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Re: War Provocations and Peace Actions
By: AGelbert Date: March 27, 2015, 12:44 am
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Final note for today about the A320 that makes the "lone nut"
conspiracy theory VERY hard to believe.
Airbus A320
Above 16,000 ft. - Fly no greater than Mach .79
Vne/Mmo - Never Exceed/Maximum Mach Number = .90
Cruise Airspeed:· Mach .71 to .79
[size=14pt]Descend with throttles at idle at initial descent.
Set auto throttle to hold descent airspeed of Mach .65 to 16,000
ft. and 250 KIAS below 16,000 ft.
HTML http://www.flywestwind.com/Hangar/Aircraft_Files/FOMs/A320FOM.pdf
HTML http://www.flywestwind.com/Hangar/Aircraft_Files/FOMs/A320FOM.pdf
what happens if you, BEING A LONE NUT
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/>TRY TO GET AROUND THAT [I]without FIRST HAVING SABOTAGED THE
AUTOPILOT AND THE ON BOARD COMPUTER THAT OVERRIDES WRONG PILOT
MANUAL COMMANDS ON THE STICK AND THROTTLES? ??? [/i]
The airplane is a fly-by-wire design, which means the pilot does
not control the plane, the pilot is simply giving instructions
to the computer that flies the plane. And the software has a
flight envelope protection that would prevent the airplane from
operating in any conditions that are outside of said envelope.
Which means, that any attempt at making it OPERATE IN THE
OVERSPEED CONDITION WILL BE disallowed by the avionics system.
SOMEBODY TAMPERED WITH THE A320 COMPUTER(S) BEFORE THE FLIGHT.
Forget the "lone nut"; it's a lie. And the pilot has been turned
into another patsy by the fascist M.I.C.
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Re: War Provocations and Peace Actions
By: AGelbert Date: March 28, 2015, 3:29 pm
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View of a co-pilot
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/>;) in an A320.
What the media, in regard to the A320 German Airwings crash,
REFUSES to report (See the dog that didn't bark - Sherlock
Holmes), that anybody that supports the scientific method is
required to report:
The speed of sound at the temperature and altitude the German
Airwings crashed was approximately 700 mph.
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound
The reported speed at the time of the crash was 430 mph. The
aircraft was WELL BELOW 10,000 feet when it crashed.
The flight envelope protection software will not allow the A320
to operate above mach .79 VMO ( maximum operating velocity). The
throttles will be reduced to flight idle immediately when that
condition is detected by the computers. At the pitch attitude
(angle of descent) the A320 had when it impacted the ground, a
velocity of 430 mph was impossible with engines at flight idle.
At flight idle, the aircraft would have crashed at a maximum of
approximately 280 mph.
Structural failure due to wing loading above Mach .90 is the
reason that Mach .90 is VNE (never exceed velocity). When the
A320 is between Mach .79 and Mach .90, the overspeed alarms are
constantly sounding, as well as red warning lights blinking and
****pit messages scrolling on the data screens. All the sounds
are picked up by the ****pit voice recorder. All the warnings
triggered by the software are recorded on the flight data
recorder.
Excerpts from a normal flight of an A320:
With fly by wire technology, the aircraft cannot, under normal
circumstances, bank the aircraft by more than 67 degrees from
the vertical, pitch up by more than 30 degrees, and pitch down
by more than 15 degrees. In addition to these, all maneuvers are
limited in the stress induced to the aircraft to 2.5G. In the
event of over speeding, the aircraft raises the nose gently.
The whole flight, and the navigation along the ground, is taken
care of by the Flight management System on board the aircraft.
The Flight Management System (FMS) integrates sensors, systems,
and displays to give economy with a minimum workload.
A small white arrow on the electronic map, known as the
Navigation Display, indicated the optimum point at which the
aircraft should begin its descent. Firman requested for descent
from Air Traffic Control 30 seconds prior and Henry began
Mandala 276’s descent into Surabaya. All by the autopilot, of
course.
The engines whined down, and the
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A small pink dot on the 2nd vertical tape from the left,
indicating the vertical path deviation
aircraft began descending at idle thrust at 2800 feet per
minute. A small pink ball on the primary Flight Display (PFD)
indicated that the aircraft was 440 ft below the ideal descent
path. A small lightning bolt drawn on the Navigation Display
indicated the point where the aircraft would intercept the FMS
computed descent path.
Most of the descent was performed at idle thrust, which speaks
well about the economical management of the flight by the 320’s
FMS. The aircraft reached the deceleration point, a point at
which the aircraft starts slowing down, to facilitate the
extension of flaps.
HTML http://theflyingengineer.com/flightdeck/airbus-a320-experience/
HTML http://theflyingengineer.com/flightdeck/airbus-a320-experience/
OF COURSE, a "lone nut" co-pilot would know all the above and
attempt figure a way around it, RIGHT? He would certainly ignore
the alarms and try to keep the engine power form being reduced
to flight idle even as he "fooled" the arcraft computers by
keeping his angle of descent at less than15 degrees, wouldn't
he?
But THERE is the rub. There IS NO WAY around the A320'S FIVE
computers UNLESS you sabotaged the software. If, by some clever
skullduggery, he managed to keep the engines throttled up, the
INSTANT the wing load sensors picked up more than plus or minus
2.5 Gs (easy to do when flying BELOW 10,000 because the air is
thicker - also the air over mountainous terrain is ALWAYS
turbulent) at 100 mph or more above maximum safe speed, the
computers are going correct that PRONTO.
There is NO pilot override to emergency computer action, PERIOD.
There is NO way for a pilot to modify the software of any of
those five computers. That is a maintenance function. When a
pilot enters a flight plan, the computer(s) software gives him
all the options available, including climb, cruise and descent
profiles. The pilot can pick from the choices presented to him,
PERIOD.
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[quote]Why did the dog not bark?[/quote]
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[move] [b] Ground Proximetry Warning System (GPWS) Audio Alarms
on the A320.[/b][/move]
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Re: War Provocations and Peace Actions
By: AGelbert Date: March 28, 2015, 6:49 pm
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“Diving” into the A320: Dive Speeds
18 Sunday Mar 2012
Posted by theflyingengineer in Flight Safety, Operations
Tags 0.89, 381kts, A320, A380, Airbus, Airbus A380, Authority,
Dive Speed, Expedite Descent, Flight Test, High, HSP, Mach, MD,
MMO, Overspeed, Proection, Sidestick, SPeed, Structural Damage,
VD, VD/MD, VMO, Warning
An apparently “lesser known” fact about the Airbus A320 is the
dive speed, its significance, and the associated consequences.
The dive speed is the absolute maximum speed above which the
aircraft must not fly. Typically, to achieve this speed, the
aircraft must enter a dive (steep descent), as the engines
cannot produce sufficient thrust to overcome aerodynamic drag in
level flight. At the dive speed, excessive aircraft vibrations
develop which put the aircraft structural integrity at stake.
On the Airbus fly by wire aircraft, it is not possible to reach
the dive speed, due to the flight envelope protections available
in normal law.
If the sidestick is maintained full forward, and the airspeed
crosses VMO/MMO (350kts), the pitch nose-down authority smoothly
reduces to zero at approximately VMO (350kts) +16 / MMO + 0.04.
This however, does not guarantee the airspeed stabilizing at
this speed.
If (350kts) MMO + 0.04 / VMO + 20kts is reached or exceeded,
then a structural inspection is necessary. Beyond MD (=
MMO+0.07) / VD (= VMO + 31kts) (A320 family), structural
disintegration can occur.
Here are the speeds for the A320, in Mach number and Kts. The
lesser value must always be respected, at all times:
Dive Speeds: MD/VD = M0.89/381kts
Maximum Operating Speeds: MMO/VMO = M0.82/350kts.
Expedite Descent (as on FCU, if available) M0.8/340kts
HTML https://theflyingengineer.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/speed-tape.jpg
The graphical representation of speeds above VMO/MMO, (made by
The Flying Engineer), gives you a clearer picture of the speeds,
their significance for the FBW system, and the consequences.
To understand the seriousness of the VD/MD, take a look at the
video below, which involves the VD/MD testing of the Airbus
A380. The MD for the A380 is Mach 0.96, and the test crew dread
taking the airplane that far.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImSuZjvkATw&feature=player_embedded
HTML http://theflyingengineer.com/tag/overspeed/
374 Kts = 430 mph alleged crash speed of German Airwings A320...
knots versus mph conversion
HTML http://www.metric-conversions.org/speed/knots-to-miles-per-hour.htm
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Re: War Provocations and Peace Actions
By: AGelbert Date: March 28, 2015, 11:21 pm
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Re: War Provocations and Peace Actions
By: AGelbert Date: March 29, 2015, 8:35 pm
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A320: Controlled Flight Into Terrain? .
Published March 29, 2015. | By Slogger
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RE,
Thank you for posting this article.
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Great info on all those accidents! :o
However, unlike those other accidents, the LACK of communication
from the coc kpit in this case is what makes me want to point at
sabotage. 8)
Communication was not an issue in any of the A320 accidents. It
certainly WAS here. The FALSE claim by the authorities that they
could "hear the co-pilot breathing to the end" :evil4: while
all sorts of alarms were going off says it ALL.
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I do not believe that radio transmissions were leaving that
aircraft, PERIOD. Even if a crazy man was at the controls, as
they claim, they would NOT have been able to hear him breathing
with the alarms going off.
[quote]If Lubitz was really that depressed, why was he allowed
to fly? The truth is, he wasn’t. “He flew into a mountain
because he was depressed/had split up with his partner” simply
doesn’t hold water: follow the timeline back, and you will see
that Lubitz had made a full recovery from his depression. He
took a break from training six years ago because he was
responsible enough to realise he needed to get his head
straight.[/quote]
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[quote]My point here is not to kick off yet another conspiracy
theory. [/quote]
Well, He SHOULD be.
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ALL
REAL CONPIRACIES are detected by FIRST formulating a THEORY that
FITS THE EVIDENCE.
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The press is NOT exposing a "flawed" rush to judgment; they are
USING a TIRED MO with a LONG TRACK RECORD of "lone nut" branding
to front run a witch hunt for TPTB in order to distract people
from the Criminal State Sponsored MEANS, MOTIVE and OPPORTUNITY
Occam's razor truth! The media behavior is EVIDENCE of collusion
and Mens rea[/I], not stupidity or ignorance!
[quote]I’m just concerned (as an occasional depressive myself)
that an attempt has been made by both the media and Lufthansa to
make his depression seem contemporaneous with the A320 crash: it
clearly wasn’t.[/quote]
I'm a bit more than "concerned". I'm mad as hell at this OBVIOUS
arm waving, hysterical "blame the victim" INFAMY while they
don't say ZIP about the aircraft technology vulnerabilities and
the REAL possibility of sabotage.
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[quote]... an analysis of transponder data by air tracker
Flightradar24 showed that the plane’s autopilot had been
manually reset from 38,000 to below 100 feet, immediately
following which Lubitz began a steady descent at high
speed.[/quote] ::)
Thee above is OBVIOUSLY an assumption, not evidence (not even
WEAK evidence!). :P
It is CHILD'S PLAY to have a flight tracker interpret a software
generated altitude assignment as a "manual" altitude setting.
They do not have the flight data recorder data because it is
"damaged" and they don't have the "QAR" (a maintenance flight
data recorder in the coc kpit that has been used to access data
in previous accidents) because that was probably destroyed on
impact (it's not as robust as the flight data recorder).
Maintenance checks the QAR when pilots write up aircraft
problems. So, [i]they have ZERO evidence that a human actually
toughed that altitude assignment nob on the autopilot.
"High Speed"? I don't think so (see aircraft flight envelope
protection in my posts).
And they keep saying 38,000 feet! WTF!!? An aircraft is either
assigned 37,000 feet or 39,000 feet. NOBODY is assigned 38,000
feet! The service ceiling (ability to control the aircraft
within safe parameters) for the A320 is 39,000 feet. For a
flight of that duration, 37,000 feet would be rather high, but
they might be assigned it for traffic.
I see NO reason for them to ask to fly at their service ceiling
for a "relatively" short flight. Perhaps the autopilot
malfunctioned and the aircraft kept climbing after 37,000 feet.
That might explain why a descent was initiated at 38,000 feet,
if that is what actually occurred.
Ward did everyone a service by posting the A320 track
record.
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However, I think he takes media hype a bit too seriously. When
the media "rush to judgement", they are ALWAYS being DIRECTED to
do so.
There is NO null hypothesis in regard to media action. The
mainstream media is GUILTY until proven innocent. Ward should
know that.
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Re: War Provocations and Peace Actions
By: AGelbert Date: March 29, 2015, 9:34 pm
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[quote author=Uncle Bob link=topic=4501.msg71619#msg71619
date=1427673967]
another thing sloger didnt say is the black box is reported
damaged so often these days, you would think they were never
designed to withstand crashes.
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UB,
That comment you made got me to take another look at the crash
site picture. And looky here what I came up with. 8) You will
get a kick out of this. I am very good at putting puzzles
together when I have easy color schemes to guide me.
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Picture taken in 2014 of the A320 in the crash seen below.
Notice that a large part of the vertical stabilizer is intact.
That white part you see is more a part of the tail boom on the
empennage than the vertical stabilizer. Just beneath that is
where the BLACK BOXES (much more robust than a vertical
stabilizer) were located when the aircraft was in one piece...
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Re: War Provocations and Peace Actions
By: AGelbert Date: April 3, 2015, 9:26 pm
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Are you open minded enough to listen to CFS from Christopher
Bollyn?
If not, ANY claim that you are "open minded" is:
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[quote]Published on Mar 7, 2015
Christopher Bollyn 2015 “Solving 911 Ends the War”
In the name of 9/11, “wars have been waged, governments
overthrown, and an untold number of lives sacrificed.” Yet 9/11
is an unsolved crime of terrorism and mass murder, with no trial
and no serious investigation. This elaborately planned criminal
deception was carried out “with the intention that the public
would be deceived with a false explanation blaming the atrocity
on Osama Bin Laden and Al Quaida....”
Christopher Bollyn states he has written “Solving 9-11: the
Deception that Changed the World” because he could not remain
indifferent and silent...”as the lies about 9/11 were used to
wage wars of aggression and transform American into a police
state.”
An investigative journalist from Illinois, Bollyn sojourned in
Europe and the Middle East before studying languages, history
and journalism at UC Davis and Santa Cruz. His degree in history
focused on the Israeli occupation of Palestine. He has written
in-depth articles about the Middle East, electronic vote fraud,
the dangers of depleted uranium, and the history and
geo-political background of 9/11.
In 2007, Bollyn and his family moved to Sweden when his research
into 9/11 brought about his being attacked by undercover police
and then charged with assaulting them. He began writing this
book and has been touring in the US with the hope of raising the
consciousness of the American public and exposing the true
culprits.
Readers of his book have said it is “the top-notch work of the
9/11 collection and ...the work of a brave genius...information
we can use to reformulate our worldview....gives me hope that
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More information at www.bollyn.com.
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Re: War Provocations and Peace Actions
By: AGelbert Date: April 19, 2015, 1:39 pm
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American Terrorism
[b]The Hidden Government Group Linking JFK, Watergate,
Iran-Contra And 9/11[/b]
By Peter Dale Scott October 7th, 2014
Peter Dale Scott is considered the father of “Deep Politics”—
the study of hidden permanent institutions and interests whose
influence on the political realm transcends the elected,
appointed and career officials who come and go.
A Professor of English at Berkeley and a former Canadian
diplomat, he is the author of several critically acclaimed books
on the pivotal events of our country’s recent past, including
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK ; Drugs, Oil, and War: The
United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina (War and
Peace Library); The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future
of America and American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA
Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (War and
Peace Library). He is also a poet, whose long work, Coming to
Jakarta: A Poem about Terror, was hailed as “the most important
political poem to appear in the English language in a very long
time,” by Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States from
1995 to 1997.
Daniel Ellsberg said of his book Drugs, Oil and War, “It makes
most academic and journalistic explanations of our past and
current interventions read like government propaganda written
for children.”
What follows is based on a recent Scott lecture entitled “The
JFK Assassination and Other Deep Events”, and will be expanded
on further in his next book, The American Deep State, due out in
November.[b][/I]
***
[b][i][font=times new roman]For some time now, I have been
analyzing American history in the light of what I have called
structural deep events: events, like the JFK assassination, the
Watergate break-in, Iran-Contra, or 9/11, [/font]which
repeatedly involve law-breaking or violence, are mysterious to
begin with, are embedded in ongoing covert processes, have
political consequences that enlarge covert government, and are
subsequently covered up by systematic falsifications in the
mainstream media and internal government records.
The more I study these deep events, the more I see suggestive
similarities between them, increasing the possibility that they
are not unrelated external intrusions on American history, but
parts of an endemic process, sharing to some degree or other a
common source.
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A deep state event seen from deep space. New York City, 9/11.
NASA Photo
For example, one factor linking Dallas, Watergate, Iran-Contra,
and 9/11, has been the involvement in all four deep events of
personnel involved in America’s highest-level emergency
planning, known since the 1950s as Continuity of Government
(COG) planning, or more colloquially inside the Pentagon as “the
Doomsday Project.” A few of these actors may have been located
at the top, as overseers of the secret COG system. Others –
including some I shall talk about today – were located further
down in its secret communications network.
I see this planning group as one among many in what I have
chosen to call the American deep state, along with agencies like
the CIA and NSA, the private groups like Booz Allen Hamilton to
which more than half of the US intelligence budget is
outsourced, and finally the powerful banks and corporations
whose views are well represented in the CIA and NSA. But if only
one group among many, the COG planning group is also special,
because of its control of and access to a communications
channel, not under government control, that can reach deeply
into the US social structure. I discuss these matters at some
length in my next book, The American Deep State, due out in
November.
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as planning for a response to a crippling atomic attack that had
decapitated government. In consequence its planning group
contemplated extreme measures, including what Alfonso Chardy in
1987 called “suspension of the Constitution.” And yet in
Iran-Contra its asset of a secret communications network,
developed for the catastrophe of decapitation, was used instead
to evade an official embargo on arms sales to Iran that dated
back to 1979. My question today is whether the network could
have been similarly misused in November 1963.
The Iran-contra misuse has been well-documented. Oliver North
supervised the sale of arms to Iran by using his resources as
the National Security Council action officer for COG planning,
under cover of a “National Program Office” that was overseen by
then Vice-President George H. W. Bush. North and his superiors
could thus use the COG emergency network, known then as
Flashboard, for the arms sales to Iran that had to be concealed
from other parts of the Washington bureaucracy as well as the
public. So when North had to send emergency instructions for
arms delivery to the US Embassy in Lisbon, instructions that
directly contravened the embargo prohibiting such sales, he used
the Flashboard network to avoid alerting the Ambassador and
other unwitting personnel.
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The documented example of Iran-Contra allows me to explain what
I am saying about the [I]users of the COG network, and also what
I am not saying[/I]. To begin with, I am not saying that a
single “Secret Team” has for decades been using the COG network
to manipulate the US Government from outside it. There is no
evidence to suggest that North’s actions in Iran-Contra were
known to any of his superiors other than CIA chief William Casey
and probably George Bush. The point is that a very small group
had access to a high-level secret network outside government
review, in order to implement a program in opposition to
government policy. They succumbed to the temptation to use this
secure network that had been designed for other purposes. I have
argued elsewhere that this secure network was used again on
9/11, to implement key orders for which the 9/11 Commission
could find no records. Whether it was also used for illicit
purposes is not known.
It is certain that the COG emergency network program survived
North’s demise, and continued to be secretly developed for
decades, at a cost of billions, and overseen by a team including
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. It is relevant that the two
men’s presence on the committee spanned three administrations –
those of Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton — even though at one point
under Clinton neither man held a position inside the U.S.
government. Such continuity was essential for a group so secret
that few records existed of its activities. And on 9/11 COG
plans were officially implemented for the first time, by Vice
President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, the two men who
had planned them for so many years.
Whether or not they knew about Iran-Contra, Cheney and Rumsfeld
were on the COG planning committee at the time of Iran-Contra.
There is no such obvious link between COG planning and
Watergate, but the involvement of COG personnel in Watergate is
nonetheless striking. James McCord, one of the Watergate
burglars, was a member of a small Air Force Reserve unit in
Washington attached to the Office of Emergency Preparedness
(OEP) that was assigned “to draw up lists of radicals and to
develop contingency plans for censorship of the news media and
U.S. mail in time of war.” His unit was part of the Wartime
Information Security Program (WISP), which had responsibility
for activating “contingency plans for imposing censorship on the
press, the mails and all telecommunications (including
government communications) [and] preventive detention of
civilian ‘security risks,’ who would be placed in military
‘camps.’” In addition, John Dean, perhaps the central Watergate
figure, had overseen secret COG activities when serving as the
associate deputy attorney general.
In the case of the JFK assassination, I wish to focus on two men
who functioned as part of the communications network of the
Office of Emergency Planning (OEP), the agency renamed in 1968
as the Office of Emergency Preparedness (to which McCord was
attached), and renamed again in 1982 as the National Program
Office (for which Oliver North was the action officer).
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These two men (there are others) are Winston Lawson, the Secret
Service advance man who from the lead car of the motorcade was
in charge of the Secret Service radio channels operating in the
motorcade; and Jack Crichton, the army intelligence reserve
officer who with Deputy Dallas Police Chief George Lumpkin
selected the Russian interpreter for Marina Oswald’s first (and
falsified) FBI interview.
Lawson has drawn the critical attention of JFK researchers, both
for dubious actions he took before and during the assassination,
and also for false statements he made after it (some of them
under oath). For example, Lawson reported after the
assassination that motorcycles were deployed on “the right and
left flanks of the President’s car” (17 WH 605). On the morning
of November 22, however, the orders had been changed (3 WH 244),
so that the motorcycles rode instead, as Lawson himself
testified to the Warren Commission, “just back of the
President’s car” (4 WH 338; cf. 21 WH 768-70). Captain Lawrence
of the Dallas Police testified that that the proposed side
escorts were redeployed to the rear on Lawson’s own instructions
(7 WH 580-81; cf. 18 WH 809, 21 WH 571). This would appear to
have left the President more vulnerable to a possible crossfire.
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/>Early on November 22, at Love Field, Lawson installed, in what
would become the lead car, the base radio whose frequencies were
used by all Secret Service agents on the motorcade. This radio
channel, operated by the White House Communications Agency
(WHCA), was used for some key decisions before and after the
assassination, yet its records, unlike those of the Dallas
Police Department (DPD) Channels One and Two, were never made
available to the Warren Commission, or any subsequent
investigation. The tape was not withheld because it was
irrelevant; on the contrary, it contained very significant
information.
The WHCA actually reports to this day on its website that the
agency was “a key player in documenting the assassination of
President Kennedy.” However it is not clear for whom this
documentation was conducted, or why it was not made available to
the Warren Commission, the House Select Committee on
Assassinations, or the Assassination Records Review Board
(ARRB). It should have been.
For one thing, the WHCA tape, as Vincent Palamara has written,
contains the “key” to the unresolved mystery of who, after the
shooting, redirected the motorcade to Parkland hospital. The
significance of this apparently straightforward command, about
which there was much conflicting testimony, is heightened when
we read repeated orders on the Dallas Police radio transcript to
“cut all traffic for the ambulance going to Parkland code 3” (17
WH 395) – the ambulance in question having nothing to do with
the president (whose shooting had not yet been announced on the
DPD radio). In fact the ambulance had been dispatched about ten
minutes before the assassination to pick someone from in front
of the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD), who was wrongly
suspected of having suffered an epileptic seizure.
Lawson later reported to the Secret Service that he heard on his
radio “that we should proceed to the nearest hospital.” He wrote
also that he “requested Chief Curry to have the hospital
contacted,” and then that “Our Lead Car assisted the motorcycles
in escorting the President’s vehicle to Parkland Hospital” (17
WH 632), cf. 21 WH 580). In other words, after hearing something
on the WHCA radio, Lawson helped ensure that the President’s
limousine would follow the route already set up by the
motorcycles for the epileptic. (In his very detailed Warren
Commission testimony, Lawson said nothing about the route having
already been cleared. On the contrary he testified that “we had
to do some stopping of cars and holding our hands out the
windows and blowing the sirens and horns to get through” (4 WH
354).
The WHCA radio channel used by Lawson and others communicated
almost directly to the WHCA base at Mount Weather in Virginia,
the base facility of the COG network. From there, Secret Service
communications were relayed to the White House, via the
batteries of communications equipment connecting Mount Weather
with the White House and “Raven Rock” — the underground Pentagon
sixty miles north of Washington — as well as with almost every
US military unit stationed around the globe.
Jack Crichton, head of the 488th Army Intelligence Reserve unit
of Dallas, was also part of this Mount Weather COG network. This
was in his capacity as chief of intelligence for Dallas Civil
Defense, which worked out of an underground Emergency Operating
Center. As Russ Baker reports, “Because it was intended for
‘continuity of government’ operations during an attack, [the
Center] was fully equipped with communications equipment.” In
retrospect the Civil Defense Program is remembered derisively,
for having advised schoolchildren, in the event of an atomic
attack, to hide their heads under their desks.But in 1963 civil
defense was one of the urgent responsibilities assigned to the
Office of Emergency Planning, which is why Crichton, as much as
Secret Service agent Lawson, could be in direct touch with the
OEP’s emergency communications network at Mount Weather.
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/>Jack Crichton is of interest because he, along with DPD Deputy
Chief George Lumpkin of the 488th Army Intelligence Reserve
unit, was responsible for choosing a Russian interpreter for
Marina Oswald from the right-wing Russian community. This man
was Ilya Mamantov, who translated for Marina Oswald at her first
DPD interview on November 22. What she allegedly said in Russian
at this interview was later used to bolster what I have called
the “phase one” story, still promoted from some CIA sources,
that Russia and/or Cuba were behind the assassination.
As summarized by the FBI, Mamantov’s account of Marina’s Russian
testimony was as follows:
MARINA OSWALD advised that LEE HARVEY OSWALD owned a rifle which
he used in Russia about two years ago. She observed what she
presumed to be the same rifle in a blanket in the garage at
[Ruth Paine’s residence]…. MARINA OSWALD stated that on November
22, she had been shown a rifle in the Dallas Police Department….
She stated that it was a dark color like the one that she had
seen, but she did not recall the sight.
These specific details – that Marina said she had seen a rifle
that was dark and scopeless – were confirmed in an affidavit
(signed by Marina and Mamantov, 24 WH 219) that was taken by DPD
officer B.L. Senkel (24 WH 249). They were confirmed again by
Ruth Paine, who witnessed the Mamantov interview, (3 WH 82).
They were confirmed again the next night in an interview of
Marina by the Secret Service, translated by Mamantov’s close
friend Peter Gregory. But a Secret Service transcript of the
interview reveals that the source of these details was Gregory,
not Marina:
(Q) This gun, was it a rifle or a pistol or just what kind of a
gun? Can she answer that?
(A) It was a gun
Mr. Gregory asked: Can you describe it?
NOTE: Subject said: I cannot describe it because a rifle to me
like all rifles.
Gregory translation: She said she cannot describe it. It was
sort of a dark rifle just like any other common rifle…
Subject in Russian: It was a hump (or elevation) but I never saw
through the scope….
Gregory translation: She says there was an elevation on the
rifle but there was no scope – no telescope.
We have to conclude not just that Gregory had falsified Marina’s
testimony (“a rifle to me like all rifles”); but so probably had
his friend Mamantov, who later testified no less than seven
times to the Warren Commission that Marina had used the word
“dark” to describe the gun. There were others in Dallas who
claimed that Oswald’s gun indeed had been scopeless, until
Oswald had a scope installed on it by Dallas gunsmith Dial
Ryder. The Warren Report elaborately refuted this corroborated
claim, and concluded that “the authenticity of the repair tag”
used to support it was “subject to grave doubts.” (WR 317).
We can see here, what the Warren Commission did not wish to see,
signs of a conspiracy to misrepresent Marina’s testimony, and
possibly to link Oswald’s gun to a dark and scopeless rifle he
had in the Soviet Union. Our concerns that Mamantov
misrepresented her lead us to concerns about why two Army
Intelligence Reserve officers from the 488th unit (Jack Crichton
and Deputy DPD Chief George Lumpkin) selected Mamantov as her
interpreter. Our concerns are increased when we see that B.L.
Senkel, the DPD officer who took Marina’s suspect affidavit, was
the partner of F.P. Turner, who collected the dubious rifle
repair tag (24 WH 328), and that both men spent most of November
22 with DPD Deputy Chief Lumpkin. For example, they were with
Lumpkin in the pilot car of the motorcade when Lumpkin was
communicating with Winston Lawson in the lead car behind them.
I conclude that when we look at the conduct of the two men we
know to have been parts of the COG emergency communications
network in Dallas, we see patterns of sinister behavior that
also involved others, or what we may call conspiratorial
behavior. These concatenated efforts to implicate Oswald in a
phase-one conspiracy narrative lead me to propose a hypothesis
for which I have neither evidence nor an alternative
explanation: namely, that someone on the WHCA network may have
been the source for the important unexplained description on the
Dallas Police tapes of a suspect who had exactly the false
height and weight (5 feet 10 inches, 165 pounds) recorded for
Oswald in his FBI and CIA files.
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/>Note that there are no other known sources ascribing this
specific height and weight to Oswald. For example, when he was
arrested and charged in Dallas that same day, Oswald was
recorded as having a height of 5’9 ½ inches, and a weight of 131
pounds. The first reference to Oswald as 5’10”, 165 pounds, was
that offered by Oswald’s mother Marguerite to FBI Agent Fain in
May 1960, when Oswald himself was absent in Russia.
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Re: War Provocations and Peace Actions
By: AGelbert Date: April 19, 2015, 1:42 pm
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The Hidden Government Group Linking JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra
And 9/11 (second half of article in this thread)
The DPD officer contributing the description on the Police
Channel was Inspector Herbert Sawyer, who allegedly had heard it
from someone outside the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD)
whom he could not identify or describe. The Warren Report said
categorically that his source was Howard Brennan (WR 5), and
that on the evening of November 22, Brennan “identified Oswald
as the person in the lineup who bore the closest resemblance to
the man in the window but he said that he was unable to make a
positive identification” (WR 145). But there are many reasons to
doubt this, starting with conflicts in Brennan’s own testimony
(as Anthony Summers reported in Conspiracy, pp. 109-10) . And
Ian Griggs has made a strong case that Brennan never saw Oswald
in a line-up that evening. (There are police records placing
Oswald in three line-ups that day, and corroborating witness
reports of them; but there is no evidence whatever that Brennan
attended any of the three.)
There is another strong reason to doubt that the source was
Brennan. Brennan testified later to the Warren Commission that
he saw his suspect in a window of the Texas School Book
Depository, “standing up and leaning against the left window
sill.” Pressed to describe how much of the suspect he saw,
Brennan answered, “I could see probably his whole body, from his
hips up. But at the time that he was firing the gun, a
possibility from his belt up” (3 WH 144).
The awkwardness of Brennan’s language draws attention to the
fundamental problem about the description. It is hard to imagine
anyone giving a full height and weight estimate from seeing
someone who was only partially visible in a window. So there are
intrinsic grounds for believing the description must have come
from another source. And when we see that the same description
is found in Oswald’s FBI and CIA files — and nowhere else –
there are reasons to suspect the source was from government
secret files.
We have seen that there was interaction in Dallas between the
WHCA and DPD radio channels, thanks to the WHCA portable radio
that Lawson had installed in the lead car of the presidential
motorcade. This radio in turn was in contact by police radio
with the pilot car ahead of it, carrying Dallas Police
Department (DPD) Deputy Chief Lumpkin of the 488th Army
Intelligence Reserve unit. At the same time, as noted above, it
was in contact with the COG nerve center at Mount Weather,
Virginia. And Mount Weather had the requisite secret
communications to receive information from classified
intelligence files, without other parts of the government being
alerted.
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Fossil Fuel Fascists' R' US.
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nobody takes away it's exploitation of the American hen yard.
They are Capitalist Businessmen, after all. ;)
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Permit me at this moment an instructive digression. It is by now
well established that Kennedy in 1963 was concerned enough by
“the threat of far-right treason” that he urgently persuaded
Hollywood director John Frankenheimer “to turn [the novel] Seven
Days in May into a movie.” In this book, to quote Wikipedia, a
charismatic superior officer, Air Force General James Mattoon
Scott, intend(s) to stage a coup d’état …. [b]According to the
plan, an undisclosed Army combat unit known as ECOMCON
(Emergency COMmunications CONtrol) will seize control of the
country’s telephone, radio, and television networks, while the
conspiracy directs the military and its allies in Congress and
the media from “Mount Thunder” (a continuity of government base
based on Mount Weather).
[/b]It is no secret also that in 1963 Kennedy had aroused major
right-wing dissatisfaction, largely because of signs of his
increasing rapprochement with the Soviet Union. The plot of the
book and movie reflects the concern of liberals at the time
about generals like General Edwin Walker, who had resigned in
1961 after Kennedy criticized his political activities in the
Army. (Walker had given his troops John Birch Society
literature, along with the names of right-wing candidates to
vote for.) We can assume however that Kennedy had no firm
evidence of a Mount Weather conspiracy: if he had, it is
unlikely his response would have just been to sponsor a
fictionalized movie.
It is important at this stage to point out that, although COG
elements like Mount Weather were considered part of the
Pentagon, the COG “government in waiting” was at no time under
military control. On the contrary, President Eisenhower had
ensured that it was broadly based at the top, so its planners
included some of the nation’s top corporate leaders, like Frank
Stanton of CBS. By all accounts of COG leadership in the decades
after Reagan took office in 1981, this so-called “shadow
government” still included CEOs of private corporations, like
Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, as well as three former CIA
directors: Richard Helms, James Schlesinger, and George Bush.
Alfonso Chardy wrote in 1987 that the “virtual parallel
government” empowering North to run Iran-Contra had also
developed “a secret contingency plan that called for suspension
of the Constitution, turning control of the United States over
to FEMA.” Subsequently North was questioned in the Iran-Contra
Hearings about this charge, but was prevented by the Committee
Chairman, Democratic Senator Inouye, from answering in a public
session.
Later, investigating the powerful COG planning group, CNN called
it “a hidden government [in the USA] about which you know
nothing.” James Mann emphasized its hawkish continuity,
unaffected by changes of presidency in the White House:
Cheney and Rumsfeld were, in a sense, a part of the permanent,
though hidden, national security apparatus of the United States,
inhabitants of a world in which Presidents come and go, but
America always keeps on fighting.”
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Cheney and Rumsfeld in 1974
Going one step further, Andrew ****burn quoted a Pentagon source
to support a claim that a COG planning group under Clinton was
now for the first time staffed “almost exclusively with
Republican hawks.” In the words of his source, “You could say
this was a secret government-in-waiting. The Clinton
administration was extraordinarily inattentive, [they had] no
idea what was going on.”
The Pentagon official’s description of COG planners as a “secret
government-in-waiting” under Clinton (which still included both
Cheney and Rumsfeld) is very close to the standard definition of
a cabal, as a group of persons secretly united to bring about a
change or overthrow of government. A very similar situation
existed under Jimmy Carter, when some of those who would later
figure in Iran-Contra (notably George H.W. Bush and Theodore
Shackley) worked with chiefs of foreign intelligence services
(the so-called Safari Club) “to start working with [former DCI
Richard] Helms [then U.S. Ambassador to Iran] and his most
trusted operatives outside of Congressional and even Agency
purview.” This group began by backing guerrilla forces in Africa
(notably UNITA of Jonas Savimbi in Angola), which they knew
would not be backed by the CIA under William Colby or Stansfield
Turner.
But some of these figures, notably Alexandre de Marenches of the
French spy agency SDECE, became involved with Casey, Bush,
Shackley, and others in a 1980 plot – the so-called Republican
“October Surprise” – to prevent the reelection of Jimmy Carter.
The essence of this plot was to frustrate Carter’s efforts to
repatriate the hostages seized in the U.S. Tehran Embassy, by
negotiating a Republican deal with the Iranians that would be
more to their liking. (The hostages in fact were returned hours
after Reagan took office in 1981.)
This Republican hostage plot in 1980 deserves to be counted as a
fifth structural deep event in recent US history. Unquestionably
the illicit contacts with Iran established by the October
Surprise Group in 1980 became, as Alfonso Chardy wrote, the
“genesis” of the Iran-Contra arms deals overseen by the COG/
Mount Weather planners in 1984-86.
In an important interview with journalist Robert Parry, the
veteran CIA officer Miles Copeland claimed that a “CIA within
the CIA” inspired the 1980 plot, having concluded by 1980 that
Jimmy Carter (in Copeland’s words) “had to be removed from the
presidency for the good of the country.” Copeland made it clear
to Parry that he shared this view that Carter “represented a
grave threat to the nation,” and former Mossad agent Ari
Ben-Menashe told Parry that Copeland himself was in fact “the
conceptual father” of the 1980 arms-for-hostages deal, and had
“brokered [the] Republican cooperation with Israel.” And
Copeland, together with his client Adnan Khashoggi whom he
advised, went on with Shackley to help launch the 1984-85
Iranian arms deals as well.
However, just as Knebel in Seven Days may have overestimated the
military component in the COG Mount Weather leadership, so
Copeland may have dwelt too exclusively on the CIA component
behind the October Surprise Group. In The Road to 9/11, I
suggested that this CIA network overlapped with a so-called
“Project Alpha,” working at the time for David Rockefeller and
the Chase Manhattan Bank on Iran issues, which was chaired by
the veteran establishment figure John J. McCloy.
I will conclude by again quoting James Mann’s dictum that the
Mount Weather COG leadership constitutes a “permanent, though
hidden, national security apparatus of the United States, … a
world in which Presidents come and go, but America always keeps
on fighting. ”And I would like this audience to investigate
whether elements of this enduring leadership, with its
ever-changing mix of CIA veterans and civilian leaders, may have
constituted “a secret government-in-waiting,” not just under
Clinton in the 1990s, not just under Carter in 1980, but also
under Kennedy in November 1963.
Footnotes
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Peter Dale Scott, Russ Baker, David Talbot, Daniel Ellsberg,
Jefferson Morley at a recent lunch
[1] Peter Dale Scott, The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big
Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy (Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2014 [forthcoming]). 1.
[2] For a partial list of anomalies between the JFK
assassination and 9/11, see Peter Dale Scott, The War
Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (New York:
Skyhorse, 2013), 341-96.
[3] Tim Shorrock, Spies for Hire (New York: Simon & Schuster,
2008), 6.
[4] Alfonso Chardy, “Reagan Aides and the Secret Government,”
Miami Herald, July 5, 1987,
HTML http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=9877:
“Some of
President Reagan’s top advisers have operated a virtual parallel
government outside the traditional Cabinet departments and
agencies almost from the day Reagan took office, congressional
investigators and administration officials have concluded.”
[5] Iran-Contra Committee Counsel Arthur Liman, questioning
Oliver North, “had North repeat his testimony that the diversion
was Casey’s idea” (Arthur Liman, Lawyer: a life of counsel and
controversy [New York: Public Affairs, 1998], 341).
[6] James Bamford, A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the abuse
of America’s intelligence agencies (New York: Doubleday, 2004),
72.
[7] Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the
Future of America (Berkeley: University of California Press,
2007), 213-14, 219-29.
[8] Bamford, A Pretext for War, 71-81.
[9] Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), 23.
[10] Jim Hougan, Secret Agenda (New York: Random House, 1984),
16. For more on WISP, see David Wise, The Politics of Lying:
Government Deception, Secrecy, and Power (New York: Random
House, 1973), 134-37.
[11] John Dean, Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of
George W. Bush (New York: Little Brown, 2004), 120. In addition
Howard Baker, in 1973 the ranking Republican member of the
Senate Committee that investigated Watergate, was later part of
the COG secret leadership (CNN Special Assignment, November 17,
1991).
[12] James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War
Cabinet (New York: Viking, 2004), 142.
[13] Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. 9, p.106 (or 9 WH 106) ;
Scott, Deep Politics, 275-76; Russ Baker, Family of Secrets: The
Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White
House, and What Their Influence Means for America (New York:
Bloomsbury Press, 2009), 119-22.
[14] “White House Communications Agency,” Signal Corps
Regimental History,
HTML http://signal150.army.mil/white_house_communications_agency.html.
[15] In the 1990s the WHCA supplied statements to the ARRB
concerning communications between Dallas and Washington on
November 22 (NARA #172-10001-10002 to NARA #172-10000-10008).
The Assassination Records Review Board also attempted to obtain
from the WHCA the unedited original tapes of conversations from
Air Force One on the return trip from Dallas, November 22, 1963.
(Edited and condensed versions of these tapes had been available
since the 1970s from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in
Austin, Texas.) The attempt was unsuccessful: “The Review
Board’s repeated written and oral inquiries of the White House
Communications Agency did not bear fruit. The WHCA could not
produce any records that illuminated the provenance of the
edited tapes.” See Assassinations Records Review Board: Final
Report, chapter 6, Part 1, 116,
HTML http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/review-board/report/chapter-06-part1.pdf.
[16] 17 WH 394-95, 23 WH 841; 17 WH 368, 395; Scott, Deep
Politics and the Death of JFK, 273-74, 278. The alleged
epileptic walked away from the ambulance after it arrived at
Highland (Warren Commission Document 1245, 6-10).
[17] Statement of Special Agent Winston E. Lawson [to Secret
Service],” 17 WH 632; Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK,
278.
[18] Richard Pollock, “The Mysterious Mountain,” The
Progressive, March, 1976; cf. “Mount Weather’s
‘Government-in-Waiting,’”
HTML http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/mt_weather.htm.
[19] Russ Baker, Family of Secrets, 121.
[20] Dee Garrison , Bracing for Armageddon: Why Civil Defense
Never Worked
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 46.
[21] Warren Commission Exhibit 1778, 23 WH 383-84.
[22] Commission Document 344 – SS Howard Tape Copy of 01 Dec
1963, p. 23.
[23] Lee Harvey Oswald fingerprint card, 17 WH 308. The heaviest
Oswald actually weighed was 150 pounds, when he left the Marines
in 1959 (19 WH 584, 595).
[24] FBI report by Special Agent Fain, dated May 12, 1960, 17 WH
706. In the same report Marguerite named Oswald’s father as
“Edward Lee Oswald.” His actual name was Robert Edward Lee
Oswald (WR 669-70).
[25] Testimony of Inspector Herbert Sawyer, 6 WH 321-22: “I
remember that he was a white man and that he wasn’t young and he
wasn’t old.” Cf. Dallas Police Channel Two Tape at 12:25 PM (23
WH 916).
[26] Ian Griggs, “Did Howard Leslie Brennan Really Attend an
Identification Lineup?”
HTML http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/28th_Issue/id_draft.html.
[27] Statement of Secret Service Winston Lawson, 17 WH 630: “I
checked with Chief Curry as to location of Lead Car [at Love
Field] and had WHCA portable radio put in and checked.”
[28] “The lead car was in radio contact with the pilot car by
police radio, and with the Presidential limousine by Secret
Service portable radios” (Pamela McElwain-Brown, “The
Presidential Lincoln Continental SS-100-X,” Dealey Plaza Echo,
Volume 3, Issue 2, 23,
HTML http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=16241&relPageId=27).<br
/>Cf. Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, 272-75 (Lumpkin
).
[29] David Talbot, Brothers: the hidden history of the Kennedy
years (New York: Free Press, 2007), 148.
[30]
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_May.
[31] Jonathan M. Schoenwald, A time for choosing: the rise of
modern American conservatism (New York: Oxford University Press,
2001), .
[32] Hope Yen, “Eisenhower Letters Reveal Doomsday Plan:
Citizens Tapped to Take Over in Case of Attack,” AP, Deseret
News, March 21, 2004,
HTML http://www.deseretnews.com/article/595050502/Eisenhower-letters-reveal-doomsday-plan.html?pg=all.
[33] CNN Special Assignment, November 17, 1991.
[34] Alfonso Chardy, “Reagan Aides and the Secret Government,”
Miami Herald, July 5, 1987,
HTML http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=9877:
“Some of
President Reagan’s top advisers have operated a virtual parallel
government outside the traditional Cabinet departments and
agencies almost from the day Reagan took office, congressional
investigators and administration officials have concluded.”
[35] Iran-Contra Committee Counsel Arthur Liman, questioning
Oliver North, “had North repeat his testimony that the diversion
was Casey’s idea” (Arthur Liman, Lawyer: a life of counsel and
controversy [New York: Public Affairs, 1998], 341). Cf. The
“October Surprise” allegations and the circumstances surrounding
the release of the American hostages held in Iran: report of the
Special Counsel to Senator Terry Sanford and Senator James M.
Jeffords of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States
Senate, Volume 4, p. 33 (October Surprise Group).
[36] CNN Special Assignment, November 17, 1991.
[37] James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, 145.
[38] Andrew ****burn, Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic
Legacy (New York: Scribner, 2007), 88.
[39] Joseph J. Trento, Prelude to terror: the rogue CIA and the
legacy of America’s private intelligence network (New York:
Carroll & Graf, 2005), 61.
[40] Piero Gleijeses, Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington,
Pretoria and the struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 (Chapel
Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]), 66-68;
Elaine Windrich, “The Laboratory of Hate: The Role of
Clandestine Radio in the Angolan War,” International Journal of
Cultural Studies 3(2), 2000.
[41] Alfonso Chardy, “Reagan Aides and the Secret Government,”
Miami Herald, July 5, 1987,
HTML http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=9877:
“The
group, led by campaign foreign policy adviser Richard Allen, was
founded out of concern Carter might pull off an “October
surprise” such as a last-minute deal for the release of the
hostages before the Nov. 4 election. One of the group’s first
acts was a meeting with a man claiming to represent Iran who
offered to release the hostages to Reagan.
Allen — Reagan’s first national security adviser— and another
campaign aide, Laurence Silberman, told The Herald in April of
the meeting. they said McFarlane, then a Senate Armed Services
Committee aide, arranged and attended it. McFarlane later became
Reagan’s national security adviser and played a key role in the
Iran-contra affair. Allen and Silberman said they rejected the
offer to release the hostages to Reagan.” [The Iranian was
Houshang Lavi, and after Lavi’s death Robert Parry confirmed
from Lavi’s diary that the meeting did take place].
[42] Alfonso Chardy, “Reagan Aides and the Secret Government,”
Miami Herald, July 5, 1987,
HTML http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=9877.
[43] “America’s False History Allows the Powerful to Commit
Crimes Without Consequence,” Mark Karlin Interview of Robert
Parry, January 15, 2013, Truthout Interview,
HTML http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/13904-americas-false-history-allows-the-powerful-to-commit-crimes-without-consequence.
[44] Robert Parry, Trick or Treason, 175.
[45] Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the
Future of America
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 81-83, 88. A
key figure was CIA veteran and Copeland friend Archibald
Roosevelt, in 1980 a Carter foe and also employee of the Chase
Manhattan Bank.
[46] Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, 145.
see more at:
HTML http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/10/05/the-hidden-government-group-linking-jfk-watergate-iran-contra-and-911/#sthash.sATV1hsH.dpuf
HTML http://www.constantinereport.com/hidden-government-group-linking-jfk-watergate-iran-contra-911/
Agelbert NOTE: He is almost there (or he is just not ready to
write pre-JFK stuff yet even though he knows it well. 8)). The
Secret Government, IMHO, got it's POWER to control ALL of
American politics and media from the Manhattan Project.
WHY? Because it BIRTHED the MONSTER called the Military
Industrial Complex. Yes, we had a M.I.C. run BY and FOR BIG OIL
and a lot of attacks on democracy before that.
HOWEVER, the SECRECY protected by force under the "national
security" clever contrivance is what ENABLED the M.I.C. to go
out an buy or bop the media and politicians. Fascism NEEDS
SECRECY to grow its cancerous tentacles and choke democracy. The
Manhattan Project gave the fascist fox full power over the hen
yard. Fascism, because it is psychopathic, cruel and exploitive,
destroys any country it gets a foothold in.
Representative Republic democracy is long gone in the USA. :(
Fascism is now in the terminal cancer, in your face profit over
people and planet, stage of destroying everything of value in
this country.
Government enforced secrecy is DEADLY to any type of freedom,
period. There is NO EXCUSE for secrecy in government, PERIOD.
And SECRECY, by the way, is considered ESSENTIAL to predatory
capitalist profits...
But what about NATIONAL SECURTY? ???
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Re: War Provocations and Peace Actions
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/> rel="bookmark">ANALYSIS:  Why  the  standoff
 between  Greece  and  the  EU  is
 really  the  first  major  battle  in
 the  war  between  Yesterday  and
 Tomorrow</a></h1> <div
 class="entry-content"> <p><a
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/> alt="2day2morrow19415"  /></a><strong>As  the
 days  drag  on  towards  some  kind
 of  dénouement  to  what  is  rapidly
 becoming  the  silliest,  longest  and
 most  empty  threat  of  a  death
 sentence  in  political  history,  I
 continue  to  be  amazed  that  the
 Western  media  are  reporting  the
 Greece-eurogroupe  ‘deadlock’  as  if  it
 was  a  purely  technical
 matter.</strong></p> <p>There  are  only
 two  elements  of  the  ‘crisis’  that
 concern  me:  the  emotional  dimension
 of  an  at  times  infuriating  but
 fundamentally  sound  culture  I’ve  loved
 for  over  forty  years  being  pelted
 by  a  salvo  of  Brussels  sprouts,
 controlling  sauerkrats,  and  past-sell-by
 date  Frankfurters;  and  the  former
 politics  student’s  fascination  with  the
 factions  and  rivalries  on  both
 sides.</p> <p>If  you’re  a  Python
 nut  like  me,  then  you  will
 remember  the  Life  of  Brian
 sequence  where  Graham  Chapman
 innocently  asks  the  anal  splinter-group
 leader  Michael  Palin  if  “we”  are
 the  People’s  Group  for  the
 Liberation  of  Palestine,  and  Palin
 snaps  back,  “Are  you  f**king  mad?
 We  f**kin’  <i>spit  </i>on  the
 PGLOP.  We,  my  friend,  are  the
 People’s  Army  for  Palestine  Liberation.
 There’s  a  world  of
 difference”.</p> <p>Sadly,  a  great  deal
 of  contemporary  in-fighting  between
 Middle  East  opponents  of  the  US,
 Israel  and  NATO  have  proved  in
 the  36  years  since  that  movie
 how  madness  will  eventually  –
 somewhere  –  become  reality.  But  it
 is  also  one  of  the  strongest
 arguments  against  large  States  like
 Europe,  China,  the  US  and  Russia
 that  the  citizens  reach  a  point
 where  a  substantial  minority  no
 longer  feel  any  affection  for  the
 much-vaunted  body.  For  them,  it’s
 more  of  a  cadaver:  a  giant
 corpse  they  simple  cannot  remember
 as  the  flower  of  their
 youth.</p> <p>More  and  more,  this
 anthropological  reality  both  colours
 and  muddies  European  affairs.</p> <p>The
 current  impasse/standoff/crisis/negotiation  is
 not  –  let’s  get  this  straight
 for  starters  –  a  conflict  between
 the  EU  and  Greece.  It  is  not
 even  a  war  between  national
 liberty  and  superstate
 dictatorship.</p> <p>Rather,  it’s  the
 first  battle  in  what  could  be
 a  long  war  between  yesterday  and
 tomorrow.  And  be  aware:  the  battle
 is  no  way  as  simple  as  ‘EU
 yesterday  vs  Greek  tomorrow':  this
 is  a  battle  in  which  there
 are  more  false  flags,  civil  wars
 around  the  edges  and  power
 struggles  going  on  than  in  the
 emerging  Nazi  Party  of
 1931.</p> <p>*********************</p> <p>Let’s
 deal  quickly  with  my  first
 concern:  although  depicted  as  the
 punishment  of  corrupt  Greek
 politicians,  backhanding  officials  and
 tax-evading  taverna  owners,  none  of
 that  is  even  closely  related  to
 the  facts.  Far  from  punishing  Nia
 Demokratia,  PASOK  and  their  serially
 unpleasant  leaders,  the  Troika  has
 insisted  from  Day  One  that  it
 will  <i>only</i>  deal  with  these
 gargoyles.  This  is  the  same
 principle  as  hanging  the  war
 criminals  at  Nuremburg….up  to  but
 not  including  rocket  scientists  the
 victors  wanted  on  their
 sides.</p> <p>Germany  largely  benefited
 from  corrupt  officials  (especially
 during  the  various  insane  arms
 deals  with  Greece)  rather  than
 suffering  in  any  way;  and  precious
 few  of  those  Fat  Crats  have
 been  brought  to  justice….although
 Syriza  is  now  on  the
 case.</p> <p>And  finally,  small
 businesses  evade  tax  in  Greece
 <i>because</i>  the  tax  system  is
 corrupt,  not  through  greed  in  many
 cases:  they  know  that  every  pol
 and  bureacrat  wants  a  kafelaki
 (small  envelope).  And  people  evade
 the  Troika  taxes  today  because
 they  see  them  for  what  they
 are:  a  disgraceful  attempt  to  pick
 the  pocket  of  the  vagrant  in
 the  gutter.  I  live  in  France
 now,  and  I’ve  visited  Greece
 between  forty  and  fifty  times  in
 the  last  half-century;  everything  I
 see  related  to  <i>le  noir</i>
 <i>francais</i>  is  exactly  the  same
 as  in  Greece  –  except  for  one
 thing:  it’s  a  far  bigger  problem
 in  France.</p> <p>I’m  told  by  some
 that  the  desire  to  evade  tax
 became  an  act  of  patriotic
 resistance  during  the  Ottoman  hegemony
 over  Greece,  but  that  was  a
 long,  long  time  ago:  more
 accurate,  I  think,  is  the  phrase
 used  to  me  over  and  over
 again:  “It’s  a  national  sport”….and
 the  trophy  is  nothing  more  than
 sticking  it  to  the  depraved  elites
 that  have  been  sitting  on  real
 Greeks  for  decades.</p> <p>The
 punishment  meted  out  by  the  Troika
 fits  not  the  crime,  but  the
 greed,  geopolitical  ambitions  and
 cynical  control  freakery  of  its
 three  prongs  –  Wall  Street,  the
 US/EU,  and  Berlin/ECB  interest  groups.
 This  is  far  from  empty
 conspiracist  assertion:  the  investment
 banking  firms  and  Hedge  Funds  got
 clean  away  with  a  fat  profit
 during  the  initial  bailouts,  Schäuble
 stands  accused  of  conspiring  with
 Venizelos  to  exaggerate  the  size
 of  debt  hole  in  2010,  a
 German-controlled  and  run  concept  of
 <i>Fiskalunion</i>  has  emerged  directly
 from  this  totally  unnecessary  mess,
 the  federalisation  of  the  EU  has
 been  accelerated,  and  above  all
 the  euro  was  saved  to  die
 another  day.</p> <p>Greece,  Italy,  Spain
 and  Portugal  are  on  Calvary  at
 the  moment,  but  they’re  dying  to
 cleanse  a  worthless  currency  of
 its  flaws,  not  to  save  anyone’s
 soul.  And  no  amount  of
 crucifixions  from  here  to  Warsaw
 via  Budapest  are  going  to  remove
 the  euro’s  flaws.</p> <p>Greece  is
 saddled  with  an  obscene  debt  and
 carpet-bombed  economic  structure  because
 Schäuble  wanted  to  convince  the
 markets  of  eurozone  viability,
 Trichet’s  borrowing  controls  were
 hopelessly  lax,  Goldman  wanted  to
 sell  credit,  Sarkozy  was  terrified
 of  the  effect  on  his  banks,
 and  Berlin  wanted  –  plus  ca
 change  –  to  run  Europe  using
 the  best  alternative  to  military
 force:  the  munnneeee.</p> <p>There  is
 little  difference  in  general  substance
 between  QE  and  Zirp  killing
 economies  across  the  globe,  and
 ClubMed  austerity  killing  most  of
 the  ezone  economy:  except  of
 course,  the  one  in  Germany.  Gott
 in  Himmel:  perish  the  thought  that
 such  a  thing  might  occur.</p> <p
 align="center">*********************</p> <p
 align="left">Nobody  in  the  neoliberal
 owned  and  controlled  press  is  ever
 going  to  accept  that  version  of
 events,  no  matter  how  empirically
 databased  it  is.  But  no  other
 explanation  can  explain  the  consistent
 actions  of  those  in  charge  of
 the  fiscal  policies  involved….policies
 that  cannot  possibly  be  related  to
 sound  economic  actions  –  or  even
 sound  minds.</p> <p  align="left">The
 mistake  many  observers  and  commentators
 make  is  to  get  the  motive  for
 the  Greek  tragedy  wrong:  get  it
 right,  and  everything  makes  complete
 sense.  Read  the  MSM  account,  and
 none  of  it  does.</p> <p
 align="left">However,  as  I  pointed  out
 at  the  start  of  this  mini-essay,
 there’s  no  simple  tug-of-war  going
 on.  The  best  analogy  I  can
 summon  up  for  the  moment  is
 to  see  the  EU/ECB/Berlin  attack  on
 Greece  as  akin  to  Abe  Lincoln
 deciding  to  attack  Samuria-Shogun-Meiji
 fractured  Japan  just  after  the
 first  Battle  of  Bull  Run.</p> <p
 align="left">The  two  ‘sides’  in  2015
 square  up  as  follows:</p> <p
 align="center">EC  vs  Eurogroupe  vs
 Frankfurt  vs  IMF  vs  ECB  vs
 Berlin  vs  Paris  vs  UK</p> <p
 align="center">vs</p> <p  align="center">Syriza
 vs  KKE  vs  PASOK  vs  Nia
 Demokrita  vs  Golden  Dawn  vs  To
 Potami  vs  ephiles  vs  ephobes</p> <p
 align="left">Without  getting  into  too
 much  detail,  Jean-Claude  Junker’s  power
 base  is  the  EC.  Inside  that,
 he  has  an  anti-austerity  rebuilding
 fund  of  allegedly  €350bn,  whose
 purpose  he  has  kept  deliberately
 vague.  He  befriended  Alexis  Tsipras,
 and  could  shaft  the  eurogroupe
 royally  if  he  decided  to  invest
 it  in  Greece  on  a  bigger
 scale  than  at  present.  This  is
 because  the  eurogroupe’s  attempt  to
 wrest  power  from  Juncker  gets  up
 his  nasal  orifice  –  and  threatens
 the  Cyprus-style  tax  evasion  racket
 he  runs  in  Luxembourg.</p> <p
 align="left">But  the  Frankfurt  Bundesbank
 hardliners  think  the  eurogroupe  and
 its  ally  the  ECB  will  have  a
 disastrous  effect  on  money  supply
 and  inflation  via  QE…plus  (they
 assert)  it  was  a  mistake  to
 let  the  US-controlled  IMF  and  its
 mathematically  dyslexic  boss  Christine
 Lagarde  loose  anywhere  in  Europe.
 In  Berlin,  however,  Schäuble  wants
 to  have  total  control  over  the
 reins  of  euro-fiscal  policy,  and
 so  would  do  anything  to  vapourise
 ECB  boss  Mario  Draghi…while  Chancellor
 Merkel  (whom  Schäuble  dislikes,  but
 who  has  the  electoral  appeal  he
 lacks)  has  similar  doubts  to  me
 about  what  Draghi’s  really  up  to:
 is  he  working  for  the  euro,
 or  is  he  working  for  its
 replacement,  the  Dolleuro?</p> <p
 align="left">Paris,  meanwhile,  is  infinitely
 more  guilty  of  fiscal  vandalism
 than  Greece  (as  are  Germany  and
 Holland)  but  is  no  longer  avoiding
 the  consequences  of  its  <i>soi-largesse
 </i>with  quite  the  ease  it  was.
 The  French  Establishment  has  been
 rattled  by  some  of  the  fiscal
 disciplinary  methods  imposed  on  France
 after  the  March  eurogroupe  summit:
 but  Berlin  must  beware  of  pushing
 too  many  French  voters  towards  the
 undiluted  anti-EU  nationalism  of  Marine
 Le  Pen’s  <i>Front  Nationale</i>.</p> <p
 align="left">And  last  but  not  least,
 dear  old  Blighty  stuck  out  there
 in  the  island  limbo  of  “Ukip
 if  you  want  to,  but  we’re
 wide  awake,  and  we  want
 out”.</p> <p  align="left">You  may  think
 the  Sceptred  Isle  doesn’t  count,
 but  I  would  suggest  you’re  wrong.
 At  the  moment,  the  Eunatics  face
 threats  on  four  ClubMed  fronts,
 interference  from  the  US,  and  an
 allegedly  weak  Putinesque  Russia  which
 suggests  that  it  isn’t  either  weak
 or  stupid.  The  last  thing  the
 EU  elites  need  is  to  roil  the
 markets  with  a  secession  request
 from  Britain  in  2018….even  if  it
 is  only  England  by  then.</p> <p
 align="left">This  does,  I  think,  go
 a  long  way  to  explaining  why
 Draghi  has  of  late  switched  tack,
 and  begun  persuading  his  ‘colleagues’
 that  the  time  is  not  yet
 quite  right  for  the  Greeks  to
 default.  Much  smart  money  had  been
 targeting  April  26<sup>th</sup>  as  the
 moment  of  truth  for  Athens.  But
 yesterday  the  ECB  boss  told  a
 Washington  audience  that  he  “won’t
 even  contemplate”  the  possibility  of
 a  Greek  default  on  its  debt
 repayments  during  April,  because  such
 an  event  would  throw  the  eurozone
 into  “uncharted  waters.”  This  from
 the  man  who  six  weeks  ago
 claimed  that  Greek  default  would
 be  no  more  than  a  gnat-bite
 on  the  bum  for  eurobanks…because
 this  time,  the  system  “is
 prepared”.  Yeh,  right:  that  must
 be  why  he  arm-twisted  the  ELA
 into  coughing  up  the  liquidity  to
 help  Greece  pay  off  the  last
 IMF  kilo  of  flesh,  sorry,
 installment.</p> <p  align="left">Far  more
 money  is  now  being  placed  on
 a  Greek  default  on  or  after
 May  9<sup>th</sup>.  And  spookily,  that
 just  happens  to  be  two  days
 after  the  UK  General  Election
 finishes.  I  think  it  would  be
 safe  to  say  that  –  were  a
 Greek  default  to  throw  everything
 into  European  bond-spiking  confusion
 before  April  26<sup>th</sup>  –  there
 would  be  a  massive  Ukip  surge,
 as  well  as  potential  pressure  on
 the  UK’s  George  Osborne  in  terms
 of  borrowing  rates.  The  continued
 UK  national  debt  explosion  is,
 after  all,  the  Chancellor’s  Achilles
 heel.</p> <p  align="left">So  there  you
 have  it.  Or  rather,  you  don’t:
 because  twixt  you,  me,  the
 gatepost  and  the  other  girls,
 trying  to  discern  8  x  8
 possibilities  producing  64  possible
 outcomes  (when  any  new  left-field
 factor  could  make  that  4096
 scenarios)  is  the  original  mug’s
 game.</p> <p  align="left">Much  better,
 I’d  opine,  to  stick  to  the
 basics.  And  I’ve  remained  consistent
 about  these  since  this  rapidly
 dwindling  time-window  began  last
 February  24<sup>th</sup>.</p> <p
 align="left">Those  who  would  rather
 have  a  meteorite  collide  with
 Earth  than  give  up  on  the
 euro  project  have  far,  far  more
 to  lose  than  a  nation  of
 11.5m  people  who  would  (in  my
 view)  be  much  better  off  deserting
 the  euro.  But  there  remains  that
 Greek  inferiority  complex  pride  thing
 of  not  wanting  to  be  the
 catalyst  of  destroying  a  single
 market  that  acts  as  an  economic
 and  political  bulwark  against  American
 multinational  domination  of  the
 Globe.</p> <p  align="left">I  think  that
 viewpoint  to  be  muddled,  but  then
 I’m  not  Greek,  or  foraging  in
 the  Athens  garbage  cans.  My  gut
 feeling  is  that  Varoufakis
 underestimated  the  Cosa  Nostra
 nastiness  of  those  with  whom  he
 must  deal,  and  Troika2  underestimated
 the  fatigue  of  the  Hellenic
 population  at  large  with  being
 made  a  scapegoat.</p> <p
 align="left">Either  way,  a  lot  of
 very  sour  derivative  bets  placed
 on  euro  success  cannot  be  allowed
 to  trigger  an  omni-directional  bazooka
 aimed  at  Wall  Street.  Sorry  to
 repeat  myself,  but  I  still  think
 the  high  face-cards  are  in  the
 Greek  hand.</p> </div> [/html]
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greed, geopolitical ambitions and cynical control freakery of
its three prongs – Wall Street, the US/EU, and Berlin/ECB
interest groups.
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