Uniting for Peaceresolution 377, permitting the GA to recommend collective action
if the Security Council, because of lack of unanimity of the permanent members, fails to exercise its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.ICH
Dr. Bain used the term(Gee. I wonder if he's the origin of theadding sodium fluoride.We never do that. That is rat poison. You add fluorides.…But this toxicity question is a difficult one…One thing that is hard to handle is the charge that fluoridation is not needed. They talk of other methods, and when they get through adding up all the percentages of decay that we can reduce by such methods, we end up with a minus. When they take us at our own word they make awful liars out of us…Now, why should we do a pre-fluoridation survey? Is it to find out if fluoridation works? No. We have told the public it works, so we can't go back on that…Lay off [the question of toxicity] altogether. Just pass over,We know there is absolutely no effect other than reducing tooth decay,you say…And certainly don't stress the cost. [F citing Federal Security Administration (1951) Proc Fourth Annual Conference of State Dental Directors with the Public Health Service and the Children's Bureau, US Dept of Health, Education & Welfare Library RK 21.C55 1951]
Bull@hitexpression?)
You've got to be taught to hate and fear
You've got to be taught from year to year
It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taughtYou've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin is a different shade
You've got to be carefully taughtYou've got to be taught before it's too late
Before you are six or seven or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught
The same year nuclear testing began, a boy named Preston Truman was born near Enterprise [Utah]. His parents, ranchers and farmers, taught Preston to ride a horse at the same time he learned to walk.I can remember,he would recall,several times getting up with the rest of the family and driving out to my father's farm in the moments before dawn and watching the western sky light up with the flash from the bombs in Nevada approximately 112 miles away. I remember on occasion hearing the sound waves come over. I remember later in the mornings watching on a couple of occasions clouds come over. To a little child that didn't mean much. The atomic tests were very much a part of our lives.When he was in high school, Preston Truman was diagnosed with a form of cancer called lymphoma. Chemotherapy and other medical treatment over the next thirteen years cost about $100,000. As was true for all other downwind residents, the government did not provide a penny. But Truman was relatively lucky. In 1980 he was in remission from the usually fatal lymphoma. Out of nine children who were his friends in the immediate area of Enterprise when he was a child, Truman was the only one who reached the age of 28. The rest died of leukemia or cancer. KOO
By 1980, when People magazine did a head count, at least 91 members of the cast and crew had contracted cancer.MA, MJ This is about three times the normal rate. SP Children in fallout area have leukemia at 2½× national rate. [P citing "Sunday Telegraph", 5/8/1979; "Sunday Times", 5/8/1979] After 50 years up to 15000 deaths will be attributed to the '50s nuclear testing. `Officials…notified photographic-film suppliers of expected fallout patterns…but did not share the information with milk producers.' CNN
authorityso they din't bother checking.) F
World-wide press campaign to smear Onassis and German banker Schacht, who was backing him. FBI director Hoover says that Onassis is anti-American and pro-Nazi. Peruvian Navy sinks a whaler owned by Onassis.UFON
By [fluoridating the water] the municipal authorities…arrogate to themselves the sole right to decide what medicine is good for the health of the water consumers, and thereby the municipal water system becomes a direct conduit for the transportation of medicine from the apothecary's pestle to the patient, without the latter's consent. Thus will the people be deprived of a very important part of their constitutional liberty under our republican form of government and the police state will be substituted for the police power of the state.DW (The literally fantastic merits of fluoridation aside, it is wrong to medicate without consent. We said so at Nuremberg.)
(This could affect the PHS' not only re radiation but also things like fluorine, which is very important to the nuclear industry.)Anxious to counter its increasing credibility problems, in 1954 the Atomic Energy Commission entered into an off-site radioactivity surveillance agreement with the US Public Health Service. Not until 1979 did the terms of the AEC-PHS arrangement become public knowledge.…
The 1954 pact prohibited the PHS from any public release of its radiation data or
dissemination of information connected with activities under this agreement, except as prescribed by the AEC…At the end of the year AEC tossed in a stipulation that any unauthorized release of information to the public could subjectthe Public Health Service, its agents, employees, or subcontractors, to criminal liabilityunder the Atomic Energy Act. KOO
clean bombswhile quietly packing his
fusiondevices with otherwise-useless U-238 to boost their yield—which also made them
dirty. Or rather, dirtier. Megaton devices like Teller swooned for could kick up plenty of radioactive ash without their fission components, which contributed more than half the yield. [KOO and SF]
Banana Republicis coined. Jacobo Arbenz had not been paying attention to the lesson of Iran;
A coupTurning Points of History C'd'n History Channel]) A series of bloodthirsty dictators will follow, and they'll kill over 100000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years. YT · NCMade in America
I was in Guatemala when the CIA was preparing its attack on the Arbenz government. Arbenz, who was a democratically elected president, mildly socialist [sic]. His state had no revenues; its biggst income maker was United Fruit Company. So Arbenz put the tiniest of taxes on bananas, and Henry Cabot Lodge got up in the Senate and said the Communists have taken over Guatemala and we must act. He got to Eisenhower, who sent in the CIA, and they overthrew the government. We installed a military dictator, and there's been nothing but bloodshed ever since.Now, if I were a Guatemalan and had the means to drop something on somebody in Washington, or anywhere Americans were, I'd be tempted to do it. Especially if I had lost my entire family and seen my country blown to bits because United Fruit didn't want to pay taxes. Now, that's the way we operate. And that's why we got to be so hated. [Vidal Dreaming War p189; see also his Dark Green, Bright Red]
The task to which we have set our minds,declared the governor of Kenya in 1955,is to civilize a great mass of human beings who are in a very primitive moral and social state.The slaughter of thousands of nationalists, who were never called nationalists, was British government policy. The myth of the Kenyan uprising was that the Mau Mau broughtdemonic terrorto the heroic white settlers. In fact, the Mau Mau killed just 32 Europeans, compared with the estimated 10,000 Kenyans killed by the British, who ran concentration camps where the conditions were so harsh that 402 inmates died in just one month. Torture, flogging and abuse of women and children were commonplace. I
Despite its claims that neither the detonations nor fallout were harmful, the Atomic Energy Commission routinely waited until the winds were blowing in therightdirection.[35] That meant away from big cities like Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Occasionally at the last minute shifting breezes dumped fallout on large metropolitan areas—Las Vegas was sprinkled with radioactivity in 1955, for example, and three years later fallout clouds dropped on Los Angeles. But for the most part America's continental nuclear tests went according to plan. The most deadly concentrations of fallout came down in rural areas of Nevada, Utah, and northern Arizona. KOO
Many experiments that tested various biological agents on human subjects, referred to as Operation Whitecoat, were carried out at Ft Detrick MD in the 1950s. The human subjects originally consisted of volunteer enlisted men. However, after the enlisted men staged a sitdown strike to obtain more information about the dangers of the biological tests, Seventh-Day Adventists who were conscientious objectors were recruited for the studies. Because these individuals did not believe in engaging in actual combat, they instead volunteered to be human subjects in military research projects that tested various infectious agents. At least 2200 military personnel who were Seventh-Day Adventists volunteered for biological testing during the 1950s through the 1970s. Unlike most of the studies discussed in this report, Operation Whitecoat was truly voluntary. Leaders of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church described these human subjects asconscientious participants,rather thanconscientious objectors,because they were willing to risk their lives by participating in research rather than by fighting a war. SR 103-97
The work settled into a routine. After a nuclear detonation a few ironworkers would be directly involved in retrieving instrumentation from ground zero. On a rotating basis Levy and fellow ironworkers
were recovering the data for the scientists. And we'd go in anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour after the event, after the shot. And the fallout—we went right through it.Levy paused.Of course we wereHow about protection for mouth and nose?rad-safedwith cotton coveralls and a little cap.Never wore a respirator,he replied.During the early and middle 1950s Levy personally went on the reëntry mission dozens of times—
at least thirty, forty, maybe more than that.And, as a matter of course, along with coworkers he ate lunch inforward areashot with radioactive particles, including plutonium.On occasion,he remembered,monitors would come by with Geiger counters and get readings on my lunch pail or tools. This common occurrence leaves no doubt in my mind that I was breathing and swallowing radioactive debris all the time. We had no facilities to wash our hands or face, and we could not leave the contaminated areas for lunch as that would take an extra thirty minutes…Although we were assured that there was no danger, I thought it was a bit curious that supervisors and AEC personnel did not remain in the area.KOO
I can't help but think of Mrs. Gregg Henderson's fascinating report some meetings ago about the boys in Korea who were captured and tortured and brainwashed by the Chinese Communists who found that American boys were easy to break down because they did not know enough about American history and why they were fighting.[Vidal United States p355]
best-seller liststo know, like good little sheep, what to read. Undesireable material is simply never listed and thus suppressed by ignorance. Intolerably revelatory material is simply called
out of print.VS No? Then how come the Bragg biography of Lynch was on the NYT
bst-sellerlist despite crappy sales? NYDN)
I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election…It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the US.AMPP
Satire presents a further difficulty for the mass audience. If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirised. If they are not, the joke falls flat. Unfortunately for our native satirists, the American mass audience posesses very little general information on any subject…Even political jokes, if they were allowed on television, would not have much relevance. Recently one national poll disclosed that almost half of those queried could not identify the Secretary of State. The size of the population has much to do with this collective ignorance…National units today are too large and, in America at least, education too bland to hope for much change. As a result, satire, unless done very broadly puzzles and irritates rather than amuses. [Vidal United States 1162]
In June 1957 Linus Pauling estimated in a Foreign Policy Bulletin article that 10,000 persons had died or were dying from leukemia because of nuclear tests. A month earlier Pauling's colleague E. B. Lewis had published a more detailed analysis in Science. Using four sets of data, Lewis showed that there was no safe level of exposure; leukemia incidence seemed to be directly proportionate to the amount of the radiation dose. These articles documented the absence of anysafedose of radiation. And the pair of [CalTech] scientists also broke new ground by estimating the number of deaths from strontium-90 fallout.The AEC countered Lewis in a later article in Science by Austin Brues, the commission's director of Biology and Medicine. Brues argued that the evidence wasn't strong enough to support Pauling or Lewis, calling their approach one of
superficial simplicity.Instead, Brues insisted, facts corroborated the existence of athresholddose of radiation, below which no biological damage would occur.The Joint Committee on Atomic Energy hearings in 1957 proved to be a watershed in the fallout debate. Dr. Ralph Lapp cut short a trip to Japan to appear before the committee. His opening presentation pointed to
reckless and non-substantiated statementsmade by the AEC. He called attention to claims by the AEC's New York Health and Safety Lab chief Merrill Eisenbud, who had announced thatthe total fallout to date from all tests would have to be multiplied by a million to produce visible deleterious effects in areas close to the explosion itself.Eisenbud took the stand in his defense, putting qualifications on his earlier statement. Eisenbud claimed to have been
talking about the immediate gamma radiation from the fallout which occurs in the eastern US within a matter of a day or so after detonation in Nevada.He then accused Lapp of taking his statementout of context.Lapp quickly responded from the audience by multiplying the amounts of radiation exposure calculated by Eisenbud to be present in the Troy/Albany area after the Simon bomb test in 1953 by a million times. It amounted to an average exposure of 10,000 roentgens. Stunned by this calculation, Senator Clinton Anderson asked if such a dose
would kill everybody in sight.Eisenbud, red-faced, answered with a meekYes.KOO
plutonium can catch fire spontaneously in air. In the evening of September 11, 1957, some of theskullson the glove box line of Room 180 in Building 771 ignited. The fire was found by two plant production men shortly after 10:00 P.M.The area was designed to be fireproof. But it was soon a radioactive inferno. Firemen switched on ventilating fans, but that backfired, spreading flames to still more plutonium. They then sprayed carbon dioxide into the area. That also failed. Meanwhile the filters designed to trap plutonium escaping up the stacks caught fire. The shift captain and other observers reported a billowing black cloud pouring some 80 to 160 feet into the air above the 150-foot-high stack of Building 771.
As the crisis intensified, plant officials struggled to find a solution. They knew water would destroy millions of dollars' worth of complex equipment. They also knew the intense heat might flash the water into enough steam to blast into an explosion and send even more plutonium particles flying toward Denver. But when the carbon dioxide failed, there was no alternative. In the early hours of the morning water began pouring into the blaze. Fortunately it worked. The fire went dead roughly thirteen hours after it began.
[The AEC vents its habitual lies of
insignificant amounts of radiation released.although] there was no reliable equipment operable at the time to monitor the amount of radiation that actually went out the stacks. Not until a week after the fire were working gauges installed. Then, in a single day, emissions registered sixteen thousand times the permissible level—a full fifty years' worth of the allowable quota.Some 14–20 kg were estimated to have burned in the fire, enough to make at least two bombs equivalent to the one dropped on Nagasaki. And that may not have been the worst of it. According to a study based on figures from Dow Chemical, which operated Rocky Flats at the time, some 13 g of plutonium were routinely deposited daily on the first stage of filters in Building 771. According to government documents obtained in a lawsuit against the plant, the 620 filters in the building's main plenum had not been changed since they were installed four years before the fire. Thus a pair of local researchers theorized that as much as 250 kg of airborne plutonium could have gone out the stacks from the burning filters alone.
Such an enormous release of plutonium struck some in the Denver area as beyond plausibility. But a much lower estimate of 48.8 pounds of plutonium—one tenth of the 250-kilogram figure—was calculated as enough to administer each of the 1.4 million people in the Denver environs a radiation dose one million times the maximum permissible lung burden.
I find the high release estimates hard to believe,we were told by &Dr;John Cobb of the University of Colorado Medical School.But even if only one gram of plutonium escaped, as the plant operators say, that would be cause for concern.Nor was plutonium the fire's only by-product. The water used to extinguish it became infused with radioactivity. In this case some thirty thousand gallons of it escaped unfiltered, thus spreading its contamination into local streams and the water table. KOO- 1957 Sep 29: &rad;Large explosion at the Lake Kystym nuclear-weapons facility in the Urals releases 20 MCi. The area has is permanently quarantined. EN · A
- Sep 3: Arkansas Gov Orval Faubus calls out Nat'l Guard to bar black students from Little Rock Central High. PA
- 1957 Oct 1: `In God we Trust' appears on paper money. UST
- 1957 Oct 4: Tired of playing catchup in the nuclear business (see above) the stupid Soviets start a new race with the first artifical satellite. Washington wets pants, hires the Nazi rocket scientists out of work since '45. [ach—rewrite this. It's classically presented as a new race but in fact it's just a new step in the arms race. The Soviets clearly have suborbital ICBM capability; they can now deliver their thermonuclear toys anywhere in the world faster than can the US. There's a big fear of orbital bombing; but it's a little trickier to put something in orbit and then deorbit it onto a target than is popularly thought. The main attraction of this mode is in keeping the toys out of the first wave of destruction for a counterstrike.]
- 1957 Oct 7: &rad;Nuclear reactor at Windscale, England, undergoing maintenance; deliberate overheating ignites the uranium-graphite core. [P (1985) p. F-13] Excessive radionuclides, including iodine-131, escape from its stacks. Within 24 hours, excessive I-131 is found in milk from area cows. Milk from 700 neighboring farms is dumped in the Irish Sea. TCH
- 1958: LSD is tested on 95 volunteers at the Army's Chemical Warfare Laboratories for its effect on intelligence. HNN
- 1958: &rad; Another mess at Chalk River. Fuel rod overheats and ruptures; is broken in two by the crane and burns; dribbles uranium into a maintenance pit, jamming
onthe ventilation system, which contaminates much of the building and the outdoors. The fire is extinguished by men running in full gear past the pit biffing buckets of wet sand at the uranium. WP (There's a man lives near me who worked at Chalk River at about this time. He does not look well.)- 1958: &rad;Oxford's Dr. Alice Stewart concludes diagnostic X-rays of pregnancies doubles the chance of childhood cancers. First-trimester exposure carried 10× the risk of latter-stage exposure; fortunately 90% of such X-rays had been taken a few days before delivery. But this had nasty implications for the Troy rain victims, who would also be accumulating unstable isotopes at all stages, vastly multiplying the dose from an X-ray. SF (KOO
- 1958: &rad;Major nuclear accident near the city of Chelyabinsk, near Sverdlovsk, when a military reactor is damaged, resulting in the spread of radioactive dust over several thousand kilometers and evacuation of 12 villages. NC
- 1958:
Franklin D. Roosevelt knew on December 6, 1941, that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was coming on December 7, and he deliberately failed to warn the military at Pearl Harbor. More than this: he deliberately provoked the attack.At the age of 16, I believed this. I wrote a term paper on it. That was in 1958. There were many books devoted to proving it, but hardly anyone had heard of any of them, let alone had read them. They were in few libraries, even university libraries. No history textbook discussed this possibility. Yet two of the anti-Roosevelt books on Pearl Harbor were written by two of the most distinguished historians in America: Charles A. Beard and Charles C. Tansill. The guild of historians destroyed both of their careers and reputations within months of the publication of each of their books: Beard's in 1948 and Tansill's in 1952.Their books had not been the first. In 1946, a reporter with the Chicago Tribune, George Morgenstern, wrote a series about Pearl Harbor, and in 1947, his book was published by an obscure conservative publishing company. LR
- 1958 Jan 31: &rad;B-47 loaded with a fully-armed nuclear weapon crashes at US SAC base 145 km northeast of Rabat, Morocco. The Air Force evacuates everyone within a mile of the base while the bomber burns for 7 hours. L
- 1958 Mar 11: &rad;B-47 heading overseas from Hunter AFB in GA accidentally drops nuclear bomb on Mars Bluff SC. The conventional explosives blow a crater 50–70 ft wide and 25–30 ft deep in Walter Gregg's garden, destroying his house and injuring 6 family members. Five other houses and a church are also damaged. The Air Force pays the Greggs k$54 in compensation. L
- 1958 May 25: &rad;B-47 collides with another jet and drops an H-bomb, never recovered, near Tybee Is. off GA. L (This says Feb 5 CD and also refers to the Gregg incident as being a `month later' and causing the end of the search for this one.)
- Oct 22: Last Chinese forces pull out of N. Korea. The US remains in S. Korea (as of 2003). PA
- 1958 Nov 4: &rad;B-47 bearing nuclear bombs burns in the air, crashing in TX. L
- 1958 Dec 30: &rad;Criticality accident in a Pu-recovery operation at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in NM. The operator dies later of acute radiation sickness. L
- Since 1937, `only a little more than one-third of the children born in England and Wales were vaccinated for smallpox, yet only two children aged under five years died of smallpox but of the one-third vaccinated, 91 were killed by vaccination.' [HNZ citing `Replies of Minister of Health in Parliament and Ministry of Health Reports']
- 1959: &rad;Partial meltodwn of Na-cooled reactor at Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Simi Valley Hills CA. L
- 1959: Aldous Huxley:
It seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing…a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods.C (TV, fluoridation, or SSRI for you?)- 1959: North by Northwest. `It's an old Nazi trick; shoot one of your own to prove you're not one of them. They've just freshened it up with blank cartridges.'
- 1959: Condon Manchurian Candidate. At least two of the materials listed by Yen Lo in the third quarter of chapter 2 exist: M Brenman, Psychiatry 1942 5:49-61 and W R Wells, Journal of Psychology 1941 11:63-102. HFAQ
- 1959: US installs `Papa Doc' Duvalier in Haiti. By the end of his rule, when he has to be rescued by US forces, over 100000 Haitians will have been mutilated, tortured, and/or killed. PA
- 1959: François Mitterrand (interior minister) stages assassination attempt, arranging for his car to be machine-gunned in Paris. The Observatory Affair/l'Affaire Observatoire, as it becomes known, substantially increases Mitterrand's popularity and he goes on to become one of France's most successful philanderers. T · AU
- 1959: Saddam Hussein participates in failed assassination of Gen. Abdel Karim Qassim. Saddam is slightly wounded, and escapes next morning by swimming across the Tigris. He goes into exile in Cairo, becomes the leader of a Ba'ath Party student cell. Ba'ath has sparked the interest of the CIA and Saddam regularly visits the American embassy to work with the Americans towards Qassim's overthrow. NC
- 1959: Former Palestinian activist and Egyptian army soldier Yassir Arafat and Abu Jihad (Khalil al-Wazir) found Al Fatah—an acronym for the Palestine National Liberation Movement. NC
- 1959–63: &rad;First anti-nuclear-reactor campaign succeeds at stopping Pacific Gas and Electric's (PGE) plan to build a major reactor complex at Bodega Bay CA (setting of The Birds), 1000 ft from the San Andreas Fault near the epicenter of the 1906 quake. EN (Pt. Lepreau turns out to be near a fault too.)
- 1958: CIA interference in Chilean election. TI
- 1958 Dec 31: I think this is the night in Cuba depicted in Godfather II. They seem to show Battista resigning.
- 1959 Jan 1: Castro liberates Cuba from the US-backed Batista dictatorship, closing down the casinos and brothels and nationalising all [other] businesses. This deprives the Mafia and other US-based multinationals of a very profitable cash cow. [TWT citing CIA's Greatest Hits] · NC Castro, in some naïvté, gives the US first refusal as an ally. The US takes him up on it—refusal, that is. (Learning this snippet was another of my epiphanies, although I misinterpreted it. I originally thought it was another US bumble.) The US is displeased at his bad example to the rest of Latin America (ie, local yohos shedding the US imperialist rule-for-the-money yoke). 40+ years of harrassment (to put it mildly) begin. `The saddest part of this is that the world will never know what kind of society Cuba could have produced if left alone, if not constantly under the gun and the threat of invasion, if allowed to relax its control at home. The idealism, the vision, the talent were all there. But we'll never know. And that of course was the idea.' CoT
- 1959 July: &rad;Small-reactor meltdown in San Fernando Valley, releasing radiation. EN
- 1959 Jul 21: &rad;Launch of Savannah, first nuclear-powered non-military ship; discarded about '73. F · P
- 1959 Oct: &rad;One killed and 3 seriously burned in explosion and fire of prototype reactor for the USS Triton at the Navy's training center in West Milton NY. The Navy stated `The explosion…was completely unrelated to the reactor or any of its principal auxiliary systems,' but sources familiar with the operation claim that the high-pressure air flask that exploded was to feed a crucial reactor-problem backup system. L
- 1959 Oct 15: &rad;B-52 with two nuclear bombs collides with KC-135 tanker and crashes in KY. L
- Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz aka Malcolm X: `You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or says it.' P
- 1960: &rad;7 min to midnight. BAS
- 1960: &rad;I-131 emissions have dropped to the point that it ceases to be the dominant airborne radionuclide. TCH
- 1960: OPEC founded. NC
- 1960: The Army Assistant Chief-of-Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) authorizes field testing of LSD in Europe and the Far East. Testing of the european population is code-named Project 3rd Chance; testing of the Asian population is code-named Project Derby Hat. HNN
- 1960 Feb 13: &rad;First French nuclear test, in Sahara desert. NC
- 1960 May 1: USSR celebrates May Day by downing U-2 spy plane. After USSR announces the capture of pilot Francis Gary Powers, US recants earlier claims that the plane was on a weather research mission. NC Sentenced to ten years, Powers is exchanged after less than two. PA
- 1960: 15 years after the first nuclear explosion, the AEC gets 'round, at last, to having a fallout studies branch.
- 1960 Jun 7: &rad;High-pressure He tank explodes at McGuire AFB in New Egypt NJ, rupturing the fuel tank of a BOMARC-A nuclear missile which burns and melts, contaminating the base and groundwater with Pu. L
- 1960 Sep: William F. Buckley Jr. and Douglas Caddy launch Young Americans for Freedom. Its advisory board incl Sen. Strom Thurmond, Sen. John Tower, Ronald Reagan, Prof. Lev Dobriansky, Gen. Charles Willoughby, Mr. Robert Morris. MB
- 1960 Sep 24: &rad;Launch of USS Enterprise, first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Newport News VA. F
- 1960 Oct 22: Tricky Dick roasts Kennedy for suggesting the US gov't support Cuban counterrevolution. But in Six Crises Nixon would claim that his own regime was planning such a thing, and that this
covert operation had to be protected at all costs. I must not even suggest by implication that the US was rendering aid to rebel forces in and out of Cuba. In fact, I must go to the other extreme: I must attack the Kennedy proposal to provide such aid as wrong and irresponsible because it would violate our treaty commitments.TA123- CIA hires Mafioso John Rosell to assassinate Fidel Castro. NC
- 1961: &rad;USS Theodore Roosvelt contaminated by radioactive waste from its demineralization system blown back aboard after an attempt to dump the material at sea. This accident repeats many times, eg USS Guardfish, 1975. L (These guys ought to know not to
pissspit into the wind.)- &rad;The US-SU voluntary nuclear-test moratorium breaks down; a spate of tests ensues. Dr. Sternglass estimates a quarter-million US pregnancies fail because of this. SF
- 1961: Kuwait gains independance; Iraq, feeling cheated of a decent port, stakes a claim; Britain sends troops. PH (so what happened to `expendable?' see 1930.) Mustafa Barzani, the son of Ahmad Barzani (see 1931), launches a new round of armed resistance against Iraqi rule that continues for 14 years, mostly with Iranian support. PBS
Harry Truman: `I never would have agreed to the formulation of the CIA back in '47 if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.' WRH (similar comment in '63 MB
- 1961: `To achieve peace in Katanga UN planes bombed hospitals, schools, administration buildings, and private homes. Katanga was an anti-Communist province of the Belgian Congo seeking freedom from the Communist-controlled central government. The US is not now, and has never been, a peace organisation. It will use whatever military power it is given to force all nations of the world to submit.' APFN (Here I'm making a note about a specific incident I want eventually to explore further. I don't necessarily `believe' this version yet. That page is a lot of obvious hyperproAmerican knee-jerk antisocialism and homophobia totally ignoring the `fact' that the US has an inordinate amount of power in/over the UN [ETN] (eg the enormous dues, paid and owing; the permanent position on the Security Council). And also totally ignoring the fact of similar US atrocities in many places. And similar Nazis working in the early CIA and FBI. And I wonder if they'd squall about the UN's `one world religion' if it happened to be their particular flavour of Xianity. Nevertheless, I'm trying to stay willing to be confused by the facts :) [CoT mentions Katanga, quoting Killing Hope]
- 1961 Jan 3: &rad;SL-1 reactor at Idaho Falls ID goes momentarily supercritical as control rod is `mishandled,' and explodes, killing three (John Byrnes, Richard Legg, Richard McKinley). One is pinned like a bug to the ceiling by a control rod. The bodies are so radioactive they have to be buried in Pb-lined caskets, the hands disposed of separately. The suicidal-lone-nut explanation is used, with a love-triangle twist. TMIA · ANC [P (1985) p. F-13] [GSP quoting IEER] EN · L (The exact location of this eludes me, although there's a dam downstream of Idaho Falls that seems to want to be hidden. Has IF been abandoned?)
- 1961 Jan 17: D. D. Eisenhower issues the famous
look out for that military-industrial complexwarning in his farewell Presidential speech:We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.EMUT (What he was trying to say, issoon the US will live to make war and make war to live,but DDE never sussed the catchy soundbite. This is a remarkable warning from a Republican and military poobah. It was quite a revelation to me when I first learned from whose mouth it fell. Because in the meantimemilitary-industrial complexhas been given thatwacky crackpotospiracistfeel. Can that be an accident?)One thing that kept us from seeing [our evolution into Homo Colossus, a detritovore headed for a crash like yeast in grape mash], and enabled us to rush exuberantly into niches that had to be temporary, was our ability to give ideological legitimation to occupations that made no sense ecologically. When General Eisenhower, as retiring president, warned the American people to beware of unwarranted influence wielded by the military-industrial complex, it was presumably political and economic influence that he had in mind. But the MIC was a vast conglomeration of occupational niches. As such, it wielded an altogether different (and even more insidious) kind of influence. The MIC helped perpetuate the illusion that we still had a carrying-capacity surplus; it made it profitable for the living generation to extract and use up natural resources that might otherwise have been left for posterity. It absorbed for a while most of the excess labor force displaced by technological progress from older occupational niches that had been less dependent on drawing down reservoirs of exhaustible resources. It thus helped us believe that the Age of Exuberance could go on. DO- 1961 Jan 20: John Fitzgerald Kennedy is anointed. Att'y Gen'l is brother Robert. Robert S. McNamera, Pres of Ford, becomes Defense Sec'y. MS
- 1961 Jan 24: &rad;B-52 with two nuclear weapons (MK39s, ±2.2 Mt each) disintegrates in mid-air 19 km north of Seymour Johnson AFB in Goldsboro NC. One bomb and five crew parachute to safety, three others die. The 2nd bomb plummets into waterlogged farmland near Faro NC and is never completely recovered. The area is tested regularly for radiation releases. B · L · EN It appears the two bombs got 3/4ths to 5/6ths of the way to going off in the accident. B
- 1961 Mar: &rad;B-52 with nuclear weapons crashlands near Yuba City CA. EN
- 1961: CIA assassinates Rafael Trujillo, murderous dictator supported by US since '30s. His business interests, covering nearly 2/3 of the Dominican Republic economy, were encroaching on US interests. PA
- 1961: CIA assassinates Patrice Lumumba, democratically-elected president(?) of Congo/Zaire. Four years of turmoil follow as the US tries to replace the popular leader. PA
- 1961 Apr 12: Yuri Gagarian becomes first man in orbit. NC
- 1961 Apr 17–20: Bay of Pigs débacle. NC Kennedy, miffed at CIA's FUBAR, hands the Cuba planning to DoD. BI
- Sep 10:
In the fall of 1959, General Chapman, Colonel Fry, Major Sargent, Major Cripe, and others from NORAD in Colorado Springs, attended a meeting at Swannanoa, Virginia (University Of Science And Philosophy) at the invitation of Walter Russell. At this meeting Russell explained the workings of a device he proposed to build to take advantage of the vacuum state energy, and the two directional movement of energy from gravitation, (generation), to radiation, (degeneration). During the following year Russell, his wife, Lao, and their assistants built the device. The prototype that was built consisted of two sets of dual and magnetically-sexed coils. On September 10, 1961, Walter and Lao Russell reported to their contacts at NORAD, that the coils had worked and that the President of the US could announce to the world that agreater, safer power than atomic energycould be provided for industry and transportation. P- Sep 25: JFK, to UNGA: `Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.' LTS
- 1961 Oct 17: 200–300 killed in
Battle of Parisunder police chief and Nazi sympathiser Maurice Papon. FP · [New Yorker 2004 Jan 19 p8] (Remember what I say about Nazi elements being preserved after WW2?)With few exceptions, the British and American press stuck to the official story, including suggestions that the Algerians had opened fire first. Even the newsman who saw the piles of Algerian corpses was not allowed to report the story; his bosses ordered that the bureau reports stick to the official figures.[FP citing Washington Report 1997 Mar p36] (Who says Western news is not controlled and manipulated?) Papon will be convicted of war crimes in 1998 but will be released in 2002. WP · BBC (Notice that the BBC article mentions a lot, but not the massacre.)- 1961 Oct 31: &rad;SU tests largest nuclear bomb, Tsar Bomba, yielding 58 Mt. NC A significant spike in lactic I-131 content is observed all over the northern hemisphere. SF The bomb was a 100-Mt design, cut back to 50 Mt for testing by substituting Pb for the U tamper. This cut out over 90% of the radioactive fallout, making this the among the
cleanesttests. With the U, it would've added 25% to the existing atmospheric pollution. There's some hairsplitting over whether it yielded 50 Mt or 57 or 58. HEW- Small smallpox outbreak in England begins with five vaccinated persons.
When five Pakistanis brought smallpox to England and started the outbreak of 1961–2, it was known they all had valid certificates of revaccination, showing more than one dose; but this fact was published only after, instead of before, the Press and Radio had started playing the fool as usual, and spreading panic and pox all over the country. The Ministry knew that this would cause more death and injury than a few smallpox cases. The five Pakistanis themselves had already proved that vaccination is a dangerous fraud, and so the injections had to be restricted to contacts only.During the Brighton smallpox outbreak (1950–51), the usual BBC encephalitis campaign opened with an anonymous doctor assuring the world, with authoritative emphasis, that `smallpox is the most infectious disease known to Man'! The BBC had evidently never heard of influenza [see 1918]. During the smallpox outbreak of 1961–2, on the other hand, we heard medical officers of health saying on the radio such things as, `After all, smallpox is not such a very infectious disease.' This would have been held to be pure blasphemy only a few years ago. May the good work go on! BP
- 1962: Since 1936, `two-thirds of the children born in England and Wales were unvaccinated: of these, 4 under the age of 5 died of smallpox. Of the vaccinated group, 86 under the age of 5 were killed by the vaccination and many more seriously injured.' [HNZ citing British Hansard, 1964 Feb 1]
- Rickover casts a little cold water on the nuclear juggernaut but it's easily sloughed away:
decisions affecting this field are sometimes made by people who have little knowledge of nuclear engineering and of science. There is a danger this will lead to errors highly damaging to the position of the US or to the health and safety of the American people.Matters were already bad and deteriorating, not improving. [LS excerpting Seddon Case Against ISO9000]- 1962: &rad;Czech study proves the U mill near Ceske Budejovice caused the loss of 80% of local cattle by leukemia and deformities. Budweiser gets its hops from the same area. NF
- 1962 Feb 10: G. F. Powers released in US-Soviet spy exchange. PA
- 1962 Feb 16: JFK issues a string of rather draconian emergency-measure Executive Orders T:
- EO 10995: All communications media are to be seized by the Federal Government. Radio, TV, newspapers, CB, Ham, telephones, and the internet will be under federal control. Hence, the First Amendment will be suspended indefinitely.
- EO 10997: All electrical power, fuels, and all minerals will be seized by the federal government.
- EO 10998: All food resources, farms and farm equipment will be seized by the government. You will not be allowed to hoard food since this is regulated.
- EO 10999: All modes of transportation will go into government control. Any vehicle can be seized.
- EO 11000: All civilians can be used for work under federal supervision.
Let us not forget EO 11000 which provides for the seizure of all American people for work forces under Federal supervision, (splitting up families where necessary.) This EO was signed by JFK forty years ago. Could this order, among others have caused him to state ten days before he was assassinated:The high office of the president has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight? PP- 1962 Mar: Uprising against US-backed Guatemala military dictator Gen. Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes; US intervenes to crush the rebellion. PA But when Ydigoras offers to calm the waters by allowing Arevalo to return, Kennedy has him replaced with Col. Enrique Peralta Azurdia, who promptly earned US favour with the public execution and mutilation of eight trade-union leaders. (Although he refused demands that US Special Forces be invited to reduce the excess population.) PA
- 1962 Mar 13: Plan of Op. Northwoods, a fake terror campaign to manufacture support for invading Cuba, is put before McNamera. PDF · VTV (GWU has a scan in PDF, transcribed to HTML here) ABC, IW, CoT citing Body of Secrets, BS, EU
- Kennedy introduced to Sen. Kinley of Lunenburg; is miffed, thinks Kinley is making fun of his accent. But Kinley talked like that before JFK could talk. (Just listing one of those trivial things that amuses us 'round the fire of a winter's night.)
- 1962 Jul 7:
Undergroundthermonuclear test Sedan.radiologist Dr. Robert C. Pendleton was with students on a field trip in Big Cottonwood Canyon.We were measuring levels of radioactivity in different environmental situations,Dr. Pendleton remembered.A cloud of radioactive material came over and all the measurements began to go nuts. I recognized that we were getting fallout and took the students off the hill and back down in the valley.The fallout had multiplied normal radiation readings a hundredfold.There had been no warning from the government—only
the usual announcements that atomic shots were taking place,according to Deseret News environmental reporter Joseph Bauman. Although the federal government was content to let the matter rest, Dr. Pendleton was not:We found radioactive iodine in all of the children, milk and vegetation that we measured in the whole northern section of the state.Pendleton's determination to analyze impacts of the Sedan fallout caused the Utah Department of Health to divert thousands of gallons of milk—laced with radioactive iodine-131, a voracious destroyer of human thyroids—that would have been otherwise consumed by Utah residents. The action partially deflected health damage to Utahns from the Sedan test fallout. But it angered the White House—which
responded by ordering the Public Health Service to clear its radiation reports through the White House press office,The Deseret News reported seventeen years later on the basis of newly declassified federal documents. KOO- 1962 Jul 8: &rad;Oahu's streetlights go out from EMP of high-altitude test. NC (Actually, did an EMP take out their power, or did the flash make them think it was day? I've seen lightning do the latter.) (No, it was EMP;
circuit breakers had popped open in power lines. KOO)- 1962 Aug 3: Two researchers—Louis Jolyon West and Chester M. Pierce—wonder if you can drive an elephant mad with LSD, and administer the largest known dose of the compound, 297 mg, to 3.2-Mg Tusko at OK City's Lincoln Park zoo (0.1 mg is the usual human dose). In 100 min he is dead. [G citing `Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: Its effect on a Male Asiatic Elephant' Science 138, 1100–1102]
West's good friend, Aldous Huxley, suggested that he hypnotize his subjects before administering LSD, in order to give them post-hypnotic suggestions which would orient the drug-induced experience in adesired direction.Interestingly, West was the psychiatrist who examined Jack Ruby, the assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby's assertion that an ultra-Right-wing cabal was responsible for JFK's murder, and his refusal to admit insanity, led West to conclude that he was paranoid and mentally ill. West placed Ruby on anti-depressants, which did little to modify his claims of conspiracy. He died of cancer two years later, claiming to the end that he had been injected with cancerous biological material.
West also examined Sirhan Sirhan, a controlled hypo-patsy who allegedly killed Robert F. Kennedy. Currently chairman of UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute, West headed the American Psychological Association (APA) trauma response team that rushed to Oklahoma City in the wake of the [1995] 5disaster…
In the wake of the 1965 Watts riot, West proposed to then California Governor Ronald Reagan a
Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence,which was to have included a psychosurgery unit for performing lobotomies, and a seven-day-a-week, around-the-clock electro-shock room. Associates of Dr. [Ewan] Cameron's, employed at the time in Nazi-run detention centers in South America, would be called on to perform lobotomies on unsuspecting patients, with the full approval of Governor Reagan.One of the more brazen of the emerging coterie of brainwashing enthusiasts, Cameron received his funding through the Rockefeller and Gerschickter Foundations, which was channeled into the innocuous-sounding Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology at Cornell. Cameron performed hundreds of lobotomies and electroshock treatments at the behest of the CIA on unwitting patients in prisons and mental hospitals, and at his beloved Allen Memorial Institute in Montréal. OKCBPT
As fallout quantities approached
safegovernmental limits, the AEC looked to the Federal Radiation Council for help. By September 1962 the council announced that the US Government's radiation guidelines didn't apply to fallout—in essence, giving the AEC a blank cheque to contaminate the earth as it deemed necessary.I-131 doses from weapons testing conducted through 1962 have not caused undue risk to health,the council contended. Two years later the panel secretly raised its guidelines for radioactive iodine by a factor of twenty, to accommodateundergroundnuclear tests…Tompkins justified the increase by claimingwe had to take our choice between that much iodine or a predictable level of malnutrition from pricing the milk off the market. We made the choice…KOO- 1962 Oct 15: Cuban missile crisis begins (and probably causes the shelving of Op. Northwoods, which IIRC assumed Soviet ambivalence). Fortunately Krushchev will be unwilling to end the human species just to save face. Kennedy's mood is not so clear. GWU Although it's perfectly logical for the US to have a military base in enemy territory—Guantánamo Bay—it's obviously totally unacceptable that the Soviets ahould have one in ally territory.
- 1962 Nov 8:
At one of the tensest moments of the missile crisis, on November 8, a terrorist team dispatched from the US blew up a Cuban industrial facility after the Mongoose operations had been officially suspended. In a letter to the UN Secretary General, Fidel Castro alleged that 400 workers had been killed in this operation, guided by `photographs taken by spying planes' (referring to testimony by the captured `leader of a group of spies trained by the CIA and directed by it'). This terrorist act, which might have set off a global nuclear war, was considered important enough to merit passing reference in a footnote in an article on the missile crisis in the journal International Security, but no media attention, to my knowledge. NI- 1963: &rad;12 min to midnight—improvement on 1947. BAS
- Some common bacteria have adapted to thrive on streptomycin. [LD citing Brit Med J 1963 Jun 1]
- 1963: CIA overthrow of Dominican Republic's democratically-elected Juan Bosch; repressive right-wing junta installed. PA
In 1962, with 59 percent of the popular vote, Juan Bosch won the Dominican Republic's first free election ever held. Only seven months later, he was overthrown by military officers and forced into exile. In 1965, however, with support from the poor, the urban working classes, and the professional middle classes, Bosch was again elected, and he announced plans to restore the 1963 constitution. The US intervened by sending 23,000 Marines to topple his government. An estimated 2,500 civilians were killed in the weeks following the invasion. The Marines remained in the Dominican Republic through June 1, 1966,pacifyingthe population while the US government organized elections to legitimate a government that would meet with its approval. TWT- 1963: Laura Welch (later Mrs. Dubya Bush) runs stop sign and kills fellow high-school student Michael Douglas. He'd been something between good friend and fiancé. BQ
- 1963: Revelation of '54 `Lavon affair.' Ben-Gurion gov't falls Jun 16.
- 1963:
At the bequest of its industrial sponsors, Kettering Laboratory collects US research articles on fluoride and `sanitises' them by rewriting their findings in published abstracts in The Role of Fluoride in Public Health. Sponsors included Alcoa, American Petroleum Institute, Columbia-Geneva Steel Co., Du Pont, Harshaw Chemical Co., Kaiser Aluminum and Chemicals Corporation, 3M, Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co., Reynolds Metals Co., and the Universal Oil Products Co.—all concerned about regulations bearing on fluoride air pollution and worker health problems.This book of 158 sanitized abstracts is then distributed to all health agencies throughout the US, thus becoming the standard reference work for state and county health departments. Busy health professionals relied on these convenient and readily available abstracts, rather than searching the literature for the original (unsanitized) research. In this way, many key professionals throughout the country were duped on the issue of fluoride poisoning. F]
- 1963: CIA auditors discover the agency had a series of apartments staffed with prostitutes, to observe (via one-way mirrors) the effects of various substances slipped to the unlucky johns. MKULTRA is `shut down' by being renamed MKSEARCH. [TWT citing CIA's Greatest Hits]
- 1963: [actually this may have been a bit earlier and the consequent coup was in '63] CIA and MI5 hire Saddam Hussein to help them overthrow the Iraqi government, which among other intolerable acts such as continuing the claim on Kuwait, had been involved in creating the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries which challenged the stranglehold of Western oil companies. [CoT citing Rogue State] (NC says the coup is in April and Hussein returns in May.) This PBS page based on Saddam Hussein: Politics of revenge puts a different spin on it but confirms Hussein–US coöperation at this time, the `communist' fears about the existing Iraq gov't, that US involvement in the '63 coup against Kassem was `substantial,' more. But, it claims the coöperation/conspiracy lasted only through the coup. Well, the FBI claimed COINTELPRO only lasted a little while too.
- 1963: CIA has South Vietnemese president Ngo Dinh Diem overthrown and assasinated for supporting negotiations with the north. TI
- 1963: American diplomats encourage Kurdish leaders to support the new Ba'ath government in Baghdad, following a US-supported coup. The Ba'ath Party leadership issues a statement saying it `recognized the rights of the Kurdish people.' PBS
- 1963 Mar: &rad;Experiment at uncontained Livermore reactor releases large amount of gaseous radiation. EN
- 1963 Apr 10: &rad;Nuclear sub' Thresher implodes during a test dive off Boston, killing 129. L (As I recall a bit of salt water tricked its reactor to scram and she started to sink; there was insufficient reserve power to either clear the ballast or `fly' long enough to restart.)
- Apr 11: Huge unexplained underwater explosion, 100 mi north of Puerto Rico? A Soviet EMG weapon? C
- 1963 May: &rad;Mandan ND records the highest milk concentration of Sr-90 anywhere in the US ever. [SF citing E. W. Pfeiffer `Mandan Milk Mystery' Scientist and Citizen] It had always had a strangely high concentration (the `Mystery'); it may have been caused by Hanford's exhaust. SF
- Jun 4: Kennedy issues EO11110 attempting to gut the Fed. To indicated change in asbtract value, the design of the bill is changed slightly, with green numbers and seal replaced by red. After Kennedy is killed, the EO is revoked and these bills destroyed, making the few that remain very collectible. (I think I got that from WRH. AMPP has a different version: for some reason it took two EOs to get this money into circulation, and JFK never got around to the second one.)
- Jun 11: Quang Duc's self-immolation. This may have begun a process of exposure of the true nature of the Ngo Ding Diem regime and its US backing which culminated in the assassination of Diem and then of Kennedy. WND
- 1963 Jun 20: US and SU agree to build the famous `hotline.' In the Missile Crisis they'd had to communicate by public broadcasts. NT
and the Catholics hate the Protestants,
the Hindus hate the Muslims,
and everybody hates the Jews. TWTYTW · TWTYTW- (undated) CIA counter-intelligence unit Pegasus taps J. E. Hoover's phone and tapes plans to assassinate Kennedy. The people on the tapes were Hoover, `[Nelson] Rockefeller, Allen Dulles, [Lyndon] Johnson of Texas, George Bush.' [CTRL citing Stich Defrauding America—but which? 1 · 2 · 3]
- Kennedy illegally sends thousands of troops to Vietnam. AC
- 1963 July: &rad;David Ben-Gurion furious at Kennedy for threatening an embargo against Israel for not opening up its Dimona nuclear `power' plant for inspection to verify whether or not it was being used to make weapons (it was). Initially the Israelis claimed the site was a textile factory, yet it was later known to be a weapons site with over 150 nuclear warheads. They were also miffed about his use of Nazis at NASA. K · MA
And just what was it that made it possible to spend G$20 of your money to put some clown on the moon? Well, it was good ol' American know-how, that's what. As provided by good ol' Americans like Doktor Wernher von Braun… TWTYTW · TWTYTW- Aug: Edward Teller testifies against the proposed Nuclear Weapons Test Ban. EN (Teller's a scary damn sunovavitch.)
- Nov 1:
South Vietnamese military, led by General Duong Van Minh, overthrew the civilian government of Diem with CIA approval and cooperation. Diem had lost US favor and although the CIA did not play a direct role, it was aware of the plot from the start, supported it by promising non-intervention by US forces and quick recognition of the succeeding military regime. President Kennedy personally instructed the US State Department and Ambassador Lodge in Saigon to support the coup. PA- Nov 12: JFK, at Columbia U: `The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight.' AMPP
8. Nixon went to Dallas under false pretenses. There was no board meeting of the Pepsi-Cola Company as he announced his law firm had had to attend.
9. Nixon did not admit being in Dallas on the day Kennedy was shot and did not reveal the true reason for his trip. He held two press conferences on the two days before the assassination, attacking both Kennedy and Johnson and emphasizing the Democratic political problems in Texas. TA123- Nov 20: Rose Cheramie found lying by a road in Eunice Louisiana. Tells the police and hospital staff she'd been dumped there by two Italians on their way from Miami to Dallas to kill Kennedy. But this is not transmitted to
higher authorityuntil Oswald is dead; and police chief Fritz apparently says he'snot interested.PC- 1963 Nov 22:
1963 Nov 22: First Kennedy assassination, which will never convincingly be explained.
Winston Lawson, responsible for Kennedy's life in Dallas, was never in charge of a trip like this before. He was only in SS school at the time Kennedy was inaugurated. For this dangerous journey to Texas [where JFK was disliked], Kennedy needed the best, longest, most experienced security…The Treasury Dept. [see Jun 4] is responsible for Secret Service protection. MBE. Howard Hunt is arrested at Dealy Plaza as a tramp. ININ (Lane disagrees. NW) Yitzhak Rabin was in Dallas at the time. [K, I, JR citing Leah Rabin Rabin p120] `Yitzhak Shamir was once an underworld terrorist that became a Mossad agent, then later led an assassination team from 1955–64…they carried out attacks on perceived enemies and suspected Nazi war criminals.' See Jul about how Ben-Gurion felt about JFK. [GO citing Haaretz '92 Jul 3 and Washington Post '92 Jul 4]) GHWB and Nixon are also believed to have been there. IWhen JFK was assassinated, the original plan was to frame Castro for it to trigger a new invasion, aka Bay of Pigs II. But LBJ knew that such an invasion would trigger a Soviet nuclear attack so the frame-up stopped with Oswald. But the reason that Oswald was planted with that Mannlicher Carcano, the world's worst shoulder weapon, was that this was the very gun Castro was buying in huge quantities to hand out to the Cuban people in preparation for another invasion. This aspect of the story was suppressed because the idea that Castro trusted his people enough to arm them flatly contradicted US claims that he ruled his island through fear. [WRH, '03 Mar letters section](One famous curiosity: Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy and was shot in Ford's theatre. Kennedy had a secretary named (Evelyn Norton) Lincoln and was shot in a Ford Lincoln.) (The mob wanted rid of him. The CIA (J. J. Angleton) wanted rid of him. The FBI (J. E. Hoover) wanted rid of him. The Zionists (D. Ben-Gurion) wanted rid of him. The Fed wanted rid of him. Maybe the Greys wanted rid of him (Kennedy a ´t´ tu´…une semaine après avoir d´cid´ de parler à l'opinion publique des activit´s r´elles des am´ricains dans l'espace et de leur coop´ration avec les gris…Dans les livres d'´cole japonais, on peut apprendre que JFK a ´t´ assassin´ parce qu'il voulait d´voiler des secrets sur les extra terrestresIM). This is like Murder on the Orient Express…But CIA is best-placed to penetrate the security and control the investigation and media.)Since Kennedy's death, dire warnings about corporate power have been conspicuously absent from the pronouncements of American presidents. Funny, huh? By daring to stand on his conviction that it was he, not them, who held the reins of American society, Kennedy quite possibly forced the financial elite to make an example of him. Since that time, their supremacy has been unchallenged by politicians. XCIA agent (code name AM/LASH) gives to Fidel Castro a ballpoint pen rigged with a hypodermic needle and possibly loaded with Blackleaf-40, a commercially-available high-grade poison. NC
- 1963 Nov 24?: Lee Harvey Oswald, self-proclaimed patsy for the first Kennedy killing, is himself gunned down before he can get any more embarassing.
- 1963 Nov: Karyn Kupicinet murdered. She had before the 22nd overheard her TV-host father talking about death of JFK. (?) JFKDE
- 1963 Dec: Jack Zangretti dies of gunshot. Had expressed foreknowledge of Ruby shooting Oswald. JFKDE
- Chappaquiddick scandal ends the Presidential hopes for this generation of Kennedys.
- ANFO is the explosive of choice for construction of the Labrador hydroelectric project. [so my father says and he was there.]
- Grant Stockdale, fmr US Ambassador to Ireland, dies of a heart attack while dropping from the 14th floor of a Miami building. He had some connexion with the JFK murder. TA123 · SG
Recently Bobby Baker left prison and it is said that he, too, may write a book. If he does, I suspect that a quorum of that senate whose secretary he was may yet convene itself in Lewisburg Federal Pen. For my British readers who are now reeling in disblief from line to line of this cheery report: yes, we do have laws of libel in the US but they are less strict than yours. Even so, the scene…was published while the former President was still alive and capable of bringing action against publisher and author. He did neither. [Vidal United States p855 pitching Winter-Berger Washington Pay-off]
- 1964: CIA interference in Chilean election. TI
- 1964: Patman A Primer on Money & Money Facts (Wright Patman, east-TX congressman, chair of House Banking C'tee,i UT opponent of the Fed TAMU)
- 1964: Kubrick Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; a warning of what Project Paperclip and Cold War had done to the US.
- W'm Farish III buys GHWB's foundering Zapata. C, A (treat carefully; Farish is not
of Scotland)- 1964: Congress gives full support for the leukemia/lymphoma virus research. BG
- 1964–6: BritishPorton Down researchers test Kyasanur Forest Monkey Disease, on 33 NHS patients `dying of leukemia' and at least 40 others. KFMD causes in humans excruciating encephalitis and is 28% fatal, and will be used as a bioweapon agent by 1970. Porton Down experimented on some 20000 ill-informed or uninformed volunteers and unclaimed incompetents. ESM
- 1964 Jan: Ba'ath loses control of Iraq. Soon Michel Aflaq recommends elevation of Saddam Hussein to inner circle of Ba'ath Party leadership (caucus?). NC
- 1964 Jan 8–: `Flag Riots,' a peak of Panamanian resentment of US occupation. Although it had been decreed Panama's flag would fly beside the US' in the Zone, US students at the American High School in the Zone threw Panama's flag away. Riots ensued, in which 20 die (Panamanians) and hundreds are injured. Much damage to US property. PA
- 1964: CIA-backed overthrow of Brazil's Joao Goulart; their replacement junta would be one of history's bloodiest. PA
- CIA finally wedges someone into place in Congo/Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko. He wrings billions out of the desperately poor country. PA
- 1964: Dominican Republic rebels against the US puppet; US troops sent in to keep the junta in place. PA
- 1964 Jan 13: &rad;B-52 with two nuclear weapons crashes near Cumberland MD. L
- 1964 Feb: Eddy Benavides dies of gunshot. Was lookalike brother to Tippit shooting witness, Domingo Benavides. JFKDE
- 1964 Feb: Betty Mooney MacDonald found hanged in Dallas jail. Worked for Ruby, had alibied Darrell W. Garner, suspect in Warren Reynolds shooting. JFKDE Reynolds was almost a witness of the Tippett murder, and was later shot through the head by a rifle, but lived. 16
- 1964 Mar: Hank Killam dies of cut throat; husband of Ruby employee, Oswald acquaintance. JFKDE Supposedly committed suicide by throwing himself through a plate glass window. TA123
- 1964 Apr: Bill Hunter shot by cop; reporter, was in Ruby's apartment on Nov 24. JFKDE
- 1964 Apr: &rad;US nuke-powered navigational satellite burns in the atmosphere, releasing 17 kCi of Pu-238. EN
- 1964 May: Gary Underhill, CIA agent who claimed Agency was involved in killing JFK, dies of gunshot to head; ruled a suicide. JFKDE
- 1964 May: Hugh Ward, private investigator working with Guy Banister and David Ferrie, and New Orleans' mayor DeLesseps Morrison die in plane crash. JFKDE
- 1964: Plane crashes, killing pilot Edwin J. Zimny and aide Edward Moss. Edward Kennedy survives w/broken back and punctured lung. S Apparently during a bad storm PN (Was anyone not named Ed?)
- 1964 Jun: Guy Banister, ex-FBI agent in New Orleans connected to Ferrie, CIA, Carlos Marcello & Oswald, dies of heart attack. JFKDE
- Jul 21: WC begins taking New Orleans testimony. Mary Sherman found dead in apartment, hacked with a knife and a severed arm. PC
- 1964 Jul 24: &rad;One killed in accident at a commercial nuclear-fuel fabricator Charlestown RI. L
- 1964 Jul 30/31: Covert US attacks on North Vietnam. VWIP
- Johnson imposes an embargo on North Vietnam that remains in force for 30 years. PA
- 1964 Aug: Teresa Norton, Ruby employee, shot to death. JFKDE
- 1964 Aug 2: First Gulf of Tonkin `incident'—North Vietnam gets one slug into the destroyer Maddox. VWIP · NC (Review the LBJ tapes released in 2002 MSA)
- 1964 Aug 4: Second Gulf of Tonkin `incident'—ghost echoes appear on the Turner Joy's radar; it and the Maddox open fire. This will be moulded into an attack by North Vietnam and a cue for the US to overtly play in the Vietnam War. FAIR · PBS · VWIP · RG
- Aug 7: Johnson is given a blank power cheque to escalate war in Vietnam. WVG
- With evidence accumulating of confusion by radar and sonar technicians in the latter Gulf of Tonkin clash, Johnson said privately
those dumb stupid sailors were just shooting at flying fish.[Tuchman March of Folly 1983 p317] (So the Gulf of Tonkinincidentswere suspect almost from the getgo.)- 1964 Sep: Jim Koethe dies; reporter, in Ruby's apartment on Nov 24. JFKDE
- 1964 Sep: C.D. Jackson, Life senior VP who bought Zapruder film and locked it away, dies. JFKDE
- Sep 6: Bertrand Russell's
16 Questionsraise doubt about the Warren Commission's idears even before their report comes out.
- Why were all the members of the Warren Commission closely connected with the US Government?
- If, as we are told, Oswald was the lone assassin, where is the issue of national security?
- If the Government is so certain of its case, why has it conducted all its inquiries in the strictest secrecy?
- Why did the Warren Commission not establish a panel to deal with the question of who killed President Kennedy?
- Why have so many liberals abandoned their own responsibility to a Commission whose circumstances they refuse to examine?
- Why did the authorities follow many persons as potential assassins and fail to observe Oswald's entry into the book depository building while allegedly carrying a rifle over three feet long?
- Why was the President's route changed at the last minute to take him past Oswald's place of work?
- Why has the medical evidence concerning the President's death been altered out of recognition?
- What is the evidence to substantiate the allegation that the President was shot from behind?
- Why has the FBI refused to publish what could be the most reliable piece of evidence in the whole case?
- How is it that millions of people have been misled by complete forgeries in the press?
- Why was the result of the paraffin test altered before being announced by the authorities?
- Why was the only description of Tippitt's killer deliberately omitted by the police from the affidavit of the sole eye-witness?
- Why was Oswald's description in connection with the murder of Patrolman Tippitt broadcast over Dallas police radio at 12:43 pm on November 22, when Tippitt was not shot until 1:06 pm?
- How was it possible for Earl Warren to forecast that Marina Oswald's evidence would be exactly the reverse of what she had previously testified?
- How does a District Attorney of Wade's great experience account for all the extraordinary changes in evidence and testimony which he has announced during the Oswald case?
- Oct: LBJ, up for reelection, promises
We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.II (Compare his mentor, FDR, 1940 Oct)- 1964 Oct: Mary Pinchot murdered.
Specialfriend of JFK; diary taken by CIA chief J. J. Angleton. JFKDE- 1964 Oct 14: Leonid Brezhnev boots Nikita Khruschev. NC (I've never quite understood Kruschev's name; isn't `Nikita' a feminine?)
- 1964 Oct 16: &rad;First Chinese nuclear test. NC
- 1964 Nov 4: Ayatollah Khomeini is exiled to Turkey. NC
- Nov: Nixon's
Oswald did it, aloneReader's Digest piece.We were waiting for a light to change when a man ran over from the street corner and said that the President had just been shot in Dallas.CM- M. L. King Jr:
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.FOT- 1965–7:
It may be recalled that from 1965 to 1967, an attempt by International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) to acquire ABC was frustrated following a huge outcry that focused on the dangers of allowing a great multinational corporation with extensive foreign investments and business activities to control a major media outlet. The fear was that ITT controlcould compromise the independence of ABC's news coverage of political events in countries where ITT has interests.The soundness of the decision disallowing the acquisition seemed to have been vindicated by the later revelations of ITT's political bribery and involvement in attempts to overthrow the government of Chile. RCA and Westinghouse, however, had been permitted to control media companies long before the ITT case, although some of the objections applicable to ITT would seem to apply to them as well. GE is a more powerful company than ITT, with an extensive international reach, deeply involved in the nuclear power business, and far more important than ITT in the arms industry. It is a highly centralized and quite secretive organization, but one with a vast stake inpoliticaldecisions. GE has contributed to the funding of the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank that supports intellectuals who will get the business message across. With the acquisition of ABC, GE should be in a far better position to assure that sound views are given proper attention. The lack of outcry over its takeover of RCA and NBC resulted in part from the fact that RCA control over NBC had already breached the gate of separateness, but it also reflected the more pro-business and laissez-faire environment of the Reagan era. TWT- 1965–7: US tests sarin and VX gases on Alaskans. [20MCH citing Pentagon] `Rapid Tan I, II, and III, a series of tests in 1967 and 1968 in England and Canada. The tests used sarin and VX, as well as the nerve agents tabun and soman, at the British chemical weapons facility in Porton Down, England. Tests at the Suffield Defence Research Establishment in Ralston, Canada, included tabun and soman, the records show. Tabun and soman are chemically related to sarin and produce similar effects.' [Y!, ditto] (Several articles are written to give the impression `simulants' were used; occasionally they were—and some were later found harmful in themselves. R But it appears the Canadian and British tests used the real stuff.)
- US' not-so-secret `secret war' on Laos begins. PA
- 1965: CIA provokes a coup that leads to the overthrow of Indonesian leader Sukarno, who is replaced by General Suharto. In the following weeks ½–1 million are murdered by death squads using lists provided by US State Dep't. TI
- Lionel Dole The Blood Poisoners
The worst threat to human welfare is monopolised Radio [incl TV]. The most infectious disease in the world is insanity, and the Radio is the principal carrier of it. Its evil power spreads so far and so fast that something more than the slow, cumbersome and expensive laws of libel is absolutely essential for its control. The Radio lie gets a 12½-thousand-mile start. This is infinitely worse than the proverbial 12 hours. The truth never overtakes it, because it never gets started at all.- 1965: US invades Dominican Republic NC ostensibly to prevent a communist takeover which was later revealed to be a complete fantasy. 3000 die. BI
- 1965: James Schlatter, amino-acid researcher seeking ulcer treatments for G.D. Searle & Co, stumbles on aspartame upon licking his finger to turn a page. A · S
- 1965: Khomeini moves to Iraq, remaining until 1978. NC
- 1965: CIA and DoD begin Project MKSEARCH, a program to develop a capability to manipulate human behavior through the use of mind-altering drugs. Prisoners at the Holmesburg State Prison in Philadelphia are exposed to dioxin, the highly toxic component of Agent Orange used in Vietnam. The men are later studied for development of cancer, which indicates that Agent Orange had been a suspected carcinogen all along. HNN
- 1965 Jan: &rad;Accident at Livermore Labs releases 300 kCi into the air. EN
- 1965 Feb 21:
Malcolm X killed. The first reports from at least 3 NY papers are two suspects; after a few hours one silently vanishes.
- 1965 Mar: Tom Howard dies of heart attack; Ruby's first lawyer, was in Ruby's apartment Nov 24. JFKDE
- Mar 16: Alice Herz/Hertz becomes the first of eight Americans known to have immolated themselves in protest of the escalating Vietnam war. X
- 1965 May: Maurice Gatlin, Guy Banister's pilot, falls to death. JFKDE
- 1965 Aug: Mona B. Saenz, TX employment clerk that handled Oswald, run over by bus. JFKDE
- 1965 Aug 11–17: Rioting in LA district of Watts. PA 34 die; two policemen shot by their partners, a fireman, the rest
coloured.Some Negro leaders wondered why the police—responsible for all but 3 of the 31 non-Caucasian deaths—had relied solely on guns, without resorting to such conventional riot-control equipment as tear and nausea gases and fire hoses.[Gentry, Last Days of the Late Great State of CA 1968 p220–7]- Sep 4: Rose Cheramie again found lying by a road, in east TX. This time she dies—apparently shot in the head—and with her the link between
two Italians from Miamiand JFK. And she had apparently worked for Ruby. PC- 1965 Nov 2: Quaker Norman Morrison makes bonfire of himself near McNamara's office.
Dorothy Kilgallen found dead in her New York apartment. She had recently interviewed Jack Ruby—the only person not in law enforcement to do so—and was writing a story with new information on JFK's murder. TA123 Her interview notes were missing and have never been found (as of 2000). Declared a suicide caused by a combination of alcohol and seconal. K Supposed overdose. JFKDE
- 1965 Nov 4: Mrs. Earl Smith dies. Close friend to Dorothy Kilgallen and may have kept her notes. JFKDE
- Nov 9: Roger Allen LaPorte lights up in front of the UN building. Although Morrison (and LaPorte?) became heroes to Vietnamese,
the acts seemed too crazed to influence the Americn public, except perhaps negatively, as equating antiwar protest in the public mind with emotional misfits.[Tuchman March of Folly 1983 p327]- 1965 Dec: William Whaley becomes first Dallas cabdriver to die on the job, in a collision. Reportedly drove Oswald to Oak Cliff. JFKDE (But the first reports were that a Daryll Click had done that, and made affidavit—yet there was no Dallas cabbie of that name, so Whaley got fingered instead. 16)
- 1965 Dec 5: &rad;Nuclear-armed plane falls off USS Ticonderoga into 4.9 km of water off Japan. NF
- (circa) GWB graduates Yale a member of Skull & Bones. [I citing A Charge to Keep p 47 and CNN quoting Time 2000 Jul 31]
- 1966: Judge Joe Brown dies of heart attack; presided over Ruby's trial. JFKDE
- 1966: Karen
Little LynnCarlin dies of gunshot; last employee of Ruby's to speak with him before he shot Oswald. JFKDE- 1966: Testers toss a light bulb filled with B. globigii onto the tracks as NYC subway train enters the station; the train's wind causes wide dissemination exposing more than a million persons, confirming that a genuine covert attack could infect a very large number of people during peak traffic periods. NC
- Quigley Tragedy and Hope
I know of the operations of this network (of the international power structure) because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted, for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records…I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and I have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown…LF (W. J. Clinton described Quigley as a mentor.)- 1966:
In Great Britain, smallpox vaccination hasn't been compulsory since 1898, and yet five times fewer people have died of smallpox in Great Britain than in France, where this vaccination is compulsory. The same goes for Holland. Now Great Britain and Holland are nations that continuously have contact with hundreds of thousands of seafarers from all over the world, notably from countries where smallpox is frequent. And yet abolition of vaccination and the enforcement of the natural hygienic measures have clearly proven sufficient to eliminate smallpox and the so-called infectious maladies. [HNZ quoting Vie et Action 1966 Mar–Apr]- 1966: CIA initiates Project MKOFTEN, a program to test the toxicological effects of certain drugs on humans and animals. US Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates. HNN
- 1966 April 12: Italian grand liner Michelangelo encounters a soliton, killing 3. [Sciences 1999 May–Jun p10 citing Junger Perfect Storm] S · GOL · FT (This may be the inspiration for Poseidon Adventure—dunno why I think that; this seems to be an
infamouseven but Michelangelo didn't capsize.)- 1966: Hawai'i Olaa region used as part of project Yellow Leaf involving Bacillus globigii, believed to be harmless but later found to cause infections in people with weak immune systems. [LF quoting HSB]
- 1966 Jan: Earline Roberts, Oswald's landlady, dies of heart attack. JFKDE (She was 61 w/ipneumonia and Ca deposits. 2B Of course lone-assassin nuts like to point that out as if it debunks all the convenient deaths.)
- 1966 Jan 17: &rad;B-52 with 4 unarmed H-bombs collides with KC-135 Stratotanker and crashes near Palomares, Spain. 8 of 11 crew die. Two bombs burst radioactive particles over the fields spoiling 640 acres, a 3rd lands intact near the village, the 4th is 19 km offshore and takes three months to find. About 1.5 Gg of radioactive soil and tomato plants are transferred to Aiken SC. US eventually settles claims by 522 residents with k$600 and a k$200 desalinizing plant. NC · EN [GSP quoting IEER] L
- 1966 Feb: Albert Bogard, car salesman who said Oswald test-drove new car, dies. JFKDE
- 1966 Jun: Capt. Frank Martin, Dallas cop who witnessed Oswald slaying, dies of
suddencancer. Had told Warren Commissionthere's a lot to be said but probably be better if I don't say it.JFKDE- 1966 July 4: US passes Freedom of Information Act. Bill Moyers, LBJ's Press Sec'y: `LBJ had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the signing ceremony. He hated the very idea of the Freedom of Information Act; hated the thought of journalists rummaging in government closets; hated them challenging the official view of reality.' PBS
- 1966 Aug: Lee Bowers Jr. dies in car accident. Had seen men behind picket fence on Grassy Knoll JFKDE
- Aug 1: Charles Whitman kills about a dozen from U of TX clock tower before being silenced himself. A This may be the inspiration for an X Files filmed at U of British Columbia.
- 1966 Aug 5: Ground is broken for the WTC. With the bomber-Empire State encounter in mind, its two 110-storey towers are designed to endure the impact of the largest aircraft at this time, the Boeing 707, travelling slowly as if lost. SMH · USydney
- 1966 Sep: &rad;Pu fire at Livermore Labs near San Francisco. EN
- 1966 Sep 24: &rad;First French H-bomb, Tuamoto Islands. NC
- 1966 Oct: Lt. William Pitzer dies of gunshot, ruled suicide. JFK autopsy photographer; described his duty as
horrifying experience.JFKDE- 1966 Oct 5: &rad;Enrico Fermi breeder at Lagoona Beach MI has Na coolant blocked by a loose piece of metal; core melted irreparably at startup. Detroit evacuation alert is issued. [P (1985) p. F-13] EN I suspect I have confused two accidents here, one at Lagoona and one at Fermi the next day. `The Fermi reactor was to be a scaled-up version of the EBR-1 with a small, dense core of 14700 U fuel pins. On 1966 Oct 6 the Fermi reactor also melted down.' [S quoting C] L
In 1966 the Fermi fast breeder…very nearly caused a devastating radioactive release. Starting on October 5, 1966, the reactor hovered on the brink of a catastrophic meltdown for an entire month. Its operators secretly alerted local police and officials in Detroit, 40 miles north, that a mass evacuation might be necessary. The disaster was barely averted. KOO- 1966 Nov: James Worrell Jr. dies in car accident. Had seen man flee rear of Texas School Book Depository. JFKDE
- 1966: Clarence Oliver, DA investigator on Ruby case, dies. JFKDE
- 1966 Dec: Hank Suydam, Life's person in charge of JFK stories, dies of heart attack. JFKDE
- 1967: Leonard Pullin, civilian Navy employee who helped film Last Two Days about JFK assassination, dies in single-car crash. JFKDE
- 1967: Netanyahu begins 5 a in IDF. L
- 1967:
McLuhan & Fiore The Medium is the Massage
The reader can never be sure where the `message' becomes the `massage' in McLuhan's pun-filled language (`Now all the world's a sage')…McLuhan and Fiore sell us [not warn us of] the remaking of the American `environment' into a zone of media saturation where `the living room has become a voting booth' and spectatorship itself has become `participation via television in Freedom Marches, in war, revolution, pollution, and other events.' The Medium is the Massage is a frustration book, and its representation of the global village is distressing both in its unguarded techno-euphoria and in its racialized primitivism. AC- 1967:
Two days before elections, likely to be won by the liberal George Popandreous, the CIA backed a military coup which resulted in the "Reign of the Colonels". During the next six years of military control, the use of torture and murder against political opponents becomes the norm in Greece. PAThe long-term legacy of US support for state terror in Greece [see c1947] was profound, culminating in the fascist coup of 1967, which was also welcomed and backed by the US, sometimes with rhapsodic commentary on the opportunities it afforded for American business interests.The Greek experience reveals clearly the true meaning of President Truman's call `to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. [Chomsky Reader p 214]
- 1967: Sarin gas tests (named `Red Oak Phase I') at Hawai'i Upper Waiakea Forest Reserve; confirmed by Pentagon 2002 Oct 31. [LF quoting HSB]
- 1967: &rad;Pu from the Livermore labs leaks into [San Fancisco's] sewer system for 3 weeks. The city was using dried sewage for fertilizer. EN
- 1967: CIA and Department of Defense implement Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed to maintain, stockpile, and test biological and chemical weapons. HNN
- 1967: Johnson knows he'll
fail to win(à la George McLellan) in Vietnam but keeps the war going anyway. [CA citing Whitehouse tapes]
Nyoohoohoo Math
It won't do you a bit of good to review math
It's so simple, so very simple,
That only a child can do it TWTYTW · TWTYTW- 1967 Jan: Jack Ruby dies of lung cancer; he claimed to have been injected w/cancer. JFKDE (And his claim is scoffed at, even though it's a common method of inducing cancer in lab animals.)
- Jan: Entire issue of Journal of the American Dental Association devoted to a report on the Evanston study. The original tables, complete with their gross numerical errors, were reproduced, despite the fact that these [errors] had been pointed out eight years earlier (Sutton, 1959) and some of them had been acknowledged by the authors (Sutton, 1960). In addition, several faulty tables were published for the first time. The issue cannot even figure out how many children were in the study. [F citing [Floridation: Scientific Criticisms and Fluoride Dangers]
- 1967 Jan 2 12:10am: R. W. Reagan, two-bit B-grade actor and former Democrat with abundant qualifications for getting elected but absolutely none for government, is sworn as Gov. of California. As to the time…departing Gov. Pat Brown: `My only guess is that it's because he believes in astrology.' Reagan's exec. sec'y: `He does not believe in astrology. He does not consult with astrologers.' Reagan, p. 249 of Where's the Rest of Me? (reprint): `Every morning Nancy and I turn to see what [our good friend Carroll Richter's syndicated astrology column] has to say about people of our respective birth signs.'
Once a liberal, next an extreme right-winger, finally a moderate. Which was the real Ronald Reagan?(If you want to know how `elections' work in the US, you desperately need to read this book's stuff on Reagan, keeping in mind that despite the existence of books like this one he'll be elevated to Prez in a very few years. Amazon has what looks like a 1977 version.)With the announcement of his appointments, the clues started coming in.
For real-estate commissioner he appointed an anti-fair-housing crusader and past president of the CA Real Estate Association.
As state public-utilities commissioner he appointed a former consultant to the utility companies.
For state labor commissioner he appointed the first management man ever to hold the post, the general manager of a firm which in the past five years had been charged 13 times with violating laws he was now supposed to enforce.
To the state board of education he appointed a pro-school-prayer advocate on record as having declared the Pilgrims Communistic. (Even the legislature wouldn't swallow this one.)
As his own education advisor, he appointed a former U of CA prof who had helped start `the mess at Berkeley' by advocating taking the free-speech area away from the students.
As head of the State Resources Commission, on charge of state parks, recreation, and redwoods, he appointed a lumberman.
As new welfare chief he appointed a lawyer opposed to welfare.
For clemency secretary he appointed an ex-DA favoring capital punishment. [Last Days of the Late, Great State of California, Curt Gentry, 1969, p. 295, 296, 298]
- 1967 Jan 27: More than 60 countries sign treaty banning orbiting nuclear weapons. NC · F
Apollo I test capsule incinerates along with astronauts Grissom, White, and Chafee. The official line is `accident;' the Grissom family has long held to `murder' for Grissom's public criticism of NASA. [DK quoting NewsMax]
- Apr:
The world at large believes that if JFK were alive there would be no war in Vietnam. The mythmakers have obscured the fact that it was JFK who began our active participation in the war when, in 1961, he added to the 600 American observers the first of a gradual buildup of American troops, which reached 20000 at the time of his assassination. And there is no evidence that he would not have persisted in that war, for, as he said to a friend shortly before he died,I have to go all the way with this one.He could not suffer a second Cuba and hope to maintain the appearance of Defender of the Free World at the ballot box. [Vidal United States p818]- 1967 Apr 4: M. L. King Jr.: `My government is the world's leading purveyor of violence.' BI · MCRW `Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.' TT
They must see Americans as strange liberators. The Vietnamese people proclaimed their own independence in 1945 after a combined French and Japanese occupation, and before the Communist revolution in China. They were led by Ho Chi Minh. Even though they quoted the American Declaration of Independence in their own document of freedom, we refused to recognize them. Instead, we decided to support France in its reconquest of her former colony.Our government felt then that the Vietnamese people were not
readyfor independence, and we again fell victim to the deadly Western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere for so long. With that tragic decision we rejected a revolutionary government seeking self-determination, and a government that had been established not by China (for whom the Vietnamese have no great love) but by clearly indigenous forces that included some Communists. For the peasants this new government meant real land reform, one of the most important needs in their lives.For nine years following 1945 we denied the people of Vietnam the right of independence. For nine years we vigorously supported the French in their abortive effort to recolonize Vietnam.
Before the end of the war we were meeting eighty percent of the French war costs. Even before the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu, they began to despair of the reckless action, but we did not. We encouraged them with our huge financial and military supplies to continue the war even after they had lost the will. Soon we would be paying almost the full costs of this tragic attempt at recolonization.
After the French were defeated it looked as if independence and land reform would come again through the Geneva agreements. But instead there came the US, determined that Ho should not unify the temporarily divided nation, and the peasants watched again as we supported one of the most vicious modern dictators—our chosen man, Premier Diem. The peasants watched and cringed as Diem ruthlessly routed out all opposition, supported their extortionist landlords and refused even to discuss reunification with the north. The peasants watched as all this was presided over by US influence and then by increasing numbers of US troops who came to help quell the insurgency that Diem's methods had aroused. When Diem was overthrown they may have been happy, but the long line of military dictatorships seemed to offer no real change—especially in terms of their need for land and peace.
The only change came from America as we increased our troop commitments in support of governments which were singularly corrupt, inept and without popular support. All the while the people read our leaflets and received regular promises of peace and democracy—and land reform. Now they languish under our bombs and consider us—not their fellow Vietnamese—the real enemy. They move sadly and apathetically as we herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met. They know they must move or be destroyed by our bombs. So they go—primarily women and children and the aged.
They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops. They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. They wander into the hospitals, with at least twenty casualties from American firepower for one
Vietcong-inflicted injury. So far we may have killed a million of them—mostly children. They wander into the towns and see thousands of the children, homeless, without clothes, running in packs on the streets like animals. They see the children, degraded by our soldiers as they beg for food. They see the children selling their sisters to our soldiers, soliciting for their mothers.What do the peasants think as we ally ourselves with the landlords and as we refuse to put any action into our many words concerning land reform? What do they think as we test our latest weapons on them, just as the Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe? Where are the roots of the independent Vietnam we claim to be building? Is it among these voiceless ones?
We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation's only non-Communist revolutionary political force—the unified Buddhist church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men. What liberators? MLK
- 1967 June 5: Israel starts the `Six-Day War' with `preëmptive' attack on Egypt. JE The US' combined intelligence services had just concluded that Israel faced no imminent threat and that if attacked Israel could quickly defeat any Arab state or combination of Arab states. WRH Eventually the `preëmption' argument would be recanted; by Rabin in '68, Bentov in '71, Weizman, Barlev, Herzog, and Peled in '72, Gavish in '78, Begin in '82.
- 1967 Jun 8: Intelligence ship USS Liberty is attacked in international waters by Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats for 75 minutes. Fighter jets from a nearby carrier are twice ordered by Defense Sec'y Robert McNamara to turn away from defending Liberty. (Although the planes may have had only nuke armament anyway. CP But acc. Rivero the BBC interpreted these planes as headed for Cairo.) It's possible they wanted to sink her with all hands and blame it on Egypt. AFP · Assault on the Liberty Or, they were upset that her intel would prove Egypt was no threat, or would prove Syria had not attacked first. LR Or, that her intel would show the southern border was undefended, open to an Egyptian group force. LF quoting P citing Russian version of Daichman History of the Mossad] (Which would also show there had been no real threat from Egypt.) Body of Secrets BBC · HC · P · CP (This stands in rather stark contrast to the Gulf of Tonkin `incidents,' in which one rather lame retaliatory attack and a later bit of shooting at shadows turns into what most think of as the Vietnam War. What mysterious sword does Israel hold over Washington?) Capt. Ward Boston, senior legal counsel to the Navy's inquiry, in affidavit:
[Johnson and McNamara told us to] conclude that the attack was a case ofAdm. Thomas Moorer, fmr JCS chair:mistaken identitydespite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.[It's] one of the classic all-American cover-ups.TS, JP, FThe attack in international waters followed over nine hours of close surveillance. Israeli pilots circled the ship at low level 13 times on eight different occasions before attacking. Radio operators in Spain, Lebanon, Germany and aboard the ship itself all heard the pilots reporting to their headquarters that this was an American ship. They attacked anyway…Fifteen years after the attack, an Israeli pilot [Evan Toni] approached Liberty survivors and then held extensive interviews with former Congressman Paul McCloskey about his role. According to this senior Israeli lead pilot, he recognized the Liberty as American immediately, so informed his headquarters, and was told to ignore the American flag and continue his attack. He refused to do so and returned to base, where he was arrested.
Later, a dual-citizen Israeli major told survivors that he was in an Israeli war room where he heard that pilot's radio report. The attacking pilots and everyone in the Israeli war room knew that they were attacking an American ship, the major said. He recanted the statement only after he received threatening phone calls from Israel.
The pilot's protests also were heard by radio monitors in the US Embassy in Lebanon. Then-US Ambassador to Lebanon Dwight Porter has confirmed this. Porter told his story to syndicated columnists Evans and Novak… WRMEA
As the attacks were going on, conversations between Israeli pilots were overheard by US Air Force officers in an EC121 surveillance plane overhead. The spy plane was spotted by Israeli jets, which were given orders to shoot it down. The American plane narrowly avoided the IDF missiles…After more than two hours of unremitting assault, the Israelis finally halted their attack. One of the torpedo boats approached the Liberty. An officer asked in English over a bullhorn:
Do you need any help?The wounded commander of the Liberty, Lt. William McGonagle, instructed the quartermaster to respond emphatically:Fuck you.CPThe claim that the ship was mistaken for an old Egyptian freighter is absurd. As an intelligence ship it was loaded with antennas and carried a large satellite dish on an elevated structure near the stern. It was four times as large as the old Egyptian freighter, and its identification numbers were painted on the bow in white letters 10 feet high. If the numbers couldn'tt be seen by the Israeli pilots, they could not have been missed by the torpedo boats that fired on the life boats deployed by the Liberty…a war crime. AIMEnnes recalls being unsettled by the numerous flights over the Liberty by Israeli reconnaissance planes, starting the previous night and continuing for a six-hour period preceding the assault. Trained US Navy observers counted a dozen overflights. Some were made by a lumbering, Star-of-David-marked Nord Noratlasflying boxcar,which pulled several times to within mast-clipping range—low enough for any Israeli pilot to see a vessel incapable of harming his country.Melvin Smith, senior enlisted intercept chief…overheard the pilots several times identify the flag as US and the ship for what she was. At that time, of course, Israel was a friend. Later, despite jamming of the ship's distress frequencies, and before all her transmitters were shot away, the Liberty's radio operators managed again to hear the attackers make a positive identification in the clear. Judge Cristol, conceding his newly released Israeli transcripts reveal one correct identification, states that they are confusing and mutually contradictory—typical of the
fog of war.Further, citing Ennes, he states that no Hebrew linguists were on board the spy ship, and that Israeli pilots would not have made unencrypted transmissions.Ennes acknowledges that no
officialHebrew linguists were on board, but he points out that at least one of the doomed NSA men, Russian/Arabic linguist Allen Blue, understood Hebrew. As for the jamming, Ennes, quoting Chief Radioman Wayne Smith and an article in Proceedings, also notes that the ship could not have been misidentified, because the frequencies jammed were peculiar to the US Navy. Liberty Radioman RichardRockySturman also recalls that he and other technicians heard the radio jamming. Judge Cristol rejects such accounts asmyth.USNIIsraeli spoksmen [sic] have insisted the Israeli pilots had confused the Liberty with El Quseir, a 1920s-vintage Egyptian horse cavalry transport said to have been in the area…El Quseir lacked the US ship's unique add-ons, which included…an 18-foot-wide satellite dish nearly as tall as the smokestack and a wading-pool-sized microwave dish. The ship bristled, as well, with video-capture antennae and other exotica found on no other vessel in the world, much less decrepit Arab transport ships. Ancillary reasons theRichard Helms (DCI)deliberate schoolrejects Judge Cristol's El Quseir defense are as follows: The Egyptian craftIn addition, the Egyptian Naval Attache's office in Washington says El Quseir was painted silver, not the Liberty's battleship grey. It is highly unlikely, NSA officials on board and off explain, that Israel's hypervigilant spy agencies would be unacquainted with these facts. This suggests a question: why assault so concertedly an unthreatening old Egyptian transport? USNI
- Flew colors markedly dissimilar to the US flag
- Was—just nearly half her length
- Had been out of service for many months
- Was waiting to be scrapped in Alexandria
- Was illustrated—along with the Liberty—in Jane's Fighting Ships, to which Israel had access
had no role in the board of inquiry that followed, or the board's finding that there could be no doubt that the Israelis knew exactly what they were doing in attacking the Liberty.[G quoting Over my Shoulder] (Did they get that quote right?)- 1967 Jun 17: &rad;First Chinese fusion test, 3 Mt. NC
- Jun 25 (circa): Walter Cronkite does occasional doubletakes during his four-part presentation on the Kennedy assassination, apparently not seeing how the point-by-point evidence led to the conclusion. It seems the script had been reworked at the last minute and only the conclusions could be changed to match the Warren Commission's, not the lists of evidence. Bob Richter is so disgusted with CBS he splits and forms Richter-McBride. SG
- Jul: 23 die in series of violent race riots, Newark NJ. PA
- 43 die in race riots in Detroit MI. Johnson authorises federal troops, fortunately they weren't necessary. PA
- 1967 Oct 4: UFO splashdown in Shag Harbour NS. MC · S · BP · G `It has already been compared to the Roswell Incident, though it has one important element that Roswell does not have—documentation.' G Mysterious EM phemonena recorded over PQ shortly before by McGill researcher whose funding dried up soon after. Navy divers crate up remains enough `to fill a flatcar' and ships them to US. [conversation with someone who hung out with the divers]
- US testing Sarin and VX on troops at Porton Down, England. [S citing material released 2003 July 2]
- 1967 Oct 15: Florence Beaumont burns herslf to death in front of the LA fed building to protest Vietnam war. BBC
- 1967 Nov 22: UN passes Resolution 242 calling for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from territories occupied in the Six-Day War. BBC · MEI · NC
- At the end of 1967 the Defense Dep't was to announce that the total tonnage of bombs dropped on Vietnam was over 1½ million, surpassing the total dropped on Europe by the Army Air Force in WW2. Slightly more than half had been dropped on North Vietnam, surpassing the total dropped in the Pacific theater. [Tuchman March of Folly 1983 p347]
- 1967 Dec 17: Australian PM Harold Holt goes for a swim and vanishes. His government barely lifts a pinky to find out what happened. NAA He had just told family and close colleagues he'd found out something about the US' plans for Australia that disturbed him, was going to raise it in cabinet next day. C.
- 1968: 7 min to midnight. BAS
- 1968: Riot at Democratic Presidential Convention, Chicago.
These peace-fakers included Rennie Davis, part of the notoriousChicago Seven, whose father was a strategist and consultant to pro-war Richard Nixon in the White House. To misdirect dissent, Rennie, part of the Chicago Seven, created staged riots with the Chicago Police, in 1968, during the Democrat Presidential Convention. The upshot and purpose? To discredit Democrat Presidential candidates and assist Nixon taking over the Presidency and continuing the war. S- 1968: Outbreak of Hong Kong flu kills nearly ¾ million. CNN
- 1968: Israeli gov't founds Israel Corp, to raise funds for state-owned businesses from Jewish investors worldwide. H
- 1968: CIA experiments with the possibility of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into the water supply of the FDA in Washington DC. HNN
- 1968: More stem-rust tests, at Yeehaw Jct. FL. NC [NBC citing Pentagon]
- 1968: Iraq is developing its own oil production and is very close to giving the concessions for huge new oil fields to the USSR and France. The price of sulfur is high, and Iraq is about to open mines in the north to the world market. The US covets both the oil and the sulfur. Robert Anderson, once Eisenhower's Treasury Sec'y, meets quietly with Ba'ath which promises that if they regain power the US will have what it wants. NC
- 1968: EPA chemist Ervin Bellack notes that phosphate fertilizer acid waste recovered by `stack scrubbers' contains much fluorine, and that the 23% that is fluorosilicic acid could be used as a water fluoridating agent instead of NaF. The EPA and USPHS approve and promote this fluoride waste for public water supplies, without conducting any tests for safety. F This source eventually proves so economical ALCOA is pushed out of the waste fluoride market.
- 1968:
Nazi's 1938 gun-control regulations copied
passage by passageinto the US' Gun Control Act. [LR citing JPFO citing Gun Control: gateway to tyranny] (This is notstartlingif you remember Project Paperclip.)The Congress was stampeded on(In future there will often be some obscene mass-shooting just as some gun-grab bill needs legislative dejambing.)gun controlby public enthusiasm. Martin Luther King had been murdered on April 4 and Robert F. Kennedy had been murdered on June 6.- 1968 Jan:
Something else was going on that would only come to light later. Through most of the 1960s, the US congress had imposed a ban on the sale of arms to both Israel and Jordan. But at the time of the Liberty attack, the Pentagon (and its allies in the White House and on the Hill) was seeking to have this proscription overturned. The top brass certainly knew that any evidence of a deliberate attack on a US Navy ship by the IDF would scuttle their plans. So they hushed it up.In January 1968, the arms embargo on Israel was lifted and the sale of American weapons began to flow. By 1971, Israel was buying $600 million of American-made weapons a year. Two years later the purchases topped $3 billion. Almost overnight, Israel had become the largest buyer of US-made arms and aircraft.
Perversely, then, the IDF's strike on the Liberty served to weld the US and Israel together, in a kind of political and military embrace. Now, every time the IDF attacks defenseless villages in Gaza and the West Bank with F-16s and Apache helicopters, the Palestinians quite rightly see the bloody assaults as a joint operation, with the Pentagon as a hidden partner. CP
- 1968 Jan 22: &rad;B-52 with 4 H-bombs has fire in navigation compartment and crashes 11 km south of Thule AFB in Greenland. One weapon was dropped in the ocean, the other 3 fragment and scatter on the ice. The Danes, who claim Greenland and prohibit nuclear weapons over their territory, are outraged; massive anti-US demonstrations force the US to remove 1.7 million gallons of radioactive wastes from the site. The bomb bits return to their maker in Amarillo TX. EN L One weapon is never found.
- North Vietnam's Tet offensive.
- Jan 23: Spy ship USS Pueblo captured in North Korean waters. 82 crew released Dec 28 after US signs admission of espionage. PA
- Col. John Webber, US' coordinator of genocide of Guatemalan aboriginals, assassinated. PA
- CIA captures Che Guevara in Bolivia. Bolivian government executes him to prevent global calls for clemency. PA
- 1968 Feb: Yitshak Rabin, re 6-Day War: `I do not believe that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions which he sent into Sinai on May 14 would not have been enough to unleash an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.' [ABBC, PSC citing Le Monde Feb 28]
- Mar:
Sen. Fulbright announced that the reïnvestigation of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution had shown it to have been obtained by[Tuchman March of Folly 1983 p352]misrepresentation,and was thereforenull and void.- Mar 21: Israeli forces invade Jordan at al Karameh; Palestinians put up fierce resistance; Israelis abondon equipment and the field. `The prestige and visibility of both the PLO and the Palestinian cause increased dramatically and [the idea of] Israeli military invincibility began to shatter.' PSC
- 1968 Apr 4: King assassination, which will never convincingly be explained. WRH · AP · CM
- May 16: Massacre of 347 at My Lai 4; an horrific but not unique example of US crimes in Vietnam. Colin Powell was an `advisor' who recommended this crap, and later an officer who whitewashed it. CN
The racist message was unmistakable…In 1969, the discovery of the American massacre in the village of My Lai was described on the cover of Newsweek asIAn American tragedy,not a Vietnamese one. In fact, there were many massacres like My Lai, and almost none of them was reported at the time.- 1968 May 21: &rad;Nuclear-powered attack sub' USS Scorpion lost, with two Mk45 ASTOR nuclear torpedoes and 99 men. L
- 1968 May 27: US soldiers are falling in Vietnam combat at 50 a day. 12 days before his student deferment runs out, GWB goes to Ellington Field TX and requests pilot training to fulfil his military obligations. This unit is `seen as an escape route' by many his age, and has a long waiting list. He scores 25% on the pilot aptitude test, the minimum pass. GHWB is a TX congressman. And so GWB is sworn as an airman. And all in one day. GHWB `had volunteered for service in WWII at the age of 18 and was shot down while flying combat missions in the Pacific theater. By enlisting in the Guard, his son not only avoided Vietnam but was able to spend much of his time on active duty in his home town of Houston, flying F-102 fighter interceptors out of Ellington' AFB. WP (Some of my notes mention a lot in one entry that actually took more than one day. This is not one of them.)
- For its tercentenary, the Sveriges Riksbank creates a new prize which gets tacked onto Nobel's original set. N This tag-along acquires by association the prestige of the true Nobels, and some of Nobel's descendants are miffed about it. (Incidentally, we tend to know Nobel only by dynamite, but brothers Alfred and Ludwig were also Russian oil magnates. [The Prize]
- 1968 Jun: A resemblance is noted between MLK's assassin and one of the tramps at the JFK assassination. Peter Khiss writes it up for the NY Times, which prints it then takes him off assassinations. SG
- Jun 3: Andy Warhol and his producer Fred Hughes shot by Valerie Solanas, one of his actresses. [Newsweek Jun 17]
James Henry Rand, founder of Remington Rand and Sperry Rand, dies at 81. [Newsweek Jun 17]
- 1968 Jun 5: Second Kennedy assassination, which will never convincingly be explained. Eg, how do 11 bullets come out of an 8-chamber weapon? [APFN quoting PS] WC Sirhan will be plied with 40 mg Ritalin by Dr. Eric Marcus. K S. B. Sirhan, sometimes described as Jordanian, sometimes Palestinian, gets the credit for this one; supposedly Kennedy's pro-Israel position annoyed him (a clipping on RFK's position was found on Sirhan CL). This is an odd explanation considering one theory for the JFK assassination is Kennedy pressure on Israel. Also SBS had written
he must diebefore RFK's major public support of Israel. CL There were no LAPD with Kennedy; their reputation already so foul he didn't want the association. And their handling of the evidence is even worse than it would be with O. J. Simpson 30-odd years later.- Jun 6: Randolph Churchill, only son of WLSC, dies at 57. [Newsweek Jun 17]
- Capture of James Earl Ray, official killer of MLK, in London, same day as RFK's funeral. Kennedy's pallbearers: David Hackett; Robert McNamara; Lord Harlech; John Glenn; Averell Harriman; Clarence Douglas Dillon, cofounder of Dillon Reed; James Whittaker; Kirk LeMoyne Billings; Stephen Smith. [Newsweek Jun 17]
- The RFK killing lubricates passage of some heavy gun-control law.
The assassination of Robert Kennedy…[helped] to push the first piece of gun-control legislation through Congress in more than 30 years…[Newsweek Jun 17 p46]This bill is far, far tougher than anyone realisessaid Sen. Thomas Dodd of CTMeanwhile, Kissinger had approached the Nixon camp and offered his services as a spy within the Humphrey circle. The offer was of course accepted. Richard Holbrooke, who was on Johnson's negotiating team in Paris, says,
Henry was the only person outside the government we were authorized to discuss the negotiations with. We trusted him. It is not stretching the truth to say that the Nixon campaign had a secret source within the US negotiating team.A few days before the election, Vietnamese negotiators indicated a willingness to make concessions in order to get a bombing halt, and Johnson prepared to give it to them. Kissinger learned about it early enough to give Nixon several hours warning—enough time to let Nixon announce that the Democrats were about to
play politics with the war.It blunted the positive effects of the bombing halt, and Nixon squeaked into office…Kissinger got what he wanted, the job as NSA…But, ironically, Nixon never forgot Kissinger's treacherous conduct toward the Democrats, and he always harbored doubts… TO
- 1968 Dec 8:
Underground30-kt test Schooner leaks radiation that drifts into Canada, violating treaty. The AEC can honestly say radiation is not detected east of the Mississippi—for the simple reason it has no detectors east of the Mississippi. KOO- 1969: 10 min to midnight. BAS
- 1969: Dr. Robert MacMahan of the Department of Defense requests from Congress $10 million to develop, in 5–10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which no natural immunity exists. HNN
- 1969 Jan: &rad;Lucens underground reactor in Switzerland loses coolant and explodes. EN
- 1969: Qaddafi earns US ire by taking over and socialising oil-rich Libya. BI
- 1969 Jan: Richard Milhouse (sp?) (Tricky Dickie) Nixon, the `perennial candidate' `who would have never been President but for all those convenient deaths' [ININ] is anointed Prez. Gerald Ford, vice. Congressmen George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld had been `surrogate candidates,' [Who Owns America (pbk), by Nixon's 1st Interior Sec'y, p. 18] wherein others are authorised to campaign in the candidate's stead/on his behalf, multiplying his public presence. (Essentially it means the candidate trusts these surrogates to have the same issue-positions—ie the same f*d-up mentality—as he does.) Bush failed to deliver TX. [GBUB]
- Rumsfeld served four congressional terms; voted against food stamps, Medicare, and anti-poverty funds; wanted to stop PBS' funding. CP
- 1969 Jan 14: Explosions aboard nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise leave 17 dead and 85 injured. L (It's not clear if this is reactor-related.)
- Jan 29: Allen Dulles dies.
- Feb 11: Race riot at Sir George Williams University, now Concordia. [
Crisis at Sir GeorgeTurning Points of History C'd'n History Channel] (Perhaps this is why Concordia's oversensitive about protest, see 2002]- Apr 15: Billy Graham endorses Nixon's idea to wreck Vietnam's dykes, fully expecting it to kill a million. (Seyss-Inquart, was sentenced to death at Nuremberg for the same crime.) CP
- 1969 May 11: &rad;45 kg of Pu burns at Rocky Flats CO. F Hundreds of railway cars carry the waste from Rocky Flats' worst fire to Idaho Falls where it is dumped in trenches in the ground. These trenches are above the nation's largest underground water reservoir, a source of water for much of the Northwest. An AEC spokesman says
we have substantial technical experience. There's no real or potential basis for alarm—ever.[P citing Clamshell Alliance, p.1]- 1969 May 16: &rad;M$50 nuke-powered sub' USS Guitarro sinks in San Francisco Bay while undergoing final fitting. L
- Jun 15: Golda Maier: `There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.' I (Probably the origin of the
Palestine never existedlie; see 1922. Even if elaborated toPalestinians had no country, language, or culture of their own,neither did the US, Canada, Mexico, Serbia, Yemen, Algeria, Jordan, El Salvador, Guatemala, Congo, Lebanon, Tunisia, etc. PR)- Jul: Rev. Clyde Johnson dies of gunshot. Scheduled to testify about Clay Shaw/Oswald connection. JFKDE
Mr. New Orleans citizen, let's call him Joe, knew that Shaw's lawyers were paid by the CIA. You and I were told that Shaw paid his lawyers a lot of money and suffered financially because of it.
Joe knew that the FBI was looking for Shaw under his alias, Clay Bertrand, before lawyer Dean Andrews ever mentioned the name associated with Lee Harvey Oswald just before he was killed by Jack Ruby. You and I were told that Andrews fabricated the name Clay Bertrand out of whole cloth, and no mention was made to us of the FBI's search.
Joe knew that twelve people saw Clay Shaw together with Oswald and David Ferrie on many occasions, exchanging money on two occasions. You and I were led to believe by Time and The New York Times that only three people saw them together and that the three were not credible witnesses.
Joe knows how Garrison was hounded and framed by the Justice Department in a fake pinball rap. More importantly, he knows the government did not want Regis Kennedy, FBI agent, and Pierre Finck, Army doctor at the JFK autopsy, to testify at the trial. Finck's testimony, however, was printed in the Times Picayune but not in Time magazine. He said that an Army general gave orders during the autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital. The unidentified general told Finck and the other doctors not to probe the President's neck wound. We did not read about this or hear about it. TA123
- 1969 July 1 or 9: ARPA director Dr. Donald MacArthur testifies to a House Appropriations Subcommittee: `Within the next 5 to 10 years, it would probably be possible to make a new infective microörganism which could differ in certain important aspects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon when we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease. A research program to explore the feasibility of this could be completed in approximately 5 years at a total cost of M$10.' These funds are released in 1970. APFN
- `Secret war' on Laos escalated to avg 300 bombing sorties daily. PA
- 1969 Jul 24: &rad;Fire at the AEC's Rocky Flats Pu-bomb factory temporarily halts US missile production. The surrounding countryside is doused with Pu, and several buildings at the factory are so badly contaminated that they must be dismantled. L
- Oct 28: EO 11490: Establishes presidential control over all US citizens, businesses, and churches in time of
emergency.T- Nov: In interviews, LBJ tells Cronkite that Oswald wasn't lone—there was a conspiracy and LBJ knew it all along. By the time the interviews air (circa May) this portion is deleted for
nationalsecurity; but apparently it leaked to newspapers anyway. SG- Nov:
Herbert Krugman, who later became manager of public-opinion research at GE HQ in CT, decided to try to discover what goes on physiologically in the brain of a person watching TV. He elicited the coöperation of a 22-year-old secretary and taped a single electrode to the back of her head…(Conclusion: Give the sheep 300 TV channels, encourage illiteracy, and you've got their minds by the short n curlies.)Flicking on the TV, Krugman began monitoring the brain-waves of the subject. What he found through repeated trials was that within about 30 s, the brain-waves switched from predominantly beta waves, indicating alert and conscious attention, to predominantly alpha waves, indicating an unfocused, receptive lack of attention: the state of aimless fantasy and daydreaming below the threshold of consciousness. When Krugman's subject turned to reading through a magazine, beta waves reappeared, indicating that conscious and alert attentiveness had replaced the daydreaming state.
What surprised Krugman, who had set out to test some McLuhanesque hypotheses about the nature of TV-viewing, was how rapidly the alpha-state emerged. Further research revealed that the brain's left hemisphere, which processes information logically and analytically, tunes out while the person is watching TV. This tuning-out allows the right hemisphere of the brain, which processes information emotionally and noncritically, to function unimpeded. DO
- Dec 1: Nixon reinstitutes draft lottery, suspended since '42. PA
- Dec 12: Letter from Army Chief of Legislative Liaison Col. Raymond Reid to Rep. Robert Kastenmeier D WI explaining US training of Iraqi officers in WMD tactics, offensive and `defensive.' Later appears in Congressional Record. GE
- Minnesota judge/JP Martin V. Mahoney rules dollar bills unconstitutional c Dec '68 (1st Nat'l Bank of Montgomery v Jerome Dal[e]y, USATR aka, appropriately,
Credit River decision, the title of a book by Bill Drexler) is killed in June '69. DLKC) DLKC (which says it's true and recorded) X (which says he hasn't found it) WNS (which claims to have a witness to the decision) IR · BSU- 1969: US wins…dunno, second leg of the space race, barely, by landing a man on the moon and getting him back alive. (They've lost the popularity with me by now, for interminably interrupting my cartoons for boring ol' rocket launches.) Some will claim it was all faked à la Capricorn One; others claim that's a crock of crap. (You decide. Anyone got a telescope good enough to see the footyprints? Rivero figures you could bounce a laser off the retroreflector, but that doesn't really prove people were there. Myself, I think they were; the films of them skipping around are too good. Sure, maybe you could hang them from wires, but you can't hang the dust their feet kicked up on wires. Yeah, you can diddle the film speed, but then every other action, including some very hard to control like material flexures, would have to be done fast so only gravity came out slower.)
