Alien baloney
In Nexus vol 6 no 2 is another dollop of what seems to me to be obvious disinformation about UFOs and the US government. Another batch of MJ-12 documents have surfaced in America, given to a researcher called Timothy Cooper by a (now conveniently dead) source. Nexus prints some largish chunks from them.
One, allegedly a Majestic Twelve Project first annual report – so allegedly dated some time in the late 1940s, I guess – includes the following distinctly non-1940s phrases:
- ‘retrovirus’
- ‘an inter-active program of controlled releases to the media’
When was ‘media’ first used in this way? Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage discusses the uses of ‘media’ and while it cites a 1923 Oxford English Dictionary Supplement reference to ‘mass media’ in 1923, it notes that it was then used exclusively in the advertising industry. The common use of ‘media’ or ‘mass media’ to refer to press/TV dates from the early 1970s. And when was ‘inter-active’ first used?
- ‘Majestic SS and P are current focused on Psy-Op developments.’
In the 1940s the term used was Psy-war not Psy-Op[s].
These documents are on the Web at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9923/MJ12.html/
What Jack told Marilyn?
I’d hate to be thought to be encouraging the crazier end of the UFO conspiracy world but among the mountains of documents in Armen Victorian’s possession is a purported 1962 CIA document reporting the results of phone-taps of conversations between the journalist Dorothy Kilgallen and a friend of hers, one Howard Rothberg. Rothberg told Kilgallen that Monroe had ‘secrets’ including:
‘a visit by the President to a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting [things] from outer space. Kilgallen replied that she knew what might be the source of the visit. In the mid-fifties Kilgallen learned of secret effort by US and UK governments to identify the origins of [crashed spacecraft and dead bodies] from a British government official. Kilgallen believed the story may have come from [the New Mexico one word illegible] in the late forties. Kilgallen said if the story is true it would (one word illegible: cause?) terrible embarrassment to Jack and his plans to have NASA put men on the moon.’ (Square brackets and words within them in the original.)
After the assassination of JFK, Kilgallen visited Jack Ruby and, according to the late Penn Jones, shortly before her death in 1965 from an apparent overdose of barbiturates and alcohol, she claimed that she was going to New Orleans to blow the case apart. Her death was included in Penn Jones’ list of suspicious deaths linked to the assassination.
And don’t you just love the perception that the discovery of alien contact with earth would embarrass Jack’s plans to put men on the moon? The quintessential political perspective.
But the only hit I got on the Net on this subject, from the Manchester Anomalous Phenomena group reported doubts about the document’s authenticity with the information that the document will be discussed in the imminent new book from British UFO author Nick Redfern. If it is a forgery – always a possibility in this field – it is a much better forgery than the MJ12 nonsense.
The return of Jeff Bale
Some of the best and most original research published in Lobster was the series of essays by Jeffrey Bale in Lobsters 18, 19 and 21. Bale then dropped off the Lobster radar. He reappeared on it recently as the editor of Hit List, a magazine devoted to punk rock whose first issue appeared in March 1999. In his introductory editorial Bale describes his recent career.
A PhD in modern European history at the University of California at Berkeley, two year post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University, visiting professorship at a college in Oregon, then research fellowships at the Library of Congress and the Center for German and European Studies at Berkeley. He comments:
‘As time has gone by, it’s become apparent to me that I would only be happy teaching at a handful of prestigious research universities, with outstanding library facilities, very bright students, and a relatively low teaching load. Moreover, I would prefer to live close enough to a major city so that I can regularly attend punk rock shows. Is that really too much to ask? Almost certainly.’
Hit List is devoted to American punk rock bands, though I’m not entirely clear if ‘punk rock’ in the US means what it did here in the late 1970s. So, if you want 125 pages chiefly devoted to seriously obscure US rock music – this is for you. The one essay with wider significance is ‘How Black Is Black Metal? Michael Moynihan, Lords of Chaos and the “Countercultural Fascists” Underground’ by Kevin Coogan.
Not sure how you would purchase this outside the US but an inquiry to PO Box 8345, Berkeley, CA 94707, or e-mail should suffice.
Spotlight on Girard
Harlan Girard, the American who turned me onto the electro-magnetic weaponry and mind control fields, and who has continued to organise and proselytize on these issues ever since, was the subject of an interview published in the American magazine The Spotlight, April 6 1998. Anyone who doubts the anti-semitic nature of The Spotlight should consult this issue. It is full of anti-Jewish stories which reach some kind of peak on p. 12, which carries a story, ‘Sex slaves Imported to Israel’, illustrated by a cartoon of ‘white girls’ being auctioned by Jews, which would not have been out of place in Nazi Germany.
Like others before him, Girard talks to The Spotlight because no-one else is interested in what he has to say.
The world is full of nutters
In an article I wrote for the Steamshovel which ended up on its Website, I made an aside about an Alex Constantine book. I wrote this:
‘The mind control story remains impossible to evaluate. Or it is if it’s done rationally and honestly. Of course you can do what Alex Constantine does in Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America (Feral Press, Portland, 1997), take the most difficult and tendentious elements of the contemporary paranoid agenda – child abuse (ritual and Satanic), alien abductions, mind control, cults and UFOs – and attribute them all to the CIA without worrying over much about evidence. It makes for an entertaining read but it isn’t much help in the long, slow business of persuading the wider world that this is an area they ought to look at.’
This enraged the author, Alex Constantine, and a series of abusive e-mails arrived, slagging-off me and Lobster, even though Constantine at that point hadn’t actually seen a copy and thought I was a woman. (In the US Robin is mostly a woman’s name.) Constantine then contacted Richard (Dick) Farley (on whom see Armen Victorian’s piece in Lobster 33 p. 20 about the Rockefeller UFO project) and Farley sent an e-mail to Constantine which he passed on to me and many other people in which Farley said of Armen Victorian and I:
‘These guys are NWO [New World Order] and MI-6, not-a-doubt.’
Who’s scrubbing old Brillo pad?
The Pinochet affair flushed out all kinds of people. Take Andrew Neil, editor of the Sunday Times in the 1980s. In the Independent 22 October 1998, under the heading ‘Pinochet was a vile Fascist but Allende was no hero’, he informed us, inter alia,
‘…within months of Allende taking power, armed gangs of leftist thugs invaded homes and took over factories…. a relatively free society was on the brink of Marxist terror as Allende’s tanks took to the streets ….we can be sure that if a nasty, torturing, murdering, Chilean Castro had emerged triumphant rather than Pinochet…..’
I wrote to Mr Neil asking for further reading on these claims about Allende’s regime and did not receive a reply. Further on in the piece Neil states:
‘The Americans did not become involved in Chile until they realised that it was being turned into a Marxist enclave by the Soviet Union…..’
This is simply false. The US began covert intervention in Chile that we are aware of in 1964, before Allende won power. See William Blum’s Killing Hope chapter 34, for example. (Blum’s essential book is available from amazon.com in the US and amazon.co.uk here.)
Neil allowed the Sunday Times to be used by all manner of spooks to run all manner of disinformation while he was editor and this spiel of his on Chile looks very much like an intelligence briefing – maybe even one of those distributed at the time of the Chile coup when Neil was working for the Economist, a regular outlet for IRD briefings.
Tom Spencer MEP, RIP
About a month before the political demise of the Conservative MEP and former leader of the Conservative group of MEPs, Tom Spencer, I was asked by a researcher at the European Parliament what I knew about him. ‘Not a thing,’ I replied. ‘Never heard of the guy. Why?’ My questioner replied something to the effect that Spencer was a strange Tory MEP who was asking questions about the American HAARP project and other issues in the mind control and electro-magnetic fields. ‘He’s rattling the Americans’ cage,’ he said.
A month later – it’s goodbye Tom Spencer MEP when the Customs just happened to search his bag and find drugs and porno in it. See ‘Named but not shamed’ by John Sweeney, The Observer Review 14 February, the only report of Spencer’s demise which even hints at the subtext.
Storming teacups!
Thanks to Rob Evans for a batch of documents from the Public Record Office recording the minor flap the British Foreign Office got into over the 1967 Jackdaw kit of the Kennedy assassination – model of Dealey Plaza, documents etc. Some of the Great and the Good at the Foreign Office of the day, including Sir Dennis Greenhill and Sir Patrick Dean got embroiled in this nonsense.
One of early the telegrams from Washington to the FO reporting the discovery of the kit records,
‘Manufacturers are not known and all that seems so far to have been seen in St. Louis is a photograph of the kit on which the words quote Jack Straw unquote are identifiable.’
IRD is dead! Long live IRD
In the months before the 1973 Referendum on entry into the EEC, IRD entered the fray on the ‘Yes’ side. The little that is known about its operation is recounted in the excellent Lashmar/Oliver book, reviewed below. As British entry into the European Single Currency hoves into view the Mail on Sunday reported (11 April) that a ‘secret Cabinet committee’ has been set up to ‘turn public opinion towards the EU’. The ‘operation’ is co-ordinated by David Cairns, an ‘official in the European Union department of the Foreign Office.’
A familiar ring?
In November 1997 the JFK Assassination Records Review Board released Pentagon documents which, according to the Reuters’ report on this, show that ‘The Pentagon drew up plans to mount a bloody “terror campaign” in the United States…. and planned to blame it on Fidel Castro to justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba……’. This sounds strangely similar to what nearly happened in the first hours after the death of JFK but which was forestalled by the swift creation of the ‘lone assassin’.
More Searchlight lies
Searchlight’s preposterous and criminal campaign against Larry O’Hara reached new heights – or depths – when they accused him in the January issue of ‘watching [Tim] Hepple’s home and attempting to follow him and his family.’
Since Searchlight know that Larry works and lives approximately 200 miles from Hepple – they’ve published the information in their pages – they know this is simply a lie.