||||
excited by a treacherous intention."' (Comm. on I Cor. ix, 19;
|
||||
Diegesis, p. 309.) Chrysostom was one of the Greek Fathers of the
|
||||
Church, concerning whom Dr. (later Cardinal) Newman thus
|
||||
Church, concerning whom Dr. (later Cardinal) <ent type = 'person'>Newman</ent> thus
|
||||
apologetically spoke: "The Greek Fathers thought that, when there
|
||||
was a justa causa, an untruth need not be a lie. ... Now, as to the
|
||||
just cause, ... the Greek Fathers make them such as these self-
|
||||
defense, charity, zeal for God's honor, and the like." (Newman,
|
||||
defense, charity, zeal for God's honor, and the like." (<ent type = 'person'>Newman</ent>,
|
||||
Apology for His Life, Appendix G, p. 345-6.) He says nothing of his
|
||||
favorites, the Latin Fathers; but we shall hear them described, and
|
||||
amply see them at work lying in their zeal for God's honor, and to
|
||||
their own dishonor.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Great Latin Father St. Jerome (c. 340-420), who made the
|
||||
<p> The Great Latin Father St. <ent type = 'person'>Jerome</ent> (c. 340-420), who made the
|
||||
celebrated Vulgate Version of the Bible, and wrote books of the
|
||||
most marvelous Saint-tales and martyr-yarns, thus describes the
|
||||
approved methods of Christian propaganda, of the Fathers, Greek and
|
||||
Latin alike, against the Pagans:</p>
|
||||
Latin alike, against the <ent type = 'person'>Pagan</ent>s:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "To confute the opposer, now this argument is adduced and now
|
||||
that. One argues as one pleases, saying one thing while one means
|
||||
another. ... Origen, Methodius, Eusebius, and Apollinaris write at
|
||||
great length against Celsus and Porphyry. Consider how subtle are
|
||||
another. ... Origen, Methodius, <ent type = 'person'>Eusebius</ent>, and Apollinaris write at
|
||||
great length against <ent type = 'person'>Celsus</ent> and Porphyry. Consider how subtle are
|
||||
the arguments, how insidious the engines with which they overthrow
|
||||
what the spirit of the devil has wrought. Sometimes, it is true,
|
||||
they are compelled to say not what they think but what is needful.
|
||||
@ -872,17 +872,17 @@ your Epistles. We see passages taken captive by your pen and
|
||||
pressed into service to win you a victory, which in volumes from
|
||||
which they are taken have no controversial bearing at all ... the
|
||||
line so often adopted by strong men in controversy -- of justifying
|
||||
the means by the result." (Jerome, Epist. to Pammachus, xlviii, 13;
|
||||
the means by the result." (<ent type = 'person'>Jerome</ent>, Epist. to <ent type = 'person'>Pammachus</ent>, xlviii, 13;
|
||||
N&PNF. vi, 72-73; See post, p. 230.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Of Eusebius and the others he again says, that they "presume
|
||||
<p> Of <ent type = 'person'>Eusebius</ent> and the others he again says, that they "presume
|
||||
at the price of their soul to assert dogmatically whatever first
|
||||
comes into their head." (Jerome, Epist. li, 7; id. p. 88.) And
|
||||
comes into their head." (<ent type = 'person'>Jerome</ent>, Epist. li, 7; id. p. 88.) And
|
||||
again, of the incentive offered by the gullible ignorance of the
|
||||
Faithful, for the glib mendacities of the priests: "There is
|
||||
nothing so easy as by sheer volubility to deceive a common crowd or
|
||||
an uneducated congregation." (Epist. lii, 8; p. 93.) Father
|
||||
Jerome's own high regard for truth and his zeal in propaganda of
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Jerome</ent>'s own high regard for truth and his zeal in propaganda of
|
||||
fables for edification of the ignorant ex-pagan Christians is
|
||||
illustrated in numberless instances. He tells us of the river
|
||||
Ganges in India, which "has its source in Paradise"; that in India
|
||||
@ -898,57 +898,57 @@ reason of the griffins, dragons, and huge monsters which haunt </p>
|
||||
<p>them; for such are the guardians which avarice needs for its
|
||||
treasures." (Epist. cxxv, 6; N&PNF. vi, 245.) He reaches the climax
|
||||
in his famous Lives of sundry Saints. He relates with all fervor
|
||||
the marvelous experiences of the "blessed hermit Paulus," who was
|
||||
the marvelous experiences of the "blessed hermit <ent type = 'person'>Paulus</ent>," who was
|
||||
113 years of age, and for sixty years had lived in a hole in the
|
||||
ground in the remotest recesses of the desert; his nearest neighbor
|
||||
was St. Anthony, who was only ninety and lived in another hole four
|
||||
days' journey away. The existence and whereabouts of Paulus being
|
||||
revealed to Anthony in a vision, he set out afoot to visit the holy
|
||||
Paulus. On the way, "all at once he beholds a creature of mingled
|
||||
shape, half horse half man, called by the poets Hippo-centaur,"
|
||||
was St. <ent type = 'person'>Anthony</ent>, who was only ninety and lived in another hole four
|
||||
days' journey away. The existence and whereabouts of <ent type = 'person'>Paulus</ent> being
|
||||
revealed to <ent type = 'person'>Anthony</ent> in a vision, he set out afoot to visit the holy
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Paulus</ent>. On the way, "all at once he beholds a creature of mingled
|
||||
shape, half horse half man, called by the poets <ent type = 'person'>Hippo</ent>-centaur,"
|
||||
with whom be holds friendly converse. Later "he sees a mannikin
|
||||
with hooked snout, horned forehead, and extremities like goat's
|
||||
feet," this being one of the desert tribe "whom the Gentiles
|
||||
worship under the names of Fauns, Satyrs, and Incubi," and whose
|
||||
strange, language Anthony was rejoiced to find that he could
|
||||
strange, language <ent type = 'person'>Anthony</ent> was rejoiced to find that he could
|
||||
understand, as they reasoned together about the salvation of the
|
||||
Lord. "Let no one scruple to believe this incident," pleads Father
|
||||
Jerome'; "its truth is supported by" one of these creatures that,
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Jerome</ent>'; "its truth is supported by" one of these creatures that,
|
||||
was captured and brought alive to Alexandria and sent embalmed to
|
||||
the emperor at Antioch. Finally holy Anthony reached the retreat of
|
||||
the blessed Paulus, and was welcomed. As they talked, a raven flew
|
||||
the emperor at Antioch. Finally holy <ent type = 'person'>Anthony</ent> reached the retreat of
|
||||
the blessed <ent type = 'person'>Paulus</ent>, and was welcomed. As they talked, a raven flew
|
||||
down and laid a whole loaf of bread at their feet. "Sec," said
|
||||
Paulus, "the Lord truly loving, truly merciful, has sent us a meal.
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Paulus</ent>, "the Lord truly loving, truly merciful, has sent us a meal.
|
||||
For the last sixty years I have always received half a loaf; but at
|
||||
your coming the Lord has doubled his soldier's rations." During the
|
||||
visit Paulus died; Anthony "saw Paulus in robes of snowy white
|
||||
visit <ent type = 'person'>Paulus</ent> died; <ent type = 'person'>Anthony</ent> "saw <ent type = 'person'>Paulus</ent> in robes of snowy white
|
||||
ascending on high among a band of angels, and the choirs of
|
||||
prophets and apostles." Anthony dragged the body out to bury it,
|
||||
prophets and apostles." <ent type = 'person'>Anthony</ent> dragged the body out to bury it,
|
||||
but was without means to dig a grave; as he was lamenting this
|
||||
unhappy circumstance, "behold, two lions from the recesses of the
|
||||
desert with manes flying on their necks came rushing along; they
|
||||
came straight to the corpse of the blessed old man," fawned on it,
|
||||
roared in mourning, then with their paws dug a grave just wide and
|
||||
deep enough to bold the corpse; came over and licked the hands and
|
||||
feet of Anthony, and ambled away. (Jerome, Life of Paulus the First
|
||||
feet of <ent type = 'person'>Anthony</ent>, and ambled away. (<ent type = 'person'>Jerome</ent>, Life of <ent type = 'person'>Paulus</ent> the First
|
||||
Hermit, N&PNF. vi, 299 seq.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> So gross and prevalent was the clerical habit of pious lies
|
||||
and pretenses "to the glory of God," that St. Augustine, about 395
|
||||
and pretenses "to the glory of God," that St. <ent type = 'person'>Augustine</ent>, about 395
|
||||
A.D., wrote a reproving treatise to the Clergy, De Mendacio (On
|
||||
Lying), which he found necessary to supplement in 420 with another
|
||||
book, Contra Mendacium (Against Lying). This work, says Bishop
|
||||
Wordsworth, "is a protest against these 'pious frauds' which have
|
||||
brought discredit and damage on the cause of the Gospel, and have
|
||||
created prejudice against it, from the days of Augustine to our own
|
||||
times." (A Church History, iv, 93, 94.) While Augustine disapproves
|
||||
brought discredit and damage on the cause of the <ent type = 'person'>Gospel</ent>, and have
|
||||
created prejudice against it, from the days of <ent type = 'person'>Augustine</ent> to our own
|
||||
times." (A Church History, iv, 93, 94.) While <ent type = 'person'>Augustine</ent> disapproves
|
||||
of downright lying even to trap heretics, -- a practice seemingly
|
||||
much in vogue among the good Christians: "It is more pernicious for
|
||||
Catholics to lie that they may catch heretics, than for heretics to
|
||||
lie that they may not be found out by Catholics" (Against Lying,
|
||||
ch. 5; N&PNF. iii, 483); yet this Saint heartily approves and
|
||||
argues in support of the chronic clerical characteristics of
|
||||
suppressio veri, of suppression or concealment of the truth for the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>suppressio veri</ent>, of suppression or concealment of the truth for the
|
||||
sake of Christian "edification," a device for the encouragement of
|
||||
credulity among the Faithful which has run riot through the
|
||||
centuries and flourishes today among the priests and the ignorant </p>
|
||||
@ -964,33 +964,33 @@ disputes, and preaches of things eternal, or to him that narrates
|
||||
or speaks of things temporal pertaining to edification of religion
|
||||
or piety, to conceal at fitting times whatever seems fit to be
|
||||
concealed; but to tell a lie is never lawful, therefore neither to
|
||||
conceal by telling a lie." (Augustine, On Lying, ch. 19; N&PNF.
|
||||
conceal by telling a lie." (<ent type = 'person'>Augustine</ent>, On Lying, ch. 19; N&PNF.
|
||||
iii, 466.) The great Bishop did not, however, it seems, read his
|
||||
own code when it came to preaching unto edification, for in one of
|
||||
his own sermons he thus relates a very notable experience: "I was
|
||||
already Bishop of Hippo, when I went into Ethiopia with some
|
||||
servants of Christ there to preach the Gospel. In this country we
|
||||
already Bishop of <ent type = 'person'>Hippo</ent>, when I went into Ethiopia with some
|
||||
servants of Christ there to preach the <ent type = 'person'>Gospel</ent>. In this country we
|
||||
saw many men and women without heads, who had two great eyes in
|
||||
their breasts; and in countries still more southly, we saw people
|
||||
who had but one eye in their foreheads." (Augustine, Sermon 37;
|
||||
quoted in Taylor, Syntagma, p. 52; Diegesis, p. 271; Doane, Bible
|
||||
who had but one eye in their foreheads." (<ent type = 'person'>Augustine</ent>, Sermon 37;
|
||||
quoted in <ent type = 'person'>Taylor</ent>, Syntagma, p. 52; Diegesis, p. 271; Doane, Bible
|
||||
Myths, p. 437.) To the mind's eye the wonderful spectacle is
|
||||
represented, as the great Saint preached the word of God to these
|
||||
accphalous faithful: we see the whole congregation of devout and
|
||||
intelligent Christians, without heads, watching attentively without
|
||||
eyes, listening intently without ears, and understanding perfectly
|
||||
without brains, the spirited and spiritual harangue of the eloquent
|
||||
and veracious St. Augustine. And every hearer of the Sermon in
|
||||
and veracious St. <ent type = 'person'>Augustine</ent>. And every hearer of the Sermon in
|
||||
which he told about it, believed in furness of faith and infantile
|
||||
credulity every word of the noble Bishop of Hippo, giving thanks to
|
||||
credulity every word of the noble Bishop of <ent type = 'person'>Hippo</ent>, giving thanks to
|
||||
God that the words of life and salvation had been by him carried to
|
||||
so remarkable a tribe of God's curious children.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Pope Gregory the Great (590-604), in one momentary lapse in
|
||||
<p> Pope <ent type = 'person'>Gregory</ent> the Great (590-604), in one momentary lapse in
|
||||
his own arduous labors of propagating "lies to the glory of God,"
|
||||
made the pious gesture, "God does not need our lies"; but His
|
||||
Church evidently did, for the pious work went lyingly on; a work
|
||||
given immense impetus by His Holiness Gregory himself, in his
|
||||
given immense impetus by His Holiness <ent type = 'person'>Gregory</ent> himself, in his
|
||||
mendacious Dialogues and other papal output, -- with little
|
||||
abatement unto this day.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1022,12 +1022,12 @@ historical authorities.</p>
|
||||
.
|
||||
FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Middleton, in his epochal Free Inquiry into the lying habits
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Middleton</ent>, in his epochal Free Inquiry into the lying habits
|
||||
and miracles of the Churchmen, says: "Many spurious books were
|
||||
forged in the earliest times of the Church, in the name of Christ
|
||||
and his apostles, which passed upon all the Fathers as genuine and
|
||||
divine through several successive ages." (Middleton, Free Inquiry,
|
||||
Int. Disc. p. xcii; London, 1749.)</p>
|
||||
divine through several successive ages." (<ent type = 'person'>Middleton</ent>, Free Inquiry,
|
||||
Int. Disc. p. <ent type = 'person'>xcii</ent>; London, 1749.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The same author, whose book set England ringing with its
|
||||
exposures of the lies and fraudulent miracles of the Church, makes
|
||||
@ -1045,16 +1045,16 @@ ages of using the hyperbolical style to advance the honor of God
|
||||
and the salvation of men." (Free Inq. p. 83; citing Jo., Hist.
|
||||
Eccles. p. 681.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Lecky, the distinguished author of the History of European
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Lecky</ent>, the distinguished author of the History of European
|
||||
Morals, devotes much research into what he describes as "the
|
||||
deliberate and apparently perfectly unscrupulous forgery, of a
|
||||
whole literature, destined to further the propagation either of
|
||||
Christianity as a whole, or of some particular class of tenets."
|
||||
(Lecky, Hist. of European Morals, vol. i, p. 375.)</p>
|
||||
(<ent type = 'person'>Lecky</ent>, Hist. of European Morals, vol. i, p. 375.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In his very notable History of Rationalism speaking of that
|
||||
Christian "epoch when faith and facts did not cultivate an
|
||||
acquaintance," the same author, Lecky, thus describes the state of
|
||||
acquaintance," the same author, <ent type = 'person'>Lecky</ent>, thus describes the state of
|
||||
intellectual and moral obliquity into which the Church had forced
|
||||
even the ablest classes of society:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1066,10 +1066,10 @@ histories, became tissues of the wildest fables, so grotesque and
|
||||
at the same time so audacious, that they were the wonder of
|
||||
succeeding ages, And the very men who scattered these fictions
|
||||
broadcast over Christendom, taught at the same time that credulity
|
||||
was a virtue and skepticism a crime." (Lecky, Hist. of Rationalism,
|
||||
was a virtue and skepticism a crime." (<ent type = 'person'>Lecky</ent>, Hist. of Rationalism,
|
||||
i, 896.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In the same work last quoted, Lecky again, speaking of what he
|
||||
<p> In the same work last quoted, <ent type = 'person'>Lecky</ent> again, speaking of what he
|
||||
terms "the pious frauds of theologians," which, he shows were
|
||||
"systematized and raised to the dignity of a regular doctrine,"
|
||||
says of the pious Fathers:</p>
|
||||
@ -1091,11 +1091,11 @@ combatted, and therefore prophecies of Christ by Orpheus and the
|
||||
Sibyls -- were forged, lying wonders were multiplied. ... Heretics
|
||||
were to be convinced, and therefore interpolations of old writings
|
||||
or complete forgeries were habitually opposed to the forged
|
||||
Gospels. ... The tendency ... triumphed wherever the supreme
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Gospel</ent>s. ... The tendency ... triumphed wherever the supreme
|
||||
importance of dogmas was held. Generation after generation it
|
||||
became more universal; it continued till the very sense of truth
|
||||
and the very love of truth seemed blotted out from the minds of
|
||||
men." (Lecky, Rationalism in Europe, i, 396-7.)</p>
|
||||
men." (<ent type = 'person'>Lecky</ent>, Rationalism in Europe, i, 396-7.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> There is thus disclosed a very sharp and shaming contrast
|
||||
between the precept of the Lord Buddha: "Thou shalt not attempt,
|
||||
@ -1112,14 +1112,14 @@ society than the strict practice of its moral precepts"! (CE. vii,
|
||||
|
||||
<p> With its consciousness of the shifty and shady practices of
|
||||
it's "sacred" profession, the Christian priestcraft differs not
|
||||
from the Pagan in the sneer of Cicero: "Cato mirari se aiebat, quod
|
||||
non rideret haruspex, cum haruspicem vidisset, -- Cato used to
|
||||
from the <ent type = 'person'>Pagan</ent> in the sneer of Cicero: "<ent type = 'person'><ent type = 'person'>Cato</ent> mirari</ent> se aiebat, quod
|
||||
non rideret haruspex, cum haruspicem vidisset, -- <ent type = 'person'>Cato</ent> used to
|
||||
wonder how one of our priests can forbear laughing when he sees
|
||||
another." (Quoted Opera, Ed. Gron., p. 3806.) We shall see all too
|
||||
well that the Pagan estimate holds good for the Christian; that, as
|
||||
well that the <ent type = 'person'>Pagan</ent> estimate holds good for the Christian; that, as
|
||||
said by the "universal scholar" Grotius: "Ecclesiastical history
|
||||
consists of nothing but the wickedness of the governing clergy, --
|
||||
Qui legit historiam Ecclesiasticam, quid legit nisi Episcoporum
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Qui</ent> legit <ent type = 'person'>historiam Ecclesiasticam</ent>, quid legit nisi Episcoporum
|
||||
vicia?" (Epistolae, p. 7, col. 1).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The universality of the frauds and impostures of the Church,
|
||||
@ -1127,12 +1127,12 @@ above barely hinted at, and the contaminating influence of such
|
||||
example, are by now sufficiently evident; they will be seen to
|
||||
taint and corrupt every phase of the Church and of the
|
||||
ecclesiastical propaganda of the Faith. As is well said by
|
||||
Middleton in commenting on these and like pious practices of the
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Middleton</ent> in commenting on these and like pious practices of the
|
||||
Holy Church: "And no man surely can doubt, but that those, who
|
||||
would either forge, or make use of forged books, would, in the same
|
||||
cause, and for the same ends, make use of forged miracles" (A Free
|
||||
Inquiry, Introd. Discourse, p. lxxxvii); -- as well as of forged
|
||||
Gospels, Epistles, Creeds, Saint-tales -- vast extensions of pious
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Gospel</ent>s, Epistles, <ent type = 'person'>Creed</ent>s, Saint-tales -- vast extensions of pious
|
||||
frauds of which we shall see a plethora of examples.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The proofs here to be arrayed for conviction are drawn from
|
||||
@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ These clerical works of confession and confusion are for the most
|
||||
part three ponderous sets of volumes; they are readily accessible
|
||||
for verification of my recitals, and for further instances, in good
|
||||
libraries and bookshops; the libraries of the Union Theological
|
||||
Seminary and of Columbia University, in New York City, were the
|
||||
Seminary and of Columbia University, in New <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk City, were the
|
||||
places of the finds here recorded. Cited so often, space will be
|
||||
saved for more valuable uses by citing by their initials, -- which
|
||||
will become very familiar -- my chief ecclesiastical authorities,
|
||||
@ -1171,12 +1171,12 @@ volumes. The Christian Literature Publishing Co., Buffalo, N.Y.,
|
||||
Second Series; many volumes; same publishers.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Catholic Encyclopedia, cited as CE.; fifteen volumes and
|
||||
index, published under the Imprimatur of Archbishop Farley; New
|
||||
York, Robert Appleton Co., 1907-9.</p>
|
||||
index, published under the <ent type = 'person'>Imprimatur</ent> of Archbishop <ent type = 'person'>Farley</ent>; New
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk, Robert Appleton Co., 1907-9.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The Encyclopedia Biblica, cited as EB., four volumes; Adam &
|
||||
Charles Black, London, 1899; American Reprint, The Macmillan Co.,
|
||||
New York, 1914.</p>
|
||||
New <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk, 1914.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The clerical confessions of lies and frauds in the ponderous
|
||||
volumes of the Catholic Encyclopedia alone suffice, and to spare,
|
||||
@ -1206,7 +1206,7 @@ in token of his engagement to speak the truth, as he hopes to be
|
||||
saved in the way and method of salvation pointed out in that
|
||||
blessed volume, and in further token that, if he should swerve from
|
||||
the truth, he may be justly deprived of all the blessings of the
|
||||
Gospel, and be made liable to that vengeance which he has
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Gospel</ent>, and be made liable to that vengeance which he has
|
||||
imprecated on his own head." (Consol. Stat. N.C., 1919, sec. 3189.)</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> BANK of WISDOM
|
||||
@ -1235,8 +1235,8 @@ State of Arkansas -- ("Now laugh!") -- declares infamously in its
|
||||
Constitution: "No person who denies the being of a God shall hold
|
||||
any office in the civil government of this State, nor be competent
|
||||
to testify as a witness in any court"! (Const. Ark., Art. XIX, sec.
|
||||
26.) Under this accursed act of outlawry, Charles Lee Smith, of New
|
||||
York City, a native of Arkansas, went to his home city of Little
|
||||
26.) Under this accursed act of outlawry, <ent type = 'person'>Charles Lee Smith</ent>, of New
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk City, a native of Arkansas, went to his home city of Little
|
||||
Rock in the Fall of 1928 to oppose the degrading proposition
|
||||
proposed as a law in a popular initiative election, forbidding the
|
||||
teaching of Evolution in the State-supported schools and
|
||||
@ -1253,7 +1253,7 @@ Arkansas Bar, and appealed to him to "start something" to get rid
|
||||
of it. He shrugged his shoulders, smiled in sympathy, and said: "It
|
||||
is in the Constitution, and too difficult to get it out." Then,
|
||||
dropping into Spanish, so that others at the table might not
|
||||
understand, he added: "Yo no creo nada, -- y no digo nada -- I
|
||||
understand, he added: "<ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent> no <ent type = 'person'>creo nada</ent>, -- y no <ent type = 'person'>digo nada</ent> -- I
|
||||
believe nothing -- and I say nothing"! While these infamies are
|
||||
inflicted upon the citizens of this country by law imposed by a
|
||||
bigoted and ignorant minority of superstitious parsons and their
|
||||
@ -1293,8 +1293,8 @@ indicted, tried and convicted within the past two years! Throughout
|
||||
the Union are odious religious statutes, "Blue Laws" and Sunday
|
||||
Laws, penalizing innocuous diversions and activities of the people
|
||||
on days of religious Voodoo: Sunday, as we shall see, being a
|
||||
plagiarization from the religion of Mithras, and created a secular
|
||||
holiday -- not a religious Holy Day -- by law of the Pagan
|
||||
plagiarization from the religion of <ent type = 'person'>Mithras</ent>, and created a secular
|
||||
holiday -- not a religious Holy Day -- by law of the <ent type = 'person'>Pagan</ent>
|
||||
Constantine. Such laws sometimes prove troublesome to the pious
|
||||
Puritans themselves; an amusing instance of their boomerang effect
|
||||
being now chronicled to the annoyed and sneering world. Some "400"
|
||||
@ -1310,7 +1310,7 @@ Consternation reigned, with much confusion and hurried telephoning
|
||||
by the management. In the midst of it came a 'phone call from the
|
||||
driver of the roll-delivery truck, from the local Hoosgow: "I've
|
||||
been arrested for the violation of section 316 of the Laws of 1798,
|
||||
which prohibits the delivery of bread and rolls on the Sabbath and
|
||||
which prohibits the delivery of bread and rolls on the <ent type = 'person'>Sabbath</ent> and
|
||||
also forbids a man to kiss his wife on that day"! Some of the
|
||||
sachems called the chief of police and angrily demanded that this
|
||||
holy law be violated by delivering the blessed rolls; the driver
|
||||
@ -1326,7 +1326,7 @@ Jersey," and recorded: "hundreds of names and addresses were in the
|
||||
possession of the police today because their owners played golf,
|
||||
tennis or radios, bought or sold gasoline, cigarettes or groceries,
|
||||
or operated trolley cars, busses or trains in this capital city (of
|
||||
Trenton) on the Sabbath," with much more of detail; and in the same
|
||||
Trenton) on the <ent type = 'person'>Sabbath</ent>," with much more of detail; and in the same
|
||||
column, a dispatch from Dover, Ohio, that the police used tear-gas
|
||||
bombs to dislodge the operator from the projection-box of a local
|
||||
"movie" theater, who, with the owner and four employees, was
|
||||
@ -1378,14 +1378,14 @@ cynical frankness he asserts its right and discloses its odious
|
||||
methods.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> These odious things are all the work and blighting effects of
|
||||
the unholy 'Odium Theologicum' of Priestcraft, poisoning men's
|
||||
the unholy 'Odium Theologicum' of <ent type = 'person'>Priest</ent>craft, poisoning men's
|
||||
minds with the rancor of obsolete superstitious beliefs.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Remove the cause, the cure is automatically and quickly
|
||||
effected. To contribute to the speedier consummation of this
|
||||
supreme boon is the motive and justification of this book. It gives
|
||||
to the unctuous quack "Doctors of Divinity" a copious dose out of
|
||||
their own nauseous Pharmacopaeia of Priestly Mendacity. As it takes
|
||||
their own nauseous <ent type = 'person'>Pharmacopaeia</ent> of <ent type = 'person'>Priest</ent>ly Mendacity. As it takes
|
||||
its deadly effect upon themselves, haply their "incurably
|
||||
religious" duped patients may begin to evidence hopeful symptoms of
|
||||
a wholesome, speedy and complete cure from their priest-made
|
||||
@ -1396,10 +1396,10 @@ compelling proofs of duplicitous fraud of priestcraft and Church
|
||||
exposed in this book must convince even the most credulous and
|
||||
devout Believer, that the system of "revealed religion" which he
|
||||
"drew in with his mother's milk" and has in innocent ignorance
|
||||
suffered in his system ever since, is simply a veneered Paganism,
|
||||
suffered in his system ever since, is simply a veneered <ent type = 'person'>Pagan</ent>ism,
|
||||
unrevealed and untrue; is a huge scheme of priestly imposture to
|
||||
exploit the credulous and to live in power and wealth at his
|
||||
expense. Luther hit the bull's-eye of the System -- before he </p>
|
||||
expense. <ent type = 'person'>Luther</ent> hit the bull's-eye of the System -- before he </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> BANK of WISDOM
|
||||
Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
|
||||
@ -1413,7 +1413,7 @@ money to the priests would kill the whole scheme in a couple of
|
||||
years. This is the sovereign remedy. Let him that hath ears to
|
||||
hear, hear; and govern himself accordingly. Every awakened Believer
|
||||
must feel outraged in his dignity and self-respect, and in disgust
|
||||
must repudiate the Creed and its impostors.</p>
|
||||
must repudiate the <ent type = 'person'>Creed</ent> and its impostors.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> When a notorious Criminal is arraigned at the bar of Justice
|
||||
and put to trial for deeds of crime and shame, it is his crimes,
|
||||
@ -1422,12 +1422,12 @@ his criminal career and record, which are the subject of inquiry ,
|
||||
attenuation is accorded to sundry sporadic instances -- (if any) --
|
||||
between crimes or as cloaks for crime -- of his canting piety and
|
||||
gestures of benevolence towards his victims, the dupes of his
|
||||
duplicity. Thus the Church and its Creed are here arraigned on
|
||||
duplicity. Thus the Church and its <ent type = 'person'>Creed</ent> are here arraigned on
|
||||
their record of Crime, -- "extenuating naught, naught setting down
|
||||
in malice"; -- simply exposing truly its own convicting record and
|
||||
confessions of its criminality, for condign judgment upon it.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Goliath of Gath was a very big Giant; but a small pebble,
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Goliath</ent> of Gath was a very big Giant; but a small pebble,
|
||||
artfully slung, brought him to a sudden and violent collapse, a
|
||||
huge corpse. This TNT. bomb of a book, loaded with barbed facts, is
|
||||
flung full in facie ecclesiae -- into the face of the Forgery-
|
||||
@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@ will be exploded!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> JOSEPH WHELESS</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>New York City
|
||||
<p>New <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk City
|
||||
780 Riverside Drive
|
||||
June 1, 1930</p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1472,22 +1472,22 @@ June 1, 1930</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> NOTE:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> You are reading
|
||||
<p> <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>u are reading
|
||||
FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY
|
||||
by
|
||||
Joseph Wheliss</p>
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Joseph <ent type = 'person'>Wheliss</ent></ent></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> 1930</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In order to better understand the text, it is necessary to
|
||||
know the abreviated referances that Mr. Wheliss uses throughout the
|
||||
know the abreviated referances that Mr. <ent type = 'person'>Wheliss</ent> uses throughout the
|
||||
text. If you are interested in knowing the source material it is
|
||||
adviseable to take note of these oft-used references now. EFF</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Abbreviations for most often used sources:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The libraries of the Union Theological Seminary and of
|
||||
Columbia University, in New York City, were the places of the finds
|
||||
Columbia University, in New <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk City, were the places of the finds
|
||||
here recorded. Cited so often, space will be saved for more
|
||||
valuable uses by citing by their initials, -- which will become
|
||||
very familiar -- my chief ecclesiastical authorities, towit:</p>
|
||||
@ -1502,12 +1502,12 @@ very familiar -- my chief ecclesiastical authorities, towit:</p>
|
||||
First and Second Series; many volumes; same publishers.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>CE.; The Catholic Encyclopedia, cited as CE.; fifteen volumes
|
||||
and index, published under the Imprimatur of Archbishop
|
||||
Farley; New York, Robert Appleton Co., 1907-9.</p>
|
||||
and index, published under the <ent type = 'person'>Imprimatur</ent> of Archbishop
|
||||
<ent type = 'person'>Farley</ent>; New <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk, Robert Appleton Co., 1907-9.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>EB., The Encyclopedia Biblica, cited as EB., four volumes;
|
||||
Adam & Charles Black, London, 1899; American Reprint, The
|
||||
Macmillan Co., New York, 1914.</p>
|
||||
Macmillan Co., New <ent type = 'person'>Yo</ent>rk, 1914.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
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@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ passed while my market grew to critical mass by word of mouth. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Denver in August, l987, that the idea came to me to offer my </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>audience my current manuscripts explaining HYPERSPACE to
|
||||
<p>audience my current manuscripts explaining <ent type = 'person'>HYPERSPACE</ent> to
|
||||
----------
|
||||
everyone who would participate by also sharing their ideas on </p>
|
||||
|
||||
@ -488,9 +488,9 @@ price of $10 or a postpublication price of $16. Send no money. I </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>sufficient to underwrite publication. In the meantime, enquiries </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>from royalty publishers are welcome. Zees is a bootstrap </p>
|
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<p>from royalty publishers are welcome. <ent type = 'person'>Zees</ent> is a bootstrap </p>
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<p>production, Dollink --- my apologies to Zsa Zsa. </p>
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<p>production, <ent type = 'person'>Dollink</ent> --- my apologies to Zsa Zsa. </p>
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<p> END OF FORWARD </p>
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@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ have no doubt that God inspires all His chosen publishers, but I
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wonder whether He chose every publisher; after all, the Bible is
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in public domain. If God inspired the American Constitution, in
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which I believe more than the Bible, He is the Source of the
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First Amendment --- entitling Larry Flint to turn a dollar in
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First Amendment --- entitling <ent type = 'person'>Larry Flint</ent> to turn a dollar in
|
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the pre-eminently profitable religious market. It isn't belief
|
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in the Bible that fomented the most vicious wars, but belief in
|
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the infallible veracity of the publishers.</p>
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@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
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<xml><p>FREE TRADE VERSUS PROTECTIONISM</p>
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<p>By RICHARD M. EBELING</p>
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<p>By <ent type = 'person'>RICHARD M</ent>. EBELING</p>
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<p>A specter is haunting the economies of the world. It is the
|
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specter of protectionism. In one country after the other,
|
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@ -173,14 +173,14 @@ changing circumstances, free trade between nations ultimately
|
||||
benefits all who participate. Protectionism can only lead us
|
||||
down a road of impoverishment and international commercial
|
||||
tensions. To paraphrase the great 18th century, free-market
|
||||
thinker, David Hume, when he criticized the protectionists of
|
||||
thinker, <ent type = 'person'>David Hume</ent>, when he criticized the protectionists of
|
||||
his time: Not only as a man, but as an American, I pray for
|
||||
the flourishing commerce of Germany, France, England and even
|
||||
Japan. Why? Because America's prosperity and economic future
|
||||
are dependent upon the economic prosperity of all of those
|
||||
with whom it trades in the international division of labor.</p>
|
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|
||||
<p>Professor Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of
|
||||
<p>Professor <ent type = 'person'>Ebeling</ent> is the <ent type = 'person'>Ludwig von</ent> Mises Professor of
|
||||
Economics at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, and also
|
||||
serves as vice-president of academic affairs for The Future of
|
||||
Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.
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