Planet Earth As Weapon and Target Part II
Planet Earth As Weapon and Target
LEUREN MORET
World Affairs, The Journal of International Issues v.9, n.4, Winter 2005
Leuren Moret
President, Scientists for Indigenous People
City of Berkeley Environmental Commissioner
Past President, Association for Women Geoscientists
Berkeley, CA
Phone/FAX (510) 845-3139
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Part II
CHINAGATE
Cinton’s Nuclear Potlatch (A potlatch is a ceremony among Native American Peoples in the Pacific Northwest. Hierarchical relations between groups were observed and reinforced through the exchange of gifts and other ceremonies. The potlatch is an example of a gift economy; the host demonstrates his wealth and prominence through giving away his possessions and thus prompts participants to reciprocate when they hold their own potlatch).
Newly declassified ‘Chinagate’ documents reveal that in 1996 under pressure from Hughes Aerospace CEO C. Michael Armstrong, US President Bill Clinton gave a waiver and personally approved the export to China, of radiation-hardened specialised chip sets for a Chinese meteorological satellite. The special chips are necessary for advanced space technology and are critical for nuclear warfare in advanced nuclear warheads.
“In all likelihood we will be glowing in the dark before we discover the true extent of the Clinton decade of betrayal”, stated Rick Fisher, Asian Security Fellow at the Center for Security Policy.
“If it was indeed intended for a new PRC weather satellite, then it is possible that it was used for their new polar orbit weather satellites. This is significant because the Chinese themselves acknowledge that their polar orbit weather satellites directly contribute to their long-range missile targeting capability. This becomes even more important for their new smaller but more accurate warheads, used on their new DF-31, DF-31A, DF-5 Mod2 and JL-2 missiles. If they encounter significant weather, warhead accuracy degrades, reducing their utility”, stated Fisher. (“ Clinton Gave China Chips for Nuclear War” Charles R. Smith, Newsmax.com October 1, 2003 )
This shows the extent to which the Clinton White House placed trade, specifically with China, above National Security. Even more telling, the transfer took place during an investigation of Chinese espionage into missing US radiation-hardened satellite chips. When a damaged American Loral satellite from a failed Chinese launch was returned to Loral electronics, the radiation hardened encrypted telemetry chips, stored in a secure flight control box similar to those found on airliners were missing. The NSA changed all US satellite codes as a result of the theft of the Loral chips, which cost American taxpayers millions of dollars.
The Chinese army also made contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign, sometimes in cash. Allegations of espionage, illegal campaign donations, and possibly bribery were never fully investigated.
Hughes CEO Armstrong was not so lucky. Hughes was charged by the US State Department with 123 counts of violating national security for satellite exports to China, which Hughes admitted were military items. The company pleaded no contest, which disgraced the company, and it was fined half a billion dollars. After trashing Hughes, Armstrong moved on to AT&T and then Comcast.
Because of the greed of Hughes/Armstrong, the Commerce Department allowed the Chinese army to obtain a vast array of advanced missile, satellite, and space technology. Several years ago, while the US space shuttle was grounded, the US space technology illegally sold to the Chinese Army was used on China’s first manned spacecraft.
In 1997 as chair of the President’s Export Council, Armstrong stated in a report that the US nuclear industry had to sell 100 nuclear reactors to China or the US nuclear industry and the US Navy’s nuclear programme would be threatened. That the survival of the US nuclear industry depends on China was an outrageous argument. He was unsuccessful in lobbying for the sales despite efforts by Clinton to export nuclear technology to China. A reluctant Republican-controlled Congress resisted the sales because of national security concerns.
From the 1970s through the Clinton era, China apparently got the entire classified portfolio on design and manufacturing of all US major “nukes”. Nuclear weapons lab scientist, Dr. Wen Ho Lee, falsely accused of transferring classified information to China, was made the scapegoat, humiliated, put in prison in solitary confinement for 278 days in leg irons, while Wang Jun, the head of the Chinese Secret Police and a major arms dealer was able to have coffee with President Clinton in the White House. Secretary of Defence William Cohen, commented on the transfer of nuclear weapons technology from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to China:
“They weren’t exactly spying in my view. We gave it to them.”
While the Mossad (assisted by Mossad agent and international publisher Robert Maxwell) and Chinese spies were stealing nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos and Livermore nuclear weapons labs, Richard Berta, the Western Regional Inspector from the Inspector General’s Office at the Department of Energy (DOE) was too busy doing business with the lab administrators to notice.
According to US Congressional Testimony of Danielle Brian on September 24, 2002, when the World Trade Center disaster happened in 2001, Navy Seals were secretly sent into nuclear facilities as ‘terrorists’ and were able to enter the classified areas and steal enough weapons grade plutonium from the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab to make a nuclear bomb. They used wire cutters to get through the perimeter fence and a wheelbarrow to get the plutonium out of the lab. This exercise was repeated with similar concerns about security this year at the Livermore nuclear weapons lab.
The ‘Nuclear Potlatch’ legacy that President Clinton left for the twenty-first century is a modern Chinese army equipped for global nuclear war. Not so much an accident, but a pattern seen over and over again that in reality is a setup. The US lays a weapon on the table, says to a country “Go ahead... pick it up...” and when the country reaches for that new ‘toy’—they are whacked with a big stick and eventually “bombed into radioactive rubble”.
The Wars on Terror, Drugs, and Weapons of Mass Destruction are dreamed up in that Death Star in Arlington, Virginia—the Pentagon. Three branches of the US government are part of the staged production that give Americans a false notion that they live in a democracy and have a truthful media reporting to them about the success of ‘exporting democracy’ through wars. Nothing could be further from the truth. The United States has become a fascist state where there is no clear distinction between legitimate and clandestine illegal organisations.
While the George H. Bush administration was hyping the War on Terror, Defense Information Agency (DIA) officials believed that nuclear technology had been transferred to Pakistan and began investigating. Similarities between Pakistani and US weapons designs were of particular concern. A regular exchange of information was discovered, between China and the Army Computer Lab at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, that took place during the 1980s and early 1990’s (under Presidents Reagan/Bush and Bush/Quayle). At the same time the CIA and US policy-makers used A.Q. Khan as a cover, claiming he was secretly running a black-market network for distributing nuclear materials to countries like Iran, North Korea, Libya, and Malaysia, when he was simply acting as their frontman. Many of the companies he did business with are government controlled. Efforts to trade nuclear technologies with North Korea in exchange for missile technologies were approved by the top echelon of both the Pakistan and Saudi governments. Countries that detained Khan were ordered to “look but don’t touch” by the US, and he was released. Pakistani Nazir Ahmed Vaid was arrested in Houston in 1984 attempting to smuggle out 50 krytrons, electronic switches for nuclear weapons. He received a very special deal and was let off on probation and deported. He continued to enter the country illegally and conduct business until 2004 when his son was warned by a Customs’ Agent that there was a detention order on his father.
In the 1980s, Congressman Charlie Wilson working with the CIA, told Pakistan’s President Zia ul-Haq:
“Mr. President, as far as I am concerned you can make all the bombs you want.”
(Joseph J. Trento, Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA and the Legacy of America’s Private Intelligence Network).
It is hard to believe that the US intelligence community was unaware of a massive secret atom bomb project funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the failed BCCI bank. According to a Senate report George H.W. Bush’s favorite bank was also used to covertly fund the anti-Soviet Afghanistan resistance, and the CIA has been aware since the 1970s of Pakistan’s nuclear program when Bush was Director. Among George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil” supposed enemies, many of his father’s ‘friendenemies’ are listed.
The pan-Islamic bomb project may be one of the biggest nuclear conspiracies in modern history. Recent disclosures involve CIA covert agent Valerie Plame’s investigation of WMD, her attendance at American-Turkish Council events, and several trips to Turkey. The Turkish newspaper Huriyet described her visit as a search for WMDs and more likely their components. Transactional emails made between Asher Karni [Israeli businessman in S. Africa], Zeki Bilmen [Turkish businessman] of Ginza Technologies in New Jersey, and Humayun Khan [operative for the Pakistani military] concerned procurement of oscilloscopes and oscillators (used to build missiles and nuclear weapons), and triggered spark gaps (used to spark nuclear explosions). Referring to the spark gaps, Bilmen said in another email “... No Export Licence Required to South Africa. I thought you might want to know.” Asher Karni, a Hungarian-born Israeli citizen and resident of South Africa, was caught at the Denver airport in 2003 exporting 200 nuclear weapons triggers to Pakistan, and was sentenced to 3½ years in prison on August 4, 2005. By illegally providing nuclear components arranged by the White House and Pentagon through middleman Asher Karni, the Bush administration and pro-Israeli neocons hoped to accelerate Iran’s nuclear programme by ten years. Turkey’s role in illicit nuclear transactions and selling off classified US military data involves the Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli Mafia and their ‘friends’ involved in related activities.
SECRET DEVELOPMENT OF EXOTIC SPACE WEAPONS EXPLORATION OF SPACE FOR MILITARY PURPOSES
“Cover stories about projects must be believable and cannot reveal any information regarding the true nature of the project.”
(National Industrial Security Programme Manual (draft) March 1992, provided by US Department of Defense for industrial contractors).
The ‘true nature’ of the project is clearly US military space dominance and warfare.
Nearly all of the atmospheric research undertaken by the US since World War II has been conducted by or for the benefit of the military under the legitimate cover of ‘academic research’ and shielded from scrutiny by secrecy. The best and the brightest minds have been lured into this research, engaged in compartmentalised investigations with little knowledge of the larger application.
The militarisation of US Space Command: 2020 Vision is sanctioned by Congress. The military considers space the “high ground” and clearly it is the next battlefield... or is this just another cover?
“We’ll expand into these two missions (space control and space force application) because they will become increasingly important. We will engage terrestrial targets someday—ships, airplanes, land targets—from space. We will engage targets in space, from space. And this command will engage quickly; [the missions] are already assigned, and we’ve written the concepts of operations. We will engage re-entry vehicles in the medium of space with a ballistic missile defence system of North America. It’s politically sensitive, but it’s going to happen. Some people don’t want to hear this, and it sure isn’t in vogue... but—absolutely—we’re going to fight in space.”
(General Ashy, commander US Air Force Space Command and commander-in-chief of the combined US-Canada North American Air Defence Command (NORAD), August 5, 1996).
Orbiting our world at hypervelocity (10 km/sec), mostly in low-Earth orbits, are a large number of satellites (the real number is classified) and a debris field of space trash which travels at speeds of up to 17,000 miles an hour. As of 1987, orbital pollution was composed of more than 7000 objects 10 cm, 50,000 objects from 1–10 cm, and 10–100 billion paint chips which are now in orbit. By 2002, the US Air Force Space Command was tracking 10,000 objects 10 cm: “operating and dead satellites, explosion fragments from rocket engines, garbage bags and frozen sewage dumped by astronauts, shrapnel from antisatellite weapons tests, 34 nuclear reactors and their fuel cores, an escaped wrench, an astronaut’s glove and a toothbrush”. Returning space shuttles often have dings and window cracks. Astronaut Edgar Mitchell described how a paint chip nearly took out the Space Shuttle and that it is “nearly too dangerous now” to travel in space. The 1987 risk of a damaging collision during several years in orbit was 1 in 500. The volume of debris doubles about every 5 years and weighed 3000 tons in 1997. Pieces of space trash 10 cm must each be identified and tracked by complex military computers in order to differentiate them from a missile attack. Each piece of space trash is reported and registered annually with the UN.
In January 1978, when Cosmos 954, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite, fell from orbit over Canada, it released radioactive debris and dust contaminating a path 2,000 km long. That was not the first one. NASA’s New Horizons space probe heading for Pluto is powered by a Radioactive Thermoelectric Generator or “RTG” containing 24 pounds (about 132,465 Curies) of extremely deadly plutonium—mostly Pu 238, and about 12 per cent Pu 239 (aka ‘weapons grade plutonium’). The military connection to this launch is that covertly RTGs could be used for orbiting spy satellites, but the military will not admit using them. Military plans to use nuclear weapons and nuclear powered propulsion in space should be of great concern. Lower orbital space is already contaminated with uranium and its decay products from atmospheric testing. It remains suspended in the atmosphere until it is rained or snowed out of the air, depositing it in the environment.
The expanding ring of man-made garbage circling the earth at hypervelocity, is an increasing threat to spacecraft and satellites. Objects “greater than 1 mm will likely penetrate the skin of a satellite or a solar panel, those greater than 1 cm will cause the break-up of satellites, and those greater than 10 cm can cause the total fragmentation of a satellite”. The UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space reported in 1999 that 16,000 space objects had reentered the atmosphere in the previous 40 years. That is about one object a week with a cross section of one square metre.
Military and NASA officials dismiss claims by scientists and astronauts that weapons in space could leave so much debris that lower orbital space would be unusable. The danger of radioactive pollution from nuclear weapons in space is never mentioned.
In a speech in April 2002, Astronaut Sally Ride said anti-satellite weapons would be “disastrous”, particularly between 150 and 400 miles high. This zone includes the space shuttle, international space station, and reconnaissance satellites.
Yet in the face of the new upgraded Russian Topol and Bulova missiles, and of the complete failure of the US land-based anti-missile missiles, space-based weapons are the only defence possible. A high-tech space battle could be catastrophic as biophysicist John Primack argues, because if an enemy chose a low-tech delivery of “giant loads of rock or metal pellets into space”:
No actual space war even has to be fought. Any country that felt threatened by America’s starting to place lasers or other weapons in space would only have to launch the equivalent of gravel to destroy the sophisticated weaponry.
(“Scientist: Space weapons pose debris threat” Richard Stenger, CNN, May 3, 2002).
A marble travelling at 17,000 mph, 10 times faster than a bullet, could hit an object “with the force of a one-ton safe dropped three stories”. This could set off a series of collisions that would cascade into more and more collisions eventually leaving the orbital zone unusable. Another example of ancient Mesopotamian warfare turning high-tech weapons into dust.
So what are the real weapons and what is the real purpose for the militarisation of space?
SOLAR POWER SATELLITE PROJECT (1968)
The solar power satellite programme (SPS) in the late 1960s, won public support from civilians and universities as an alternative to nuclear power, but served for the military as a cover for continued research and experimentation on the ionosphere. The projected cost of the electricity produced by this project was $3000 per kilowatt compared to $1100 per kilowatt for nuclear power. This was a very expensive programme from the start, requiring nearly $800 billion for the 60 satellites required alone, and it must have been obvious to some that it would never be implemented. The whole budget cost was 2–3 times greater than the entire DOE budget! In 1978, Dr. Rosalie Bertell was on a government review panel, and discovered the shadow of the military through another panel member who pointed out that there was a possibility of developing a satellite-borne beam weapon for anti-ballistic missile use. Another possibility was that it could be used for a satellite surveillance system.
“My former neighbour worked for TRW for many years putting the little black boxes together in the sats [satellites] they were launching. Interestingly, these so-called ‘weather’ sats suddenly went missing. My neighbour said he had heard enough talk at TRW to cause him to believe these sats went ‘stealth’ into 20,000-mile high orbits from the original 300-mile high orbit. He was not certain of the function of the little black boxes but his fringe knowledge of laser systems and related components led him to believe these ‘weather’ sats were in fact laser guns for preemptive action when needed ... until then, it is anyone’s guess as to what function they actually are performing.
Speculation about a ground-based high-energy laser beam that could thermally destroy incoming enemy missiles was also discussed. In Livermore, California, in the middle of the night in the summer of 1993, I observed from my backyard a very large amber coloured laser beam about 10 feet in diameter, pointed straight up into the atmosphere from the Lawrence Livermore Lab. All air traffic was diverted for 5 miles around the beam. When I asked a physics student, working at the lab and renting a room in my house that summer, what it was for, he said, “Oh, they’re making a star up there...”
In the entrance of the large Laser Facility at Livermore Lab is a 10 feet tall bronze statue of Shiva, representing the dance of the Universe. The first big laser project was called Shiva. A tradition at the Livermore lab is that each one is destroyed when a new one is built.
STRATEGIC DEFENCE INITIATIVE (SDI) OR ‘STAR WARS’
The United Nations Committee on Disarmament told Dr. Bertell, who had been concerned about weapons applications, that as long as SPS was called ‘solar energy’, it could not be considered a weapons project (Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War by Rosalie Bertell, Black Rose Books, 2001). Eventually Congress killed it because of the cost. But it came back as the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) or Star Wars under Reagan. The cost of building the Star Wars defense system was estimated at $100 to $1000 billion. The US spent nearly $30 billion on it, despite objections from scientists, NATO allies, and anti-nuclear movements who stressed that it broke the terms of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Disillusioned researchers in the US have claimed that Star Wars was science fraud and that data was falsified, Caspar Weinberg, Secretary of Defence under Reagan, stated that it was actually conceived to deceive the USSR and force them to escalate military defence spending. In 1991, I was approached at the Lawrence Livermore Lab by a gray-haired scientist I had never met but who seemed to know me. He said:
“The Cold War is over, we’ve looked at the books in the USSR and they are bankrupt. When the Soviet Union collapses in a year or two you are out of here. We only need you [geoscientists] to monitor global nuclear weapons testing. We are dismantling the military and expanding the intelligence community by at least ten times.”
In 1993 the funds from the Star Wars project, which had officially ended, were transferred to the Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation, the third reincarnation of the same project since Reagan. Now that it was a compartmentalized project—laser defence, radar systems, National Missile Defence (NMD), and the Space Shuttle—none of the parts seemed particularly alarming until, as Dr. Rosalie Bertell puts it, space shields or plasma shields were taken into consideration as the real purpose behind the persistent reincarnations of these very expensive programmes.
THE JAPANESE AUM SHINRIKYO AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS RESEARCH
On April 23, 1993, Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese ‘Supreme Truth’ Buddhist Sect, purchased a 500,000 acre sheep ranch in Western Australia near Banjawarn. They sold the ranch and suddenly left Australia in October 1994. Indications were that they had prospected for uranium, used chemicals and a laboratory for an unknown purpose, and after they left Australia traces of Sarin gas were found on sheep and wool (“Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Case Study on the Aum Shinrikyo”, Senate Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations October 31, 1995 Staff Statement). Later members of this sect were implicated in the 1995 attack on the Tokyo subway with Sarin gas. The leader was tried and convicted in Tokyo while I was in Japan for the summer of 2003. I met Japanese journalists who had followed the story and personally knew members of the sect, many of whom are scientists. Manhattan Project member, Dr. Fred Wood, and Alden Bryant, Secretary-Treasurer of the New Energy Movement warned me about how dangerous Russian exotic weapons technology is and said that it had been leased by the Aum from Russia. The Aum recruited followers in Japan, Russia, Australia, Sri Lanka, the United States, and visited Yugoslavia. Links to the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) through drug dealing were alleged in the Japanese media.
A Congressional investigation of the Aum Shinrikyo in 1995 reported that their interest in WMDs was related to Armagedon-like events they planned to stage against New World Order interests:
“It [Aum] claims that the Jews are planning similar massacres in other areas of the world in order to carry out a sinister plot to reduce the world’s population by three billion people by the year 2,000. The Aum also has linked the Jews to its other enemies within Japanese society—the ‘black aristocracy’ of Japanese ‘internationalists’ including a number of current and former Japanese politicians and statesmen.”
The sect claimed 65,000 members, with over half in Russia. The Japanese government estimated their assets at $1 billion. Many of the Aum followers were highly educated in the science and technological fields and graduated from Japan’s best universities. The sect spent over $400 million on computer equipment, nearly all purchased from a Taiwan company. Their cult acquired conventional weapons but were more interested in WMDs and apparently saw Russia as a source for more exotic, and far deadlier weapons.
When the Russian Duma did an investigation of the sect, Russian parliamentarian Vitaliy Savitsky, chairman of the Duma’s Religious Affairs Committee told fellow parliamentarians that, “his committee seriously suspected that Aum Shinrikyo had been assisted in its penetration into Russia by Russian intelligence services.”
From February to April 1995, the Aum sent a party of six members to the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, the former Yugoslavia, to review Tesla’s original thesis and other research papers pertaining to “Tesla weapon systems” which focus on wave amplification. Nokola Tesla was a scientist who experimented in the fields of atmospherics, electromagnetics, fluid dynamics, and geodynamics in the early 1900s, and discovered alternating current. Although Marconi won the Nobel Prize for inventing radio, Tesla later won a lawsuit claiming that he had been the rightful inventor. When he died in the US in 1943, all of his papers were seized by the US government and classified. The Aum members studied research on the Tesla Coil, used for alternating current, as well as other inventions and experiments. His early experiments with resonating frequencies were experiments in creating earthquakes. He was quoted as saying that with his technology he could ‘split the world’ in two. Tesla had developed a ‘ray’ gun in the 1930s which was actually a particle beam accelerator. This gun was reported to be able to shoot down an airplane at 200 miles, and he claimed to have invented the Tesla shield which nothing could penetrate.
In April 1993, Australians were told by the Aum sect that the property in Australia was to be used to ‘conduct experiments there for the benefit of mankind’. On May 28, just 35 days after the purchase, a strange meteor like fireball, an explosion, and an earthquake of magnitude 4 were reported in the area. In September 1993, a front company for Aum was used to import electrical equipment including transformers, static converters, generators, coaxial cabling, batteries, meters and tools, and protective equipment into Australia.
Later a geologist named Harry Mason, visited the area and investigated the semi-desert region looking for meteor craters. He discovered from interviews with residents that:
“... people heard the fireball well before they saw it; it was a large orange-red spherical fireball with a very small bluish conical tail; the speed was like that of a 747 jet liner; the fireball flew apparently parallel to Earth’s curvature in a long ‘nap of earth’ arcing trajectory at low altitude (about 2000 metres) over a distance of at least 250 kilometres; the fireball arced down toward the ground and disappeared behind trees or low hills; then a blinding massive high energy burst of blue-white light lit up the night as if it was daylight. Observers could see more than 100 kilometres in every direction at ground level; a red colour flare then shot vertically skywards and a massive seismic ground wave hit the observers; a very loud major explosive blast followed, that was heard over a 250 km by 150 km corridor; minor quake damage was reported as far as 150 km southeast.”
(Harry Mason, ‘Bright Skies Part I’, Nexus, March–April 1997).
There were many irregularities which indicated this phenomenon was very different from anything known before. Since the 1993 fireball event, thousands of similar sightings and light-energy emissions have occurred in Australia. Dr. Bertell reports that the fireball trajectories pass near four military complexes: Showa and Mizuho in Japan, Molodezhnaya and Novolazarevskaya in Russia. The Kamchatka peninsula, in Siberia, is also suspected of being one of a series of former Soviet electromagnetic weapons transmitters around the world.
UNDECLARED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAR
Design work began on antiballistic missiles (ABM) in 1946, at the University of Michigan, for interception of long-range missiles. The Soviet Union also began development of ABM defence after World War II, mainly theoretical research between 1948 and 1951. By 1967 the USSR began working on projects for early warning systems, space defence, and a system for outer space control. These became the main components of the ABM and space defence of the Soviet Union.
Upgraded from above-the-horizon radar, the Soviet Duga-2 “Iron Yard” over-the-horizon radar was designed in 1970 to detect enemy missiles within two or three minutes, and was successfully tested at Novaya Zemlya. At Nikolaev the radar built included 26 huge transmitters (each one was of the size of a two-story building).
“The transmitting antenna was 210 meters wide and 85 metres high. The receiving antenna was 300 metres wide and 135 metres high. The antenna field housed 330 transmitters of about 15 meters each. These radars had to reliably detect group and mass launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles from the territory of the US.”
On July 4, 1976, the 200 th anniversary of the United States, the first such facility began operations at Kiev and has been on the air ever since. The powerful electromagnetic transmissions were a signal transmitted at frequencies between 3.26 and 17.54 megahertz, and was pulse-modulated at a rate of several times a second. The 2 MW transmitter at first interfered with communications, and ham radio operators picked it up all over the world, but corrections were made so that it skipped critical frequencies for aircraft and transoceanic flights as it moved across its operational spectrum.
Two more similar facilities were built later near Chernigov and Komsomolsk-na-Amur. The facilities at Kiev and at Komsomolsk-na-Amur provide coverage of the United States. A smaller lower-power facility at Nikolaeyev near Odessa provides coverage of China.
On July 18, 1977, the US government became covert partners with the Soviets and the secret code name given to it in the US was Project Woodpecker. The US sent a team of scientists to Russia with a 40 ton magnet and other scientific material and equipment for further research and development.
The main research center for the Project has been the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Covert funding funneled through the CIA and National Security Agency provided support along with collaboration by the Department of Defence and NASA from the beginning of the project. In January 1995, the Livermore State of the Laboratory award publication announced that a 21-member Woodpecker team had received the Intelligence Community Seal Medallion in 1994 for “its work on a classified project to improve information-gathering techniques.” The Deputy Director of the CIA and the Director of the NSA presented the award at CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia. The award cited the team’s success:
“...on a series of technical problems of enormous complexity, resulting in an extremely powerful operational capability that can be used to gather intelligence from unique sources not exploitable by any other means.”
The lab publication stated that in 1985 the project team started work on feasibility studies. The final product was delivered to the project sponsor in 1992, just as the Cold War ended.
On June 22, 1995, Dr. Armen Victorian received an answer from the Oakland office of the DOE on his appeal for a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request on Project Woodpecker:
In its May 5, 1995 determination, Oakland stated that a search had been conducted for documents responsive to Victorian’s request, but that no records were found as a result of the search. Oakland specifically stated that information relating to Project Woodpecker had been destroyed.
Back in 1952 a secret meeting was held in New Mexico between Russian and US scientists at the Sandia Lab, which is part of the nuclear weapons programme. An exchange of information on the biological hazards of microwave and electromagnetic frequencies, and safety levels, was not entirely successful. The Russians publicly acknowledged the risks but the Americans did not take them seriously. Shortly after that the Russians began a 30-year programme beaming the US embassy in Moscow with microwaves, causing the deaths of three US Ambassadors and illnesses in employees. The “Moscow Signal” discovered by the CIA in 1962, was used by the Russians on US embassy employees to test low-level EMR (electromagnetic resonance) effects.
In April 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sent the following telegram to the US Embassy in Moscow, which summarized the conclusions of the study of the Moscow signal:
“Subject: Radiation and UHF and Electromagnetic Dangers”
“Beginning in 1960 the Soviet Union directed the high frequency beams
of radiation at the US Embassy in Moscow which were calculated not to pick up intelligence but cause physiological effects on personnel. The effects the Soviets calculated to achieve in the personnel serving (at least as early as 1960) included (A) Malaise (B) Irritability, (C) Extreme fatigue. At this time the Soviets believed that the induced effects were temporary. Subsequently, it has been verified that the effects are not temporary. Definitely tied to such radiation and the UHF/VHF electromagnetic waves are: (A) Cataracts, (B) Blood changes that induce heart attacks, (C) Malignancies, (D) Circulatory problems, and (E) Permanent deterioration of the nervous system. In most cases the after-effects do not become evident until long after exposure—a decade or more.”
(William MacIntosh, Project Pandora,
http://www.geocities.com/adrian9999999999/pandora.htm ).
The Soviets apparently were the first to use electropollution or directed energy with malicious intent. By 1955 the US Navy was conducting EMR experiments with UHF (ultra-high frequencies) for the purpose of targeting individuals, crowds, or armies. The effects could be scaled up or down, and today are called Non Lethal Weapons (NLW). A 2004, “Military contract for Pulsed Energy Projectile (PEP) Pain Study, a heavily redacted US Navy contract for development of NLW with the University of Florida, reveals interesting details of pulsed microwave directed energy weapons.
“...decades of research and investment of untold millions of rubles in the process of psycho-corrections has produced the ability to alter behaviour on willing and unwilling subjects, experts add. The Russian experts, including George Kotov, a former KGB General, also report a list of software and hardware associated with their psycho-correction programme that could be procured for as little as $80,000. As far as it has become possible to probe and correct psychic contents of human beings despite their will and consciousness by instrumental means; results having been achieved can get out of control and be used for inhumane purposes of manipulating psyche.” (Barbara Opall, Defence News, January 11–17, 1993).
End part II)
see part I (item in this blog): http://fufor.twoday.net/stories/2609404/
see part II (item in this blog): http://fufor.twoday.net/stories/2609402/
see part III (item in this blog): http://fufor.twoday.net/stories/2609397/
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LEUREN MORET
World Affairs, The Journal of International Issues v.9, n.4, Winter 2005
Leuren Moret
President, Scientists for Indigenous People
City of Berkeley Environmental Commissioner
Past President, Association for Women Geoscientists
Berkeley, CA
Phone/FAX (510) 845-3139
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Part II
CHINAGATE
Cinton’s Nuclear Potlatch (A potlatch is a ceremony among Native American Peoples in the Pacific Northwest. Hierarchical relations between groups were observed and reinforced through the exchange of gifts and other ceremonies. The potlatch is an example of a gift economy; the host demonstrates his wealth and prominence through giving away his possessions and thus prompts participants to reciprocate when they hold their own potlatch).
Newly declassified ‘Chinagate’ documents reveal that in 1996 under pressure from Hughes Aerospace CEO C. Michael Armstrong, US President Bill Clinton gave a waiver and personally approved the export to China, of radiation-hardened specialised chip sets for a Chinese meteorological satellite. The special chips are necessary for advanced space technology and are critical for nuclear warfare in advanced nuclear warheads.
“In all likelihood we will be glowing in the dark before we discover the true extent of the Clinton decade of betrayal”, stated Rick Fisher, Asian Security Fellow at the Center for Security Policy.
“If it was indeed intended for a new PRC weather satellite, then it is possible that it was used for their new polar orbit weather satellites. This is significant because the Chinese themselves acknowledge that their polar orbit weather satellites directly contribute to their long-range missile targeting capability. This becomes even more important for their new smaller but more accurate warheads, used on their new DF-31, DF-31A, DF-5 Mod2 and JL-2 missiles. If they encounter significant weather, warhead accuracy degrades, reducing their utility”, stated Fisher. (“ Clinton Gave China Chips for Nuclear War” Charles R. Smith, Newsmax.com October 1, 2003 )
This shows the extent to which the Clinton White House placed trade, specifically with China, above National Security. Even more telling, the transfer took place during an investigation of Chinese espionage into missing US radiation-hardened satellite chips. When a damaged American Loral satellite from a failed Chinese launch was returned to Loral electronics, the radiation hardened encrypted telemetry chips, stored in a secure flight control box similar to those found on airliners were missing. The NSA changed all US satellite codes as a result of the theft of the Loral chips, which cost American taxpayers millions of dollars.
The Chinese army also made contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign, sometimes in cash. Allegations of espionage, illegal campaign donations, and possibly bribery were never fully investigated.
Hughes CEO Armstrong was not so lucky. Hughes was charged by the US State Department with 123 counts of violating national security for satellite exports to China, which Hughes admitted were military items. The company pleaded no contest, which disgraced the company, and it was fined half a billion dollars. After trashing Hughes, Armstrong moved on to AT&T and then Comcast.
Because of the greed of Hughes/Armstrong, the Commerce Department allowed the Chinese army to obtain a vast array of advanced missile, satellite, and space technology. Several years ago, while the US space shuttle was grounded, the US space technology illegally sold to the Chinese Army was used on China’s first manned spacecraft.
In 1997 as chair of the President’s Export Council, Armstrong stated in a report that the US nuclear industry had to sell 100 nuclear reactors to China or the US nuclear industry and the US Navy’s nuclear programme would be threatened. That the survival of the US nuclear industry depends on China was an outrageous argument. He was unsuccessful in lobbying for the sales despite efforts by Clinton to export nuclear technology to China. A reluctant Republican-controlled Congress resisted the sales because of national security concerns.
From the 1970s through the Clinton era, China apparently got the entire classified portfolio on design and manufacturing of all US major “nukes”. Nuclear weapons lab scientist, Dr. Wen Ho Lee, falsely accused of transferring classified information to China, was made the scapegoat, humiliated, put in prison in solitary confinement for 278 days in leg irons, while Wang Jun, the head of the Chinese Secret Police and a major arms dealer was able to have coffee with President Clinton in the White House. Secretary of Defence William Cohen, commented on the transfer of nuclear weapons technology from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to China:
“They weren’t exactly spying in my view. We gave it to them.”
While the Mossad (assisted by Mossad agent and international publisher Robert Maxwell) and Chinese spies were stealing nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos and Livermore nuclear weapons labs, Richard Berta, the Western Regional Inspector from the Inspector General’s Office at the Department of Energy (DOE) was too busy doing business with the lab administrators to notice.
According to US Congressional Testimony of Danielle Brian on September 24, 2002, when the World Trade Center disaster happened in 2001, Navy Seals were secretly sent into nuclear facilities as ‘terrorists’ and were able to enter the classified areas and steal enough weapons grade plutonium from the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab to make a nuclear bomb. They used wire cutters to get through the perimeter fence and a wheelbarrow to get the plutonium out of the lab. This exercise was repeated with similar concerns about security this year at the Livermore nuclear weapons lab.
The ‘Nuclear Potlatch’ legacy that President Clinton left for the twenty-first century is a modern Chinese army equipped for global nuclear war. Not so much an accident, but a pattern seen over and over again that in reality is a setup. The US lays a weapon on the table, says to a country “Go ahead... pick it up...” and when the country reaches for that new ‘toy’—they are whacked with a big stick and eventually “bombed into radioactive rubble”.
The Wars on Terror, Drugs, and Weapons of Mass Destruction are dreamed up in that Death Star in Arlington, Virginia—the Pentagon. Three branches of the US government are part of the staged production that give Americans a false notion that they live in a democracy and have a truthful media reporting to them about the success of ‘exporting democracy’ through wars. Nothing could be further from the truth. The United States has become a fascist state where there is no clear distinction between legitimate and clandestine illegal organisations.
While the George H. Bush administration was hyping the War on Terror, Defense Information Agency (DIA) officials believed that nuclear technology had been transferred to Pakistan and began investigating. Similarities between Pakistani and US weapons designs were of particular concern. A regular exchange of information was discovered, between China and the Army Computer Lab at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, that took place during the 1980s and early 1990’s (under Presidents Reagan/Bush and Bush/Quayle). At the same time the CIA and US policy-makers used A.Q. Khan as a cover, claiming he was secretly running a black-market network for distributing nuclear materials to countries like Iran, North Korea, Libya, and Malaysia, when he was simply acting as their frontman. Many of the companies he did business with are government controlled. Efforts to trade nuclear technologies with North Korea in exchange for missile technologies were approved by the top echelon of both the Pakistan and Saudi governments. Countries that detained Khan were ordered to “look but don’t touch” by the US, and he was released. Pakistani Nazir Ahmed Vaid was arrested in Houston in 1984 attempting to smuggle out 50 krytrons, electronic switches for nuclear weapons. He received a very special deal and was let off on probation and deported. He continued to enter the country illegally and conduct business until 2004 when his son was warned by a Customs’ Agent that there was a detention order on his father.
In the 1980s, Congressman Charlie Wilson working with the CIA, told Pakistan’s President Zia ul-Haq:
“Mr. President, as far as I am concerned you can make all the bombs you want.”
(Joseph J. Trento, Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA and the Legacy of America’s Private Intelligence Network).
It is hard to believe that the US intelligence community was unaware of a massive secret atom bomb project funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the failed BCCI bank. According to a Senate report George H.W. Bush’s favorite bank was also used to covertly fund the anti-Soviet Afghanistan resistance, and the CIA has been aware since the 1970s of Pakistan’s nuclear program when Bush was Director. Among George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil” supposed enemies, many of his father’s ‘friendenemies’ are listed.
The pan-Islamic bomb project may be one of the biggest nuclear conspiracies in modern history. Recent disclosures involve CIA covert agent Valerie Plame’s investigation of WMD, her attendance at American-Turkish Council events, and several trips to Turkey. The Turkish newspaper Huriyet described her visit as a search for WMDs and more likely their components. Transactional emails made between Asher Karni [Israeli businessman in S. Africa], Zeki Bilmen [Turkish businessman] of Ginza Technologies in New Jersey, and Humayun Khan [operative for the Pakistani military] concerned procurement of oscilloscopes and oscillators (used to build missiles and nuclear weapons), and triggered spark gaps (used to spark nuclear explosions). Referring to the spark gaps, Bilmen said in another email “... No Export Licence Required to South Africa. I thought you might want to know.” Asher Karni, a Hungarian-born Israeli citizen and resident of South Africa, was caught at the Denver airport in 2003 exporting 200 nuclear weapons triggers to Pakistan, and was sentenced to 3½ years in prison on August 4, 2005. By illegally providing nuclear components arranged by the White House and Pentagon through middleman Asher Karni, the Bush administration and pro-Israeli neocons hoped to accelerate Iran’s nuclear programme by ten years. Turkey’s role in illicit nuclear transactions and selling off classified US military data involves the Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli Mafia and their ‘friends’ involved in related activities.
SECRET DEVELOPMENT OF EXOTIC SPACE WEAPONS EXPLORATION OF SPACE FOR MILITARY PURPOSES
“Cover stories about projects must be believable and cannot reveal any information regarding the true nature of the project.”
(National Industrial Security Programme Manual (draft) March 1992, provided by US Department of Defense for industrial contractors).
The ‘true nature’ of the project is clearly US military space dominance and warfare.
Nearly all of the atmospheric research undertaken by the US since World War II has been conducted by or for the benefit of the military under the legitimate cover of ‘academic research’ and shielded from scrutiny by secrecy. The best and the brightest minds have been lured into this research, engaged in compartmentalised investigations with little knowledge of the larger application.
The militarisation of US Space Command: 2020 Vision is sanctioned by Congress. The military considers space the “high ground” and clearly it is the next battlefield... or is this just another cover?
“We’ll expand into these two missions (space control and space force application) because they will become increasingly important. We will engage terrestrial targets someday—ships, airplanes, land targets—from space. We will engage targets in space, from space. And this command will engage quickly; [the missions] are already assigned, and we’ve written the concepts of operations. We will engage re-entry vehicles in the medium of space with a ballistic missile defence system of North America. It’s politically sensitive, but it’s going to happen. Some people don’t want to hear this, and it sure isn’t in vogue... but—absolutely—we’re going to fight in space.”
(General Ashy, commander US Air Force Space Command and commander-in-chief of the combined US-Canada North American Air Defence Command (NORAD), August 5, 1996).
Orbiting our world at hypervelocity (10 km/sec), mostly in low-Earth orbits, are a large number of satellites (the real number is classified) and a debris field of space trash which travels at speeds of up to 17,000 miles an hour. As of 1987, orbital pollution was composed of more than 7000 objects 10 cm, 50,000 objects from 1–10 cm, and 10–100 billion paint chips which are now in orbit. By 2002, the US Air Force Space Command was tracking 10,000 objects 10 cm: “operating and dead satellites, explosion fragments from rocket engines, garbage bags and frozen sewage dumped by astronauts, shrapnel from antisatellite weapons tests, 34 nuclear reactors and their fuel cores, an escaped wrench, an astronaut’s glove and a toothbrush”. Returning space shuttles often have dings and window cracks. Astronaut Edgar Mitchell described how a paint chip nearly took out the Space Shuttle and that it is “nearly too dangerous now” to travel in space. The 1987 risk of a damaging collision during several years in orbit was 1 in 500. The volume of debris doubles about every 5 years and weighed 3000 tons in 1997. Pieces of space trash 10 cm must each be identified and tracked by complex military computers in order to differentiate them from a missile attack. Each piece of space trash is reported and registered annually with the UN.
In January 1978, when Cosmos 954, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite, fell from orbit over Canada, it released radioactive debris and dust contaminating a path 2,000 km long. That was not the first one. NASA’s New Horizons space probe heading for Pluto is powered by a Radioactive Thermoelectric Generator or “RTG” containing 24 pounds (about 132,465 Curies) of extremely deadly plutonium—mostly Pu 238, and about 12 per cent Pu 239 (aka ‘weapons grade plutonium’). The military connection to this launch is that covertly RTGs could be used for orbiting spy satellites, but the military will not admit using them. Military plans to use nuclear weapons and nuclear powered propulsion in space should be of great concern. Lower orbital space is already contaminated with uranium and its decay products from atmospheric testing. It remains suspended in the atmosphere until it is rained or snowed out of the air, depositing it in the environment.
The expanding ring of man-made garbage circling the earth at hypervelocity, is an increasing threat to spacecraft and satellites. Objects “greater than 1 mm will likely penetrate the skin of a satellite or a solar panel, those greater than 1 cm will cause the break-up of satellites, and those greater than 10 cm can cause the total fragmentation of a satellite”. The UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space reported in 1999 that 16,000 space objects had reentered the atmosphere in the previous 40 years. That is about one object a week with a cross section of one square metre.
Military and NASA officials dismiss claims by scientists and astronauts that weapons in space could leave so much debris that lower orbital space would be unusable. The danger of radioactive pollution from nuclear weapons in space is never mentioned.
In a speech in April 2002, Astronaut Sally Ride said anti-satellite weapons would be “disastrous”, particularly between 150 and 400 miles high. This zone includes the space shuttle, international space station, and reconnaissance satellites.
Yet in the face of the new upgraded Russian Topol and Bulova missiles, and of the complete failure of the US land-based anti-missile missiles, space-based weapons are the only defence possible. A high-tech space battle could be catastrophic as biophysicist John Primack argues, because if an enemy chose a low-tech delivery of “giant loads of rock or metal pellets into space”:
No actual space war even has to be fought. Any country that felt threatened by America’s starting to place lasers or other weapons in space would only have to launch the equivalent of gravel to destroy the sophisticated weaponry.
(“Scientist: Space weapons pose debris threat” Richard Stenger, CNN, May 3, 2002).
A marble travelling at 17,000 mph, 10 times faster than a bullet, could hit an object “with the force of a one-ton safe dropped three stories”. This could set off a series of collisions that would cascade into more and more collisions eventually leaving the orbital zone unusable. Another example of ancient Mesopotamian warfare turning high-tech weapons into dust.
So what are the real weapons and what is the real purpose for the militarisation of space?
SOLAR POWER SATELLITE PROJECT (1968)
The solar power satellite programme (SPS) in the late 1960s, won public support from civilians and universities as an alternative to nuclear power, but served for the military as a cover for continued research and experimentation on the ionosphere. The projected cost of the electricity produced by this project was $3000 per kilowatt compared to $1100 per kilowatt for nuclear power. This was a very expensive programme from the start, requiring nearly $800 billion for the 60 satellites required alone, and it must have been obvious to some that it would never be implemented. The whole budget cost was 2–3 times greater than the entire DOE budget! In 1978, Dr. Rosalie Bertell was on a government review panel, and discovered the shadow of the military through another panel member who pointed out that there was a possibility of developing a satellite-borne beam weapon for anti-ballistic missile use. Another possibility was that it could be used for a satellite surveillance system.
“My former neighbour worked for TRW for many years putting the little black boxes together in the sats [satellites] they were launching. Interestingly, these so-called ‘weather’ sats suddenly went missing. My neighbour said he had heard enough talk at TRW to cause him to believe these sats went ‘stealth’ into 20,000-mile high orbits from the original 300-mile high orbit. He was not certain of the function of the little black boxes but his fringe knowledge of laser systems and related components led him to believe these ‘weather’ sats were in fact laser guns for preemptive action when needed ... until then, it is anyone’s guess as to what function they actually are performing.
Speculation about a ground-based high-energy laser beam that could thermally destroy incoming enemy missiles was also discussed. In Livermore, California, in the middle of the night in the summer of 1993, I observed from my backyard a very large amber coloured laser beam about 10 feet in diameter, pointed straight up into the atmosphere from the Lawrence Livermore Lab. All air traffic was diverted for 5 miles around the beam. When I asked a physics student, working at the lab and renting a room in my house that summer, what it was for, he said, “Oh, they’re making a star up there...”
In the entrance of the large Laser Facility at Livermore Lab is a 10 feet tall bronze statue of Shiva, representing the dance of the Universe. The first big laser project was called Shiva. A tradition at the Livermore lab is that each one is destroyed when a new one is built.
STRATEGIC DEFENCE INITIATIVE (SDI) OR ‘STAR WARS’
The United Nations Committee on Disarmament told Dr. Bertell, who had been concerned about weapons applications, that as long as SPS was called ‘solar energy’, it could not be considered a weapons project (Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War by Rosalie Bertell, Black Rose Books, 2001). Eventually Congress killed it because of the cost. But it came back as the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) or Star Wars under Reagan. The cost of building the Star Wars defense system was estimated at $100 to $1000 billion. The US spent nearly $30 billion on it, despite objections from scientists, NATO allies, and anti-nuclear movements who stressed that it broke the terms of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Disillusioned researchers in the US have claimed that Star Wars was science fraud and that data was falsified, Caspar Weinberg, Secretary of Defence under Reagan, stated that it was actually conceived to deceive the USSR and force them to escalate military defence spending. In 1991, I was approached at the Lawrence Livermore Lab by a gray-haired scientist I had never met but who seemed to know me. He said:
“The Cold War is over, we’ve looked at the books in the USSR and they are bankrupt. When the Soviet Union collapses in a year or two you are out of here. We only need you [geoscientists] to monitor global nuclear weapons testing. We are dismantling the military and expanding the intelligence community by at least ten times.”
In 1993 the funds from the Star Wars project, which had officially ended, were transferred to the Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation, the third reincarnation of the same project since Reagan. Now that it was a compartmentalized project—laser defence, radar systems, National Missile Defence (NMD), and the Space Shuttle—none of the parts seemed particularly alarming until, as Dr. Rosalie Bertell puts it, space shields or plasma shields were taken into consideration as the real purpose behind the persistent reincarnations of these very expensive programmes.
THE JAPANESE AUM SHINRIKYO AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS RESEARCH
On April 23, 1993, Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese ‘Supreme Truth’ Buddhist Sect, purchased a 500,000 acre sheep ranch in Western Australia near Banjawarn. They sold the ranch and suddenly left Australia in October 1994. Indications were that they had prospected for uranium, used chemicals and a laboratory for an unknown purpose, and after they left Australia traces of Sarin gas were found on sheep and wool (“Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Case Study on the Aum Shinrikyo”, Senate Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations October 31, 1995 Staff Statement). Later members of this sect were implicated in the 1995 attack on the Tokyo subway with Sarin gas. The leader was tried and convicted in Tokyo while I was in Japan for the summer of 2003. I met Japanese journalists who had followed the story and personally knew members of the sect, many of whom are scientists. Manhattan Project member, Dr. Fred Wood, and Alden Bryant, Secretary-Treasurer of the New Energy Movement warned me about how dangerous Russian exotic weapons technology is and said that it had been leased by the Aum from Russia. The Aum recruited followers in Japan, Russia, Australia, Sri Lanka, the United States, and visited Yugoslavia. Links to the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) through drug dealing were alleged in the Japanese media.
A Congressional investigation of the Aum Shinrikyo in 1995 reported that their interest in WMDs was related to Armagedon-like events they planned to stage against New World Order interests:
“It [Aum] claims that the Jews are planning similar massacres in other areas of the world in order to carry out a sinister plot to reduce the world’s population by three billion people by the year 2,000. The Aum also has linked the Jews to its other enemies within Japanese society—the ‘black aristocracy’ of Japanese ‘internationalists’ including a number of current and former Japanese politicians and statesmen.”
The sect claimed 65,000 members, with over half in Russia. The Japanese government estimated their assets at $1 billion. Many of the Aum followers were highly educated in the science and technological fields and graduated from Japan’s best universities. The sect spent over $400 million on computer equipment, nearly all purchased from a Taiwan company. Their cult acquired conventional weapons but were more interested in WMDs and apparently saw Russia as a source for more exotic, and far deadlier weapons.
When the Russian Duma did an investigation of the sect, Russian parliamentarian Vitaliy Savitsky, chairman of the Duma’s Religious Affairs Committee told fellow parliamentarians that, “his committee seriously suspected that Aum Shinrikyo had been assisted in its penetration into Russia by Russian intelligence services.”
From February to April 1995, the Aum sent a party of six members to the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, the former Yugoslavia, to review Tesla’s original thesis and other research papers pertaining to “Tesla weapon systems” which focus on wave amplification. Nokola Tesla was a scientist who experimented in the fields of atmospherics, electromagnetics, fluid dynamics, and geodynamics in the early 1900s, and discovered alternating current. Although Marconi won the Nobel Prize for inventing radio, Tesla later won a lawsuit claiming that he had been the rightful inventor. When he died in the US in 1943, all of his papers were seized by the US government and classified. The Aum members studied research on the Tesla Coil, used for alternating current, as well as other inventions and experiments. His early experiments with resonating frequencies were experiments in creating earthquakes. He was quoted as saying that with his technology he could ‘split the world’ in two. Tesla had developed a ‘ray’ gun in the 1930s which was actually a particle beam accelerator. This gun was reported to be able to shoot down an airplane at 200 miles, and he claimed to have invented the Tesla shield which nothing could penetrate.
In April 1993, Australians were told by the Aum sect that the property in Australia was to be used to ‘conduct experiments there for the benefit of mankind’. On May 28, just 35 days after the purchase, a strange meteor like fireball, an explosion, and an earthquake of magnitude 4 were reported in the area. In September 1993, a front company for Aum was used to import electrical equipment including transformers, static converters, generators, coaxial cabling, batteries, meters and tools, and protective equipment into Australia.
Later a geologist named Harry Mason, visited the area and investigated the semi-desert region looking for meteor craters. He discovered from interviews with residents that:
“... people heard the fireball well before they saw it; it was a large orange-red spherical fireball with a very small bluish conical tail; the speed was like that of a 747 jet liner; the fireball flew apparently parallel to Earth’s curvature in a long ‘nap of earth’ arcing trajectory at low altitude (about 2000 metres) over a distance of at least 250 kilometres; the fireball arced down toward the ground and disappeared behind trees or low hills; then a blinding massive high energy burst of blue-white light lit up the night as if it was daylight. Observers could see more than 100 kilometres in every direction at ground level; a red colour flare then shot vertically skywards and a massive seismic ground wave hit the observers; a very loud major explosive blast followed, that was heard over a 250 km by 150 km corridor; minor quake damage was reported as far as 150 km southeast.”
(Harry Mason, ‘Bright Skies Part I’, Nexus, March–April 1997).
There were many irregularities which indicated this phenomenon was very different from anything known before. Since the 1993 fireball event, thousands of similar sightings and light-energy emissions have occurred in Australia. Dr. Bertell reports that the fireball trajectories pass near four military complexes: Showa and Mizuho in Japan, Molodezhnaya and Novolazarevskaya in Russia. The Kamchatka peninsula, in Siberia, is also suspected of being one of a series of former Soviet electromagnetic weapons transmitters around the world.
UNDECLARED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAR
Design work began on antiballistic missiles (ABM) in 1946, at the University of Michigan, for interception of long-range missiles. The Soviet Union also began development of ABM defence after World War II, mainly theoretical research between 1948 and 1951. By 1967 the USSR began working on projects for early warning systems, space defence, and a system for outer space control. These became the main components of the ABM and space defence of the Soviet Union.
Upgraded from above-the-horizon radar, the Soviet Duga-2 “Iron Yard” over-the-horizon radar was designed in 1970 to detect enemy missiles within two or three minutes, and was successfully tested at Novaya Zemlya. At Nikolaev the radar built included 26 huge transmitters (each one was of the size of a two-story building).
“The transmitting antenna was 210 meters wide and 85 metres high. The receiving antenna was 300 metres wide and 135 metres high. The antenna field housed 330 transmitters of about 15 meters each. These radars had to reliably detect group and mass launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles from the territory of the US.”
On July 4, 1976, the 200 th anniversary of the United States, the first such facility began operations at Kiev and has been on the air ever since. The powerful electromagnetic transmissions were a signal transmitted at frequencies between 3.26 and 17.54 megahertz, and was pulse-modulated at a rate of several times a second. The 2 MW transmitter at first interfered with communications, and ham radio operators picked it up all over the world, but corrections were made so that it skipped critical frequencies for aircraft and transoceanic flights as it moved across its operational spectrum.
Two more similar facilities were built later near Chernigov and Komsomolsk-na-Amur. The facilities at Kiev and at Komsomolsk-na-Amur provide coverage of the United States. A smaller lower-power facility at Nikolaeyev near Odessa provides coverage of China.
On July 18, 1977, the US government became covert partners with the Soviets and the secret code name given to it in the US was Project Woodpecker. The US sent a team of scientists to Russia with a 40 ton magnet and other scientific material and equipment for further research and development.
The main research center for the Project has been the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Covert funding funneled through the CIA and National Security Agency provided support along with collaboration by the Department of Defence and NASA from the beginning of the project. In January 1995, the Livermore State of the Laboratory award publication announced that a 21-member Woodpecker team had received the Intelligence Community Seal Medallion in 1994 for “its work on a classified project to improve information-gathering techniques.” The Deputy Director of the CIA and the Director of the NSA presented the award at CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia. The award cited the team’s success:
“...on a series of technical problems of enormous complexity, resulting in an extremely powerful operational capability that can be used to gather intelligence from unique sources not exploitable by any other means.”
The lab publication stated that in 1985 the project team started work on feasibility studies. The final product was delivered to the project sponsor in 1992, just as the Cold War ended.
On June 22, 1995, Dr. Armen Victorian received an answer from the Oakland office of the DOE on his appeal for a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request on Project Woodpecker:
In its May 5, 1995 determination, Oakland stated that a search had been conducted for documents responsive to Victorian’s request, but that no records were found as a result of the search. Oakland specifically stated that information relating to Project Woodpecker had been destroyed.
Back in 1952 a secret meeting was held in New Mexico between Russian and US scientists at the Sandia Lab, which is part of the nuclear weapons programme. An exchange of information on the biological hazards of microwave and electromagnetic frequencies, and safety levels, was not entirely successful. The Russians publicly acknowledged the risks but the Americans did not take them seriously. Shortly after that the Russians began a 30-year programme beaming the US embassy in Moscow with microwaves, causing the deaths of three US Ambassadors and illnesses in employees. The “Moscow Signal” discovered by the CIA in 1962, was used by the Russians on US embassy employees to test low-level EMR (electromagnetic resonance) effects.
In April 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sent the following telegram to the US Embassy in Moscow, which summarized the conclusions of the study of the Moscow signal:
“Subject: Radiation and UHF and Electromagnetic Dangers”
“Beginning in 1960 the Soviet Union directed the high frequency beams
of radiation at the US Embassy in Moscow which were calculated not to pick up intelligence but cause physiological effects on personnel. The effects the Soviets calculated to achieve in the personnel serving (at least as early as 1960) included (A) Malaise (B) Irritability, (C) Extreme fatigue. At this time the Soviets believed that the induced effects were temporary. Subsequently, it has been verified that the effects are not temporary. Definitely tied to such radiation and the UHF/VHF electromagnetic waves are: (A) Cataracts, (B) Blood changes that induce heart attacks, (C) Malignancies, (D) Circulatory problems, and (E) Permanent deterioration of the nervous system. In most cases the after-effects do not become evident until long after exposure—a decade or more.”
(William MacIntosh, Project Pandora,
http://www.geocities.com/adrian9999999999/pandora.htm ).
The Soviets apparently were the first to use electropollution or directed energy with malicious intent. By 1955 the US Navy was conducting EMR experiments with UHF (ultra-high frequencies) for the purpose of targeting individuals, crowds, or armies. The effects could be scaled up or down, and today are called Non Lethal Weapons (NLW). A 2004, “Military contract for Pulsed Energy Projectile (PEP) Pain Study, a heavily redacted US Navy contract for development of NLW with the University of Florida, reveals interesting details of pulsed microwave directed energy weapons.
“...decades of research and investment of untold millions of rubles in the process of psycho-corrections has produced the ability to alter behaviour on willing and unwilling subjects, experts add. The Russian experts, including George Kotov, a former KGB General, also report a list of software and hardware associated with their psycho-correction programme that could be procured for as little as $80,000. As far as it has become possible to probe and correct psychic contents of human beings despite their will and consciousness by instrumental means; results having been achieved can get out of control and be used for inhumane purposes of manipulating psyche.” (Barbara Opall, Defence News, January 11–17, 1993).
End part II)
see part I (item in this blog): http://fufor.twoday.net/stories/2609404/
see part II (item in this blog): http://fufor.twoday.net/stories/2609402/
see part III (item in this blog): http://fufor.twoday.net/stories/2609397/
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