63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read - Jesse Ventura [12]
Pay particular attention to the little section on “Synthetic Biological Agents.” Molecular biology was then just beginning and they’re saying here: “eminent biologists believe that within a period of 5 to 10 years it would be possible to produce a synthetic biological agent, an agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired.”
When did people start to die from AIDS? Ten years later, the early 1980s. What about lyme disease? The first cluster of cases occurred in 1976 at a Naval Medical Hospital in Connecticut, not far from the military’s Plum Island facility engaged in secret biochemical warfare experiments.
I don’t want to jump to any conclusions here. But after reading the transcript of this congressional hearing—and I’ve included most of it—I sure as heck wonder how far all this has developed over the last forty years.
PART TWO
GOVERNMENT, MILITARY, AND CORPORATE SECRETS
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NAZIS IN THE U.S.
Putting War Criminals to Work for America
If you believe in things like making a pact with the devil, you might say that our intelligence agencies did just that at the end of World War Two. That’s when we started giving many of Hitler’s top henchmen not only sanctuary in our country, but putting these same Nazis to work for us. The Cold War with the Soviet Union was beginning—and the excuse was that we needed every bit of expertise, scientific and otherwise, that we could get.
It almost seems to me that the Cold War was staged so the weapons manufacturers and others could make money off it. Otherwise, how could we go from being allies with the Russians all through the war to their becoming our bitter enemies almost overnight? As Colonel Fletcher Prouty once said, “Nothing just happens, everything is planned.”
And I find it outrageous that some of the leading Nazis were brought over here because it was apparently more important to fight the Cold War than to hold them responsible for what they’d done. I don’t understand how the people making those decisions look only at the “big picture” and forget about collateral damage underneath. If they were absolutely sure no war crimes or atrocities had been committed, fine and dandy. But there should have been a thorough vetting done by this country—and not secretly but in public—so the American people knew which Nazis were coming and why.
The Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations put together a massive 600-page report about all this, which they completed in 2006. A few years later, the National Security Archive (a nonprofit in Washington, D.C.) filed a Freedom of Information Act request. This got turned down, the excuse being that the report was only a “draft.” That was despite the Obama administration supposedly being committed to an “unprecedented” level of transparency. What could possibly be so sensitive after all these years?
Anyway, the National Security Archive filed suit in a federal district court, and the Justice Department then began to “process” the document for release. Well, they must have bought up pretty much all the Wite-Out left in the office supply. They could’ve issued a CD titled “My Blank Pages.” After the redacted report got turned over to the National Security Archive, somebody inside the Justice Department took matters into their own hands and leaked a complete copy to the New York Times.
If you want to read the whole thing, or compare the two versions, check out the National Security Archive website at www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB331/index.htm. I’m including here a one-page sampler of the censored version with the actual—an example of the lengths