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‘SPACE -- GATE – THE VEIL REMOVED’ – PHOENIX JOURNAL #3 - CHAPTER 7
Creator God Aton / Hatonn
‘SPACE -- GATE – THE VEIL REMOVED’ –
REC #2 HATONN
SUN., AUG. 20, 1989 10:30 A.M. YEAR 3, DAY 004
WHO GETS SAVED
“Besides the President and the other officials designated as successors, the Pentagon has developed COG plans for evacuating forty-six key officials at any time of the day or night. These forty-six, named in the Joint Emergency Evacuation Plan, or JEEP, would be moved by helicopter to bunkers and command posts. Each has been issued a JEEP-1 identification card. Most of the JEEP-1 cardholders are military officers who work for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. An additional 248 JEEP-2 cardholders—disaster relief specialists, senior Pentagon officials and others—would be airlifted to bunkers and command posts but only between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. An attack after business hours would mean JEEP-2 cardholders would have to get in their cars and drive to their designated locations. In all, more than l,000 political and military officials have been deemed important enough to the continued operations of government to warrant evacuations.
“So odd is the business of planning for doomsday that nothing may be taken for granted. Thus, COG planners have assumed that the coordinates for
“Like ‘command and control,’ secrecy and deception would also become watch-words of the COG planners. In its essence, during the heavy expenditures of the Reagan years, COG, or Project 908, which is one of its official titles, was a crash program designed to manufacture mobile and secure communications systems, establish the regional centers to which a government under attack could safely be relocated and replicate the most important government services, including allocation of food and medicine and coordination of disaster relief. Because it was so sensitive, the Reagan administration decided to remove much of the program from congressional oversight. EVEN MANY SENIOR PENTAGON OFFICIALS WERE UNAWARE OF ITS EXISTENCE.
“For all the planning and money that went into the COG program, there have been some embarrassments. One plan called for placing new communications gear capable of withstanding the electronic pulses created by nuclear explosions into specially configured 18-wheel tractor-trailers. The first two prototype trucks were complete in 1984, but when they were dispatched on a test run in rural
“Some of the communications gear itself caused problems. Officials say THE COMPUTER SYSTEMS OF DIFFERENT GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER PROPERLY. COLLECTIVELY, THE SYSTEMS COST BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO DESIGN, BUILD AND INSTALL. Three years ago, intelligence officials say, it was discovered that five such systems could not communicate with one another at all. To rectify the problem, new ‘interface modems’ were designed, but intelligence officials say the modems have interfered with the systems’ ability to send and receive information, in some cases by as much as 75 percent. In one instance, a missile-launch protocol (a detailed series of data needed to arm, fuse and launch a missile) took several seconds to transmit; the transmission is supposed to be almost instantaneous. In selected reports to Congress, military officials say, COG planners misrepresented the results of tests on the system. ‘Congress was treated to a successful demonstration,’ says one source, ‘except the results were rigged’. At one briefing, in December, 1985, congressmen were told that the communications systems were ‘operational’, even though they were not capable of functioning properly at the time.
“Problems with COG, which might have come to light eventually, surfaced when someone blew a whistle. In 1983, then Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and the Joint Chiefs of Staff assigned the Army the job of devising and maintaining the COG communications system under Project 908. The Army, in turn, assigned the job to its Information Systems Command, based at
WHO GETS PAID
“For help on Project 908, the Information Systems Command turned to a company based in
“A civilian intelligence officer responsible for security at the Informations Systems Command was curious about Betac, according to Army and congressional sources. Thomas Golden wanted to know whether regular Army personnel could supply the services Betac was being paid to provide. Golden would not talk with a U.S. News reporter. But military and congressional sources say he became curious after learning that a number of Army officials who had worked with Betac at
“Pointing fingers at COG was a risky business. Gicola Thorndike, a senior Army contracting officer at
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
“It was a bad sign. The Army’s inspector general has enjoyed a strong reputation for integrity, but the Golden affair shot a huge hole through it. The Army IG began another investigation to determine who had leaked Golden’s comments. But word of the new investigation quickly leaked, and before the investigators even left for
“But others besides Golden had begun raising questions about the COG program. Fred Westerman had worked for more than 20 years as an Army counter-intelligence officer before retiring to open his own consulting firm, Systems Evaluation, Inc. Documents show that his company was awarded a contract to provide security for COG facilities around the country. According to Westerman’s attorney, Francis Mroz, Westerman discovered that his part of the COG program was riddled with security problems, such as inadequate alarms, faulty locks and flimsy doors. Mroz also says his client became concerned about ‘waste and abuse,’ such as payments for work not properly done. After Westerman proposed tighter controls, he says, the Army declined to renew his contract. He has sued the Army and FEMA for what he says are unreimbursed costs. In court papers, he has alleged that unidentified government agents have conducted a campaign of secret surveillance, break-ins at his office and wiretaps. His lawyer was a witness to one episode in which an alleged government agent kept watch on Westerman’s movements. When the agent’s license plate was traced, it was found to belong to a couple in
“Congressional investigators eventually became aware of some of the concerns about COG, having heard complaints informally through contact in the Pentagon. Representative Les Aspin (D-Wis.), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, was especially perturbed by the Army’s initial investigation into the COG program. In a report, Aspin’s investigators concluded that the Army’s inspector-general system was compromised. And in a stinging letter to Army Secretary John Marsh dated Oct. 24, 1988, Aspin said he was ‘concerned about the objectivity and competence of the investigation.’ Aspin wrote that the ‘confidentiality of the investigation was breached almost immediately by the head of the inspector-general inspection team.’ Aspin’s investigators concluded that the Army had failed to exercise adequate oversight over the COG program. They also found that the sole-source contract to Betac should not have been allowed. Betac officials say they know of no investigation of any of their contracts. They declined to discuss the COG program because of its classified nature.”
COVER-UPS AND FAT CONTRACTS
“For the Congress, the first long look into the COG program was not a heartening one. In response to Aspin’s letter, the Army has reopened its investigation of the Army’s inspector general and the COG program. Those familiar with this latest inquiry, and with the ongoing congressional inquiry, say intelligence officials are disturbed by what they describe as attempted cover-ups of wrongdoing, possible fraud and woefully inadequate oversight of multimillion-dollar contracts. Investigators have been told of double billing by some COG contractors to separate agencies of the Government for the same work. It was also learned that other contracts, valued at millions of dollars, were increased, some by as much as 50 percent, without input by any contract-oversight office or without any demonstration of need. Pentagon sources say the COG program has awarded contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to former military officials who worked on COG while they were in the Pentagon. `The program,’ says a key official, referring to a troubled multibillion-dollar antitank weapons system that was scrapped by Congress, ‘is another DIVAD.’ Says another: ‘It is a real mess.’
“Things could get messier still. Subpoenas have been issued, and a grand jury continues to hear evidence. Congress is set to hold hearings this fall on the lack of oversight of classified, or ‘BLACK’” (You see, dear ones, you have it again in their own words: BLACK PROGRAMS) “Pentagon programs like COG. For one of the nation’s most secret national-security programs, the glare of publicity is bound to be embarrassing. That one of the nation’s most important national-security programs was jeopardized by the very people in charge of it would be the most wounding development of all.”
I wish to acknowledge the reporter of this well done article: Steven Emerson.
Now I want to quote a shorter insert article by Merrill McLoughlin in the same journal.
FROM ‘DUCK AND COVER’ TO ‘RUN LIKE HELL’
“Perhaps the seeds of optimism were sown way back after the great flood, when Noah and his passengers trooped off the ark onto
“Nothing has changed in the Nuclear Age. The first great fad, after the Soviets detonated their first A-bomb, was blast shelters—windowless, thick-walled buildings that might protect inhabitants if they didn’t happen to be located precisely at ground zero. But such buildings were far too expensive to build, so federal officials launched a multimedia educational campaign. KNOW THE BOMB’S TRUE DANGERS blared the films and pamphlets. To avoid them, simply ‘duck and cover.’ Millions of schoolchildren spent untold hours ducking under desks and covering their head to the tune of air-raid sirens.
“The trouble was that even the experts didn’t know the bomb’s true dangers. And as it became clear that the most acrobatic ducker wouldn’t survive a thermonuclear blast, officials changed their advice from ‘duck and cover” to ‘run like hell’ and tried to design evacuation plans. In the mid-1950’s, scientists realized that even if you ran, you couldn’t hide. The real danger of the bomb was a silent, invisible and highly mobile by-product called “fallout”. By 1962, and the Cuban missile crisis, fallout shelters were the order of the day. Families stocked backyard bunkers with food, water and weapons.
“The early 1980’s brought the last great burst of civil-defense enthusiasm. Although his advisers never figured out just where he got his information, Ronald Reagan was convinced that the
“For those without access to such facilities, Reagan’s deputy Under Secretary of Defense, T.K. Jones, had some advice. ‘Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors and then throw 3 feet of dirt on top. It’s the dirt that does it. If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody’s going to make it.”
Now, let us turn briefly to the military scenario for coping with doomsday:
FIGHTING BACK AFTER AN ATTACK
“The
“The President and top military leaders could take to the air, if need be, boarding one of four specially equipped Boeing 747’s called National Emergency Airborne Command Posts (NEACP’s) kept at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington. The NEACP’s can stay airborne for 12 hours and travel up to 6,000 miles without refueling. They carry tons of communications equipment linked to a satellite network, as well as commercial telephone systems.
“If the Strategic Air Command is unable to carry out its mission from its underground headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base outside
Well, there you have it—since it will only take Earth about 250 million years to recover from radiation contamination—who knows if those 747’s can stay airborne long enough—well, perhaps if the hydraulics don’t fail and they don’t need refueling.
Rest well tonight, brothers, knowing that you are in capable hands!
Another respite, Dharma, as I don’t know how your brothers feel but you are turning green, chela. Someone is apt to guess you are one of those little green men from Mars with antennae and bug eyes.
So be it, Hatonn to stand-by. SALU
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