Notes and References for
Revelations of
Secret Surveillance
by Judy Malloy
Streaming Media Trail
Canto One
- the attraction was immediate
Canto Two
- surrounded by microphones
and darkness
Canto Three
- always replaying in my mind
Canto Four
- what was really happening
Canto Five
- but perhaps it began earlier
Canto Six
- in the early evening light
Canto Seven
- images of exploding spaceships
Canto Eight
- scenes from the performance
Canto Nine
- the clandestine battles
of spies against spies
Canto Ten
- certain names and dates
Interlude
Dorothy: on the Western Front
A Gathering of Artists
Prelude
Dorothy and Sid: Duet
Gwen: A Gathering of Artists
Interlude: Ubicomp and Time
The Actions of Disclosure
About This Work
Title Page
__Preface
Begin the Story
__Resources
The Lives of Artists
About the Author:
__biography
review clips
Related Works:
Concerto for Narrative Data
The Wedding Celebration
of Gunter and Gwen
Ask for Sanctuary
Advocacy
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The parallel true details of our lives recorded in these Notes and the quotations from my
other works -- Ask for Sanctuary and Concerto for Narrative Data -- suggest the possibility
of interference in the lives of real people. The Notes do not always describe the overt
narrartive thread. In some cases they provide further information and/or explore contingent
pathways. The References are provided to suggest how the fictional characters in this story
arrived at plausible conclusions as well as to point to avenues of further research.
Thanks are due to the dedicated investigative reporters, historians, writers, and activists
who researched and wrote the important stories and books that informed this narrative --
and to those who provided these references both directly and indirectly.
1.
Canto One
"...it was as if I had known all along
what was really happening
or as if I should have known all along
what was happening."
Revelations of Secret Surveillance begins with a flashback to 1933 Nürnberg,
the storied German city that was a stage both for the unveiling of Nazi eugenics and
for the ultimate exposure of Nazi science.
It is the place where, about 35 years later in the 1960's, I was married. My then
husband -- who, before he was drafted, had written a letter to Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara protesting the Vietnam War -- was an enlisted man, stationed
in nearby Fürth at the William O. Darby Army Base. I lived on Dürerplatz,
a few blocks from the house that was the home of the Reformation artist Albrecht Dürer.
We were married in a German civil ceremony at a courthouse near the Nürnberg
Hauptmarkt.
In my family history, there was also a German marriage that did not take
place. When she was a young woman, my mother, Barbara Lillard, fell in love
with a German man whom she met at school in this country. In the 1930's,
she went with him to Germany. Horrified at the anti-Semitism and the
soldiers marching in the streets, she left him to come back to New England,
where she met and married my father, W. Langdon "Ike" Powers, a man
who would fight in France and Germany in the coming War.
Viewing the films of Nazi Germany from that era, I can imagine
what it would be like to have gone to Europe with a man you were in love with
only to have your dreams of happiness become a nightmare as he revealed his
allegiance to Hitler. One evening when we were watching the section in
The Sound of Music where Liesl's former boyfriend turned-Nazi,
corners the Trapp family, my mother left the room, saying that she could not
watch that part.
For Revelations of Secret Surveillance, rather than fictionalize the true
history of my family, I created a parallel history. First introduced in my l0ve0ne,
(Eastgate Web Workshop, 1994) German video artist Gunter, whose maternal
grandparents escaped Nazi Germany, and the American writer Gwen, whose
mother married a much older veteran of World War II, are the main characters in
Revelations of Secret Surveillance. Their gradual unraveling of a
web of surveillance and harassment are, of course, the actions of fictional characters.
However, in the aftermath of the dual tragedy of 911 -- both as a disaster itself
and an excuse for unregulated government surveillance -
Revelations of Secret Surveillance presents viable explorations
of the nature and causes of interference in the lives of artists, athletes, activists,
spiritual leaders and many other people. It also looks at the potential for
covert electronic weapons and brain interference technologies to be used
against civilian populations in our own country.
Informed by years of working as an arts journalist, by working as an information
specialist for defense and NASA-funded industries, by family histories, and by my
own life as an artist who has walked with crutches or cane since I was run down
in 1994, Revelations of Secret Surveillance calls attention to the potential for
technology-mediated repression in situations where governments encourage
intelligence agency stalking of civilian populations. It also postulates a covert system
of social control -- exploring its possible origins, as well as who might be attacked
by such a system. If, as the characters are beginning to understand, their relationship
choices were scripted by outside sources, how this interference effects not only the
entire lives of those whose life choices were diverted but also the communities and
communities of faith to which they belong, is not yet completely understood by the
men and women who are searching to understand what happened. But such questions
are not beyond the scope of the narrative's revelations.
The family lives and the research that informed Revelations of Secret Surveillance
were an integral part in the shaping of the narrative. Thus the fact that I was married in Nürnberg,
the chain of accidents that have scarred my life and the things that happened to my father and
mother, including my father's experience of the invasion of Normandy, are disclosed in more
detail in these notes.
Because the silencing of writers, artists, and many others took from Germany
the voices that might have helped set the country on a different path,
the German and German Jewish artists and activists created for Revelations of Secret Surveillance
serve as a constant reminder of the importance of freedom of expression.
In this work that deals with covert silencing of and attacks on artists and writers,
this truth is very important.
References
American Library Association, "Book Burning in the 20th Century-1933" --
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bookburning/20thcentury/nazigermany/nazigermany.htm
Photos of the Nazi book burnings are available on this website.
Commentary: An echo of the May 10, 1933 Nazi book burnings took place the following year
on February 10, 1934, when, on orders from John D. Rockefeller, Jr, workmen at
Rockefeller Center used axes to destroy Diego Rivera's 63-foot-long mural
Man at the Crossroads because it included a detail of Lenin in a May Day
parade See "Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads" --
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/visualarts/diegorivera_a.html
(PBS Culture Shock website)
"Book Burning" --
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005852
(Holocaust Encyclopedia )
The City of Nürnberg
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Nurnberg/ Photos of the damage from
Allied bombing are available on this site.
Sayward H. Farnum, "The Five by Five", A History of the 555th
Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (Mobile), Boston,
The Athenaeum Press, 1946. The book includes a description of Camp Hulen.
Douglas O. Linder, "The Nuremberg Trials, 1945 - 1949",
Famous Trials, 2006 --
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/nuremberg.htm
Judy Malloy: Family History --
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/sanctuary/familyheroes.html
Judy Malloy, l0ve0ne, Eastgate Web Workshop, 1994.
http://www.eastgate.com/malloy/
Judy Malloy, Ask for Sanctuary, World Wide Web, 2002; 2007.
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/sanctuary_2007/begin_sanctuary.html
Judy Malloy, Concerto for Narrative Data, World Wide Web, 2005-2006
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/concerto/begin.html
Heinrich Mann, Ein Zeitalter Wird Besichtigt, Frankfurt, Germany, Fischer, 2003.
(first published in 1945)
Heinrich Mann --
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hmann.htm (Authors' Calendar)
"Photos of Old Jewish Nurnberg" --
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7279/nurnphoto.html
(The Second Generation Group from Nuremberg Photos of the Hauptsynagoge
that was destroyed by the Nazis are available on this site.
Read Canto One
2.
Canto Two
"I dreamed that everything I did was watched,
every moment of sorrow,
every intimate action,
was videotaped.
There was never a moment
when I was not forced to endure the surveillance."
- Ask for Sanctuary
The difficult climate that as an artist, writer, and arts journalist I had observed
for the creative community was one of the reasons that I began to write Revelations
of Secret Surveillance. I thought that, in the actual creation of the story,
why and how this was happening might become clearer. Thus the plot was slowly
developed in concurrent writing and research. Thus the plot was slowly developed in
concurrent writing and research. Initially told as a serial online, the narrative is a real-time
information mystery epic in that the discoveries that the fictional characters make about the
existence of surveillance in their environment reflect the writer's concurrent research and discovery.
For instance, background research into the lives of Gunter's
family began a harrowing journey into evidence of intelligence agency
surveillance of writers and artists. Gunter's mother's parents, Claidia,
a narrative poet and Avram, a journalist, fled Nazi Germany only to be in
danger once again in occupied France. Escaping Southern France on foot over
the Pyrenees, with the help of other journalists, they made it to America,
where, as did many other refugee writers and artists, they settled in
Los Angeles.
Researching what life might have been like for Claidia and Avram in Los Angeles,
I discovered Stephan Alexander's book: Communazis, FBI Surveillance
of German Emigre Writers. People who protested the Nazis and were persecuted
by the Nazis were not "Communazis". Nevertheless, Alexander's book convincingly
documents relentless FBI spying on and covert intrusion in the lives of German
writers and artists who came to this country to escape Nazi persecution.
Available on the FBI website, the archives of the FBI files themselves present
evidence that while intelligence agents whitewashed the backgrounds of the Nazi criminal
scientists who were given leading jobs in NASA, the military, and industry, they continued
to spy on the German and German Jewish writers who had criticized Hitler.
In Gunter's words:
"..They were watched night and day.
Their mail was censored.
Their phones tapped; their houses secretly ransacked.
They themselves followed.
My grandparents would almost surely have been watched.
Not only during the war. But also after the war.
My mother when she was growing up.
It did not matter that they were not Communists.
They would have been under surveillance
for all of their lives in this country.'"
It was only the beginning of a series of discoveries of well-documented
evidence that intelligence agencies spy on many writers and artists all
their lives. The feeling of being under constant surveillance, of having
one's life constantly interfered with, was beginning to seem less like
paranoia and more the likely result of unwarranted surveillance.
Of concern is not only the illegality of the surveillance but also the
potential that such surveillance allows for interference in the lives of those
who are spied on -- particularly given the covert technologies that are now
available to intelligence agents and law enforcement.
Whether or not the interference is direct, constant surveillance creates a
terrible stress, particularly for artists, because their awareness of their
surroundings is often heightened. The role of such surveillance in the suicide
of Ernest Hemingway and the deaths of many other writers and artists should be
more closely examined. According to Frances Stonor Saunders, (The Cultural
Cold War) Hemingway's suspicion that he was under relentless surveillance
by the FBI was posthumously justified when over 100 pages of FBI files on him
were released.
In Alien Ink, the FBI's War on Freedom of Expression, Natalie Robins reports
that in 1961 Hemingway went to the Mayo clinic under an assumed name because
he was suicidally depressed. Gunter describes what happened in this way:
"...in a chilling incident of collaborative FBI and medical profession
gang stalking, when Ernest Hemingway checked into the Mayo Clinic,
a psychiatrist at the Clinic contacted the FBI and then told Hemingway that
the FBI knew he had registered under an assumed name. The Mayo Clinic
gave Hemingway shock treatments; he lost his memory and ability to write.
A few months later, Ernest Hemingway, one of America's greatest writers,
committed suicide."
References
Stephan Alexander, Communazis, FBI Surveillance of German Emigre Writers,
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
Federal Bureau of Investigation, "FBI Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Reading Room Index"
--
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex.htm
Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph"
http://foia.fbi.gov/arudolph/arudolph1.pdf
If there are difficulties accessing this file, readers are advised to search the url
on the Internet Archive --
http://www.archive.org/
Commentary:
While the FBI subjected artists and writers, including Jewish and anti-Nazi German refugees,
to continuous, intrusive surveillance, the backgrounds of Nazi scientist
war criminals were whitewashed. The FBI file on Arthur Rudolph repeatedly notes:
"...consider Rudolph reliable, trustworthy, adaptable, conscientious and potentially good
loyal American..."
Arthur Rudolph was in charge of V-2 production at Mittelwerk where slave labor from
the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp was used. About 20,000 workers,
died at Mittlewerk and thousands of bodies were found when it was liberated
(see A-4/V-2 Resource Site, "The Mittelwerk/Mittelbau/Camp Dora Mittelbau GmbH - Mittelbau KZ"
http://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/mittel.html
for details. Rudolph's role not only as a user of
slave labor but also as an advocate for slave labor beginning in the Peenemunde
Production Plant, is documented in Michael J. Neufield, The Rocket and the Reich,
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995 pp. 184-189)
Arthur Rudolph was made NASA Saturn Moon Rocket Project Director. But eventually he left this
country rather than face charges for the murder of thousands of concentration camp workers.
Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, Exiled German-Speaking Intellectuals
in Los Angeles --
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/feuchtwanger/
This website is hosted by the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, a collection
donated to the University of Southern California by German exile writer
Lion Feuchtwanger's widow, Marta Feuchtwanger.
The Hollywood Ten --
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html
Media Resources Center, Moffitt Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Imprisoned writers included Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk,
Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and
Dalton Trumbo.
The painter Dorothy and the curator Sid were first introduced in Judy Malloy,
Dorothy Abrona McCrae, World Wide Web, 2000
and in "Interlude - Dorothy and Sid", Blue Moon Review, 2001.
Dorothy is an old family friend. Gwen's grandmother was Dorothy's best friend
as a young adult and was a bridesmaid at Dorothy's first wedding.
The time that Gunter and Gwen spent in Colorado is set forth in Judy Malloy,
The Roar of Destiny Emanated from the Refrigerator, World Wide Web,
1995-1999.
Dorothy and Sid's wedding is chronicled in Judy Malloy,
A Party at Silver Beach, World Wide Web, 2002 and in
Judy Malloy,
Afterwards, The Iowa Review Web, 2003.
Many of the other characters in Revelations of Secret Surveillance
were also first introduced in these works.
Herbert Mitgang, Dangerous Dossiers, Exposing the Secret War Against America's
Greatest Authors, NY, Donald Fine, 1988.
Mitgang documents FBI and/or US Army Intelligence and CIA surveillance of writers
and artists. Among the writers and artists who were spied on by the US Government were
Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Calder,
Thomas Mann, Carl Sandburg, Dorothy Parker, Nelson Algren, Thornton Wilder,
Lillian Hellman, Truman Capote, and Georgia O'Keeffe. There were 356 pages of
FBI files on novelist Dashiell Hammet and over 600 pages of FBI files on poet
Archibald MacLeish.
William Morris
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company, "Mary Magdalene", drawing for stained
glass window at Church of All Saints, Langton Green, Kent, 1862
--
http://www.huntington.org/ArtDiv/Morris2003/Morris2003.html
("The Beauty of Life: William Morris & the Art of Design"
The Huntington Library)
"William Morris & Arts and Crafts", Against the Grain, KPFA, Mon 4.24.06
A discussion of the Arts and Crafts movement and William Morris with historian
Peter Stansky and curator Martin Chapman. Hosted by C.S. Soong --
http://www.againstthegrain.org/
Margot Pepper, "The Smell of Smoke", in Roger Burbach and Ben Clarke,
September 11 and the U.S. War, Beyond the Curtain of Smoke, City Lights
and Freedom Voices, 2002. An essay by writer Margot Pepper, whose father was
blacklisted producer George Pepper, that includes how her family was spied on
and harassed by the FBI --
http://www.freedomvoices.org/smoke/smellsmoke.htm
(Freedom Voices website)
Natalie Robins, Alien Ink: The FBI's War on Freedom of Expression,
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993. p. 213
Robins documents FBI surveillance of writers, including James Agee, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway,
John Cheever, Randall Jarrell, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Muriel Rukeyser,
Langston Hughes, James Thurber, Kay Boyle and Mark Van Doren. There were at least
1,429 pages in novelist James Baldwin's FBI file.
Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War, the CIA and the World of Arts
and Letters, NY, The New Press, 1999.
Elizabeth Royte, "The Altered State", New York Times Magazine
September 29, 1996. p. 158
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/news/altered.htm
(on mindcontrolforums.org website)
Reports on the research of Dr. Michael Persinger,
a psychologist and neuroscientist, who has induced sexual arousal
by aiming an electromagnetic device at a part of the brain
known as the amygdala. See also John B. Alexander, "Acoustics", in Future War,
Non-Lethal Weapons in Twenty-First Century Warfare, NY, Thomas Dunne Books, 1999.
pp. 95-102
Peter Stansky, Redesigning the World, William Morris, the 1880's,
and the Arts and Crafts, Princeton, NY: Princeton University Press,
1985
Neely Tucker, "An Affair Of the Head; They Say Love Is All About
Brain Chemistry. Will You Be Dopamine?", Washington Post,
February 13, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201657.html
The Varian Fry Foundation --
http://www.almondseed.com/vfry/
Varian Fry helped thousands of refugees from Nazi Germany escape
from Vichy France. Among the people he rescued were Marc Chagall, Max Ernst,
Hannah Arendt and Jacques Lipchitz.
Varian Fry Institute --
http://www.varianfry.org/
Giorgio Vasari, "Masaccio", in Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists,
A Selection Translated by George Bull. Vol I, London: Penguin Books, 1971.
pp. 124-132
A different translation is available online at
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raider4/texts/vasari/vasari.masaccio.html
(Australian National University ArtServe)
Commentary: Masaccio was among the first Renaissance artists to paint explicit nudes.
He died at age 26 of suspected poisoning, a few years after he painted
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden in the Brancacci Chapel
in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. Echoing the painting,
Felice Brancacci, the patron of this work, was later expelled from Florence.
Vasari is a rich source of primary information about the lives of artists,
and connections with their work and what happened in their lives.
For more on this theme, see:
Judy Malloy, The Wedding Celebration of Gunter and Gwen --
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/celebration/one.html
Concluding Note to Chapter Two
It is important to note that not only are there honorable agents, who served or now serve
with honor in all the services, but also that the sometimes criminal behavior of intelligence
agencies is unlikely to reflect the will of the people of the countries they purport to represent.
Read Canto Two
3.
Canto Three
"The vulnerability we did not know we had inherited
somehow magnified
in the silence"
- Revelations of Secret Surveillance
Subtexts of Canto Three are:
the potential for computer-organized records to be used by persecutors to track and
covertly punish people not only for their own free speech but also for the writing, art,
and acts of heroism of their ancestors.
the role of the manipulation of enemies into situations where their actions will result
in attacks from other enemies.
The details of writers' lives inform their work in differing ways. In my case
-- although the work is fiction and the details of my life are open to many interpretations --
as a writer I have looked at my life in terms of the enigma logo-like scar on my left leg that
is no longer there due to the massive skin grafts required after I was run down in 1994.
I have been run down twice. The first time, I was on a moped and stopped at a stop sign
when a station wagon did not stop and ran into me. The bike was crushed. I was thrown to the
street and bounced on my head. I saw the wheels of a car about to run over me. I thought I was
dead. The people who witnessed the accident were amazed when I stood up; they also had thought
I was dead.
Then, on July 9, 1994, while I was working for Arts Wire and as a consultant/artist in residence
for Xerox PARC on electronic literature and the document of the future, I was run down on Mill
Avenue in Tempe, Arizona. I was scheduled to be on an upcoming panel at the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art and to go to Xerox PARC to finish my residency. Instead, I landed in a
prison hospital with my leg split open.
I had a severed artery, open fractures. My leg was mashed and broken
in 13 places. I still remember seeing the protruding bones. In the ambulance, they told me they
would have to amputate my leg, but in the prison hospital where I was taken, they put it back
together with extensive rods, pins, skin and muscle grafts and an arterial bypass.
Back home in Berkeley, the hardware began to break the following year. First a pin
painfully broke and had to be replaced. Then another pin broke; the rod that had been inserted
in my leg slipped painfully into my ankle and had to be replaced.
In January, 2000, I fell on a hill and my leg crumpled under me.
The bottom of my femur to sheared off where it was pinned and fall into my knee cap.
It was dark. For quite a while no one came when I called, and I had to drag myself up a hill
with a badly broken leg. In the hospital, I had to wait two days on morphine because no one
on duty at the time could operate on my leg. The surgery was difficult because my leg
was already such a mess.
The stories of my life and of the lives of my family suggest the possibility of interference
in the lives of real people, but the interpretations are metaphorical. It is not that it is a
proven fact that there are connections between the many accidents that have
occurred in the my life, my work as a woman working in new media and/or my family
histories but rather that such correlations are of interest not only in interpreting
Revelations of Secret Surveillance but also in looking at the larger picture.
In this respect, a few details of the lives of my family may also be interest.
My father, distinguished lawyer W. Langdon "Ike" Powers, fought in the second wave of the
D-Day invasion of Normandy and under Patton in the Battle of the Bulge campaign.
A Lt-Colonel in the US Army, he seldom talked about what it was like, except to once
or twice tell me how terrible it was to see the bodies of his fallen comrades still in the
water off the beaches of Normandy. He was a recovered alcoholic who died of liver cancer at
age 55.
Editor of the Winchester Star; Editor of the Somerville Journal;
and then Managing Editor of the Somerville Journal; the Cambridge Chronicle;
and the Watertown Press. (all in Massachusetts), my mother was a journalist who
wrote a series of award winning articles in support of a program that gave African American
inner city children the opportunity to attend suburban schools.
Gwen's great grandfather, an artist for the abolitionist paper,
The Liberator, is based on my distant relative, the 19th century
American artist Hiram Powers, whose powerful sculpture of a Greek slave
in the chains worn by African American slaves was an influential anti-slavery work.
There exists an engraving of a Victorian audience viewing Hiram Powers' sculpture.
Exposed on a pedestal, the female Greek slave, who is the subject of the sculpture,
is naked, vulnerable, and in chains - a potent image of the degradation of slavery.
When I saw this engraving, it seemed not only an evocative reminder in its own era
of the inhumanity of slavery but also, in our times, a metaphor for what might
happen to human beings enslaved by extreme surveillance.
There is evidence that the FBI spied on civil rights activists. Did that apply to their
families also?
And ever on my mind in the writing of Revelations of Secret Surveillance was the life
of my grandfather, W. Huston Lillard. When one of his friends in the German academic world
was imprisoned by the Nazis as an "enemy of the state", educator W. Huston Lillard went to
Germany to try to rescue his colleague. Through the US Consul, he got permission from the
office of SS Commander Heinrich Himmler to visit Dr. Morsbach. In the papers I found after
her death, my mother, Barbara Lillard Powers, described how my grandfather, and the
US Consul, Dr. Reis, "were picked up one morning in an SS official car, complete with
SS driver and 'escort'. They were driven out to Magdeburg where my father got his first
look at Hitler's early moves against the intelligentsia. Morsbach appeared before them in
grey prison garb looking ill." Shortly after their visit, Morsbach was released, but his
health had been broken in the prison, and he died soon afterwards.
There is, however, a better ending to my grandfather's stories of rescue: After World War II,
educator W. Huston Lillard served under with United Nations in Vienna, Austria, as Chief of the
Resettlement Division of the International Refugee Organization in Austria. He helped resettle
thousands of refugees from Poland, Hungary, Russia, Greece, Spain and many other
places, including more than 40,000 Jewish refugees on their way to Israel. He also helped
Christians from Russia, Yugoslavia, Rumania, and Bulgaria, who refused to accept Communism.
References
"California Sun", Words and Music by Henry Glover and Morris Levy.
Recorded by the Riverias and later by the Ramones
"The Greek Slave"
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/sentimnt/grslvhp.html
(Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture)
Judy Malloy, "My Life"
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/mybio.html#mylife
Richard P. Wunder, Hiram Powers, Vermont Sculptor, 1805-1873.
Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, London and Toronto:
Associated University Presses, 1991. 2 vols.
Read Canto Three
4.
Canto Four
"In the dream, I was in a room
where the records of everyone in the country
were stored on silent supercomputers.
The doors were guarded by uniformed sentries;
a group of people were gathered around a monitor.
On the screen, a complex visual came slowly into focus.
I saw my name and beside it,
details of meetings with past boyfriends,
known, I thought, only to me."
- Concerto for Narrative Data
Still lingering in the policies and publications of crypto-eugenic institutions
such as The Pioneer Fund, eugenics has gone underground. But the narrative in
Revelations of Secret Surveillance suggests that the national government
supervised human breeding program, proposed by Harvard anthropologist
Earnest Hooton (according to David H. Pierce's Threatening Anthropology,
McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists) was
secretly implemented on a somewhat limited scale. Whether or not this is the case,
the World War era cluster of eugenics advocates in Cambridge, MA -- the academic
home of MIT professor Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific
Research during World War II -- is of interest.
My mother went to Radcliffe, graduating in 1937, a few years earlier than Irish American
John F. Kennedy, whose 1940 Harvard senior thesis, Why England Slept, criticized
British Military readiness.
As if the Harvard legacy of eugenics still clouds the lives of many whom it touched,
Earnest Hooton's picture stares at me from the opening pages of my mother's yearbook
that was in the papers I received after she died of brain cancer.
In addition to proposing a national human breeding system, Earnest Hooton was
responsible for the collection of thousands of bizarre nude photographs of Ivy League men
and women. The so-called "posture photographs" taken by Hooton and W.H. Sheldon,
(The New York Times, January 15, 1995) were clearly eugenic and could even be seen in
the context of eugenic match making.
"There is a nastiness to the system,
as if am on a treadmill,
and if I don't keep working every minute, I will be prodded.
Yet the prodding is often destructive -- slowing down my work,
even sometimes destroying it,
as if those in charge of the system
are more interested in torturing me
than they are in their so-called research."
-Ask for Sanctuary
Also at Harvard were:
Henry A. Murray, who became director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic in 1937.
According to Jonathan Moreno, ( Jonathan D. Moreno, Mind Wars, Brain Research
and National Defense, NY, NY; Washington, DC: Dana Press, 2006) Murray
helped the OSS assess agents during World War II. In the Cold War era Murray headed
a series of unethical experiments at Harvard in which young men, who were not given all
the details of the experiment, were given LSD, strapped to electrodes, humiliated and later
forced to watch videos of themselves in these humiliating situations. Unabomber
Ted Kaczynski was one of these young men.
Three professors who proposed brain surgery on minorities whom they thought
predisposed to violence - William Sweet, chief neurosurgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital,
Vernon Mark, and Frank Ervin.
Psychology professor B.F. Skinner, who in Beyond Freedom and Dignity
(New York: Bantam Vintage 1972) advocated using science and technology to improve social behavior.
Professor Lucien Howe who promoted legislation that would not
allow people with blindness or mental health problems in their family to get married.
Harvard Genetics professor Edward East, who also was Acting Chief of the Food
Administration during World War II, was the author of a series of influential
books that promoted racist, eugenic, and sexist strategies. For instance, in Heredity and
Human Affairs, he denigrated African American artists, writers, and musicians
and he used the theory that educated women with careers would be less
likely to have children to suggest the curtailing of opportunities of women. "What one has
to consider in this connection," he wrote, "is whether any real economic equality between
men and women is compatible with family life and children."
I had assumed that such attitudes were a thing of the past at Harvard, but in January
2005, (shortly after I had written about covert University subversion of the careers of
women) Harvard University President, Lawrence H. Summers discounted the role of
discrimination in the lack of women professors in science and engineering and suggested
that innate differences between men and women might be one of the reasons that there
were fewer women with successful math and science careers. (Boston Globe,
January 17, 2005) The heated reaction to Summers' comments contributed to his decision
to resign as President of Harvard.
In the context of the pattern of co-opting places connected with liberal or
spiritual leaders that Archie observes in "Canto Nine" and the possibility of covert British
operations in America after the Revolution that Sid suggests in "A Gathering of Artists", the fact
that Harvard was an important center in the birth of the American Revolution is of
interest in this narrative that postulates covert social engineering by defeated enemies.
References
Tom Abate, "Nobel Winner's Theories Raise Uproar in Berkeley
Geneticist's views strike many as racist, sexist", San Francisco Chronicle
November 13, 2000 --
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/13/MN111208.DTL
The article is about James Watson, currently President of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Eric Adler
"Missourian played key role in old-time eugenics movement",
The Kansas City Star, April 27, 2002
James Bamford, Body of Secrets, NY, Doubleday, 2001.
--
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/author.html
Of particular interest is Shamrock (p. 434) in which US telegraph companies
such as Western Union, secretly gave the NSA access to *all* overseas
communications from American citizens.
"'Biological Purge' is Urged by Hooton", The New York Times,
February 21, 1937.
Edwin Black, "Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California Connection",
San Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 2003 --
http://www.waragainsttheweak.com/offSiteArchive/www.sfgate.com/
Edwin Black, War Against the Weak, Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create
a Master Race, New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003 --
http://www.waragainsttheweak.com
Well researched and comprehensive.
Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2002 --
http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
Marcella Bombardieri, "Summers' remarks on women draw fire",
Boston Globe, January 17, 2005.
Peter R. Breggin, "Campaigns Against Racist Federal Programs by the
Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology", Journal of African
American Men 1:No. 3, 3-22. Winter 1995/96
http://www.breggin.com/racistfedpol.html
A report on psychosurgery on minorities proposed by Harvard psychiatrist Frank Ervin
and neurosurgeons Vernon Mark and William Sweet in Massachusetts and by Jolyon West at UCLA.
Alston Chase, "Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber", The Atlantic Monthly,
June 2000
http://www.steelhorsemag.com/harvard.htm
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - Eugenics Archive --
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/
Committee for Puerto Rican Decolonization, "35% of Puerto Rican
Women Sterilized" --
http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/puertorico.html
(The Chicago Women's Liberation Union website)
Davenport, Charles Benedict, Eugenics, the Science of Human Improvement
by Better Breeding, New York, H. Holt and Co., 1910.
Michael Sullivan DeFine, "A History of Governmentally Coerced Sterilization:
The Plight of the Native American Woman" --
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/9118/mike2.html
(Native American Political Issues web site)
Edward East, Heredity and Human Affairs, New York:
Scribners, 1927. pp 198-199, 305.
Eugenics Part II: License to Breed --
http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/eugenics_2/ (History House)
Paul Feist, "Davis apologizes for state's sterilization program
Those with hereditary flaws were victims", SF Chronicle, March 12, 2003 --
http://www.sfgate.com/
cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/12/BA172425.DTL
E. S. Gosney and Paul Popenoe, Sterilization for Human Betterment,
A Summary of Results of 6,000 Operations in California, 1909-1929,
New York: Macmillan, 1929. (reprint: New York: Arno Press, 1980)
"Governor plans to apologize to people sterilized by state -
little-known chapter of Oregon history when more than 2,600 residents were
sterilized between 1917 and 1981, most of them in state care."
KATU, November 15, 2002 --
http://www.katu.com/health/story.asp?ID=52163
"Harry H. Laughlin", Harry H. Laughlin Papers, Truman State University,
Pickler Memorial Library --
http://library.truman.edu/manuscripts/laughlinbio.htm
"...His model sterilization laws were used by many of the more than 30 states
that passed sterilization laws. Germany's 1933 sterilization laws were also
modeled after Laughlin's. Laughlin's immigration studies, which seemed to support
the idea that recent immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe had a higher percentage
of "socially inadequate" persons than other immigrants, led to the highly restrictive
immigration quota system of 1924 which favored immigrants from Northern Europe..."
Grace Lichtenstein, Fund Backs Controversial Study of `Racial Betterment,
The New York Times Dec 11, 1977 --
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/022.html
(Hartford Web Publishing - World History Project) About the Pioneer Fund
"Breckinridge Long", PBS website on America and the Holocaust --
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX90.html
As assistant secretary in charge of the Visa Division at the State Department, Long was responsible for
policies and restrictions that made it difficult for Jews and other refugees from the Nazis to find
sanctuary in America.
Max Nordau, Degeneration, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska
Press, 1993; reprinted from the English language edition, NY: D. Appleton & Co,
1895; original German edition: 1892.
David H. Pierce, Threatening Anthropology, McCarthyism and the
FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists, Durham and London,
Duke University Press, 2004. p. 348
The Pioneer Fund -- Controversies
http://www.pioneerfund.org/Controversies.html
Ron Rosenbaum, "The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal",
The New York Times, January 15, 1995
Welling Savo, "The Master Race", Boston Magazine, December 2002
Sam Smith, "Harvard Scientist Wants Married Couples Bonded", Boston Sunday Post,
June 10, 1928
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/image_header.pl?id=271&detailed=1
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Eugenics Archive)
Alexandra Minna Stern, "Michigan should apologize for forced
sterilizations" The Detroit News, August 3, 2003
G. Pascal Zachary, Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American
Century, Cambridge, MA,. MIT Press, 1999
Commentary:
Although he fired Harry Laughlin as head of Cold Spring Harbor because his
scientific methods weren't good, in 1939 former MIT Vannevar Bush, President
of the Carnegie Institution, encouraged Laughlin to testify to the Senate Immigration
Committee, writing him, according to Edwin Black, "'One has to express opinions when he
appears in this sort of inquiry, and I believe that yours will be found to be a
conservative and well-founded estimate of the situation facing the committee.'
Bush added that he had personally reviewed Laughlin's prior testimony and felt it was
'certainly well handled and valuable.'" (War Against the Weak pp.393-94)
During World War II, the continuation of restrictive US immigration policies was
responsible for turning away thousands of Jews who later died in the Holocaust.
Note also that it was Bush's suggestion that resulted in mathematician Claude Shannon writing
his PHD at Cold Spring Harbor on "An Algebra for Theoretical Genetics". See N.J.A. Sloane
and A.D. Wyner, "A Biography of Claude Elwood Shannon" in Claude Elwood Shannon,
Collected Papers, edited by N.J.A. Sloane and A.D. Wyner, New York: IEEE Press, 1993 --
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/doc/shannonbio.html
However, it does not appear that Shannon continued to pursue this area of research.
Read Canto Four
5.
Canto Five
"Lately I feel as if I am in the middle of a choreographed traffic dance
where vehicles manipulated by some unseen hand
constantly threaten me"
_ Revelations of Secret Surveillance
The interference that Gunter and his father encounter on their trip to Los Angeles
and the interference that Dorothy and Gwen experience while driving are based
on "gang stalking" techniques. (sometimes called "cause-stalking" or "mobbing")
That the problem is widespread is documented in publications such as
David Lawson's Cause Stalking.
Because of the military precision and sophisticated surveillance involved in
gang stalking, a connection with Department of Defense war games
and/or DARPA research should be explored. For instance, certain military
research and Operations Plans -- such as Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon Plan 5030 --
suggest research and attack strategies that could potentially result in disruptive
field experiments that "target" civilians in the areas of traffic and driving
disruption in war game simulations; theft of supplies; destruction of
equipment; the use of robots/robotic devices to create disturbances;
the mapping of human response to invasive cognitive research; and
contingently the effect of stress on cognition.
Gang stalking operations may also be related to military counterinsurgency
systems and/or military war game exercises in training for infiltration of
Third World countries. Note that the probably influential 1962 RAND
Symposium on Counterinsurgency displays scant concern for the rights
of people to protest their government.
In this country, victims might be selected for reasons that may include a wanton
State or National government failure to understand that protest is protected
in this country; covert DARPA human experimentation projects that are
disguised as "field trials"; eugenic categorization of certain people as
"undesirable"; personal enmity; male jealousy of successful women; and
attacks on freedom of expression in the arts. For instance, in the lives
of artists, gang stalking could be used to interfere with freedom of
expression by using life interference to make it difficult for artists,
writers, and musicians to work.
Any interference in people's lives, can dramatically impact their quality of life and the
pursuit of happiness that the founders of our country deemed important when they
wrote the Declaration of Independence. Thus, even the possibility that the
Department of Defense or Homeland Security are interfering with the lives
of *any* civilians under the guise of wargames should be explored.
References
Bruce B. Auster and Kevin Whitelaw, "Upping the Ante for Kim Jong Il - Pentagon Plan 5030,
a new blueprint for facing down North Korea", U.S. News & World Report, July 13, 2003 --
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/030721/21korea.htm
Bohemian Grove Action Network, Sonoma County Free Press --
http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/bohos/bohoindx.html
Gang Stalking World
http://www.gangstalkingworld.com/
Frank Kitson Low Intensity Operations: Subversion, Insurgency, Peacekeeping,
Harrisburg PA: Stackpole Books, 1971; Natraj Publishers, 1992.
David Lawson, Cause Stalking, North Palm Beach, FL:
Scrambling News, 2007
Commentary: Writers, artists and activists who wonder why traffic patterns, noise, lights and
other interference in their vicinity seem maliciously controlled will be interested
in this book which effectively identifies organized "gang stalking" techniques.
The book is better in its identification of gang stalking techniques that it is in its
analysis of who the perpetrators actually are.
Machine Vision Based Traffic Surveillance --
http://www.vision.caltech.edu/koller/MOU-83.html (Caltech)
J. Malik and S. Russell, "A Machine Vision Based Surveillance
System For California Roads", California Partners for Advanced Transit
and Highways --
http://repositories.cdlib.org/its/path/reports/UCB-ITS-PRR-95-6/
Jonathan D. Moreno, Mind Wars, Brain Research and National Defense,
NY, NY; Washington, DC: Dana Press, 2006.
Commentary: In the context of pain-inducing Non-Lethal Weapon testing, the author suggests
that calling human experiments "field trials", in order to circumvent human experiment
ethics is acceptable. And in a chilling segment, he observes that seemingly the military
considers that if doctors are not in charge, such tests could be considered a "field trial"
rather than a human experiment.
An exhibition about the architecture of Museums was organized by
the Art Centre Basel, Switzerland, see "Museums for a New Millennium:
Concepts, Projects, Buildings" --
http://www.arcspace.com/exhibitions/miami_exhib/ (arcspace, November 17, 2003)
Nazi Aggression against the German Labor Unions is documented by
the Nizkor Project --
http://www.nizkor.org/
at
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/nca/nca-01/nca-01-07-means-27.html
Commentary: German labor was also a target of the British World War II total warfare against German civilians
that was advocated by Frederick Lindemann and carried out by Arthur Harris, as detailed in their
Wikipedia biographies :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Lindemann%2C_1st_Viscount_Cherwell
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Travers_Harris
"Oplan 5030" --
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/oplan-5030.htm
(GlobalSecurity.org)
Ron Robin, The Making of the Cold War Enemy, Princeton, NJ, Oxford, UK:
Princeton University Press, 2001
Commentary:
The work of behavioral scientists who formulated the doctrines of "rational choice"
and "repressive counterinsurgency" and advocated applying these strategies to
civilian populations is relevant to gang stalking techniques.
UK: Princeton University Press, 2001. Of particular interest is
"The Political Significance of Coercive Counterinsurgency" pp. 201-205 in
Chapter 9 "Vietnam - From 'Hearts and Minds' to Rational Choice".
Alexandra Robbins, "Book Excerpt: The Legend of Skull and Bones"
--
http://www.secretsofthetomb.com/excerpt.asp
(from Alexandra Robbins, Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones,
the Ivy League and the Hidden Paths of Power, Back Bay Books, 2003)
Robert Michael Smith, From Blackjacks to Briefcases: a History of Commercialized Strike
Breaking and Unionbusting in the United States, (Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 2003)
Robert Michael Smith reports on the use of high tech surveillance equipment by Union busting
detective agencies, as well as interference with the automobile driving environment of Union
members by strikebreaking thugs from Vance International Asset Protection Team. (p. 125)
Sebastian Sprenger, "Congress balks at DOD's 'strategic communication' plans",
FCW.com, August 14, 2007 --
http://www.fcw.com/article103494-08-14-07-Web
Commentary:
"strategic communication" is, in this instance, basically a euphemism for
psychological operations designed to erode morale.
Lynn Stuter, "Are You Really Crazy, or Are You Being Gang-Stalked",
NewsWithViews.com, January 10, 2006--
http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter78.htm
Commentary: This article makes it clear that some members of the right are being
subjected to "mobbing" harassment -- the practice of groups of people following
activists and interfering with their lives.
William W. Turner, "The Hoover U. Alumni Association" in William W. Turner, Hoover's FBI,
NY: Dell, 1970. pp. 290-300. Turner points out the presence of former FBI agents in key
positions in corporate strikebreaking teams and that strikebreaking and prison contractor the
Wackenhut Corporation was founded by former FBI agent George R. Wackenhut.
Eleanor White, "Case Summary: Eleanor White"
http://www.multistalkervictims.org/ewhite.htm
(multistalkervictims.org)
An important personal account of organized stalking against a woman computer programmer
www.GangStalking - FAQ
http://www.gangstalking.ca/faq.htm
Read Canto Five
6.
Canto Six
"...No words adequately describe the terrible slow understanding
of the extent of what has been done to us.
- Ask for Sanctuary
One of the most disturbing historical texts encountered while researching the
background for Revelations of Secret Surveillance was Max Nordau's
Degeneration that uses eugenic strategies to attack artists and keep
women subservient.(University of Nebraska Press, 1993; original German
edition: 1892) Nordau was a Jew born in Hungary, who in later years
returned to his Jewish roots and became an influential advocate for Zionism.
Tragically, despite this refocusing of his work, Degeneration had
become, according the University of Nebraska Press, "enormously influential".
On page 326, Nordau, speaking of art that he considers "ugly or loathsome", states
"Ought we not in this case to condemn the work and if possible to suppress it?
How can its right to exist be justified?"
After comparing artists to drunks and criminals, who should forcefully put under
Guardianship, he writes: "It never occurs to us to permit the criminal by organic
disposition to 'expand' his individually in crime, and just as little can it be expected
of us to permit the degenerate artist to expand his individuality in immoral
works of art." (p. 326)
Among the artists Nordau considers "degenerate" are the impressionist painters, (p. 27) Zola,
(pp. 489-506) Tolstoi (pp. 144-171) and Ibsen. (pp. 338-415) After calling Ibsen a "poet of
great verve and power", he then spends over 50 pages attempting to prove that Ibsen's works
are degenerate, finally emphasizing that Ibsen is immoral because of his strong women
characters: "Under Ibsen's code of morals the vast majority of wives would have everything
to lose. The severe discipline of matrimony is their bulwark..." (p. 415)
In addition to works which empower women or might influence them, Nordau also rants against
new forms. "The art and poetry of to-morrow, in all essential points, will be the art and
poetry of to-day and yesterday, and the spasmodic seeking for new forms is nothing more
than hysterical vanity, the freaks of strolling players and charlatanism." (p. 544)
Nordau's method is that of the hell and brimstone preacher who himself sees the seductive charm
of pleasure and therefore violently condemns it. For instance, on pages 127-128, there is a
progression from the beauty of Verlaine's poetry to an attack on Verlaine in which Nordau
calls Verlaine a "repulsive degenerate" and "an emotional dreamer of feeble intellect" and
speaks of his "incoherent speech, meaningless expressions, and motley images." Thus in
560 pages in which the contemplation of art is turned into a venomous diatribe against
artists, Max Nordau, who was very influential at the time of the writing of this book,
sets the stage for the "Culture Wars" repression of artists and their work, proposing a
"Society for Ethical Culture" to brand immoral works. (p. 558)
Speaking of artists whom he considers "degenerate", in the concluding pages, Nordau writes:
"Mystics, but especially ego-maniacs and filthy pseudo-realists, are enemies to society
of the direst kind. Society must unconditionally defend itself against them. Whoever
believes with me that society is the natural organic form of humanity, in which alone it
can exist, prosper and continue to develop itself to higher destinies; whoever looks upon
civilization as a good, having value and deserving to be defended, must mercilessly crush
under his thumb the anti-social vermin." (p 557)
Canto Six of Revelations of Secret Surveillance is an elegiac memorial for
the many artists who have died in suspicious circumstances in our time and earlier.
References
The AIDS Memorial Quilt --
http://www.aidsquilt.org/
Tee A. Corinne, "Lesbian Photography on the U.S. West Coast: 1972-1997",
Women Artists of the American West --
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Corinne/
John S. D. Eisenhower, General Ike, A Personal Reminiscence, Free Press, 2003
Commentary: September 11, 1944 was the day that the American Seventh Army
joined with the Third Army at Dijon, France. Eisenhower describes how thousands
of German soldiers surrendered on that day.
Judy Malloy, The Lives of Leaders, Activists, Artists, Athletes, Researchers,
and Soldiers --
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/gunterandgwen/lives.html
Judy Malloy, "Michael Richards, August 2, 1963 -- September 11, 2001",
Arts Wire Current, September 25, 2001 --
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/gunterandgwen/richards.html
Max Nordau, op. cit.
Erwin Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005
Pedro Pietri
_Raymond R. Beltran, "Nuyorican Obituary, Pedro Pietri, 59, Served The People",
Calaca Press
http://calacapress.com/pedropietri.html
"Michael Richards", Franconia Sculpture Park --
http://www.franconia.org/mrichards.html
"Michael Richards", Studio Museum in Harlem --
http://www.studiomuseum.org/richards.html
Tuskegee Airmen --
http://tuskegeeairmen.org/
The Tuskegee Airmen were heroic African American World War II fighter pilots
who, despite suffering discrimination, destroyed over 1,000 German warplanes.
Read Canto Six
7.
Canto Seven
"The enmity of defeated nations covertly expressed,
infiltrating our country in circles of hatred and prejudice...
'1000 Nazi scientists brought to this country after World War II;
1000 people covertly employed by British Intelligence in this country during World War II;
the only 1000 days that President Kennedy was in office.
It is as if our fates are manipulated by terrorists
who have usurped the classics.
'An Angry Man - There Is My Story:
the bitter rancor of Achilles,
prince of the house of Peleus,
which brought a thousand troubles upon the Achaean host.'
The opening passage to The Iliad."
In the writing Revelations of Secret Surveillance, one of the theories postulated
to explain a covert system of persecution was the potential for former enemies - such as Nazi
scientists from defeated Germany - for covertly taking revenge on people or nations
responsible for or associated with their defeat. The story in Revelations of Secret
Surveillance is fiction. However, the research that informs it is cogent. For Canto
Seven, it began with the discovery of Linda Hunt's Secret, Agenda, The United
States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945-1990.
(St. Martin's Press, 1991)
I had worked as a Technical Librarian for NASA contractors and had listened to the scuttlebutt
about the coverup of NASA management's disregard for human life and the deaths of
astronauts Vigil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee in a fire during a
spacecraft test on January 27, 1967. Before the Challenger explosion and not widely known,
on March 19, 1981 technicians John Gerald Bjornstad and Forrest Cole died in a Space Shuttle
launch pad accident.
But I had not known that after World War II that hundreds of Nazi bacteriological and chemical
warfare criminals were employed by US Army and industry laboratories, that the German rocket
scientists who were put in charge of our space program were former Nazis who had used and
murdered slave workers; or that agents in US Army intelligence and the Central Intelligence
Agency had made an alliance with and were working with former Nazi Wehrmacht Chief
Reinhard Gehlen.
In Canto Seven, Archie's performance, "Images of Exploding Spaceships" is partially based on
the bringing of Nazi criminals to this country by US Military Intelligence and the Central Intelligence
Agency.
Revelations of Secret Surveillance looks at the potential use of technologies, such as remote
control, in suspicious "accidental" deaths of artists and musicians, posing questions about who
had access to covert technologies who also believed in extreme censorship. Was there a
connection between the deaths of athletes and heroes and the deaths of artists? The
methodologies were sometimes similar, plane crashes, for instance, such as the plane crash
that killed the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, and Richie Valens or the plane crash that killed
World War II hero, actor, and writer Audie Murphy, who died on Memorial Day weekend.
Because I had been a serious skier, I was concerned about a possible connection between
the triumph of the legendary US Army 10th Mountain Division in defeating the German
skiers in the mountains of Italy and the accidents to so many of our champion skiers in the
years after the War. Because I went to school with figure skating champion Laurence Owen,
I was concerned about her death along with the entire 1961 US skating team in an
airplane crash near where the Allied forces defeated the Nazis in the Battle of Bulge.
"The technologies for cybercontrol of our bodies exist.
To a certain extent someone else could control us,
interfere with our thoughts, cause pain in our bodies,
make us fall or bump into things, cause accidents,
ruin our work by interfering with the motion of our hands.
With these technologies, a cruel government could silently ensnare us
in a virtual gulag.
Athletes subjected by gamblers to covert interference with their bodies.
Artists hurt because of what they create.
Our lives at the mercy of heartless puppeteers"
- Concerto for Narrative Data
The interference in his life that Archie reenacts in this performance represents
the potential for "invisible" technologies -- such as high-power ultrasound and pulsed
periodic stimuli, remote control, and mind-body control -- to be used to interfere in
the lives and work of civilians. For instance, advanced "acoustic weapons" do not
operate in the audible frequency range and therefore are not heard. They have the
capability of degrading and/or moving objects and of detrimentally impacting the
human body.
The following true incidents in my life metaphorically illustrate the potential misuse
of remotely guided systems to injure artists for what they create.
In 2005, on Thanksgiving morning, I used this lexia (written previously in
The Roar of Destiny) in a primary place on my website:
"Words, coming together like a man and a woman --
he in a black tuxedo;
she in a diaphanous black dress flecked with silver,
swaying with the motion of her legs,
separating,
moving in fluid circles back and forth across the ice,
apparently effortlessly
-- the years of practice and innumerable spills
unseen."
After, I posted these words, I went for a Thanksgiving hike on a paved trail.
I have a mobility disability due to being run down in 1994, and I generally hike
with crutches. To the best of my recollection of what happened, it seemed to me
that my pace speeded, as if my shoes were walking faster than my legs, and then
my crutches (or possibly my shoes) threw me into the air. I went up into the air
and fell hard, landing on my head. There was no one around to help me, although
usually that trail is busy on holidays. I got up and made it back down the hill.
My head was ok, but my leg had twisted somewhat, and I was in a lot of pain --
making a much anticipated Thanksgiving dinner difficult and causing increased
pain during the holiday season.
About a year later, in late 2006, I was hiking on a pretty trail along a stream. It
was so nice that I said something out loud to the effect of "this is really nice".
The seemingly co-active response was dramatic. My leg buckled underneath me,
and I fell to the ground. It seemed to me that there was a clear relationship
between the fall and my words. (although I did not at that time know of this
relevant research: Tom Simonite, "The Mind-Controlled Wheelchair",
New Scientist, September 7, 2007 -- developed by Ambient, the
wheelchair moves when you think of or speak particular words.)
My narrative is not meant to inhibit safe research projects that could make life better for
people with disabilities, nor is it likely that the primary researchers on such projects
would be involved in unethical field trials. But it is important -- particularly because
of the presence of DARPA in so many mind-body, mind-equipment control
research projects (as detailed in Canto Eight References)-- that technologies that
could help people with disabilities are not used as "non-lethal weapons" or unethically
tested on writers, critics of military research, and other targeted individuals.
The metaphor is not the exact relevance of the cited research, rather it underscores
the need to look at the function creep from mind-body, mind-equipment research.
In this case, the fall seemed to come -- in response to my words -- from an unnatural
movement of my leg and not from my crutches. However, my leg contains
several rods and many bolts and screws, as well as a stent that was inserted
to repair an artery severed in the 1994 accident.
I was in a lot of pain, and I began to cry. There was no one to help me, so I
stood up on my crutches and hobbled back to my car.
As a result of this fall, I was in more pain for several months during the holiday
season than usual, with more limited mobility than usual.
The point is not whether or not these particular accidents were attacks on a
writer who criticizes the lack of disclosure in mind-body control research but
rather -- as Archie demonstrates in his performance in Canto Seven -- that
such attacks are possible.
A tribute to the brilliant work of Latino/a poets from Puerto Rico to New York
City to Chicago to Texas to San Diego; a tribute to the musicians who have
died before their time --- from Janis Joplin to new musician Joe Catalano --
a tribute to performance artists who have created art in difficult times; and a
tribute to the work of all artists who are also Veterans, the form of Archie's
performance in Canto Seven, is based on my OK Research and
OK Genetic Engineering projects (1979-85) that combined information from
R&D literature with words and images. It was also shaped by my Lucy series
of word/image/body performances (1981-1983 at La Mamelle, Target Video,
and other venues) about a clerical worker hunted by the management of
Applied Missile Systems; and by Booze, a performance I created (but was
not able to perform as intended due to injury) in which slide images were
projected on my body.
Canto Seven was also inspired by José Antonio Villarreal, the brilliant Chicano
writer with whom I worked in the late sixties at Ball Brothers Research Corporation
(BBRC) in Boulder, Colorado where, before he became a professor of literature,
he was Technical Publications Supervisor, and I was a technical information
specialist.
References
"Acoustic Weapons"
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/accoustic.htm (GlobalSecurity.org)
John B. Alexander, "Acoustics", in Future War, Non-Lethal Weapons in Twenty-First Century Warfare,
NY, Thomas Dunne Books, 1999. pp. 95-102
Details the use of high-power ultrasound weapons on humans and the built environment. These
weapons, developed in this country by Scientific Applications and Research Associates (SARA)
in California, among others, have the capacity to cause pain, to cause inattention, sleepiness,
and fatigue, to disrupt mental reasoning. According to Alexander, PPS, (Pulsed Periodic Stimuli)
also being developed at SARA, is capable of reacting to thought processes and causing
neurophysioloical distress and perceptual disorientation.
American Library Association, "Book Burning in the 20th Century-1933" --
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bookburning/20thcentury/nazigermany/nazigermany.htm
Photos of the Nazi book burnings are available on this website.
Apollo 204 Review Board, Final Reports, April 5, 1967 --
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollo204/content.html
(Report of Apollo 204 Review Board, NASA Historical Reference Collection,
NASA History Office, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.)
The "Findings, Determinations and Recommendations"
in this report of the 1967 fire that killed Grissom, White, and Chaffee stated that:
"Those organizations responsible for the planning, conduct and safety of this test failed
to identify it as being hazardous. Contingency preparations to permit escape or rescue of the
crew from an internal Command Module fire were not made.
*No procedures for this type of emergency had been established either for the
crew or for the spacecraft pad work team.
*The emergency equipment located in the White Room and on the spacecraft work levels
was not designed for the smoke condition resulting from a fire of this nature.
*Emergency fire, rescue and medical teams were not in attendance.
*Both the spacecraft work levels and the umbilical tower access arm contain
features such as steps, sliding doors and sharp turns in the egress paths
which hinder emergency operations."
Adequate safety precautions were neither established nor observed for this test."
Jim Banke, "Gus Grissom didn't sink the Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule",
Space.com, 17 June 2000 --
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/liberty_bell_000617.html
Peter R. Breggin, op. cit. Canto Four.
"Campaigns Against Racist Federal Programs by the Center
http://www.breggin.com/racistfedpol.html
Richard Breitman, Norman J.W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, and Robert Wolfe,
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, the National Archives Trust Fund Board, 2004
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/finding-aids/us-intelligence-and-the-nazis.pdf
Challenger Center, "The Crew of the Challenger" --
http://www.challenger.org/about/crew_bios.cfm
Alex Constantine, The Covert War Against Rock, What You Don't Know About the
Deaths of Jim Morrison, Tupac Shakur, Michael Hutchence, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix,
Phil Ochs, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, John Lennon, The Notorious B.I.G., Feral House,
2000.
Keith David Cooley,
The Redlands Bust: When the British Establishment tried to get the Rolling Stones,
http://redlandsbust.blogspot.com/
"Dark Side of the Moon", --
http://www.apollo1.info/index.htm
Gus Grissom's son Scott, an airline pilot, presents evidence that the Apollo 1 spacecraft
his Father died in was sabotaged. (Note that this site is currently not available)
Commentary
According to Linda Hunt, (Secret Agenda, pp 223) there is evidence
that Kurt Debus, who was Director of the Kennedy Space Center, was negligent both in approving
the mission and in not seeing that adequate fire fighting equipment was on hand.
Debus had been an engineer at the Nazi missile factory at Peenemunde.
The Day the Music Died --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_The_Music_Died
R. P. Feynman, "Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle",
Report of the PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION on the Space Shuttle Challenger
Accident, June 6th, 1986, Washington, D.C. --
http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm (NASA History Office)
Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman observes that the discrepancies
between NASA pr and the reality of chances of failure, stating that "It would
appear that, for whatever purpose, be it for internal or external consumption,
the management of NASA exaggerates the reliability of its product, to the point of fantasy."
Fuller Up, The Dead Musician Directory --
http://elvispelvis.com/fullerup.htm
Jerry Garcia
http://jerrygarcia.com/intro.html
_Obituaries for Jerry Garcia --
http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Fenario/Jerry/News.html
The Grateful Dead --
http://www.dead.net/
Bill Graham --
http://www.billgrahamfoundation.org
_Seth Rogovoy, "Remembering Bill Graham", Seth Rogovoy's
Berkshire Beat --
http://www.berkshireweb.com/rogovoy/interviews/graham.html
Jimi Hendrix --
http://www.jimihendrix.com/
Lyrics from "Purple Haze", written by Jimi Hendrix, copyright Jim Hendrix
- Bella Godiva Music Inc. (ASCAP) 1967
Linda Hunt, "Arthur Rudolph of Dora and NASA", Moment 4, 1987 --
http://cndyorks.gn.apc.org/yspace/articles/nazis.htm
(Yorkshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament website)
Linda Hunt, "NASA's Nazis", Nation, May 23, 1987 --
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/nasa-nazis.html (Literature of the Holocaust website)
Linda Hunt, Secret Agenda, The United States Government, Nazi Scientists,
and Project Paperclip, 1945-1990, St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Leon Jaroff, "The Rocket Man's Dark Side, Many scientists insist Wernher von Braun
only observed German concentration camps. New revelations tell a very different story"
Time, Mar. 26, 2002 --
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/jaroff/article/0,9565,220201,00.html
Janis Joplin --
http://www.officialjanis.com/
_Lyrics --
http://www.alwaysontherun.net/janis.htm
Jonathan Larson --
http://www.bennytour.com/jonathan.htm
http://www.jlpaf.org/
"One Song Glory" written and composed by Jonathan Larson,
EMI Music Publishing (ASCAP)
Martin A. Lee, "The CIA's worst-kept secret -
Newly declassified files confirm United States collaboration with Nazis"
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/Gehlen_Org.html
(available on the Third World Traveler website)
Phil Lesh, Searching for the Sound, My Life with the Grateful Dead,
NY, Boston: Back Bay Books, 2005
"Let it Be" written by John Lennon and Paul McCarthy, copyright 1970 Northern Songs
Judy Malloy, "Anyway you look at it, ADM has your antenna...." In:
The Un/Necessary Image, ed. by Peter D'Agostino and Antonio Muntadas,
NY, Tanam Press, 1982) Documentation of my OK Research project.
Mama Cass -- http://www.casselliot.com/
Bob Marley --
http://www.bobmarley.com/
"Coming in From the Cold" written by Bob Marley, Uprising, Tuff Gong/Island Records, 1979
Yossi Melman, "Documents reveal CIA recruited five of Eichmann's
associates", Haaretz International, February 5, 2005 --
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=536364
"Mercedes Benz" lyrics copyright Janis Joplin, Bob Newirth, Full Tilt Boogie Band, Columbia,
1971.
Amy Pincus Merwin, "Planning for Whose Future?
Bruce Gagnon on the complete nuclearization and weaponization of space",
The Peaceworker (Oregon PeaceWorks), December, 2001- January 2002 --
http://www.oregonpeaceworks.org/site/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=549&Itemid=86
Summarizes how 1500 Nazi scientists did not go to trial in Nuremberg and
were smuggled by Operation Paperclip into the U.S.: "....One hundred
of them - including Werner von Braun and his team - were sent to
Huntsville, AL. When NASA was created immediately after WWII, von Braun
became the first director of its Marshall Space Flight Center. Kurt
Debus, Peenemunde's V-2 flight director, became the first director of
NASA's Kennedy Center. Arthur Rudolph, who cracked the whip over the
slaves at Middlewerk, became the project director for NASA's Saturn IV
rocket program that took the U.S. to the moon..."
"The Music Never Stopped", Words by John Perry Barlow; Music by Bob Weir, 1975,
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing --
http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/mns.html
(The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics by David Dodd)
Max Nagano, "Dr. Louis Jolyon West and the Neuropsychiatic Institute",
UCLA 1972-'74 --
http://www.english.ucla.edu/ucla1960s/7274/Max/nagano4.htm
National Security Archive, "The CIA and Nazi War Criminals" --
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB146/index.htm
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 2, The Contras, Cocaine,
and Covert Operations --
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/nsaebb2.htm
NASA, The Columbia --
http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/index.html
The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/
Michael J. Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich,
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995
The complicity of Marshall Space Flight Center Director Wernher von Braun,
Saturn Moon Rocket Project Director Arthur Rudolph, and Walter Dornberger,
(hired in this country after the War by the US Air Force and Bell Aircraft
Corporation) in the deaths of workers and the brutal use of slave labor in the
Nazi rocket program is discussed in pp 225-228.
U.S. Army Ordinance's role in obscuring Wernher von Braun's complicity
in the use of slave labor is discussed in the "Epilogue". (pp. 270-271, 278)
Thomas Palmer, "'Reach for the stars' was McAuliffe's theme for her
historic space mission",
The Boston Globe, January 29,1986 --
http://www.boston.com/news/packages/shuttle/challenger_archive_mcauliffe.htm
Operation Paperclip Casefile --
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Operation_Paperclip_file.html
(Third World Traveler Website)
Robert Parry, "How John Kerry Exposed the Contra-Cocaine Scandal", Salon.com,
October 25 2004 --
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/25/contra/index_np.html
"Jim Pomeroy, American (1945-92)"
http://www.niagara.edu/cam/special/Art_of_80s/Artists/pomeroy.html
(Castellani Art Museum) The site includes San Francisco art critic Kenneth Baker's
description of Pomeroy's "affectionate satire" of the NASA Space Program,
in works such as "Apollo JEST: An American Mythology (in depth)" (1978)
that purports to document the 1969 moon landing.
More information about Jim Pomeroy an his work is available at
http://www.art.uh.edu/dif/textWindow.html (Digital Imaging Forum - D.I.F)
Commentary:
After an injury from a fall, Pomeroy's body was found
beneath his "Beating a Dumb Joke to Death" sculpture.
Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle
Challenger Accident, June 6th, 1986 Washington, D.C.
--
http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/genindex.htm
In the section titled "An Accident Rooted in History" , the Commission states that:
"The Space Shuttle's Solid Rocket Booster problem began with the faulty design of its
joint and increased as both NASA and contractor management first failed to recognize it
as a problem, then failed to fix it and finally treated it as an acceptable flight risk.
Judith Resnik --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Resnik (Wikipedia)
Review of Karl Grossman's The Wrong Stuff (Monroe, ME: Common Courage
Press) --
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/kg9709tw.htm
Michael C. Ruppert, "Blacks Were Targeted for CIA Cocaine, It Can Be Proven",
January 28, 1999 --
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/blacks-targeted.html
(fromthewilderness.com)
Peter Dale Scott, Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan,
Colombia, and Indochina, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003
Preface --
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/dowpref.html
Ken Silverstein, "Our Nazi allies, A German amateur investigator finds information
on the U.S. government's friendly dealings with war criminals. Meanwhile, the FBI
and CIA guard their records.", Salon.com, May 2003 --
http://dir.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/03/nazi/index.html
"Hubertus Strughold" --
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/Strughold.html
(The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight)
Strughold, who tortured prisoners at Dachau, was made Director of the Department
of Space Medicine at Randolph Air force Base in Texas.
Morton Thiokol, Inc., the contractor, did not accept the implication of tests early
in the program that the design had a serious and unanticipated flaw.
NASA did not accept the judgment of its engineers that the design was unacceptable,
and as the joint problems grew in number and severity NASA minimized them in
management briefings and reports."
Mark Travis, "Christa McAuliffe", in Felice Belman and Mike Pride, Eds., The New Hampshire Century,
Concord Monitor Profiles of One Hundred People Who Shaped It, Hanover and London,
University Press of New England, 2001.
"U.S. Blues" Lyrics: Robert Hunter, Music: Jerry Garcia. Copyright Ice Nine
Publishing Co., Inc. (ASCAP)
US Senate Hearings, August 1977
Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program of Research in
Behavioral Modification --
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1950/mkultra/Hearing01.htm
(Schaffer Library of Drug Policy Web Site)
Richie Valens --
http://www.ritchievalens.net/
José Antonio Villarreal, Pocho, Doubleday, 1959.
In this classic and extraordinary work of realism juxtaposed with intense magical realism,
seminal Chicano writer José Antonio Villarreal, whose father fought with Pancho Villa
before working the fields in the Santa Clara Valley, creates an individual narrative experience
of depression era Mexican immigrant life, where -- as it is in Spalding Gray's male
viewpoint-infused Swimming to Cambodia -- the reader's reaction to gender and power
constructs is an integral part of the reading.
Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion,
Seven Stories Press, 1999 --
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1888363932/qid=1091559832/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-1096280-5293536
John Wiener, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files,
University of California Press, 1999.
The value of the Freedom of Information Act and the way the "culture of secrecy"
undermines democracy are underscored in this account of Wiener's difficulty
in obtaining FBI and CIA files that revealed spying for political motives on John Lennon.
The role of Britain's M15 in suppressing this information is also discussed.
There is an associated website: John Lennon FBI Files
-- http://www.lennonfbifiles.com
Jon Wiener, "Lennon's MI5-FBI Files", The Nation, February 23, 2000 --
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20000313&s=wiener
"WR Grace Consultant Otto Ambros"
Memo from convicted Nazi War Criminal Otto Ambros, who was hired as a consultant
by WR Grace, Dow, and the US Army Chemical Corps:
"...We have furthermore drawn the attention of the concentration camp to the
fact that, in the last few weeks, the inmates are being severely flogged on the
construction site by the Capos in increasing measure, and this always applies
to the weakest inmates who really cannot work harder. The exceedingly unpleasant
scenes that occur on the construction site because of this are beginning to have
a demoralizing effect on the free workers (Poles), as well as on the Germans.
We have therefore asked that they should refrain from carrying out this flogging
on the construction site and transfer it to the inside of the concentration camp."
(note that this memo is no longer available on the Internet)
Yahoo, Moon Missions > Apollo --
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Space/Exploration/Missions/Moon/Apollo_Project/Individual_Missions/Apollo_1/
Read Canto Seven
8.
Canto Eight
"...The media coverage had not discussed the soul-stealing implications of the research,
its potential for controlling our men and women in the armed forces,
for creating a battlefield of soldiers,
whose bodies could be controlled by officers in remote locations
or the terrible consequences of turning the animals with whom we share our planet
into robots at the mercy of heartless puppeteers.
'Brain interference on children,
who might not be able to understand the difference between their own thoughts
and the commands of strangers,' Gunter said."
The tracking of civilians -- such as the pre-World War II files at Cold Spring Harbor
and computerized eugenic tracking such as the IBM technology that the Nazis used
to systematically locate the Jews of Europe -- are a part of a methodology, that now
manifests itself in surveillance systems set in motion by the so-called "Patriot Act".
The potential use of sophisticated artificial intelligence programs and neuro-surveillance
technologies in conjunction with mega-databases is of serious concern.
At the close of Canto Eight, Gunter and Gwen examine the possibility that they
themselves may be under surveillance. Because of the depth of what is known about
their plans and ideas by a neighbor who seems to be tracking them and because it is
suggested by a friend in Silicon Valley, they look at research on "brain scanning"
and are surprised at how advanced it is. All across the country, neuroscience
laboratories are silently developing neuro-surveillance technologies.
"'I began to remember things I have seen on the science news," Gunter said.
"'UCLA brain scans that are looking at brain waves
in relation to people's political beliefs.
The import does not always register -- I mean I did not fully comprehend
what they are doing, although I should have...'"
The narrative exposes how advanced brain control technologies are and how
important it is to the future of our society to legislate their use. Because it is also
necessary to take into consideration issues of freedom of inquiry in the sciences,
one approach would be to enact legislation requiring informed consent, ways of
detection, ways of protection and legal prosecution and criminal penalties for
those who, without clear, informed consent, inflict these technologies on people
and the animals with whom they share their lives.
The question arises: If a person does not object to these technologies on moral
or religious grounds and his or her mental or physical health could be improved
by them, should he or she have access to brain control technologies? This is an
issue that is difficult to answer without extensive and informed debate, but the
answer might be yes if there were protections on the abuse of neuro-technologies.
It is in the interest of ethical members of the scientific community to ensure such
protections.
Without extensive education and legal protections, certain brain surveillance
and control technologies should be outlawed because they are potentially lethal.
For instance, someone could be driven to suicide or detrimental actions, and,
of course, access to the brain is essentially access to the body and its functions --
allowing control of one human by another, with the potential of slavery. To say
that brain control technologies are "non-lethal weapons" is as morally bankrupt
as saying that slavery is not lethal.
Although there may be instances where neural implants could help people with
disabilities, to this author, an artist with a disability, it appears that people with disabilities
are, in some cases, being used as an excuse to develop very invasive research and that
neither the public nor the disability community are being adequately informed of the
dangers of the technologies being developed, of alternative approaches, or of the
potential military uses of these technologies.
The potential -- clearly demonstrated by the research cited in these notes -- that
someone could eavesdrop on our inner thoughts or control our bodies without our
consent is abhorrent. It is very important that protective legislation be enacted.
Yet there is hope that if the public is adequately informed and protections are in place,
in the frontiers of neuroscience research there may indeed be benefits for the disability
community and for many others.
If neuro-technologies are being abused, it is not necessarily the inventors of the technologies
who are actually doing this. However, many of the researchers in this field have not adequately
communicated the import of their work. It is not necessarily a question of closing doors on
research that may benefit some segments of the population. But, it is vitally important that
researchers in fields that work with the brain inform the public of the potential for misuse
of these technologies.
For instance, Michael Persinger's research into inducing sexual arousal (Elizabeth Royte op.cit.)
in tandem with wireless manipulation of facial expressions (that could trigger emotional
responses by mimicking parental or sibling expressions) could be used to influence relationship
choices. For instance, the robotic control of animals that can done with a laptop computer
(developed on rats by Sanjiv Talwar, State University of New York) could be used
by unscrupulous people to control animals and even our own pets without our knowledge
or consent. The use of pleasure center stimulation to drive behavior in this research
could also be used to adversely effect human ethics.
Technologies that facilitate brain control of arm movements, (key researchers in this
area include John Donoghue and Andrew Schwartz) could be used to harass people
by using wireless brain wave interference to make them drop things or to interfere
with their work, even to impede freedom of expression by interfering with the work of artists.
Brain scanning technologies could be used to interfere with the work of activists.
For instance, with further development, the work of Joshua Freedman and
Marco Iacoboni at the University of California at Los Angeles -- that scanned
people's brains to find out the difference in how they perceive political candidates --
could be used to predict who would oppose wars in order to derail their careers.
The dangers to our democracy, to our provacy, and to our right to employment
from brain scanning technologies are very great, yet critical media coverage has been meager.
As law enforcement tools, because what we think does not necessarily reflect our actions
and because they can be hacked, brain scanning technologies are not reliable. By
hacked I mean that the technologies potentially allow insertion and altering of
thoughts as well as reading of thoughts. Furthermore, our mental processes
can be a way of working through hostility and anger that usually doesn't reflect
the end result of our actions. This is a reason why our mental processes are meant
to be and should remain private. Although it is possible that such technologies could
help clear innocent people, citizens should ask themselves these questions: Have
I ever thought to myself "I want to kill so and so"? Did I really mean this?
Do I want law enforcement officers to have access to such thoughts?
There are indications that some of the CIA research on mind control technologies
was initially funded because the Russians were developing them. If this is so, the
question is: why weren't the American people given information about the symptoms
and why was the research aimed at doing it to people rather than on protecting people?
The fact that unscrupulous researchers in these fields have not adequately
informed the public of the dangers is a strong indication not only that the
source of their funding is all too often the very agencies that could abuse
brain invasive technologies.
Canto Eight also delves more deeply into the potential impact on scientific
ethics of the bringing to this country of so many Nazi criminal scientists.
References
Emily Gold Boutilier, "Mind Control - John Donoghue leads a team of
researchers who are taking their knowledge of how the brain works and putting it
to surprising-and pioneering-use" Brown Alumni Magazine Online,
November/December, 2001.
http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=370
Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories --
http://www.brainwavescience.com/
Former FBI Agent Drew Richardson is the new Vice President of Forensic operations
for Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, which "allows an individual to communicate
directly from the brain to a computer and speech synthesizer using electrical
brain activity" and is headed by Dr. Lawrence Farwell.
"Brain scan 'sees hidden thoughts', Scientists say they can read a person's
unconscious thoughts using a simple brain scan," BBC News, April, 25, 2005 --
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4472355.stm
"Brain Scans Aim to Find Differences Between Democrats, Republicans",
nbc51.com, 2004 --
http://www.nbc5i.com/politics/3027581/detail.html
Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think", The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945 --
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/texts/vannevar.bush.html
In this alternatingly brilliant (the Memex, for instance) and chilling/sexist
article, Bush advocates mind-body control. Bush was Director of the Office of
Scientific Research during World War II, oversaw the Manhattan Project
and was one of those responsible for the formidable build up of the Military Industrial
and Academic Complex during World War II.
John K. Chapin, "Robot Arm Controlled Using Command Signals Recorded Directly
from Brain Neurons" --
http://www.downstate.edu/pharmacology/chapin.htm
Jennet Conant, "Restless Energy," in Jennet Conant,
Tuxedo Park, A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science
That Changed the Course of World War II, (New York: Simon Schuster, 2002).
pp. 108-132 This chapter of a biography of Alfred Loomis details his
experiments with reading brain waves, that began in the 1930's before he
became a major player in defense research and development during World War II.
Jose Delgado, Physical Control of the Mind --
http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/delgado.htm
Paul Elias, "Brain Scans May Unlock Candidates' Appeal," LiveScience, October 29, 2004
--
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/brain_politics_041029.html
Maureen Farrell, "George Orwell Meets the Matrix",
Buzzflash.com, July 27, 2004 --
http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/07/far04025.html
FDA Approves Human Brain Implant Devices, NewsMax, Apr. 14, 2004
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/13/231118.shtml
Will Filer, "NSA Mind Control and Psyops" --
http://www.whale.to/b/nsa4.html
Douglas Fox, "Remote control brains: a neuroscience revolution",
New Scientist, July 18, 2007
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19526131.400-remote-control-brains-a-neuroscience-revolution.html
"The future of mind control", The Economist,
May 23rd 2002 --
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1143583
Duncan Graham-Rowe, "Brain implants `read' Monkey Minds, NewScientist.com,
July 8, 2004 --
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6127
"Brain implants have been used to 'read the minds' of monkeys to predict
what they are about to do and even how enthusiastic they are about doing it."
Carl T. Hall, "Devices that Read Human Thought now Possible",
San Francisco Chronicle, November 10, 2003
http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2003/Brain-Implant-Read10nov03.htm
(mindfully.org web site)
Ben Harder, "Scientists 'Drive' Rats By Remote Control",
National Geographic News, May 1, 2002 --
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0501_020501_roborats.html
John-Dylan Haynes, "Decoding of conscious and unconscious mental states",
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
http://www.cns.mpg.de/L/homepage_MA_html?user=haynes
Tom Heneghan, "Call for 'neuroethics' as brain science races ahead",
Reuters, February 15, 2007
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL1440532120070215?pageNumber=1
Leah Hoffmann, "Remote-Controlled Humans", Forbes, August 4, 2005
http://www.forbes.com/2005/08/04/technology-remote-control-humans_cx_lh_0804remotehuman.html
Linda Hunt, op cit.
In Secret Agenda, Linda Hunt establishes that the
Operation Paperclip program continued under various names
(National Interest; Project 63) through 1990. As regards Project 63,
she writes: "Thus the American taxpayer footed the bill for a project to
help former Nazis obtain jobs with Lockheed, Martin Marietta, North American
Aviation or other defense contractors during a time when many American engineers
in the aircraft industry were being laid off." (p. 176)
Waldemar Kaempffert, "Science in the News: Brain Waves", The New York Times,
July 7, 1940.
According to this report, Eliot Chapple [Harvard Medical School, President of
the Society for Applied Anthropology] and his colleague, Dr. C. F. Harding made
brain wave records of two people talking and were able to "appraise human
relations scientifically". Chapple advocated the use of this technology to
"size up" applicants for jobs.
Yuri Kageyama, "A remote control that controls humans;
Headset sends electricity through head, forcing wearer to move"
MSNBC, Oct 25, 2005--
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9816703/
General Reinhard Gehlen's Gehlen Organization were Nazi spies who
were recruited by US intelligence agencies immediately after World War II. For an interesting
historical fiction account see Robert Littell, The Company, A Novel of the CIA, Woodstock and NY:
The Overlook Press, 2002, p. 125
Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, MD, "Microchip Implants, Mind Control,
and Cybernetics" --
http://www.iahf.com/other/20011206b.html
Jim Lovel, "Nader group slams Emory for brain research",
Atlanta Business Chronicle, December 5, 2003
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2003/12/08/story8.html?t=printable
Declan McCullagh, "George Orwell Here We Come", CNET, January 6, 2003 --
http://news.com.com/George+Orwell,+here+we+come/2010-1071_3-979276.html
"Things get stranger still. The Electronic Privacy Information Center used the Freedom
of Information Act in August 2002 to obtain government documents that talked about reading
air travelers' minds and identifying suspicious thoughts.
The NASA briefing materials referred to `non-invasive neuro-electric sensors'
to be used in aviation security."
Judy Malloy, Systems of Surveillance
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/gunterandgwen/resources.html
Paul Marks, "Can a government remotely detect a terrorist's thoughts?",
New Scientist, August 11, 2007 --
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19526166.400-can-a-government-remotely-detect-a-terrorists-thoughts.html
Harry V. Martin and David Caul, "Mind Control",
Napa Sentinel, 1991 --
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sm4csi/nwo/MindControl/mind_control.htm
Susan Milius, "Rescue Rat: Could wired rodents save the day?"
Science News, May 4, 2002
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20020504/fob3.asp
"Mind-Control Studies Had Origins in Trial of Mindszenty",
The New York Times, August 2, 1977. p. 16
This article reports on the origins of CIA and military intelligence research
and development of brain invasive technologies.
Jonathan D. Moreno, op. cit.
Frank J. Murray, NASA Plans to Read Minds at Airports,
The Washington Times, August 19, 2002 --
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/news/nasa_brainwaves.htm
(Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics website)
"New Imaging Techniques That Show the Brain at Work: Brain Scans That
Spy on the Senses," a Report from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
--
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/e110.html
John D. Norseen, "Images of Mind: The Semiotic Alphabet"
American Computer Scientists Association, May 15, 1996 --
http://www.acsa.net/john2.html
E. Okada, S. Aou, A. Takaki, Y. Oomura, T. Hori, "Electrical stimulation of male monkey's midbrain
elicits components of sexual behavior", Physiology & Behavior, July 1991, 50(1): 229-36 --
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1946721&dopt=Abstract
Barbara Opall, "U.S. Explores Russian Mind-Control Technology,"
Defense News, January 11-17, 1993.
http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/part1.html (on Government Mind Control website)
Lewis Page, "Project Hostile Intent plans 'non-invasive' DHS brainscan", The Register,
August 9, 2007
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/09/no_not_the_mind_probe_again/
Douglas Pasternak, "John Norseen Reading your mind - and injecting
smart thoughts", U.S. News & World Report, January 3/January 10, 2000,
--
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/neuro/norseen.html
(The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics website)
"Pilot Study of Mind-to-Movement Device Shows Early Promise", Brown
News Service --
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2004-05/04-035.html
"Revealing secret intentions in the brain"
(Original work: John-Dylan Haynes, Katsuyuki Sakai, Geraint Rees,
Sam Gilbert, Chris Frith, Dick Passingham, "Reading hidden intentions
in the human brain", Current Biology, February 20th, 2007 --
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/m-rsi020607.php
Colin Ross, "The CIA and Military Mind Control Research: Building
the Manchurian Candidate", CKLN-FM 88.1 Toronto - International Connection
Mar 16, 23, 30, 1997 --
http://www.whale.to/b/ross.html (Whale website)
Elizabeth Royte, op. cit., Canto Two
Ian Sample, "The brain scan that can read people's intentions, Call for ethical
debate over possible use of new technology in interrogation", The Guardian,
February 9, 2007--
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/feb/09/neuroscience.ethicsofscience
Arthur Schlesinger, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
(Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1965)
According to Arthur Schlesinger, a few months before he was assassinated,
President Kennedy proposed that the Space program should be run as a cooperative
International project between the US and Russia and other countries.
A Thousand Days quotes Kennedy's UN speech of September 20:
"Surely we should explore whether the scientists and astronauts of our two counties --
indeed of all the world -- cannot work together in the conquest of space, sending some
day in this decade to the moon not the representatives of a single nation but the
representatives of all of our countries." (see pp 919-920)
Noah Shachtman, "Pentagon Preps Mind Fields for Smarter War Stations",
Wired, March 21, 2007 --
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/03/72996
Dru Sefton, "New Marketing Research Captures Brain Waves,
Raising Privacy Concerns", Newhouse News Service, 2000 --
http://www.newhouse.com/archive/story1a051200.html
A thought measurement system utilizing brain wave reading is being
researched for advertising purposes. The technology was developed by NASA.
Wrye Sententia, "Brain Fingerprinting: Databodies to Databrains",
The Journal of Cognitive Liberties, 2:3, 2001 --
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/6jcl/6JCL31.htm
(The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics website)
Eleanor White, "New Devices that 'Talk' to Minds Need Debate, Controls",
American Reporter, March 16, 2000 --
http://www.raven1.net/amrep1.htm
David Whitehouse, "Computer uses cat's brain to see", BBC News,
October 8, 1999 --
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/468857.stm
"In what is bound to become a much debated and highly controversial experiment,
a team of US scientists have wired a computer
to a cat's brain and created videos of what the animal was seeing...
In Defense of Animals --
http://www.idausa.org
In the 1980's, In Defense of Animals brought inhumane experiments on cats
and monkeys in UC Berkeley labs to the public's attention, and they have continued
to work for humane treatment of animals.
Concluding Note to Canto Eight
As documented in Revelations of Secret Surveillance, we now face a covert arsenal of
"nonlethal weapons". Because of the existence of these weapons -- such as brain interference
technologies -- the potential for virtual imprisonment and torture of civilians is of serious
concern.
Revelations of Secret Surveillance calls attention to the potential for
technology-mediated repression in situations where governments encourage
intelligence agency stalking of civilian populations. It also postulates a covert system
of social control -- exploring its possible origins, as well as who might be attacked by
such a system.
From the role of intelligence agencies in harassing artists and writers -- while
at the same time they gave Nazi scientist war criminals the keys to our laboratories
-- to the insidious application of applied eugenics in Department of Defense science
and technology, the notes provide a framework to explore the resulting climate that
was created, bringing questions of who is spied on, why, and how into the present by
also presenting documentation of the existence and deployment of satellite
surveillance and brain wave scanning technologies.
Many of the technologies referenced in these notes have positive uses. They are
documented here because the ramifications of their uses have not adequately been
discussed. Public dialogue, legislated limitation of use, and an enforceable
requirement of informed consent (for instance for mind invasive technologies)
would do much to validate neuroscience research that is not invasive and may
be of benefit. It is also important to remember that if technologies are being
abused, it is not necessarily the inventors of the technologies who are
actually doing this.
Some researchers take Department of Defense funding which has one stated
purpose and do not acknowledge the other purposes it might have. Some
Research and Development media routinely publish press releases from laboratories
and do not ask hard questions about the impact of the research or interview other
sources. It is important to consider the "function creep" from neuroscience research -- the
potential that it could be used for other than the stated applications.
In Archie's words in Concerto for Narrative Data:
The technologies for cybercontrol of our bodies exist.
To a certain extent someone else could control us,
interfere with our thoughts, cause pain in our bodies,
make us fall or bump into things, cause accidents,
ruin our work by interfering with the motion of our hands.
With these technologies, a cruel government could silently ensnare us
in a virtual gulag.
Athletes subjected by gamblers to covert interference with their bodies.
Artists hurt because of what they create.
Our lives at the mercy of heartless puppeteers.
Before it is too late, Revelations of Secret Surveillance asks for full
disclosure of brain invasive technologies and for legal limitations on their use to
interfere with our lives.
Read Canto Eight
9.
Canto Nine
"...it was as if I had known all along
what was really happening
or as if I should have known all along
what was happening."
The central theme of Canto Nine is the interference in the lives of artists and the
surveillance of artists that is addressed in the notes and references for Canto Two.
Artists and writers, who are likely to in some way depict their surroundings,
may be at risk for interference in their lives, not only because of culture war issues
but also because of what they see and how they depict it. Thus Franz Marc and August Macke,
the artists from the (at the time) controversial artist's group, The Blue Rider - who were
killed in World War I -- keynote Canto Nine.
The death of 66 British poets in World War I was a terrible loss to British culture. Their
deaths also signify the larger scale loss of so many lives in the World Wars and the need to
look more closely at the origins of this War. Thus Rupert Brooke; Isaac Rosenberg;
Arthur Graeme West, felled by a sniper; Wilfrid Owen, killed by machine gun fire
a week before the war ended; Canadian poet John McRae; American poet Joyce Kilmer,
killed in the Marne, are ever on my mind, as I write these words.
The subtext of Canto Nine suggests an ancient system of control, (as difficult to
comprehend as it is to decipher) for which there is evidence as early as Renaissance Italy,
although it probably began much earlier. The system Gunter and Gwen are tracking
subtly controls individuals in such a way as to impact not only their own destinies,
but also the destinies of nations. Studying the system's violent and manipulative pursuit
of grudge-fueled covert domination -- -- that utilizes infiltration and the setting of
enemy against enemy to create a theater of war ---- Gwen looks also at the course of
World War II.(where evidence of the role of such a system in what happened is in the
details of events that surround major battles and in discernable chains of staged events
such as the diversion of key personnel.) Unspoken is the possibility that this system
was deployed in a monstrous plan that not only set World War II in motion but
also covertly directed the course of the War.
At the core of this plan: the elimination of the Jews of Europe. Germany, the
country of the Reformation that broke from Rome, was then itself destroyed.
But in Revelations of Secret Surveillance, Gwen does not go into detail, and
the truth of these speculations is not the most important part of this particular
narrative. Whether true or metaphor, they suggest a terrible potential for covert
systems of control of and persecution of individuals, throughout history -
from the lives of artists, to the events that turned idealistic,
worker-centered philosophies into total repression in Russia and China.
References
James Auer, "Scholar-composer-diplomat brought much to the arts world",
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Feb. 6, 2002 --
http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/feb02/17869.asp
"The Blue Rider - Der Blaue Reiter" --
http://www.artelino.com/articles/the_blue_rider.asp (artelino)
Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe, The Knights Templar Revealed. London, Magpie Books, 1999.
Commentary: Although Butler and Dafoe suggest a Papal motive of taking fighting men out of France as one
of the reasons that the Crusades were launched, (p. 73) - unlike Gwen who sees evidence
of the same kind of systems that Britain later used to cause enmity between the Scottish and the Irish -
Butler and Dafoe look at the arrest of the Templars in primary terms of French politics -- stressing
the role and motives of the French King Phillip IV in their arrest
"Charlie Chaplin", "The Time 100", Time Magazine, 2000 --
http://www.time.com/time/time100/artists/profile/chaplin4.html
"The Charlie Chaplin FBI File", Fade to Black Magazine
--
http://www.fadetoblack.com/foi/charliechaplin/
Ellen Chang, "Hammond Remembered for his Excellence, Talent",
Sallyport, The Magazine of Rice University, 58:3, Spring 2002 --
http://www.rice.edu/sallyport/2002/spring/sallyport/hammond.html
"COINTELPRO Again?", NOW with Bill Moyers, March 5, 2004
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/cointelpro.html
Alex Constantine, op. cit.
Angela Davis --
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/HistCon/faculty_davis.htm
Dan Eggen and Robert O'Harrow Jr., "U.S. Steps Up Secret Surveillance
FBI, Justice Dept. Increase Use of Wiretaps, Records Searches",
Washington Post, March 24, 2003 --
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16287-2003Mar23?language=printer
"Former UC President Clark Kerr, a national leader in higher education,
dies at 92", UC Berkeley News, December 2, 2003 --
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/12/02_kerr.shtml
Ross Gelbspan, The Covert War Against the Central America Movement. Boston, MA,
South End Press, 1991.
Brian Glick, War at Home, Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and
What We Can Do About It, South End Press, 1989
The Great Dictator, by Charlie Chaplin, Clown Ministry --
http://www.clown-ministry.com/Resources/chaplin/the-great-dictator-chaplin.html
Larry D. Hatfield, "Mario Savio dies; free speech activist
Berkeley student helped kick off '60s protests", San Francisco Examiner,
Nov. 7, 1996 --
http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/savio-obit.html#Examiner
(SFSU Physics website)
Lillian Hellman --
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lhellman.htm (Authors' Calendar)
The History Channel, In Search of History: The Knights Templar --
http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=73094
The Holy Bible, II Samuel
Oliver Johns, "Mario Savio", 1942-1996, SFSU, November 1996 --
http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/savio-obit.html
Joan of Arc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc (Wikipedia)
"Jean Seberg" --
http://www.saintjean.co.uk/politics.htm
_"Jean Seberg, Actress, November 13, 1938 - September 08, 1979",
Obituaries Today --
http://www.obituariestoday.com/Obituaries/ObitShow.cfm?Obituary_ID=28655§ion=pin
Frank Kitson, Low Intensity Operations: Subversion, Insurgency, Peacekeeping.
(Harrisburg PA: Stackpole Books, 1971; Natraj Publishers, 1992
Commentary: 700 years after the Templars were disbanded, imprisoned, and tortured,
the use of systems of psychological torture against civilian populations is suggested by
research from Defense think tanks such as RAND Corporation, a developer of wargames and
large scale artificial intelligence systems. In the RAND Research Study Rebellion and
Authority, Nathan Leites and Charles Wolf, Jr., present a system that advocates rational
choice (hurting people so that they will conform) as opposed to constructive choice.
(making life better for people) Given that RAND was influential in formulating
Vietnam era policy and that turn-of-the-century Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was
Chairman of RAND Corporation from 1981-1986, of particular interest is Chapter 6:
"Inflicting Damage", pp 90-131. Throughout the book, there are indications that the
authors' systems are also applicable to domestic situations. And on pages 137 and 157,
they suggest making the punishment for rebellion fit the crime and using intelligence services
to implement this.
Control of populations is also the subtext of Frank Kitson, Low Intensity Operations:
Subversion, Insurgency, Peacekeeping. The book is chilling in its lack of understanding
of the moral and positive roles of protest, strikes, and the voices of a country's citizen's in
a free country. However, it is instructive in understanding this British Army officer's mindset that
had a pervasive influence on British attempts at covert control of whole populations
-- as evidenced in the British treatment of Ireland -- as well as on covert actions by US
intelligence agencies in South America and against American citizens. ("...it is in men's minds
that wars of subversion have to be fought and decided." Kitson p. 31)
John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,
Knopf, 1974.
Nathan Leites and Charles Wolf, Jr, Rebellion and Authority, Chicago: Markham
Publishing Company, 1970. A RAND Corporation Research Study)
Judy Malloy, "New NEA Chair Michael Hammond Dies One Week After Taking Office;,
Eileen Mason to Serve as Acting Chairman", Arts Wire Current, February 5, 2002 --
http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur020502.html
Herbert Mitgang, op. cit.
Dangerous Dossiers, Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors documents FBI
and/or US Army Intelligence and CIA surveillance of writers and artists including Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck,
John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Calder, Thomas Mann, Carl Sandburg, Dorothy Parker,
Nelson Algren, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman, Truman Capote, Georgia O'Keeffe. Dashiell Hammet
and Archibald MacLeish.
David H. Pierce, Threatening Anthropology, McCarthyism and the FBI's
Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists, Durham and London, Duke University
Press, 2004.
Pierce documents FBI attacks on anthropologists who espoused racial justice.
Among the anthropologists whom the FBI did not attack was Earnest Hooton, whose
proposal of a national government supervised human breeding program is
mentioned on p. 348.
Anne Powell, Deep Cry: First World War Soldier-poets Killed in France and Flanders, Sutton, 1998.
Piers Paul Read, The Templars, Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1999. pp. 259-313
Trey Popp, "Rage, in oil on canvas, Picasso's response to the
pure evil of war still unnerves those who wage it",
San Francisco Chronicle, November 28, 2004 --
(Review of Gijs van Hensbergen, Guernica, The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon,
Bloomsbury, 2004) --
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/11/28/RVG3V9U7FN1.DTL
"...Picasso's FBI file was as detailed and surreal as the some of the painter's Cubist compositions.
A Republican congressman from Michigan, George Dondero, labeled him a dangerous subversive,
declared avant-garde artists' collectives to be Communist cells and threatened that 'critics
who support modern art should be attended to..."
Commentary: re the article's claim that it was only the FBI and not the CIA that
persecuted modern art in the cold war era, note that covert CIA funding of selected
artists -- extensively documented by Frances Stonor Saunders' in The Cultural
Cold War, The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, NY: The New Press, 1999.
(published in the UK as Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War,
Granta, 1999) -- put some artists, writers, and musicians in the position of having
no idea that their work was unknowingly supported by the CIA. Furthermore, the CIA
control of culture documented in this book, while it may have had some benefits in
the abstract-expressionist era, may also have put in place a mechanism for CIA
interference in the arts -- in later eras when art and art forms,
such as performance art, new media, and e-literature became more challenging both
to the political establishment and to critics whose aesthetics were formed in era
of abstract expressionism.
Ron Robin, op. cit.
Natalie Robins, op. cit.
Alien Ink: The FBI's War on Freedom of Expression documents surveillance of writers
including James Agee, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Randall Jarrell,
William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Muriel Rukeyser, Langston Hughes, James Thurber,
Kay Boyle and Mark Van Doren.
Seth Rosenfeld, "Ex-UC chief calls FBI actions despicable
Clark Kerr reacts to Chronicle report on bureau misdeeds",
San Francisco Chronicle, June 10, 2002 --
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/06/10/MN64831.DTL
Seth Rosenfeld, "Mario Savio's FBI Odyssey",
San Francisco Chronicle, October 10, 2004 --
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/10/10/CMGP08OOFI1.DTL
M. Wesley Swearingen, FBI Secrets, An Agent's Expose,
Boston. MA, South End Press, 1995.
U.S. Senate, "Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans",
Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with
Respect to Intelligence, U.S. Senate, 94th Congress, end Session, 1976
(The Church Committee)-- (Paul Wolf's Cointelpro Website)
http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm (Paul Wolf's Cointelpro Website)
Includes Church Committee reports on "Intelligence Activities and the Rights
of Americans". The following is part of Church Committee findings on "Using Covert
Action to Disrupt and Discredit Domestic Groups: "The Committee finds that covert
action programs have been used to disrupt the lawful political activities of
individual Americans and groups and to discredit them, using dangerous
and degrading tactics which are abhorrent in a free and decent society." Among many
other findings, the Committee noted that "The sustained use of such tactics by the
FBI in an attempt to destroy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., violated the law and
fundamental human decency."
Jon Wiener, "Lennon's MI5-FBI Files", The Nation, February 23, 2000 --
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20000313&s=wiener
John Wiener, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files,
University of California Press, 1999. There is an associated website:
John Lennon FBI Files --
http://www.lennonfbifiles.com
Nicholas Wilson, "The Judi Bari Bombing Revisited; Big Timber, Public Relations
and the FBI", Albion Monitor, May 28, 1999 --
http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9905a/jbrevisited.html
Concluding Note for Canto Nine
That intelligence agents themselves are subject to life interference and that not
only their lives, as for instance CIA agents, but also why
they were selected may be controlled -- in somewhat the same unpleasant way that
Revelations of Secret Surveillance suggests that the lives of artists are
controlled -- could be deduced from accounts of agents such as Robert Baer's
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War
on Terrorism. (NY: Three Rivers Press, 2003)
In The Cultural Cold War, The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters,
Frances Stonor Saunders covers the life of Russian Jew Michael Josselson,
the agent in charge of the CIA's questionable Cold War undercover funding
of certain artists and writers. Saunders' account documents
the suffering and misfortune that happened to Josselson, the illnesses, the painful
operations, the heart attack brought on by an adversarial CIA meeting.
Also of interest are fictional accounts, such as Robert Littell's The Company,
A Novel of the CIA (Woodstock and NY: The Overlook Press, 2002)
and W.E.B. Griffin's Honor Bound (NY: Putnam, 1993) and
The Last Heroes. (V. 1 of Men at War, NY, Jove Books, 1985)
Honor Bound depicts manipulation of the life of a CIA agent by his own agency.
The Last Heroes is interesting for its picture of OSS founder Bill Donovan
and for the disturbing ways in which his actions and the things that take place
around him can be interpreted.
Interference in lives of Navy officers could be deduced from E.B. Potter,
Admiral Arleigh Burke, NY, Random House, 1990.
I do not know if the authors of these books meant to suggest such interference,
but rather am looking at the patterns from a systems analyzer's point of view.
Read Canto Nine
10.
Canto Ten
"Because of the way artists work," Sid continued,
"events and objects in your surroundings are incorporated in your work.
You buy a coffee cup at a thrift store.
There are words written on it.
You draw or write about a scene that includes that cup.
Someone stages a conversation in your hearing.
It remains in your mind.
And if you are a writer you may repeat it
(usually with some creative variation) in your work.
As incredibly deranged as it may seem,
there may actually be people interfering with your lives
for that very reason."
- Revelations of Secret Surveillance
In Canto Ten, Sid expresses concern both about "fingerprinted" deaths of artists
and about what he sees as an induced iconography -- putting things in the paths of
artists and writers which they might then include in their works.
The following example of potentially induced iconography was slightly fictionalized
in the narrative: In the early 1990's, when I was writing The Yellow Bowl,
I bought a coffee cup in a thrift shop. As is not unusual with artists, I was using
this cup -- which was imprinted with the insignia of the NASA Johnson Space Center
in Houston -- when I was doing some writing in my home. Thus, I incorporated it as a
part of a scene that began the work.
References
The 9-11 Commission Report -
Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Upon the United States, Official Government Edition --
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/
(GPO website)
ADL, "The Ku Klux Klan: Legacy of Hate" --
http://www.adl.org/issue_combating_hate/uka/rise.asp
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments,
Final Report, 1995 --
http://www.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/
Russ Baker, "Conspiracy: In 1952, Stanley Glickman was a promising young painter
studying in Paris. Then one night he shared a drink with some fellow Americans, and his
life fell apart. Did the CIA spike his drink with LSD?", The Observer Life,
February 14, 1999 --
http://www.russbaker.com/
Life-The%20Observer%20Magazine%20-%20Stanley%20Glickman%20and%20CIA.htm
Berkeley Watch, "Militarization" --
http://www.berkeleywatch.org/pages/military.html
documents the massive amount of DOD funding for UC Berkeley research
Dan Brown, The DaVinci Code, Doubleday, 2003
Commentary:
As regards alternative meanings in works of art, the sign language-like gestures
of the hands in Leonardo's Last Supper are of particular interest given
that Leonardo was a friend of Renaissance scientist Geronimo Cardano, believed
to be the first to codify sign language for the deaf. Because Leonardo was also
a scientist, the incorporation of a colleague scientist's system might be more likely
than the alternative view of Christianity, suggested in Dan Brown's work. (although it
does not rule this out. If Leonardo did use sign language in The Last Supper,
this writer is not aware of the message conveyed.)
Dan Brown --
http://www.danbrown.com/
Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra, Penguin, 1978.
The Frank Olson Legacy Project --
http://www.frankolsonproject.org/
This website, created by Eric Olson about the death of his father,
contains documentation about his father's murder, (likely by the CIA)
the cover up of the circumstances of Frank Olson's death, and
about how Eric and his family unraveled the secrets behind his father's death.
It also includes updated resources.
Bruce Gagnon, "U.S. Seeking Control of the Earth Through Space Technology",
12th Annual Peace Supper in Portland on February 8 --
http://www.peaceactionme.org/feb3control.html
"In their planning document called Vision for 2020, Space Command says
the US will control space, will dominate space and that we (5% of the Earth's
population)will become the masters of space. The patches on their uniforms
say it already. Masters of Space! Imagine how that's going over around the world?"
Daniel J. Glenn, "MIT research heavily dependent on defense department
funding", The Tech, 109:7, February 28, 1989 --
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V109/N7/glenn.07o.html
Peter Goodchild, Edward Teller: the Real Dr. Strangelove, Harvard University
Press, 2004.
Commentary
Teller played a leading role in developing both the H-bomb and SDI.
(Strategic Defense Initiative) His opposition to the Free Speech Movement is of interest,
not because he wasn't entitled to his own free speech, but because of the power that he --
and the Berkeley and Livermore labs he was associated with -- had the potential to wield.
Jerry Rubin, who threw a pie at Teller as an anti-nuclear protest, was run down in a crosswalk
in Los Angeles in 1994, a few months after I was run down in a crosswalk.
In Cambridge, MA, the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, a primary developer of missile guidance
systems, was privatized and became the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory after faculty and student
anti-war protests.
In Southern California, the potential presence of defense employees in right wing
enclaves is of interest. See Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors, the Origins of the
New American Right, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001 for
a discussion of the political climate in Orange County in the 1960's and conservative
reaction to the Free Speech Movement and the Watts riots.
Note also that Belmont, MA, the birthplace of the John Birch Society, was a MIT bedroom
community.
Spalding Gray --
http://www.spalding-gray.com/
_Liza Weisstuch, "Spalding Gray tells all!: Monologist talks of recent triumphs,
pain", Harvard Gazette, January 17, 2002 --
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/01.17/03-gray.html
_"Alone on the Stage, Essayist Roger Rosenblatt remembers monologist Spalding Gray",
PBS Newshour, May 14, 2004 --
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/essays/jan-june04/rosenblatt_05-14.html
Will Grover, "All the Easy Experiments, A Berkeley professor, dirty bombs,
and the birth of informed consent, Berkeley Science Review --
http://sciencereview.berkeley.edu/articles.php?issue=9&article=plutonium
The History Channel, History Now: The 9/11 Commission Report --
http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=71739
"A Hundred Years of Terror," A special report prepared by the Southern Poverty
Law Center --
http://www.iupui.edu/~aao/kkk.html
This history of the Klu Klux Klan points out that not only did the Klan attack blacks,
it also attacked women. "..In a period when many women were fighting for the vote,
for a place in the job market, and for personal and cultural freedom, the Klan claimed
to stand for 'pure womanhood' and frequently attacked women who sought independence..."
July 9 (the date of my accident) is also the date of the death of Alice Paul,
author of the Equal Rights Amendment,
who was jailed three times in England and three times in the United States.
Alice Paul --
http://www.alicepaul.org/alicep.htm
_
http://www.inform.umd.edu/Pictures/WomensStudies/PictureGallery/paul.html
Herbert Mitgang, op. cit., Canto Two
"Operation Mockingbird"
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm (Sparticus)
Eileen Welsome in The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical
Experiments in the Cold War, NY: Random House, 1999
Read Canto Ten
Revelations of Secret Surveillance - Part II
Dorothy: On the Western Front
"Here in the center is an underground control room.
You can see that the people in it have removed their US military uniforms
and are stepping on them,
as if they are masked invaders who have cloaked themselves
in the uniform of this country.
The entire painting is a metaphor
for how the artist imagines a shadow junta
harassing and controlling the citizens of this country.
Not one entity, but many who operate together
in such a way that it is difficult to place blame on any one of them.
But when they victimize people,
they are all pulling the trigger in some way or other."
References
Robert Leckie, Delivered from Evil,
The Saga of World War II, HarperPerennial, 1987.
"Day of Infamy, The Wall Street Journal on Pearl Harbor",
The Wall Street Journal, December 7, 2001 --
http://www.pearlharbor.org/wsj-oped-1941.asp
Roy Rydell, "Pearl Harbor and Hawaii's labor history",
People's Weekly World --
http://www.pww.org/past-weeks-2001/Pearl%20Harbor%20and%20Hawaii's%20labor%20history.htm
Chris Cook, "The British in Hawai'i, Islander Magazine --
http://www.islander-magazine.com/british.html
part of a feature on the History of Hawai'i.
"Significant Dates in the History of Hawai'i" --
http://www.hawaiianhistory.org/ref/chron.html
(Hawaiian Historical Society)
"Sandwich Islands (Hawai'i)", Catholic Encyclopedia --
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13438a.htm
Texas Military Forces Museum, "Camp Hulen"
http://www.kwanah.com/txmilmus/1940/hulen.htm
Dorothy's narrative is based on Camp Hulen (Palacios, Texas)
where my Father was stationed before Pearl Harbor.
The Handbook of Texas Online, "Camp Hulen" --
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/qbc17.html
Camp Hulen was converted to a German prisoner of war camp in January,1944
"Girolamo Savonarola", Catholic Encyclopedia --
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13490a.htm
Giorgio Vasari, "Life of Sandro Botticelli, 1445-1510", in Giorgio Vasari,
Lives of the Artists, A Selection Translated by George Bull. Vol I
London: Penguin Books, 1971. pp. 224-231.
A different translation is available online at
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raider4/texts/vasari/vasari.botticelli.html
(Australian National University ArtServe)
Commentary
Botticelli became a follower of Savonarola and gave up painting.
(According to other accounts, he also burned some his works on Savonarola's
"Bonfire of Vanities".) Of particular interest in Vasari's account are
the tricks that Botticelli practiced -- deceiving a painter who had copied
his work by the illusion of altering his work, setting up a rock that would wreck
a noisy neighbor's home if he made any noise, denouncing a friend as a heretic as
"a joke".
Botticelli himself, a painter of genius before he encountered Savonarola,
did not fare so well, losing his source of income and ending up on crutches.
"Still seething about another documentary on the American Revolution.
British narrator driving around the East Coast,
as if he was attempting to repossess our country."
The documentary Dorothy refers to is: Hugh Bicheno, Richard Holmes,
Rebels and Redcoats: the American Revolutionary War, BBC --
http://www.bbcfactual.co.uk/rebels_and_redcoats.htm
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, New York, Dover, 1997
(originally published in Philadelphia by William and Thomas Bradford
on February 14, 1776.
"...Beneath the shade of our own vines are we attacked;
in our houses; and on our own lands,
is the violence committed against us..." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense.
Jon Katz, "The Age of Paine", Wired, May 1995
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.05/paine.html
Paul Revere --
http://theamericanrevolution.org/ipeople/prevere.asp
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere",
written April 19, 1860, published in 1863 as part of Tales of a Wayside Inn
_Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere --
http://eserver.org/poetry/paul-revere.html (eserver.org)
"Republican Leadership Hijacks U.S. House to Defeat Sanders' Patriot Act Amendment"
July 8, 2004 --
http://bernie.house.gov/documents/releases/20040708183514.asp, July 8, 2004
(on Bernie Sanders' (I-VT web site) For updates on authorization of library records surveillance
in the Patriot Act, visit the American Library Association's Patriot Act website at
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/civilliberties/theusapatriotact/usapatriotact.htm
James Bamford, Body of Secrets, NY, Doubleday, 2001
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/author.html
pp 420-451 deal with the Echelon system and NSA abuses in
spying on American citizens and citizens of other nations and
in exchange of information with other UKUSA members.
Of particular interest is Shamrock (p. 434) in which US telegraph
companies such as Western Union, secretly gave the NSA access to *all*
overseas communications from American citizens.
"EFF's Class-Action Lawsuit Against AT&T for Collaboration
with Illegal Domestic Spying Program", January 31, 2006 --
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/
Electronic Privacy Information Center, (EPIC)
" Total 'Terrorism' Information Awareness"
http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/
"Ex-Snoop Confirms Echelon Network". CBS News, February 12,2001 --
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/02/24/60minutes/main164651.shtml
Democracies usually have laws against spying on the citizens of their
countries, but CBS News reports that according to Canadian intelligence
agent Mike Frost, Echelon members circumvent these laws by asking other member
countries to spy for them.
Simson Garfinkel, Database Nation, Sebastopol, CA, O'Reilly, 2000
Nicky Hager, "Exposing the Global Surveillance System",
Covert Action Quarterly no. 59, Winter 1997.
http://mediafilter.org/caq/echelon/
An excerpt from Nicky Hager, Secret Power: New Zealand's Role
in the International Spy Network, Nelson, NZ: Craig Potton, 1996
Lichtblau, Eric and James Risen, "Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Report",
The New York Times, December 24, 2005 --
http://www.nytimes.com/
2005/12/24/politics/24spy.html?hp&ex=1135486800&en=7e76956223502390&ei=5094&partner=homepage"
Wayne Madsen, "NSA intercepts for Bolton masked as 'training missions'" --
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/nsa/Bolton.htm
Patrick S. Poole, "ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network"
--
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html
Otis Port with Inka Resch, "They're Listening to Your Calls, Echelon
monitors phones, E-mail, and radio signals",Business Week, May 31, 1999, pp.110-111.
Letter from the Association for Computing Machinery's
U.S. Public Policy Committee, expressing concerns about the
Total Information Awareness (TIA) Program --
http://www.acm.org/usacm/Letters/tia_final.html
Vernon Loeb, "NSA Admits to Spying on Princess Diana",
Washington Post , December 12, 1998; Page A13 --
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/dec98/diana12.htm
Diana, Princess of Wales --
http://www.theworkcontinues.org/
Vietnam Veterans of America --
http://www.vva.org
The Old North Church --
http://www.oldnorth.com/
Navajo Code Talkers --
http://bingaman.senate.gov/code_talkers/ (on the website of Senator Jeff Bingaman)
The Martin Luther King Jr Papers Project --
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
Archbishop Oscar Romero --
http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/romero.html
Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, Christopher Reeve --
http://www.christopherreeve.org/christopherreeve/christopherreevemain.cfm
Anne Frank --
http://www.annefrank.com/1_life.htm
(The Anne Frank Center)
Paul Ben-Itzak, Homer Avila, The Dance Insider , April 27, 2004. --
http://www.danceinsider.com/f2004/f0427_1.html
President John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address,
Washington, DC, January 20, 1961
http://www.jfklibrary.org/j012061.htm
John F. Kennedy, Why England Slept (Wilfred Funk, 1940)
(written as a Senior Thesis at Harvard when he was 23 years old).
Kennedy's criticism of various aspects of British military readiness is of interest.
Timeline of Kennedy Tragedies --
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/kennedytimeline.html
Working Heroes--Men and Women Who Shaped America's Labor Movement (AFL-CIO)--
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutaflcio/history/history/bios.cfm
United Auto Workers --
http://www.uaw.org/
Women's Labor History (AFSCME) --
http://www.afscme.org/otherlnk/whlinks.htm
National Writers Union --
http://www.nwu.org/nwu/
Julie Ayer, More Than Meets the Ear, How Symphony Musicians Made Labor
History, Minneapolis, MN: Syren Book Company, 2005
Voices of Asian Pacific American Labor --
http://www.labor.ucla.edu/apalabor/index.html
Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement --
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmheroes1.html (infoplease.org)
Rosa Parks --
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1 (Academy of Achievement)
Medgar Evers --
http://www.africawithin.com/bios/medgar_evers.htm (Africa Within)
The Martin Luther King Jr Papers Project --
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/ (Stanford University)
John Lewis --
http://www.house.gov/johnlewis/bio.html
Rainbow/Push Coalition --
http://www.rainbowpush.org
The March on Washington --
http://www.abbeville.com/civilrights/washington.asp
(The Civil Rights Movement)
Robert G. Rodden, from The Fighting Machinists, A Century of Struggle --
http://www.iamawlodge1426.org/hisupdate29.htm
(Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,
The Fighting Machinists, Soiuxland Lodge 1426 website)
Robert Michael Smith, From Blackjacks to Briefcases: a History
of Commercialized Strike Breaking and Unionbusting in the United States
University Press, Athens, Ohio, 2003.
Stephen H. Norwood, "The Emergence of the Anti-Labor Mercenary" in Strikebreaking and Intimidation
Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America, University of North
Carolina Press, 2002 --
http://uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/norwood_strike.html
Kenneth Silber, "Analysts Expect Spy Satellite Number to Increase",
Space.com, 13 September, 1999 --
http://www.space.com/news/spy_satellites.html
Roy Mark, "Pentagon Spy Program Approves Proposals", dc.internet,
March 3, 2003 --
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1963191
Dana Priest, "New Stealth Spy Satellite Debated on Hill",
Washington Post, December 11, 2004 --
http://globalsecurity.org/org/news/2004/041211-misty.htm (on globalsecurity.org website)
Steve Wright, "Technologies of Universal Surveillance & Control" --
http://world-information.org/wio/program/vienna/events/990642477/992799118/992799416
"...Opposition to economic trade systems such as the WTO is already being described
in terms of terrorism rather than expression of democratic dissent and the presentation
will include examples of the surveillance paraphenalia being deployed to ensure the
maintainance of structures of global inequality..." (see next reference)
(world-information.org)
Dan Vergano, "Private spy satellite can peer anywhere", USATODAY.com,
August 29, 2001 --
http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/astro/2001-08-28-pvt-spy-sat.htm
Steve Wright, "An appraisal of technologies for political control",
European Parliament, Directorate General for Research, Directorate B
The STOA Programme, Luxembourg, 6 January 1998
http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/techs_pol_ctl.html
Tim Weiner, "Lockheed and the Future of Warfare", The New York Times,
November 28, 2004 --
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2004/041128-lockheed.htm
(GlobalSecurity.org website)
Oliver Morton, "Private Spy - The world's spy satellites are
going commercial and the national security control freaks are freaking out.
Watch for the next big First Amendment battle over who can see what.
And if you look up, smile.", Wired Magazine, 5:8, August, 1997 --
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.08/spy_pr.html
William J.Broad, "Commercial Use of Spy Satellites to Begin;
Private Ventures Hope for Profits", The New York Times, February 10, 1997 --
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/1997/civvy-spysats.html
Ron Robin, The Making of the Cold War Enemy, Princeton, NJ,
Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2001.
A chilling account of the role of behaviorists, and in particular
RAND Corporation, in formulating policies such as "rational choice"
that could be used to make the lives of those who challenge the prevailing
status quo difficult
Nathan Leites and Charles Wolf, Jr., Rebellion and Authority,
Chicago, Markham Publishing Company, 1970. A RAND Corporation Research Study
John D. Woodward, Jr., (RAND), "Super Bowl Surveillance:
Facing Up to Biometrics" --
http://www.fathom.com/feature/122400/ (Fathom)
Corpwatch, "General Electric" --
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=16 (The Corpwatch War Profiteers website)
ACLU, "FBI E-Mail Refers to Presidential Order Authorizing
Inhumane Interrogation Techniques - Newly Obtained FBI Records Call
Defense Department's Methods 'Torture,' Express Concerns Over 'Cover-Up' That
May Leave FBI 'Holding the Bag' for Abuses, December 20, 2004 --
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17216&c=206
The article reports "an incident in which Defense
Department interrogators at Guant~namo Bay impersonated FBI
agents while using "torture techniques" against a detainee."
John Powers, "Pushed to the Rink", Boston Globe,
December 30, 2000 --
http://www.boston.com/sports/packages/usfigureskating/stories/123000_pushed_to_the_rink.htm
Nikki Nichols, Frozen in Time, The Enduring Legend of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team. ,
Cincinnati, OH: Emmis Books, 2006
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz --
http://www.nimitz-museum.org/nimitzbio.htm
Nimitz was Professor of Naval Science and Tactics for the Unit
at the University of California at Berkeley and after WWII,
he lived in Berkeley until he took a bad fall in 1963 and moved
to Treasure Island where he died on February 20, 1966.
"Dwight David Eisenhower" in Robert Leckie, Delivered from Evil,
The Saga of World War II, HarperPerennial, 1987. pp 353-366.
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and
rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine, as their heirs,
we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight David Eisenhower
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
- Dwight David Eisenhower
Brigadier General James M. Stewart, USAFR --
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wwii/js.htm
Lotte Jacobi --
http://www.nyip.com/tips/topic_spotlight0300.html
(New York Institute of Photography)
_"Lotte Jacobi" in The New Hampshire Century, Concord Monitor
Profiles of One Hundred People who Shaped it, Hanover and London: University Press
of New England, 2001. pp. 282-286 --
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1584650877/104-0826754-0051121?v=glance
"NewMusicBox asks: What message does H'un (Lacerations):
In Memoriam 1966-1976, which you composed in memory of the
Cultural Revolution in China, have for us today?
- Bright Sheng" --
http://www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=66hf04
John Muir --
http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/ (Sierra Club)
Robert Giard --
http://www.queer-arts.org/archive/show4/forum/giard/giard_text.html
(G.L. Mitchell - Queer Arts)
_Robert Giard Photo Gallery --
http://www.artistswithaids.org/artery/centerpieces/giard_index.html (Robert Atkins - Artery)
_In Memorium: Robert Giard --
http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur082702.html
(Judy Malloy - Arts Wire Current)
Florence Griffith Joyner --
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/features/joyner/gallery/index.html
(Sports Illustrated)
_Obituary --
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/year.review/obits/sports/ (CNN)
Read Dorothy: On the Western Front
Revelations of Secret Surveillance - Part III
A Gathering of Artists
The concluding sections of Revelations of Secret Surveillance take place at an
exhibition curated by Sid. At the Opening for this exhibition, the artists and writers
in the story look at repression in this country in terms of complex, interconnected systems
of persecution, life control and extreme censorship that are used to covertly attack civilians.
Rather than using the harmful weapons of ancient epics, the men and women in this story
use their powers of creativity and information gathering to confront a common enemy --
exposing its systems with art, research, and discussion.
1.
Gwen: Prelude
"...Sir Edward Elgar, the British composer who wrote an intriguing orchestral work,
known as the Enigma Variations."
Sid paused, as if unsure how to express a hypertextual connection
between the work of a distinguished composer,
The Enigma, a cipher machine at the core of World War II intelligence,
and a chain of deaths that included Sir Arthur Sullivan, Jack London and John F. Kennedy.
...The complexity inherent in deciphering and explaining so many themes
echoed in our quest to unravel an ancient system
and in this disordered writing."
Gwen's Prelude is a record of her early morning half awake, half dreaming thoughts. Contingently,
the notes for Prelude are as diffuse as the Prelude itself. Like the unraveling
of evidence of intelligence agency infiltration and subterfuge, their meaning is open
to various interpretations and challenges. Yet regardless of the interpretation
of the personal accidents and interference that inform it, the Prelude points out
the potential for the use of military-developed technologies to be covertly used as
weapons against civilians and their families.
"For the first time since I had heard this story,
I remembered my Pilgrim ancestors,
fleeing religious persecution on the Mayflower and the Speedwell,
forced to return to England for repairs while winter deepened in the New World."
Everything that happened to Gwen's mother in this narrative happened to me, although,
it is slightly fictionalized. When I was going home from Germany, via England,
the plane I was on had two engines fail in the middle of the Atlantic. The plane
turned around and made it back to England, and then I had to get back on the same
plane the following day.
My car got stuck on the railroad tracks on a ski trip. While sketching in
a cow field, I was almost shot by hunters. I began to fall much more than
I had in the past after I made the ski team my freshman year at Middlebury.
The scar above my left ankle made by an abscess from a ski boot is no longer there due
to the massive skin grafts needed after I was run down in 1994. It was oval but
-- like the logo for the Enigma machines -- pointed on each end.
Like Gwen's Mother, after I auditioned for and was accepted in a college string quartet,
I began to play my violin flat, but I could not hear that I was playing flat. This had not happened
before; it was difficult to continue and the pleasure of music-making was lost.
Although there is no evidence that this particular research was related to what happened with my
hearing, it was not particularly surprising to discover that during and after World War II, pitch and
its perception were researched by The Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory at Harvard.
I remembered the times the earaches I had were so bad that I lay on the floor of my dorm
screaming.
For the writing of this account of Gwen's uneasy early morning nightmare
on the day of Sid's exhibition, I looked at the events that happened around
the time I began to experience what in retrospect seems to be a much higher
than normal series of accidents. Although I know of no proof that there is a connection,
the serious problems began around 1958, the year of the founding both of NASA, with
many of its former-Nazi led facilities in the deep South, and of the John Birch Society,
with strongholds in the sci-tech and industrial communities in the Northeast, Midwest,
and California.
Because my Mother, Barbara Powers, was a newspaper editor when I was a young woman,
the John Birch Society (JBS) and its attempts to influence news coverage were a subject
of household discussion. At about the same time, for several summers I worked for the
Medical Library of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. Although it might
have no meaning whatsoever, I was surprised -- particularly in the light of my mother's
criticism of the JBS -- to discover (in the research for Prelude) that the Assistant
Medical Director of New England Mutual Life was one of the original members of the JBS
governing board, the Birch Council.
It was only one thread in the chain of serendipitous research that informed the narrative
in Prelude. There were others.
"As if our minds were running on a parallel track,
Gunter was now talking about the World War II codebreaking
headquartered at Bletchley Park.
'The storied Enigma as a way for a cabal of eugencists from opposing sides
to communicate -- people who could have included intelligence agents
from many countries --
eugenicists in Britain, Germany and America
and or religious fanatics from ancient orders,' he was saying.
'Their allegiance not necessarily completely to their own country.
I do not mean that that is what most who worked heroically
to break the Nazi codes were doing,
but rather that Ultra could have been piggybacked on.
It would explain many things that happened in the course of the war.'"
- The Wedding Celebration of Gunter and Gwen
I was channel surfing when I came across a documentary -- unfortunately I do not
remember its name -- about the role of British Intelligence (British
Security Coordination, the BSC) in this country during World War II. Perhaps it was a Yankee
ancestral memory of British troops in the Boston area when the American Revolution began, or
the spirit of my Scottish ancestor the woman warrior Maid Lillard, who was central in the
defeat of the English at the Battle of Ancrum Muir, but I was concerned that British spies
had been given such clandestine power in this country.
I was also interested in the fact that British intelligence staged accidents to kill suspected
German spies in this country. Why were suspected spies murdered and not questioned?
Given the relatively high percentage of accidents to artists and musicians,
I wondered what technologies might have been used to stage such accidents.
Covertly installed remote controlled (RC) guidance systems such as Tesla's
radio controlled boat; the US Navy's WWII; TDR-1 Assault Drone; the US Air Force
Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; MIT-developed WWII guidance systems; such as
those developed by Nazi scientists for remote controlled demolition tank units?
"'This theory of the incredible trajectory of the so-called magic bullet
that killed President Kennedy it reminds me of the remote contolled 'Goliaths'
that the Nazis used during World II,' Gunter said."
- The Wedding Celebration of Gunter and Gwen
While researching the possible use of such RC guidance systems to stage accidents,
I remembered how when I was a young girl, my bicycle kept crashing into an oak tree
at the bottom of a hill near my home. The scars on my elbow lingered for years. The
crash was always at the same place, and I was always injured in the same place, my left
elbow. It is difficult to believe that one of my neighbors used RC guidance systems to
hurt a young girl, but even at the time I could not understand why it kept happening.
I knew I was losing control of my bike, but it did not seem to be my fault.
The memory of these recurrent accidents coincided with the research I had begun
on the disturbing record of BSC's subversive infiltration of American institutions.
Just for the hell of it, I searched "elbow" on the Internet and came up with a place
in Bermuda. In retrospect, I should have focused on Elbow Beach in Paget,
where BSC head William Stephenson died. Or remembered that it was Bermuda
where the British selected women with shapely ankles to intercept German coded
messages, claiming that women with bad legs did not make good "trappers".
But on the map my eye was drawn about 10 miles North West from Elbow Beach
to The Royal Naval Dockyard, from where the British Army set sail to burn
Washington in 1814.
The connection is of course only hypertextual, but I had not known that up until 1995,
the British kept a military presence right off our coast. Why I wondered -- given the
British Navy's history of impressment of American sailors -- had no one connected the
British Navy in Bermuda with "Bermuda Triangle" disappearances?
Like the Prelude itself, the research took on a nightmarish dream quality, intertwining
-- in the possibility of covert revenge on civilians by defeated nations -- the technologies of
"Hessians" and the manipulative psychological warfare of the British Army.
And I wondered what happened when my father was sent to England to recuperate
after he was wounded on the German front.
The Prelude that began with Gwen's mother's Enigma-label shaped scar above her ankle
(based on my similar scar) continues in these notes with concern about staged accidents
and with childhood memories of repetitive accidents. As if the accumulated scars were
a metaphorical map to the events in this work, while working on these notes, I looked
down at the deep scars on my leg (that makes it look like the head of an alligator)
and for the first time wondered why, given that the car ran into my leg while I was
sideways in a crosswalk, the direct hit was in the front of my leg.
References
10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry)"Climb to Glory" --
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/10mtn.htm (globalsecruity.org)
Author's Note:
My father, W. Langdon "Ike" Powers was born on February 18, 1911. February 18 (1546)
was also the date of Martin Luther's death, and as observed in the narrative, the beginning
of the battle for Riva Ridge on February 18, 1945 in which the US skiers, snowshoers,
and mountaineers in the 10th Mountain Division defeated the German skiers and mountaineers
in the mountains of Italy.
Edward Elgar, Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra, Op. 36 ("Enigma"), 1899
The underlying theme is sometimes considered to be "Auld Lang Syne"
Judy Malloy, Biography
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/mybio.html
Otis Chandler, "Peril to Conservatives", Los Angeles Times, March 12, 1961.
Commentary
Founded by Belmont, Massachusetts-based candy manufacturer Robert Welch,
the John Birch Society was an initial force in the displacement of moderate
Republicans by the far right. While J. Edgar Hoover used the US Government to attack
liberals, the JBS created an organization that not only attacked liberals but also
attacked moderate Republicans, including President Eisenhower whom they called a
"Communist dupe. Following a series of Los Angeles Times articles by Gene Blake,
which exposed the beliefs and methods of the JBS, LA Times Publisher Otis Chandler
editorialized against its methods, concluding that "Subversion, whether it is of the left
or the right, is still subversion."
However, it should be emphasized here and throughout this work, that it is likely that most
members of the John Birch society joined to exercise their legal political rights in this free country.
Motley, Raymond, "The Welch Attack on Pasternak is a Blow Against
Individuality", Los Angeles Times, May 2, 1961
"Welch Reveals Names of Birch Council Members", Los Angeles Times, April 1, 1961.
They included William J. Grede, former President of the anti-union National Association of
Manufacturers; T. Coleman Andrews, former U.S Commissioner of Internal Revenue;
Ralph E, Davis, President of General Plant Protection Corp., Los Angeles;
Clarence Manion, former Dean of Notre Dean University Law School; Revilo B. Oliver,
University of Illinois Professor; Spruille Braden, former Asst. Secretary of State,
and Dr. N.E. Adamson Jr., Assistant Medical Director of the New England Mutual Life
Insurance Company.
"A Brief History of Precision Guided Weapons," Twenty First Century Books
http://www.tfcbooks.com/articles/tws10.htm
Markus Jaugitz, German Remote Control Tank Units 1940-1943,
Atglen, PA: Schiffer, Military/Aviation History, 1996
Harvard University Archives, "Harvard University. Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory" --
http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/~hua08005
Georg von Békésy, Experiments in Hearing, Acoustical Society of America,
Originally published in 1960; Reprinted in 1989
http://asa.aip.org/books/experiments.html
William Stevenson, A Man Called Intrepid, Guilford, CT,
The Lyons Press, 1976. (note that the author is a different person than William Stephenson,
the subject of this book) British Intelligence (British Security Coordination - BSC) boasts about subverting
the American press and undermining American labor unions and their leaders.
Bletchley Park allowing the Germans to shoot down the plane Leslie Howard and Wilfrid Israel were on,
in order to protect Ultra (Enigma machine decoded intelligence sources housed at Bletchey Park in England)
is covered on pages 165-166.
Mahl, Thomas, Desperate Deception, British Covert Operations in the
United States, 1939-44, Brassey's, 1998.
Documents how British Intelligence agents infiltrated US agencies and media, and interfered with the US
political process in the World War II era.
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Quiet Canadian, the Secret Service Story of Sir William
Stephenson, Constable, 1962. Confirms some of the incidents and the general behavior pattern of BSC
that is documented in Stevenson and Mahl.
Ronald Howard, In Search of My Father, St. Martin's Press, 1981.
Written by his son, journalist/actor/art gallery owner Ronald Howard, this book
details the career and last months of British Actor, Leslie Howard, 1893-1943.
Commentary
According to Howard's son's account, (it does not appear that he knew that British
Intelligence was aware the plane was going to shot down) Leslie Howard was not originally
scheduled to be on this flight. The airline received a call saying that Howard
and Alfred Chenhalls, whose company was a financial advisor to film and theatre people,
had priority. It does not appear that Howard and Chenhalls initiated the call.
Three passengers were taken off - a boy, (the son of a Major in the foreign office)
his nanny, and Father A.S. Holmes, Vice-President of the R.C. English College.
In addition to Leslie Howard, who was Jewish Hungarian and had been making films
promoting the British cause, and Jewish advocate Wilfrid Israel, who knowledge of details
of the Holocaust, the other people who were killed included K. Stonehouse, Washington
correspondent of Reuters; Mrs C.A. Paton, wife of the Cuban Consul in Liverpool;
(also a late addition) T.M. Shervington, Shell Manager in Lisbon; (sponsored by the Ministry
of Fuel and Power) and mining engineer Ivan Sharp, who had been negotiating wolfram exports
to the UK for the manufacture of armaments. Wilfrid Israel was traveling for the
Jewish Refugee Mission. He had saved many families from the death camps and was working to
organize the movement to Palestine of the 1,500 Jewish refugees in transit camps
in Spain and Portugal.
Donald E. Wilkes, "The Assassination of Ashley Wilkes", The Athens Observer, June 8, 1995.
http://www.law.uga.edu/academics/profiles/dwilkes_more/other_1ashley.html
(The University of Georgia School of Law)
"...When the Ultra secret was disclosed long after WW2 ended, the public learned
that the Allies had broken the Nazi codes for most of the war.
Subsequently it was also revealed that the British had known in advance of
possible German plans to intercept the airliner. To avoid compromising
the Ultra secret, the British did not pass on their knowledge to the airline.."
Richard Harris Smith, OSS, The Secret History of America's First
Central Intelligence Agency, Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2005 --
http://www.globepequot.com/globepequot/
index.cfm?fuseaction=customer.product&product_code=1%2D59228%2D729%2D8&category_code=
Thomas F. Troy, Wild Bill and Intrepid, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1996.
A detailed account of the relationship between BSC head Stephenson and and OSS head
Donovan. Retired CIA Staff Officer Thomas F. Troy quotes a memorandum from Asst. Secretary
of State Adolf Berle in which he expresses concern that Stephenson was creating "a full
size secret police and intelligence service". (p. 74) Note that according to a memo from
J. Edgar Hoover to Berle, in addition to the office in New York City,
Stephenson had agents in Baltimore, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Houston.
The likelihood that Stephenson's deputy, Colonel Charles H. ("Dick") Ellis was a Nazi spy
and possibly also a Soviet spy is discussed on pp. 14-15 and p. 160. Also of concern is the
"Olds" project. According to Troy, in the 50's. Stephenson (now in Bermuda) and Ellis were
spying on and interfering with Black Power activists moving between
Caribbean and Washington. p. 15.
Commentary
The possibility that Donovan -- an Irish American World War I hero, -- was a
"replacement" when he was made head of the OSS is suggested by Uncle Roger in
Judy Malloy, The Wedding celebration of Gunter and Gwen, 2006-2007 --
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/celebration/begin_celebration.html
"When he commanded the New York 69th Regiment of 'The Fighting Irish',
Donovan was noted for ensuring the readiness of his men,
but as OSS head it appears that he did not exact the same level of training.
Perhaps there was not the time or the facilities,
perhaps, his outlook had changed, and his allegiance was now
with the forces of Empire, capitalism, and ancient crusader.
Or perhaps the man in this key intelligence role was not Donovan
but had assumed his name and identity. It is a valid consideration.
I do know that like Kennedy, Donovan criticized British war readiness.
Nevertheless, the British promoted him for head of the OSS.
In my experience, British officials do not recommend the Irish
for such positions. Particularly those whose family gave sanctuary
to Irish Independence leaders."
Leslie Howard --
http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/new_site/biography.php?id=979&showgroup= (The Biography Channel)
Wilfrid Israel
http://www.cjh.org/academic/findingaids/LBI/nhprc/IsraelFamily.html
("Guide to the Papers of the Israel Family, 1814-1996", Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History)
Wilfrid Israel Museum --
http://www.wilfrid.org.il/
"German Offensive in the Ardennes 1944 - Enigma and the Ultra Secret" --
http://www.army.mod.uk/royalsignalsmuseum/PostalCovers/EnigmaUltraSecret.htm
(The British Army)
"...The attack took the allies by surprise, and made rapid progress towards
the west in the first days. Afterwards there was much heart searching for the reason
why ULTRA had apparently not given adequate warning. This is partly explained by the
very tight Security in the German forces preparing for the attack, with units operating
under wireless silence; but it also seems clear that the allied staffs
(perhaps due to a degree of complacency) had not interpreted correctly
the ample SIGINT available to them, which should have warned them..."
First Invasion: The War of 1812, The History Channel --
http://www.historychannel.com/
The War of 1812 was formally concluded by the Treaty of Ghent in Ghent, Belgium in 1814.
Charles Berlitz with the collaboration of J. Manson Valentine,
The Bermuda Triangle Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.
Commentary
Although Berlitz does not cite this as a possible cause,
the finding of so many ships without their crews in the vicinity of Bermuda
from where the British sailed to burn Washington and the White House in 1814
and where they held a military presence until 1957 and an espionage station
during WWII, suggests the possibility of impressment by the British. Bermuda was
where the British imprisoned Irish slaves and the Scots who fought Cromwell in the
17th century. See Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince, Frommer's Bermuda 2006
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2006. pp 225-229 for a History of the British presence in Bermuda.
Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust. The Strategic Alliance
Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation.
Three Rivers Press, NY, 2001 --
http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
The book details how IBM technology made it possible for the Germans to
find all the Jewish people in Germany. It documents the census operations
for which IBM provided the technology and convincingly sets forth evidence
that Thomas Watson not only continued to help the Germans during WWII,
but also was aware of the uses of the technology which he provided.
The poster created by Dehomag, IBM's German subsidiary (and described by Gunter)
is described by Black in a section about Dehomag posters.
John F. Kennedy, Why England Slept (Wilfred Funk, 1940)
(written as a Senior Thesis at Harvard when he was 23 years old)
Kennedy's criticism of various aspects of British military readiness
is of interest.
Jack London, The People of the Abyss, originally published
by Macmillan in 1903.
The complete text of this expose of the British ruling class' treatment
of the poor is available in the Berkeley Digital Library at
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/PeopleOfTheAbyss/
The site also houses many other of his works including
Valley of the Moon(1913) and The Iron Heel. (1908)
Commentary
Of Irish and Italian parentage, Sir Arthur Sullivan died at age 58
on November 22, 1900, while composing Irish music for the Opera
The Emerald Isle. Jack London died of apparent kidney failure on
November 22, 1916. John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963.
Irish Protestant-born British writer C. S. Lewis, who had also been critical
of England, died on the same day that Kennedy died, November 22, 1963,
and thus his death did not receive much attention.
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz --
http://www.nimitz-museum.org/nimitzbio.htm
(National Museum of the Pacific War)
Nimitz was Professor of Naval Science and Tactics for the Unit at
the University of California at Berkeley and after WWII, he lived in Berkeley
until he took a bad fall in 1963 and moved to Treasure Island
where he died a few years later.
Judy Malloy, The Wedding Celebration of Gunter and Gwen, World Wide Web, 2006
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/celebration/begin_celebration.html
In the final section of Revelations of Secret Surveillance, Archie reveals the
mechanisms of intelligence agency oppression. Contingently, in Prelude, Gwen explores
undercurrents of infiltration and treachery. It is an ongoing exploration that does not conclude
in Prelude. Another layer -- the possibility of an underground Catholic infiltration of British
intelligence, that began after Henry VIII's actions against the Church -- is explored in
The Wedding Celebration of Gunter and Gwen.
Engelbert Humperdinck, music and Adelheid Wette, libretto, "Abends will ich schlafen gehn"
("When at night I go to sleep") Hansel und Gretel, 1893.
Read Prelude
2.
Dorothy and Sid: Duet
Many of the intellectuals under attack in this country by the FBI and Congress
during the Cold War had not been or were no longer Communists. When it became
clear that Stalin was instituting a repressive government, many artists and writers
in this country, who had looked to Communism as a way to create a more equal
society, repudiated Communism.
The repudiation of Communism by artists and writers, who had formerly supported its
theoretical goals, was potentially damaging to the USSR Nevertheless -- as documented
by Natalie Robins, in Alien Ink: The FBI's War on Freedom
of Expression; (op. cit) by Herbert Mitgang in
Dangerous Dossiers, Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest
Authors, (op. cit) and by Alex Constantine in The Covert War
Against Rock (op. cit.) -- the FBI directed massive surveillance
attacks against American artists.
The parallels with KGB repression of intellectuals are disturbing.
Contingently, in conservative organizations -- the National Manufacturers Association (NAM)
role in the founding leadership in the Birch Society is of particular interest --
a distinction was not made between the right of workers to organize, the role
of Communists in supporting this, and how this support of the rights of workers
to good wages, benefits and working conditions differs from the actual undermining
of this country. In some cases this distinction may have been purposefully
not made in order to serve the self interests of management interests in the leadership
of such organizations.
It was not a coincidence that Screen Writers Guild founding members and past
Presidents Lester Cole and John Howard Lawson and Screen Actors Guild
board member Samuel Ornitz were among the writers whom Congress jailed,
as was Herbert Biberman, who made the film The Salt of the Earth
about the working conditions for New Mexico miners and was a founder
of the Screen Directors Guild.
Because attacks on Communism were manifested in attacks on union activists
and liberals, conservative politicians may also have been willing to overlook the
potential of a real danger from KGB agents in this country. The destruction
of liberals and moderates was politically more expedient. Thus, instead of
concentrating on the search for real spies and infiltrators, Congress and
the FBI were investigating artists, writers, and activists.
As Dorothy notes in Duet:
"The common goal of Fascists and Communist dictatorships
-- the eradication of free discourse and moderate and liberal approaches --
too often ignored in the histories of what happened."
FBI campaigns against writers and civil rights activists and the current FBI
squandering of the tax dollars of American citizens on the surveillance of people
who speak for peace, the environment, and the humane treatment of animals,
should be looked at in terms of intelligence agency records in uncovering
real foreign agents and terrorists.
For instance:
In reading the accounts of FBI traitor Robert Hanssen and CIA traitor
Aldrich Ames, both of whom sold out this country to the Russian government,
it is difficult to understand why their agencies did not figure out that there was
a problem before so many networks were blown.
Furthermore, that Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent who spied for the KGB,
was a supervisor in the FBI program that spied on and disrupted
American activists suggests that whether intentionally or not,
FBI spying on activists was a diversionary tactic that actually served
the real traitors.
There were and are dedicated FBI agents, but in some cases, they themselves have been
thwarted. In The FBI Nobody Knows, Fred J. Cook reports that after FBI Special
Agent Skip Gibbons was instrumental in catching a Russian spy, Gibbons was persecuted
by FBI management, receiving five disciplinary transfers.
Cook also reports that as a result of FBI infiltration, the FBI became a dominant
force in the Communist party, and in some cases FBI provocateurs seemed more loyal to the
Communist party than the FBI.
In FBI Secrets, An Agent's Expose, (op. cit. pp. 67-80)
former FBI agent M. Wesley Swearingen documents how the FBI in Los Angeles
ignored the Weatherman Underground Organization.
The FBI's use of al Qaeda trainer Ali Mohamed as an informant (reported
by Peter Dale Scott in an article listed below) brings up questions regarding
approaches to anti-terrorism law enforcement.
Questions are: Does FBI management's dependence on a system of informants, infiltrators and
perpetrators put society at risk? Is the emphasis on informants -- writer Kay Boyle's 355
page FBI file, for instance, was started on false information -- not only a poor substitute
for good detective work but also an excuse to track writers and activists instead
of terrorists?
In Duet, a parallel is made between the jailing of Hollywood writers by Congress,
Communist jailing of writers and intellectuals, and what appears to be a covert
system of surveillance, harassment, and detention that is used against artists and
activists in this country. In a fictional setting, Revelations of Secret
Surveillance suggests there may now be a covert system to deprive artists
and activists of the liberty and the pursuit of happiness that is guaranteed by
the US Constitution, or to place them in dangerous situations.
The narrative suggests that the genesis of this covert system on a widespread basis
may have been a criminal intent to circumvent public opinion and American
democratic processes that would be unlikely to support KGB style repression
of American citizens.
References
- Jonathan Dann, J. Michael Kennedy, "FBI Traitor, Robert Hanssen,
Helped in Search for Subversives - Espionage: Even as he was selling secrets to the
Soviets, Robert Hanssen was a supervisor in an '80s program to monitor U.S.
anti-nuclear and peace activists," Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2001 --
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/COINTELPRO80s.html
(ratical.org website - page down for story)
- David A. Vise, The Bureau and the Mole, the Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen,
the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History, NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002.
When FBI agents discovered what Hanssen was going and arrested him, his response was
"What took you so long?" (p. 216)
- Bruce Page, David Leitch and Phillip Knightley, The Philby Conspiracy, Garden City,
NY, Doubleday & Company, 1968. The authors detail how the CIA welcomed British traitor
Kim Philby to their headquarters where as a British intelligence liaison he was given top access
to CIA planning. According The Philby Conspiracy, entire CIA networks were blown
and many of our agents were killed because of Philby.
British traitor Donald Maclean was ensconced in Washington as Secretary of the
Combined Policy Committee on Atomic Development from which position he gave
the KGB key information about the American nuclear program.
- Fred J. Cook, The FBI Nobody Knows, NY: Pyramid Books, 1964 p. 18-20, 37-38. 93.
- ACLU, "New Documents Show FBI Targeting Environmental and Animal Rights
Groups Activities as `Domestic Terrorism'", December, 20, 2005 --
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/23124prs20051220.html?ht=peta%20peta
- "ACLU Denounces FBI Tactics Targeting Political Protesters",August 16, 2004 --
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=16248&c=282
- Peter Dale Scott, "How the FBI protected Al Qaeda's 9/11 Hijacking Trainer
New Revelations about Ali Mohamed", Centre for Research on Globalisation,
October 8, 2006
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SCO20061008&articleId=3422
- David Ray Griffin, "9/11 and the American Empire: How Should Religious People Respond?"
lecture delivered at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on April 18, 2005,
Scoop
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00129.htm
Griffin synthesizes evidence that the FBI did not act on cogent
warnings before the 911 attack.
- Gerard Colby, DuPont Dynasty. Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1984, 1974.
The role of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) in the repression of American
labor is discussed on pages 401-403.
- Eric Bentley, Thirty Years of Treason, Excerpts from Hearings Before
the House Committee on Un-American Activities 1938-1968, New York,
Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002.
- "'I Have Sung in Hobo Jungles, and I Have Sung for the Rockefellers':
Pete Seeger Refuses to 'Sing' for HUAC",
Testimony of Pete Seeger before the House Un-American Activities Committee,
August 18, 1955, History Matters --
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6457/
- Michael Mills, "HUAC and Censorship Changes", Moderntimes Classic
Film Pages, 1998 --
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/huac.htm
- "The Hollywood Ten", Media Resources Center, Moffitt Library,
University of California, Berkeley. --
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html
Imprisoned writers included Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk,
Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and
Dalton Trumbo.
- The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center,
"Did the Jews in Europe realize what was going to happen to them?"
(in "Answers to Some Commonly Asked Questions", no. 20)
Describes how the Nazis minimized resistance to the "Final Solution"
by such subterfuges as telling many Jewish people that they would be "resettled" --
http://www.hmlc.org/answerspage.htm
- Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance, Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.
- Phil Shannon, "An American icon", Review of Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince
by Marc Elliot Andre Deutsch, 2003, Green Left Weekly, March 31, 2004 --
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/577/577p21.htm
- The Waldorf Statement --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_Statement (Wikipedia)
- William Triplett, "Busting heads and blaming Reds; How movie producers
used the blacklist to crack down on Hollywood unions", Salon.com, Jan. 11, 2000
http://archive.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2000/01/11/blacklist/print.html
- Frances Stonor Saunders, "The Guardian Furies", in Frances Stonor Saunders,
The Cultural Cold War, The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, NY: The New Press,
1999. pp. 279-301.
Saunders documents the extensive role of the CIA in controlling film content in Hollywood.
http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_catalog&task=author&author_id=P16404
- Robert J. Bunker, Editor, "Nonlethal Weapons: Terms and References",
INSS Occasional Paper 15, USAF Institute for National Security Studies
USAF Academy, Colorado --
http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/nonlethal.html (angelfire.com website)
- John B. Alexander, "Acoustics", in Future War, Non-Lethal Weapons in Twenty-First Century
Warfare, NY: Thomas Dunne Books, 1999. pp. 95-102
- Tim Page and Horst Faas, Requiem: By the Photographers who Died in
Vietnam and Indochina, Random House, 1977.
--
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?0679456570
- Judy Malloy,"Traveling Exhibition Commemorates the Work of Photographers who Died
in Vietnam", NYFA Current, March 3, 2004 --
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/gunterandgwen/photographers.html
- Edmund White, Loss within Loss - Artists in the Age of AIDS,
In Cooperation with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, University
of Wisconsin Press, 2002. --
http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/index.html
Read Duet
3.
A Gathering of Artists
"While when he was Operations Manager at Auschwitz,
Otto Ambros wrote a directive.
In a metaphor for a future system expressly developed to torture people
unseen,
he spoke of the flogging of weak inmates,
the people he worked to death on the Auschwitz construction site.
The flogging in view of the free workers was demoralizing, he pointed out.
He ordered that the prisoners be whipped inside the concentration camp,
out of sight of the free workers."
- Concerto for Narrative Data
The narrative describes a covert persecution against many kinds of people throughout
the world that was intensified in the Cold War.
And in the telling of the story I was more than once reminded that on the other side of
the railroad tracks, behind the house where I grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts,
was the same river that, polluted by WR Grace in neighboring Woburn, figures in
A Civil Action. (a book by Jonathan Harr, Vintage, 1966, and a movie written
and produced by Steven Zaillian about the legal case regarding the lethal impact
of pollution of Woburn's water.)
At the close of World War II, Otto Ambros -- former Chief of the Chemical Warfare
Committee of the German Ministry of Armaments and War Production and a
manager at Auschwitz, who was convicted of slavery and mass murder --
was hired as a consultant by WR Grace President, Peter Grace. Grace was
not only the head of WR Grace but also the president of the American Association
of the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta, an order with extensive
CIA connections.
References
- Bob Dylan --
http://www.bobdylan.com
_"Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" written by Bob Dylan, copyright 1970 Special Rider Music
--
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/birch.html
- Don McLean --
http://www.don-mclean.com/
_"American Pie", words and music by Don McLean,
Copyright 1971, 1972 by Music Corporation of America and The Benny Bird Co
Album - American Pie
- Patsy Cline --
http://www.patsified.com
- "I Fall to Pieces" Words and Music by Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard,
Copyright 1960 Tree Publishing Co. Recorded by Patsy Cline in 1961
- Mahl, Thomas, Desperate Deception, British Covert Operations in the
United States, 1939-44, Brassey's, 1998.
- William Stevenson, A Man Called Intrepid, Guilford, CT,
The Lyons Press, 1976.
- Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Quiet Canadian, the Secret Service Story of Sir William
Stephenson, Constable, 1962.
- Thomas F. Troy, Wild Bill and Intrepid, New Haven & London,
Yale University Press, 1996
- Richard Harris Smith, OSS, The Secret History of America's First
Central Intelligence Agency, Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2005 --
http://www.globepequot.com/globepequot/
index.cfm?fuseaction=customer.product&product_code=1%2D59228%2D729%2D8&category_code=
- Anthony Cave Brown, "Forming the Services", in Anthony Cave Brown,
The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan, NY: Times Books, 1982. pp. 168-185.
- Carey, Frank, "It's Anthropologists' Plan To Prevent Future Wars", The Washington
Post, April 19, 1942.
Commentary
Carleton S. Coon, Harvard, Conrad M. Arensberg,
Brooklyn College, and Eliot D. Chapple, Harvard Medical School and
President of the Society for Applied Anthropology propose
a "United States of the World" with a world police force that would control
the whole federation.
Carleton Coon was chosen by "Wild Bill" Donovan as an agent of the fledging OSS.
that later became the CIA) He served in North Africa from 1942-43.
Anthony Cave Brown (see above pp. 269-270) quotes a memo from Coon to Donovan in which
Coon not only advocates political assassination but also suggests that a group
of men be chosen for this purpose from the OSS and the British SOE.
- Tom Hayden,
"British Role in NI is a Model for Disaster",
Irish America, June-July, 2003 --
http://www.irishabroad.com/irishworld/irishamericamag/junejuly03/departments/britishrole.asp
- Frank Kitson, Low Intensity Operations: Subversion, Insurgency,
Peacekeeping, Harrisburg PA: Stackpole Books, 1971.
_review by Dale Wharton --
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27/054.html
- Irish Northern Aid, "1994 Britain's Dirty War:
British Garrison in Ireland" --
http://www.inac.org/irishhistory/garrison
- First Invasion: The War of 1812, The History Channel --
http://www.historychannel.com/
The War of 1812 was formally concluded by the Treaty of Ghent in Ghent, Belgium in 1814.
- Homer, The Iliad: The Story of Achilles, translated by W.H.D. Rouse. A Mentor Book.
(New York: New American Library), 1938.
Max Nordau, op. cit.
- "An Occultist's Guide to the Assassins and the Illuminati", An Interview
with James Wasserman, in Dan Burstein and Arne deKeijzer,
Secrets of Angeles & Demons, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. pp. 140-149.
- Noor Inayat Khan --
http://www.64-baker-street.org/agents/agent_fany_noor_inayat_khan.html
(64 Baker Street)
- Noor Inayat Khan, Twenty Jataka Tales,
Vermont, Inner Traditions International --
http://www.amazon.com/
exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0892813237/qid=1096748762/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-0750071-8132125?v=glance&s=books
Commentary
In her writing, Noor Inayat Khan presents allegories of a world where animals and humans
live together in mutual respect, and there are positive solutions to conflict. She was a
descendent of Tipu Sultan, who fought British rule in India.
- Desparate Crossing, the Untold Story of the Mayflower, The History Channel, 2006
-
http://www.history.com/marquee.do?marquee_id=52222
- John Denver --
http://www.johndenver.com/
_Ecology Hall of Fame, "John Denver, 1943-1997" --
http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/denver/
- "Leaving on a Jet Plane", Words and Music by John Denver,
Copyright Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co. (ASCAP)
Recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary, Album 1700, 1967 --
http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/music/08-02.htm
- "Impressment" --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressment (Wikipedia)
The British Navy's impressment of over 6,000 American sailors
was one of the causes of the War of 1812.
- First Invasion: The War of 1812, The History Channel --
http://www.historychannel.com/
The War of 1812 was formally concluded by the Treaty of Ghent in Ghent, Belgium in 1814.
- Jacqueline Shields, The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Denmark
- Holocaust Era --
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Denmark.html#Holocaust
- Museum of Tolerance
_"Resistance and Rescue" --
http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/rr.html
_"righteous among the nations" --
http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/rn.html
- David Schneider, The San Francisco Symphony, Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1986.
A Theater of Our Lives
References
Ron Rosenbaum, "The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal",
The New York Times,
January 15, 1995 --
http://tafkac.org/collegiate/ivy_league_nude_photos.html (on Urban Legend Archives
web site)
"The Naked and the Nude", At Harvard, 1995 --
http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~perspy/old/issues/1995/apr/campaff.html
"...W.H. Sheldon and E.A. Hooton, the two professors behind the photo frenzy,
used the pictures for a very different, almost sinister purpose --
to link posture, which they believed was hereditary, with personality.
The intent was subtle but unmistabable..."
"'Biological Purge' is Urged by Hooton", The New York Times, February 21, 1937.
George Eliot, Middlemarch, originally published in 1871-2.
David H. Pierce, Threatening Anthropology, McCarthyism and the FBI's
Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists, Durham and London, Duke University
Press, 2004
Pierce documents FBI attacks on anthropologists who espoused racial justice.
Among the anthropologists whom the FBI did not attack was Earnest Hooton,
whose proposal of a national government supervised human breeding program
is mentioned on p. 348.
George L. Hersey, Evolution of Allure, Sexual Selection from
the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
Max Nordau's eugenic attacks on artists are discussed on p. 144.
Commentary
Of particular interest in this book by Yale art historian George Hersey,
is the description of British eugenicist Francis Galton's program for breeding
by "superior" families; (pp 110-111) Cesare Lombroso's denial of the equality
of women in his prescription for sexual selection; (pp 112-123) Max Nordau's
attacks specifically on artists and his suggestion that artists and other such
personalities should be confined to camps where they would be under constant supervision
and would not be allowed to reproduce; (p. 144) and the attacks of Nordau and proto-Nazi
Paul Schultze-Naumburg on art and artists.
Appearing in 1996 , at the height of the culture wars, Evolution of Allure
reveals historical antecedents for a series of systems not only for eugenics breeding but also for the
persecution of artists. Because the author's own interpretations of art are (in this study) so tied
to sexual selection, I found the book very depressing.
East, Edward M., Heredity and Human Affairs, New York: Scribners, 1927.
The idea that educated women with careers will be less likely to have children
is promoted on pps. 304-305. East was an influential Harvard professor.
Marcella Bombardieri, "Summers' remarks on women draw fire", Boston Globe,
January 17, 2005. "The president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers,
sparked an uproar at an academic conference Friday when he said that innate
differences between men and women might be one reason fewer women succeed in science
and math careers. Summers also questioned how much of a role discrimination plays in
dearth of female professors in science and engineering at elite universities."
Edwin Black, War Against the Weak, Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create
a Master Race, New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003 --
http://www.waragainsttheweak.com
Edwin Black, "Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection" --
San Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 2003 --
http://www.waragainsttheweak.com/offSiteArchive/www.sfgate.com/
Peter R. Breggin, "Campaigns Against Racist Federal Programs
by the Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology",
Journal of African American Men 1:No. 3, 3-22. Winter 1995/96
--
http://www.breggin.com/racistfedpol.html
A report on psychosurgery on minorities proposed by Harvard psychiatrist
Frank Ervin and neurosurgeons Vernon Mark and William Sweet in Massachusetts
and by Jolyon West at UCLA.
"The IBM 2020 Neural Chip Implant: Implanting Those Identified as the Most
Aggressive in our Society" --
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project134.html
(Top Secret Projects Website)
Mae Brussell, transcript of tape about Jonestown
Mae Brussell delineates the connections of Harvard's Mark, Ervin and Sweet
with the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute --
http://www.maebrussell.com/Transcriptions/365.html
Tommy Makem --
http://www.makem.com/tommy/index.html
"That Land I Love so Well", words and music by Tommy Makem,
Copyright 1975 --
http://www.makem.com/discography/recordings/lyricpage/thatlandilove.html
Duncan Graham-Rowe, "Brain implants `read' Monkey Minds,
NewScientist.com, July 8, 2004 --
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6127
"Brain implants have been used to 'read the minds' of monkeys
to predict what they are about to do and even how enthusiastic
they are about doing it."
Ben Harder, "Scientists "Drive" Rats By Remote Control",
National Geographic News, May 1, 2002 --
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0501_020501_roborats.html
Lawrence C. Katz, Principle Investigator,
"Researchers Record First 'Pheromone Images' in Brains of Mice",
Duke University Medical Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
http://www.hhmi.org/news/katz2.html
E. Okada, S. Aou, A. Takaki, Y. Oomura, T. Hori, "Electrical stimulation of male monkey's midbrain
elicits components of sexual behavior", Physiology & Behavior, July 1991, 50(1): 229-36 --
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1946721&dopt=Abstract
Sean Stewart, "Neuromaster, For Caltech's Steve Potter, the road to brain
implants begins with a virtual rat," Wired, February 2000 --
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/potter.html
David Whitehouse, "Computer uses cat's brain to see",
BBC News, October 8, 1999 --
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/468857.stm
"In what is bound to become a much debated and highly controversial experiment,
a team of US scientists have wired a computer
to a cat's brain and created videos of what the animal was seeing...
In Defense of Animals --
http://www.idausa.org
Alternatives to Animal Testing --
http://altweb.jhsph.edu/
Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2002 --
http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
Electronic Privacy Information Center, The Census and Privacy
http://www.epic.org/privacy/census/
Electronic Privacy Information Center, "Department of Homeland Security
Obtained Data on Arab Americans From Census Bureau" --
http://www.epic.org/privacy/census/foia/default.html
Electronic Privacy Information Center, (EPIC)
"Northwest Airlines' Disclosure of Passenger Data to Federal Agencies
New Information Disclosed in EPIC's FOIA Lawsuit -- FBI Obtained
Passenger Data; TSA Informed of NASA Screening Research"
--
http://www.epic.org/privacy/airtravel/nasa/
Audrey Hudson, "Inquiry sought into airline's data transfer to NASA",
The Washington Times, January 21, 2004 --
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040120-102817-4623r.htm
Audrey Hudson, "NASA 'deidentified' passengers",
The Washington Times, January 23, 2004 --
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040122-104701-2120r.htm
Eric Adler, "KU professor has nightmare vision of global
positioning technology", The Kansas City Star, March 7, 2003 --
http://www.wanttoknow.info/030307kansascitystar
William J.Broad, "Commercial Use of Spy Satellites to Begin;
Private Ventures Hope for Profits", The New York Times, February 10, 1997 --
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/1997/civvy-spysats.html
John C. Baker, Kevin M. O'Connell, and Ray A. Williamson, eds.
Commercial Observation Satellites At the Leading Edge of Global
Transparency, RAND Monographs/Reports MR1229, 2001
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1229/
Commentary:
This document gives an overview of global access to observation satellites
and addresses the issues of "global transparency" that this has created, including
potentially beneficial information, such as civilian access to information about nuclear
buildup. The framing of "open skies" issues in the context of the rights of photographers
and first amendment rights is important because advocates of privacy rights
should be aware that these issues are also important.
However, this report gives scant coverage to privacy rights, nor does it adequately address
how private citizens could be protected from stalking and harassment by users of satellite
data who spy on their lives and movements.
The assumption of many of the contributors to this report that the use
of observation satellites is, for better or worse, here to stay should be
re-examined in terms of the importance to human beings of privacy and of
the kind of world we want to live in the future.
Maureen Farrell, "George Orwell Meets the Matrix",
Buzzflash.com, July 27, 2004 --
http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/07/far04025.html
Roger Guillemette, "Trio of NRO Spy Satellites to be Launched During Next Two Months"
SPACE.com, September 6, 2001 --
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/nro_preview_010906.html
Links to Satellite and Space Imaging Sites --
http://members.aol.com/landsatcd/MOREHTML/satlinks.html
Oliver Morton, "Private Spy - The world's spy satellites are going
commercial and the national security control freaks are freaking out.
Watch for the next big First Amendment battle over who can see what.
And if you look up, smile.", Wired Magazine, 5:8, August, 1997 --
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.08/spy_pr.html
James Oberg, "Spying for Dummies -
The National Security Implications of Commercial Space Imaging",
SPECTRUM Magazine, November 1999 --
http://www.jamesoberg.com/articles/spy/
Robert Windrem, "Spy satellites enter new dimension,
Computerized 3-D simulations add perspective to surveillance",
MSNBC News, August 8, 1998 --
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3077885/
Robert Atkins, "NEA 4 (all right, 2 of them) Re-Unite", Artery --
http://www.artistswithaids.org/artery/centerpieces/centerpieces_nea.html
Archibald L. Gillies, "A New Commitment: To Artists, Creativity, and Freedom of
Expression in the 21st Century", The Warhol Foundation, 2001 --
http://www.warholfoundation.org/paperseries/article10.htm
A well written and reasoned article about the loss of arts funding,
particularly NEA funding for individual artists, and its impact on artists
and on the country.
Max Nordau, Degeneration, Lincoln and London, University
of Nebraska Press, 1993. (reprinted from the English langauage edition,
NY: D. Appleton & Co, 1895; original German edition: 1892)
Catholic Church, Canon 1369 --
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P52.HTM
"A person who in a public show or speech, in published writing,
or in other uses of the instruments of social communication utters blasphemy,
gravely injures good morals, expresses insults, or excites hatred or contempt
against religion or the Church is to be punished with a just penalty."
The Catholic League --
http://www.catholicleague.org
Lawrence Jarvik, "Ten Good Reasons to Eliminate Funding for the National
Endowment for the Arts" --
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/BG1110.cfm
(The Heritage Foundation)
Tim Miller and the N.E.A. 4
http://hometown.aol.com/millertale/timmillerNEA.html
The four performance artists whose grants were rescinded were
Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, and Tim Miller.
Judy Malloy, "Arts Community Urges Congress to Restore Individual Artists
Fellowships, Suggests Ways to Improve the Granting Process;
Affirming Community Arts Approach, Ways to Broaden Access to Local
Funding are Also Suggested", Arts Wire Current, May 27, 2002 --
http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2002/cur052702.html
Marjorie Heins, "The Miracle: Film Censorship and the Entanglement
of Church and State", University of Virginia Forum for Contemporary Thought,
Oct. 28, 2002 (revised Oct. 6, 2003)--
http://www.fepproject.org/commentaries/themiracle.html (The Free Expression Policy Project web site)
Vatican's bid to censure Graham Greene, BBC News, November 3, 2000 --
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1005484.stm
"Inside Look at Those Elite Religious Groups", US News & World Report,
March 19, 1984.
David A. Vise, op. cit.
Commentary
This account of FBI traitor Hanssen's life is of particular interest because it details
his involvement with Opus Dei, and his two-faced pretense of morality. Hanssen wrote
pornography, went to strip joints, and let his friend, Jack Hoschouer (in the Armed
Forces in Germany) watch him and his wife making love on closed circuit
video, unbeknownst to his wife.
Judy Malloy, "Arts Foes Helms, Thurmond, and Gramm to Leave Senate",
Arts Wire Current, September 11, 2001.
http://www.nyfa.org/current_archive/2001/cur091101.html#news1
"...Helms' systematic attacks on individual artists focused national attention
not on the myriad creative approaches of this country's artists and the compelling
need for their support -- but rather on the narrow-minded prejudices of the attackers.
The Arts Endowment was under continual threat of elimination. The National
arts budget was drastically slashed. Content restrictions were imposed
on government grants."
Commentary
Reporting on events that had recently happened, this issue of Arts Wire Current
was published on the day of the 911 attacks on New York City. The departure of three men
who were instrumental in decimating funding for the arts had seemed something to celebrate
when I finished the issue on September 10, but on the morning when it appeared, the
devastating destruction of the World Trade Center and the deaths of thousands of people,
including artist Michael Richards, were all that any of us in this country could focus on.
The Rule of R&D
"'All I remember is the feeling
of being plunged into a frustrating psychodrama;
of being drugged when I was not taking drugs.
The nightmare accident. And now the revulsion
that it is likely that techniques developed to be used against spies
were used against a woman artist.'"
In Canto Ten, scibe -- who had worked on the Berkeley campus and been a union activist,
and an innovative new media artist, and whose work looked at the impact of R&D --
expresses concern about what could have happened in Berkeley when the Free Speech
Movement challenged the defense-funded laboratories that ring the campus.
Her concerns are fictive speculation.
However, the unethical behavior of University of California
Aromic Energy Commission (AEC) researchers is well documented by reporter Eileen Welsome in
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War. For about
six decades, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico was managed by the University
of California. The UC system was one of the places responsible for human beings --
patients who went to physicians for treatment -- being injected with
plutonium without their informed consent by researchers including Robert Stone,
Joseph Hamilton, and Earl Miller. (pp. 88-96) Institutions involved included the
University of California's Radiation Laboratory and the medical school at the
University of California at San Francisco. In charge of medical experiments was
Stafford Warren, (later at UCLA) who was the Medical Director of the Los
Alamos-based Manhattan Project.
"The circumstances of many of our lives have been criminally altered,
.And as if we are civilians in war time
whose art or writing is about the terrible circumstances of war,
many contemporary artists under attack
have made art about what essentially are acts of war."
In Revelations of Secret Surveillance, scibe expresses concern about
the potential for government agents to use remote control technologies to stage accidents
in order to put people in the hospital where they could be used as human guinea pigs
by Defense researchers -- the possibility that critics of the military industrial complex
may have been targeted.
Although I know of no available evidence that these accidents were actually contrived and
Welsome does not address this issue, the cases that she reports on in The Plutonium Files
raise questions about this possibility. For instance, at about the time when the experiment was
ordered, an accident conveniently sent African American construction worker Ebb Cade into the
care of Joseph Howland, an Army doctor stationed at Oak Ridge, who injected Cade with
Plutonium without his knowledge. (pp. 82-87)
Among the other cases Welsome documents that are of interest in this respect are the role of
State prisons and State prison hospitals in Nazi-type research; (pp. 362-382) the methods
Willard Libby used to acquire 9,000 samples of human bone and 600 fetuses and human legs from
Massachusetts, Houston and other cities; (Chapter 32: "Body-Snatching Patriots" pp. 299-312)
and the accident that caused the death of former paratrooper and Sun Valley ski instructor
Cecil Kelley, whose body was used to begin the human tissue program at Los Alamos.
Welsome reports that: "For many years, anyone who died in the town of Los Alamos was
autopsied, including visitors, whom pathologist Clarence Lushbaugh called 'extras'."
References
G. Pascal Zachary, Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the
American Century, Cambridge, MA,. MIT Press, 1999
Provides an overview of the development of the military
industrial academic complex during World War II.
Welsome, Eileen, The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical
Experiments in the Cold War, NY: Random House, 1999.
Sets forth the history of radiation experiments on people who went to doctors
expecting medical care. In addition to detailed case histories, it is also documents the system
of deniability that was developed by the unethical scientists who performed these experiments under
the aegis of the US Government.
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments,
Final Report, 1995 --
http://www.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/
Eric Alterman, "The Plutonium Files", The Nation, February 10, 2000 --
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20000228&s=alterman
Military Human Experimentation Congressional Committee Report 103-97,
"Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans' Health? Lessons Spanning
Half a Century", U.S. Senate, December 8, 1994, John D. Rockefeller IV,
West Virginia, Chairman --
http://www.subversiveelement.com/MKHumanExperimentation.html
(posted on subversiveelement.com)
"MIT, Quaker Oats to settle radiation experiment suit", CNN Interactive,
December 31, 1997 --
http://www.cnn.com/US/9712/31/radioactive.oatmeal/
Frank D. Roylance, Ariel Sabar and Tom Bowman, "Nerve agents released
in Md. during open-air tests in 60s, Pentagon acknowledges VX, sarin experiments",
Baltimore Sun, 10 October 2002
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/linkscopy/nerveGas.html (on ratical.org website)
Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, "Puerto Ricans Outraged Over Secret Medical
Experiments",Puerto Rico Herald, 2002 --
http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2002/vol6n44/PROutragMedExp-en.shtml
Geoffrey Sea, "The Radiation Story No One Would Touch",
Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 1994 --
http://archives.cjr.org/year/94/2/radiation.asp
"Sour legacy of Tuskegee syphilis study lingers, CNN.com, May 16, 1997
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9705/16/nfm.tuskegee/
Martha Stephens, The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the
Cincinnati Radiation Tests, Duke University Press, 2002
United States Department of Energy. Office of Human Radiation Experiments,
"Human Radiation Studies: Remembering the Early Years, Oral History of
Dr. John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D.", June 1995 --
http://www.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/histories/0457/0457toc.html
includes discussion of causitive potential of radiation in breast cancer and leukemia
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, "The Development
of Human Subject Research Policy at DHEW" --
http://www.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/chap3_2.html
_"The Development of Requirements for Human Subject Research in
Other Federal Agencies" --
http://www.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/chap3_3.html
Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS)
in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO)
Geneva 1993, "International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Using
Human Subjects" --
http://www.codex.uu.se/texts/international.html
Declaration of Helsinki --
http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/helsinki/
(British Medical Journal, No 7070 Volume 313, 7 December 1996)
also available of the FDA website --
http://www.fda.gov/oc/health/helsinki89.html
"Human Research Ethics Education --
Foundations and Concepts of Research Involving Human Subjects",
Naval Medical Research Center --
http://www.nmrc.navy.mil/ORA/irbee/page_1-1.htm
(currently not available)
Susan Lederer, "The Cold War and Beyond: Covert and Deceptive
American Medical Experimentation", Military Medical Ethics, V. 2, Chapter 17,
The Borden Institute, 2003 --
http://www.bordeninstitute.army.mil/ethicsbook_files/Ethics2/Ethics-ch-17.pdf
The table of contents for Military Medical Ethics v 2 is available at
http://www.bordeninstitute.army.mil/
Chapter 19, Paul J. Amoroso and Lynn L. Wenger,
"The Human Volunteer in Military Biomedical Research" is also of interest.
The authors write that "...scientists may feel justified in risking the well-being
of a few subjects if they believe the benefits to society will far outweigh the risks
imposed on a few individuals. Unfortunately this reasoning has led to grave ethical
and moral violations. Such transgressions can best be avoided by always putting
the rights of the volunteers first."
MIT Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects --
Informed Consent --
http://web.mit.edu/committees/couhes/informedconsent.shtml
Note that in breach of Internationally respected rights of human beings, MIT
states that the requirement for informed consent may be waived in instances where
"the research is subject to exempt review" or "the research presents no more than
minimal risk of harm to subjects" or "the principal risk would be potential
harm resulting from a breach of confidentiality, and the signed consent form is
the only record linking the subject and the research"
The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical
and Behavioral Research, "The Belmont Report- Ethical Principles and Guidelines
for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research", April 18, 1979 --
http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/belmont.html
(The National Institutes of Health website)
The Nuremberg Code --
http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/nuremberg.html
(The National Institutes of Health website)
U.C.S.F. Experimental Subject's Bill of Rights --
http://www.research.ucsf.edu/chr/Guide/chrB_BoR.asp
"California Assembly Bill 1752: Human Experimentation, which became effective
January 1, 1979, provides that all investigators doing a "medical experiment"
must offer their subjects a copy of the "Experimental Subject's Bill of Rights."
Failure to do so may result in civil or criminal penalties."
see also --
http://www.research.ucsf.edu/chr/Recruit/chrRC.asp
"Waiving Informed Consent - Military Use of Non-FDA-Approved Drugs in Combat"
Rand Research Brief, RB-7534 (2000) --
http://www.rand.org/publications/RB/RB7534/
Nuha Al-Radi, Baghdad Diaries, NY: Vintage, 2003.
al-Radi, Nuha, The Literary Encyclopedia --
http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5215
"Artist Nuha Al-Radi Wrote 'Baghdad Diaries'", Darat Al Funun --
http://www.daratalfunun.org/main/activit/curentl/homage/Nuha.html
"Chronicle of Survival - Caught in the Crossfire - American Carpet Bombing
and the'Secret Invasion' of Cambodia Set the Stage for Disaster," Frontline,
October, 2002 --
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/cambodia/tl02.html
"The US dropped 540,000 tons of bombs, killing anywhere from 150,000 to
500,000 civilians."
Ron Robin, The Making of the Cold War Enemy, Princeton, NJ,
Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Commentary
Archie is a Vietnam veteran and a performance artist who also has experienced
what he believes is a system of covert intimidation to control his behavior.
His angry words come from his reading of "The Political Significance
of Coercive Counterinsurgency" pp. 201-205 in Robin, Chapter 9 "Vietnam
- From 'Hearts and Minds' to Rational Choice".
Nathan Leites and Charles Wolf, Jr., Rebellion and Authority,
Chicago, Markham Publishing Company, 1970. A RAND Corporation Research Study
Alan Cantwell, Jr, MD, "The Secret Origin of AIDS and HIV:
How scientists produced the most horrifying plague of all time -
and then covered it up." --
http://www.whale.to/v/cantwell3.html
Boyd E. Graves --http://www.boydgraves.com/
Graves presents evidence that the AIDS virus was created
under the auspices of the U.S. Special Virus program
The Estate Project, Testimonials to Dancers Lost to AIDS --
http://www.artistswithaids.org/artforms/dance/letters.html
The Estate Project, art forms + media --
http://www.artistswithaids.org/artforms/index.html
Edmund White, Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS,
University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. (for the Estate Project)
"The Rambles of Spring", words and music by Tommy Makem,
Copyright 1977 --
http://www.makem.com/discography/recordings/lyricpage/ramblesofspring.html
Of Coventry and Desden
References
The bombing of Dresden in World War II --
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II
(wordiq.com)
Frauenkirche Reconstruction --
http://www.friendsofdresden.org/frauen.htm
Arthur Harris, the man who ordered the bombing of Dresden
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWharris.htm (Sparticus Educational)
"Kristallnacht", Museum of Tolerance, Simon Wiesenthal Center --
http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t042/t04201.html
David McGrory, "The Coventry Blitz",
CWN - News & Information for Coventry & Warwickshire --
http://www.cwn.org.uk/heritage/blitz/
St. Michael's The old Cathedral, Historic Coventry --
http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/cathedrals/oldcathedral.html
Michael (archangel) --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_(archangel) (Wikipedia)
Coventry Cathedral --
http://www.coventrycathedral.org.uk/History.html
Winterbotham, F.W., The Ultra Secret, NY:Harper & Row, 1974.
RAF Group Captain Winterbotham discusses foreknowledge of the attack on Coventry
on pps 60-61. According to his account, he advised Churchill's private secretary
of an Ultra intercept that Coventry would be attacked in four or five hours.
The decision was made -- conjecturally for reasons of protecting Ultra and
because there was not time for an orderly evacuation -- to only alert emergency services.
Commentary
Winterbotham was a key figure in the Enigma process. However, this reader is not convinced
of the accuracy of his account or of exactly where he is coming from in his book. In
Bodyguard of Lies, Anthony Cave Brown (Anthony Cave Brown, "Coventry" in Anthony
Cave Brown, Bodyguard of Lies, Guilford, CT, The Lyons Press, 1975, pp. 32-44)
also puts the burden of the decision about Coventry on Churchill's shoulders. However,
Brown's account is based in the main on information from Winterbotham. That Bletchley Park
knew in advance of the attack and that Churchill made the decision not to warn the people
of Coventry based on the value of Ultra is also asserted in A Man Called Intrepid.
Perhaps because of questions about the advice he was given in the decision process, in
Revelations of Secret Surveillance, Sid states that British Intelligence
knew in advance but does not put the blame on Churchill.
"Coventry's Hell", The British Home Front --
http://thebritishhomefront.tripod.com/id7.html
Suggests that the RAF's ineffective defense was a factor in the lack of protection of Coventry.
Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata"
http://www.fact-index.com/p/pi/piano_sonata_no__14__beethoven_.html (Fact Index)
Here is New York a Democracy of Photographs, Scalo Books, 2002.
http://hereisnewyork.org/index2.asp
Udo Kultermann, Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States:
Renaissance of a Region, McGraw-Hill Professional, 1999
Available from Amazon.com at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/
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Nick Begich and Jeane Manning,
"HAARP: Vandalism in the Sky?",
Nexus Magazine, 3:1, 1995 --
http://www.uncletaz.com/library/underground/haarpvandalisky.html
(uncletz.com website)
Basic Information on HAARP --
http://www.alaska.net/~logjam/HAARP.html
a report from community residents
Michael Chossudovsky, "It's not only greenhouse gas emissions:
Washington's new world order weapons have the ability to trigger climate change",
December 8, 2000 --
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27a/048.html
(World History Archives website)
"Alaska and Me", Words and Music by John Denver,
Copyright Cherry Lane Music, Album Calypso
Musicians and Dancers
References
William Rivers Pitt, "Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster".
t r u t h o u t | Report, November 8 2004 --
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml
The Green Party --
http://www.gp.org/
After the 2004 Presidential Election, The Green Party, Green Party
Presidential Candidate David Cobb, Reps John Conyers, Jr., (D-MI) Stephanie
Tubbs Jones, (D-OH) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) led the fight
on behalf of voters who were disenfranchised.
"Congresswoman Tubbs Jones Objects to Certification of Ohio
Electoral Votes" --
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/oh11_tubbsjones/pr_050106b.html
John Conyers Jr.. "The GOP's Attack On Voting Rights",
TomPaine.com, May 13, 2005 --
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/releases/votingrightsopedtompaine51305.htm
(House Judiciary - Democrats web site)
Barbara Boxer, "Statement On Her Objection To The Certification Of
Ohio's Electoral Votes" --
http://boxer.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=230450
Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., "Securing the Right to Vote as a
Citizenship Right", , March 9, 2005 --
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0309-20.htm
Representative Jackson (D-IL) has introduced a joint resolution proposing
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding
the right to vote.
Read A Gathering of Artists
4.
Interlude: Ubicomp and Time
"Down in the Valley,
in the shadow of the old industries who serve big business and the military,
there were men and women who invented technologies
for the use of people and communities.
Many of them were idealistic,
and they thought that everyone could understand and use
the tools of technology
for the common good.
I dreamed that the Military Industrial Complex
harbored criminals who began to use the covert terrorism --
that they were already using against the citizens of this country --
against the new inventors who challenged their entrenched corporate power. .."
- Ask for Sanctuary
References
John B. Alexander, "Acoustics", in Future War, Non-Lethal Weapons in the Twenty-First
Century Warfare, NY, Thomas Dunne Books, 1999. pp. 95-102
Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Autobiography --
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-autobio.html
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, NY: Bantam, 1963.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The
Archipelago, NY: Harper & Row , 1973.
"Interview - Gulag. A history of the Soviet Camps - Anne Applebaum",
Liberales --
http://www.liberales.be/cgi-bin/en/showframe.pl?interview&applebaumgulageng
Memorial --
http://www.memo.ru/eng/
Open Society, Gulag --
http://www.osa.ceu.hu/gulag/
"America's gulag - Stephen Grey uncovers a secret global network of prisons
and planes that allows the US to hand over its enemies for interrogation, and
sometimes torture, by the agents of its more unsavory allies,"
New Statesman, May 17, 2004 --
http://www.infoshop.org/prisons/public_html/
(on american gulag website)
Sidney Blumenthal, "This is the new gulag -
Bush has created a global network of extra-legal and secret US prisons
with thousands of inmates", The Guardian, May 6, 2004 --
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1210588,00.html
William W. Turner, "The Hoover U. Alumni Association" in
William W. Turner, Hoover's FBI, NY: Dell, 197. pp. 290-300.
Turner points out how strategically placed many former FBI agents are.
At the time of the writing of this book, there were 7 former FBI agents in
Congress; there were former FBI agents in key positions in industry; there
were former FBI agents in key positions in professional football security;
there were former FBI agents in key positions in corporate strikebreaking teams.
Strikebreaking and prison contractor The Wackenhut Corporation was founded
by former FBI agent George R. Wackenhut.
Nicholas Wilson, "The Judi Bari Bombing Revisited; Big Timber, Public Relations
and the FBI", Albion Monitor, May 28, 1999 --
http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9905a/jbrevisited.html
Harvey Milk --
http://www.lambda.net/~maximum/milk.html (Lambda Net)
George Moscone --
http://www.heroism.org/class/1970/moscone.html (The Heroism Project)
Andy Warhol, The Diaries of Andy Warhol, Edited by Pat Hackett, NY: Warner, 1989
Doug Ireland, "The New Blacklist: Corporate America is bowing to anti-gay Christian
groups' boycott demands", LA Weekly, June 9, 2005
http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/the-new-blacklist/574/
Richard Harris Smith, OSS, The Secret History of America's First
Central Intelligence Agency, Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2005 --
http://www.globepequot.com/globepequot/
index.cfm?fuseaction=customer.product&product_code=1%2D59228%2D729%2D8&category_code=
"The Great Hall & Round Table, Winchester" --
http://www.hants.gov.uk/discover/places/great-hall2.html
(Hantsweb)
Jennet Conant, Tuxedo Park, NY, Simon Schuster, 2002.
Preface", pp. xiii-xvi.
Commentary
The work that scibe created and Jeff describes is based on work
that I created at Xerox PARC in 1993. Influenced by the ubiquitous
computing research (the creation of an environment where many
invisible-to-the-user computers are available) being undertaken in PARC's
Computer Science Laboratory, (CSL) Brown House Kitchen took place
in a future communal eating space where interrelated devices integral to its
functioning recorded events in various ways. In Rashoman fashion, these devices
were capable of relating the details of things that occurred in a previous November
in separate but related ways. Players who entered this narrative could unfold the
story in various ways by examining the things they found there. Some of the devices
(simulated video, simulated audio) disclosed information that could be seen
(when activated) by everyone in the room. Other devices (electronic book, diary)
disclosed text visible only to the player who activated them.
For a description of this work and its creation see Judy Malloy,
"Public Literature: Narratives and Narrative Structures in Lambda MOO",
in Art and Innovation - The Xerox PARC Artist-in-Residence Program
Edited by Craig Harris. Cambridge, MA MIT Press, 1999. pp 102-116 --
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/moopap.html
scibe's accident is based on my accident when I was run down on a crosswalk
in Arizona on July 9, 1994.
Gary Kildall --
http://www.cadigital.com/kildall.htm
_dmoz links to more about Gary Kildall
http://dmoz.org/Computers/History/Pioneers/Kildall,_Gary/
Tribute to Carl Loeffler --
http://tmano.web.infoseek.co.jp/cel/carl01.html
Judy Malloy, "Carl Eugene Loeffler, 1946 - 2001, Arts Wire Current,
February 13, 2001 --
http://tmano.web.infoseek.co.jp/cel/aw_update.html
(on Tribute to Carl Loeffler Website)
William K. Sherwood was a Stanford cancer researcher who killed himself
before testifying in front of HUAC. In a statement that HUAC did not allow her
to read, his wife wrote:
"...Throughout his lifetime, my husband had but one goal: to ease
the suffering of mankind. It was this goal that drew his to support the
Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, that inspired his youthful identification
with radical causes. It was this goal that led him, when greater maturity
had mellowed and deepened his understanding, to abandon politics completely
and devote himself single-mindedly to science. Is it a crime for a young man
in his twenties to dream of a bright new world?..."
(The complete statement is available in Eric Bentley, Thirty Years of Treason,
Excerpts from the Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities
1938-1968, Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, NY, 1971, 2002.
Remembering Mark Weiser --
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/weiser/
Rich Gold --
http://richgoldmemorial.onomy.com/
Rich Gold --
http://www.adelaidebiennial.com/cocoon/adelaidebiennial/gold_rich.xml
(conVerge)
"Christine Tamblyn", techno-seduction, The Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science & Art, 1997 --
http://www.cooper.edu/art/techno/artists/tamblyn.html (techno-seduction)
Christine Tamblyn died of breast cancer on New Years day 1998.
Christine Tamblyn's work is discussed in Margaret Morse,
"The Poetics of Interactivity" in Judy Malloy, ed, Women, Art,
and Technology, MIT Press, 2003, pp. 16-33.
Rasmus, Jack, The War at Home, The Corporate Offensive
from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush - Economic Class War in America
San Ramon, CA: Kyklos Productions, 2005 --
http://www.kyklosproductions.com/
Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking, Basic Books, 1997
Read Ubicomp and Time
4.
The Actions of Disclosure
"We travel a difficult road...
Yet the promise of a lasting Peace accompanies the exposure
of those who for centuries
have so viciously haunted the battlegrounds of war."
The plan of our lives is not always ours to completely comprehend. There are things
that are inexplicable.
There have been times in the writing and researching of Revelations of Secret
Surveillance when I felt that I was on a mission to reverse engineer a system
which others knew about, although they could not or would not speak.
At such moments, I have returned to the memory of Jerzy Witold Rozycki, Piotr Smolenski,
Jan Gralinski, and François Lane, the Polish codebreakers and the French officer
accompanying them, who died when the ship carrying them between France and Algeria went down
on January 9, 1942, the exact day on which I was born.
Jerzy Rozycki, who died that day, had worked with Polish codebreakers Marian Rejewski
and Henryk Zygalski to reconstruct the German military cipher Enigma machine. They were
the first to do so.
When I read about the death of Rozycki, and his colleagues when the Lamoriciere went down
in unexplained circumstances in the Mediterranean, I had already completed the first draft of
Revelations of Secret Surveillance, but I saw that there was much more work to be done.
The "commission", as I had come to think of it, was greater than I imagined; the details of
my own life were in themselves more important than I had known.
It was at this time that the Polish codebreakers' mission metaphorically became also my mission.
At times -- like the wings of good intelligence agent angels -- I have felt their spirits and the spirits
of my aunts and uncles who were intelligence agents and have known that there is a reason to continue.
There are indications in the true narratives of terrible accidents and survival that pervade
my own life that there are forces who, usurping the role of God, play games with our lives.
Nevertheless, I believe that ultimately it is God (and not those who have willfully usurped
God's role) who in quest of peace sets our voices on clear paths of disclosure
and warning.
In Concerto for Narrative Data, Archie, who in the performance that concludes
Revelations of Secret Surveillance identifies and then symbolically discards systems
of covert surveillance and harassment, affirms the importance of such symbolic gestures in inspiring
hope, but he also asks that people actually step forward to stop what is happening:
"It is time to stop the systems of interference,
to put in place an effective and continuing oversight
that looks at intelligence agencies, defense research, and industry
in terms of their impact on our country
and on the world that we share with other nations."
References
Barbara Jordan, Remarks at a symposium "The Johnson Years: LBJ:
The Differences He Made," sponsored by the University of Texas at
Austin and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, May 3-5, 1990 as
quoted by the Order of Service--Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church --
http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/Jordan/quotes.html
Bob Marley --
http://www.bobmarley.com/
"So Much Trouble in the World" written by Bob Marley
Album: Bob Marley & the Wailers, Survival Recorded at Tuff Gong Recording Studio,
Kingston, Jamaica, 1979 --
http://www.bobmarley.com/albums/survival/
John Ciardi --
http://www.italianamericanwriters.com/Cifelli.html (Italian American Writers)
_John Ciardi --"http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=697" target="_top">
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=697(American Academy of Poets - poets.org)
_William P. Barrett, "Poetic Injustice - the FBI Files of the Poet
John Ciardi", Adapted from The STAR-LEDGER, Newark, NJ, July 20, 1997 --
http://members.aol.com/wmpb/NSLCiardi/
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy. Translated by John Ciardi. NY: WW Norton, 1970.
According to James G. Herschberg in James Conant, Harvard to Hiroshima
and the Making of the Nuclear Age, Stanford University Press, 1993, John Ciardi,
a professor at Harvard, attended a meeting against Maryland
loyalty legislation proposed by Baltimore lawyer Frank Ober, a Harvard alumnus.
William P. Barratt, "The FBI Files of Georgia O'Keeffe",
Crosswinds, July 1977 --
http://members.aol.com/wmpb/CrossOkeeffe/
Lynn Stuter, "Are You Really Crazy, or Are You Being Gang-Stalked",
NewsWithViews.com, January 10, 2006--
http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter78.htm
Commentary
Although I do not agree with much of her other writing, this article is
one of the clearest that I have seen on the issue of Gang-stalking,
and it points out that some members of the right, as well the left, are being subjected
to "mobbing" harassment -- the practice of groups of people following
activists and interfering with their lives.
United States Senate, Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations
with Respect to Intelligence Agencies. Washington, DC, Reports, 1975-1976
The Committee was chaired by Senator Frank Church,(Idaho),
Co-Chair: John Tower, (Texas). The reports are available on the website of
The Assassination Archives and Research Center at
http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/contents.htm
as well as on Paul Wolf's Cointelpro website at
http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm
Seymour M. Hersh, "Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against AntiWar
Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years, Helms Reportedly Got Surveillance
Data in Charter Violation", The New York Times, December 22, 1974.
Robert J. Bunker, Editor, "Nonlethal Weapons: Terms and References",
INSS Occasional Paper 15, USAF Institute for National Security Studies
USAF Academy, Colorado --
http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/nonlethal.html
John B. Alexander, "Acoustics", in Future War, Non-Lethal Weapons in Twenty-First Century Warfare,
NY, Thomas Dunne Books, 1999. pp. 95-102
Noah Shachtman, "Virtual Soldiers? Dream on, Darpa", Wired News,
Aug. 14, 2003 --
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,60016,00.html
Richard and Mimi Fariña --
http://www.richardandmimi.com
"House Un-American Blues Activity Dream", written by Fariña,
Album: Reflections in a Crystal Wind, Vanguard, 1965 --
http://www.richardandmimi.com/reflections.html
"Mind-Control Studies Had Origins in Trial of Mindszenty",
New York Times, August 2, 1977. p. 16
The article also notes the support of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force,
the Departments of Agriculture, Health, Education and Welfare
and other agencies; the fact that they kept what they were doing secret because
they knew it was "repugnant to the American people"; and the involvement of
CIA Director, Allen W. Dulles and a select group. (but not the entire CIA)
Wicker, Tom, "The Truth is Needed", The New York Times, December 24, 1974.
The article calls attention to the fact that despite repeated assurances by the CIA
to the contrary, The Times found strong evidence that the CIA has operated within
the United States.
Angus Mackenzie, Secrets, The CIA's War at Home, Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 1997.
MacKenzie, who worked on the Vietnam War era alternative newspaper, The People's
Dreadnaught, documents CIA interference in publishing, including underground
newspapers and book publishing. He died at age 48 of brain cancer.
Dana Priest, "CIA Is Expanding Domestic Operations,
More Offices, More Agents With FBI", Washington Post,
October 23, 2002 --
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/news/cia-expanding-domestic-operations.htm (mindcontrolforums.com)
David E. Rosenbaum, "Intelligence 'Oversight' is Done with a Blindfold,
Congress is Always Outraged, Always in Ignorance," The New York Times,
December 29, 1974.
Christic Institute, Inside the Shadow Government,
Declaration of Plaintiffs' Counsel Filed by the Christic Institute,
U.S. District Court, Miami, Florida, March 31, 1988. Washington, DC:
Christic Institute, 1988. See page 34 for updated information about
Congressional legislation regarding the CIA.
Tom Fogerty --
http://www.artistswithaids.org/artforms/music/catalogue/fogerty.html (The Estate Project)
"Train to Nowhere", written by Tom Fogerty, Wild Cherry Music (BMI)
Buffy Sainte Marie --
http://www.creative-native.com/
Buffy Sainte-Marie, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" cGypsy Boy Music-SOCAN
http://www.creative-native.com/lyrics/burylyr.htm
Fred Hampton --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton (Wikipedia)
Ross Gelbspan, The Covert War Against the Central America Movement.
Boston, MA, South End Press, 1991.
In the conclusion of this excellent study of FBI and FBI-condoned attacks on people
who opposed US policy in Central America or sought to help refugees from Central America,
Gelbspan emphasizes the role of the press in minimizing political repression
and he calls in American citizens to remember why this country was founded.
Ross Gelbspan, "Heart of Terror Network, From FBI to NSC,
Oliver North's Private Network Epidemic of Terrorism Continued
Completing Cover-Up" --
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/FBI/Heart_North_CoverUp_BDF.html
(Third World Travelor website) excerpted from Ross Gelbspan,
Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI, the Covert War Against the Central
America Movement, Boston, MA: South End Press, 1991.
Yoko Ono --
http://www.yoko-ono.com/
Yoko Ono, "Is Winter Here to Stay" from the Album
Approximately Infinite Universe, Yoko Ono, Apple, 1973
Seth Rosenfeld, "Reagan, Hoover, and the UC Red Scare",
a Chronicle Special Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 2002 --
http://sfgate.com/news/special/pages/2002/campusfiles/
Brian Glick, War at Home, Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and
What We Can Do About It, South End Press, 1989
"ACLU Denounces FBI Tactics Targeting Political Protesters", August 16, 2004 --
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=16248&c=282
Margot Hornblower, "Socialists Win Damages, FBI Program of Disruption
Ruled Unconstitutional", The Washington Post, August 26, 1986.
The Post reports that the Court found that from 1960-1976
the FBI planted 1,300 informers in the Socialist party and the
Young Socialist Alliance; the informers were paid a total of $1.7 million.
The Post notes that the Judge found that "During the 1960s one of 10
members of the party were paid by the FBI and three of them ran for public office
on the party's ticket...The FBI committed 193 burglaries, or 'black-bag jobs',
and photographed or removed 9,864 documents..."
Thomas McEvilley, "Arnold Mesches at P.S. 1 - New York -
exhibition of the artist's work uses deals with investigation of him conducted by
Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1945-1972, Art in America, Oct, 2003
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_10_91/ai_109667950
David Lindorff, "Ashcroft's Cointelpro, Neutralizing Dissent in America",
CounterPunch, November 25, 2003 --
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff11252003.html
Bob Barr, "The FBI's Pre-Emptive Interrogations Of 'Possible' Demonstrators:
Chilling Political Speech", FindLaw, August 25, 2004 --
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20040825_barr.html
"...The price of free speech should not be a high-profile FBI visit
that makes all who know you wonder if you may be a criminal...." Barr emphasizes.
Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion,
Seven Stories Press, 1999 --
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1888363932/qid=1091559832/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-1096280-5293536
Gary Webb Memorial Page --
http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2004-12-13/feature.asp
a long road
"Bessie Smith, c1898-1937", Treasures, National Library of Australia --
http://www.nla.gov.au/worldtreasures/html/theme-music-2-bessie.html
(National Library of Australia)
Bessie Smith, "Long Road", 1931, Album: Bessie Smith,
The Complete Recordings, Vol 4,
Columbia/Legacy, 1993 (covering the years 1928 through 1931)
Fuller Up, The Dead Musician Directory --
http://elvispelvis.com/fullerup.htm
Author's Note: The story that Bessie Smith died because she was
refused admission to a white hospital has been contested.
Nevertheless, it represents the realities of the times.
Marian Anderson: A Life in Song
--
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/anderson/av/index.html
"Leaflet Circulated by the KKK in Mississippi in 1964" included
in Douglas O. Linder, Famous Trials, U.S. vs Cecil Price et al
("Mississippi Burning Trial") --
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Klan.html
Richard Harrington, "Rock with a Capital R and a PG-13", Washington Post,
September 15, 1985.
The author observes that in 1954 at the time of the Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education decision, Rock & Roll was the subject of racist
criticism by the KKK and that in 1970, Vice President Spiro Agnew called rock music
"'blatant drug culture propaganda'".
"The History of Banned Rock and Roll", classicbands.com --
http://www.classicbands.com/banned.html
Evelyn McDonnell, "Police surveillance of music industry is same
old song". Miami Herald, March 15, 2004
Dasun Allah, "A look inside the NYPD's secret 'Hiphop Task Force' NYPD
Admits to Rap Intelligence Unit", Village Voice, March 23, 2004
Bob Dylan --
http://www.bobdylan.com
"Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" written by Bob Dylan,
copyright 1970 Special Rider Music --
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/birch.html
Rick Nelson bio --
http://www.aros.net/~gr8escap/Legacy/
"Garden Party", Words and Music by Rick Nelson,
Matragun Music, (BMI) Album Garden Party, Decca, 1972 --
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/ricky-nelson/garden-party.html
Birch Society Asks Members to Help Compile Red-Sympathizer
Dossiers, The Washington Post, Times Herald, July 7, 1961.
Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking and Intimidation
Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America,
University of North Carolina Press, 2002
The section on "The Emergence of the Anti-Labor Mercenary" is available
on the University of North Carolina Press website at
http://uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/norwood_strike.html
Robert G. Rodden, from The Fighting Machinists, A Century of Struggle --
http://www.iamawlodge1426.org/hisupdate29.htm
(Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,
The Fighting Machinists, Soiuxland Lodge 1426 website)
"Democracy is 'Worst' Birch Founder Asserts", The Washington Post,
Times Herald, May 22, 1961.
Billie Holiday --
http://www.cmgww.com/music/holiday/
Billie Holiday, "Stormy Blues"
Portland Tribune -- "The Secret Watchers" --
http://www.portlandtribune.com/secret.shtml
_Ben Jacklet, "Portland police terrorism expert Winfield Falk hated that
his life's work was sentenced to die in the shredder," Portland Tribue,
September 13, 2002 --
http://www.portlandtribune.com/archold.cgi?id=13722
The groups that were put under surveillance included the American Indian Movement,
the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Friends Service Committee,
The Nuclear Weapons Freeze Coalition of Greater Portland, and the Hispanic
Political Action Committee.
"Western Goals Enjoined From Using LAPD Spy Files,
The Washington Post, April 19, 1984.
"...Joining such groups as the Alliance for Survival and Asian Americans
for Equality in this suit were singers Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, and Bonnie Raitt,
actors Richard Dreyfuss, Mike Farrell and Susan Sarandon, producer Norman Lear,
writer Studs Terkel, and philanthropist Max Palevsky. All said they were mentioned
in the files maintained by the now-disbanded Public Disorder Intelligence Division
of the Los Angeles Police Department as part of a conspiracy to stiffle their
'advocacy of political opinions.'..."
American Civil Liberties Union, "CO Springs Police Conducted Surveillance for Denver
'Spy Files,' ACLU Reveals" --
http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=11361&c=130
The ACLU reports that the Colorado Springs Police department not only spies
on peaceful critics of government policy and but also sends information about
peace activists to the Denver Police Department's controversial 'spy files.'
"Emerging 'Surveillance-Industrial Complex' Is Turbo-Charging
Government Monitoring, ACLU Warns in New Report", August 9, 2004 --
http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=16229&c=130
driven by signals
"WR Grace Consultant Otto Ambros" --
Memo from convicted Nazi War Criminal Otto Ambros, who was hired as a consultant
by WR Grace, Dow, and the US Army Chemical Corps. See reference in Canto Seven.
Memo from convicted Nazi War Criminal Otto Ambros, who was hired as a consultant
by WR Grace, Dow, and the US Army Chemical Corps:
"...We have furthermore drawn the attention of the concentration camp to the fact
that, in the last few weeks, the inmates are being severely flogged on the construction site
by the Capos in increasing measure, and this always applies to the weakest inmates who really
cannot work harder. The exceedingly unpleasant scenes that occur on the construction site
because of this are beginning to have a demoralizing effect on the free workers (Poles), as well
as on the Germans. We have therefore asked that they should refrain from carrying out this
flogging on the construction site and transfer it to the inside of the concentration camp."
Linda Hunt, Secret Agenda, The United States Government, Nazi Scientists,
and Project Paperclip, 1945-1990. St. Martin's Press, 1991.
National Security Archive, "The CIA and Nazi War Criminals" --
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB146/index.htm
Dan Kennedy, "Toxic Legacy, Hazardous Waste and the Lessons of Woburn,
Massachusetts" --
http://home.earthlink.net/~dkennedy56/woburn.html
Dan Kennedy, "What is a 'model corporate citizen'?" Letters to the Editor
Boston Globe, December 30, 1998 --
http://home.earthlink.net/~dkennedy56/woburn_model.html
Dead Kennedy's --
http://www.deadkennedys.com/
"Chemical Warfare", Written by the Dead Kennedys, copyright Decay Music,
Album: The Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, 1980
John Trudell
http://www.kepplerassociates.com/speakers/trudelljohn.asp?2 (Keppler)
_John Trudell's web site --
http://www.johntrudell.com/
"Crazy Horse", Written by John Trudell, Album: Bone Days, Asitis Productions, 2001
The Quilt of Tears for victims of Agent Orange --
http://www.agentorangequiltoftears.com/
Vietnam Veterans of America, VVA's Guide on Agent Orange --
http://www.vva.org/benefits/vvgagent.htm
The Fund for Reconciliation and Development, Agent Orange --
http://www.ffrd.org/agentorange.htm
Reuters, "Vietnam pledges to pursue Agent Orange compo,"
ABC News Online, May 1, 2005 --
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1357108.htm
"The Wall", Written by Tim Murphy, copyright 1985 Tim Murphy
Bernard Edelman, "What Common Bond, if Any", The VVA Veteran,
October/November, 2004 --
http://www.vva.org/TheVeteran/2004_10/feature_CommonBond.htm
About Tim Murphy's "The Wall"
Songs of the American Vietnam War
http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/fishlm/folksongs/americansongs.htm
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial --
http://thewall-usa.com/
The Wall was designed by Maya Ying Lin
Vietnam Veterans of America --
http://www.vva.org
_"Senate Hearing Confirms Veterans Fears" --
http://www.vva.org/PressReleases/2002/pr02-019.htm
Department of Defense officials finally admit that in the 1960 and 1970s
the Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD) program exposed thousands of military personnel
to VX and other sarin nerve gases and other dangerous chemical and biological agents.
Deployment Health Support, "Project 112 Tests" --
http://deploymentlink.osd.mil/current_issues/shad/shad_chart/shad_chart_8_3.shtml
Frank D. Roylance, Ariel Sabar and Tom Bowman,
"Nerve agents released in Md. during open-air tests in 60s
Pentagon acknowledges VX, sarin experiments",
Baltimore Sun, October 10, 2002 --
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/linkscopy/nerveGas.html
Jim Croce --
http://www.jimcroce.com
"Stone Walls", Words and Music by Jim Croce, Published by: Blendingwell Music, Inc. (ASCAP)
Album: The Faces I've Been, Lifesong Records, 1975
Elizabeth A. Thomson, "Monkey Controls Robotic Arm Using Brain Signals Sent Over the
Internet, MIT News Service", December 6, 2000 --
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2000/monkeys-1206.html
This research was performed by scientists at Duke University Medical Center
in North Carolina, MIT, and the State University of New York (SUNY) Health
Science Center. It was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health,
the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
and the Office of Naval Research.
Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think", The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945 --
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/texts/vannevar.bush.html
In this alternately brilliant (the Memex, for instance)
and chilling/sexist article, Bush advocates mind-body control.
Bush was Director of the Office of Scientific Research during World War II,
and was a key figure in the formation of the Military Industrial and Academic Complex.
"Pilot Study of Mind-to-Movement Device Shows Early Promise",
Brown News Service --
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2004-05/04-035.html
Michael Graziano, "How Does The Brain Control Movement?" , Princeton University,
CASE STUDY "How Does The Brain Control Movement?" --
http://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/research/graziano/index.php
"Pilot Study of Mind-to-Movement Device Shows Early Promise", Brown
News Service --
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2004-05/04-035.html
David F. Salisbury, "Complex behaviors could be `hard-wired' in the
primate brain, Neuroscientists have identified an area called the primary
motor cortex which, when stimulated, triggers simple muscle movements,
Vanderbilt Register, March 28, 2005 --
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=18495
Noah Shachtman, "Virtual Soldiers? Dream on, Darpa", Wired News,
Aug. 14, 2003 --
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,60016,00.html
Carl T. Hall, "Devices that Read Human Thought now Possible",
San Francisco Chronicle, November 10, 2003
http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2003/Brain-Implant-Read10nov03.htm (mindfully.org web site)
Grateful Dead --
http://www.dead.net/
"Cold Rain and Snow", traditional/written by McGannahan Skjellyfetti
(the Grateful Dead's pseudonym for group compositions)
Published By; Ice Nine Publishing Co., Inc. (ASCAP)
Col Tamzy J. House and others,
"Weather as a Force Multiplier:
in 2025", Air Force 2005, 1996 --
http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usaf/2025/v3c15/v3c15-1.htm
(Federation of American Scientists website)
Commentary:
The subtext of the potential for interference in the weather occurs in various places
in Revelations of Secret Surveillance. That it can be done is suggested
in the 2005 the Air Force report "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the
Weather in 2025". In this revealing report, with little consideration for the citizens of
our planet, the Air Force treats global weather as a battleground. In their words:
"...weather-modification is a force multiplier with tremendous power that could be
exploited across the full spectrum of war-fighting environments. From enhancing friendly
operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather
patterns to complete dominance of global communications and counter-space control,
weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat
or coerce an adversary..."
Because of the potential for environmental damage, if the Department of Defense
has developed the ability to alter our weather at will, it is very important that the
public is informed of this. The specter of opposing armies simultaneously attempting
to control the weather, the environmental distress that weather modification in one area
could cause in another area, the possibility that unethical agents of government or
industry could use the weather for personal revenge or to force redevelopment are
nightmares for the global environment and the people of the world.
As in for instance cloud seeding in times of drought, there may be instances of serious
need when weather interference could be considered. In these cases, a *public* commission
could, in cases of great need only, make these decisions in tandem with in depth
environmental impact studies. However, it is important that weather modification
legislation does not open doors for unethical experimentation without extensive environmental
oversight, in the way that US Senate Bill 517 and US House Bill 2995 would.
(see Peterson reference below)
United Nations Treaty No. 17119 prohibits the military and hostile use of environmental
modification techniques, but it doesn't adequately address other uses. In order to stop
military and environmentally destructive uses of weather, as well as natural environment
modification - such as covert alteration of natural plant growth or of water flow --
tough, enforceable US Government regulation is needed.
United Nations Treaty No. 17119,
Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of
Environmental Modification Techniques, Treaty Text,
Signed in Geneva May 18, 1977, Entered into force October 5, 1978
Ratification by U.S. President December 13, 1979 --
http://www.state.gov/t/ac/trt/4783.htm (U. S. State Department Web Site)
Rosalind Peterson, "Controversial Experimental Weather Modification Bill in US Congress",
Environmentalists Against the War, January 16, 2006
http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=4122
Nicholas Tesla --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Moving_in (Wikipedia)
Review of Tesla's life and experiments that provides background on
Scaler/Electromagnetic/Weather weapons.
"Secretary of Defense Reveals Earthquake and Volcano Weapons" --
http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/cohen-ecoweapons.htm
(TheMemoryhole.com website -- includes transcript of DoD News Briefing
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Monday, April 28, 1997 in which
he discusses "an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate,
set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic
waves." Note that Cohen doesn't admit US development of these weapons.)
Bob Fitrakis, "Chemtrails outlaw: The government says they don't exist,
but Kucinich wants Congress to take action", Centre for Research
on Globalisation --
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/FIT203Ap.html
Scott Gilbert, "Environmental Warfare and US Foreign Policy:
The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction", Centre for Research
on Globalisation --
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO409F.html
Rosalie Bertell, Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War,
Black Rose Books, 2001 --
http://www.web.net/blackrosebooks/planet.htm
Michael Chossudovsky, "It's not only greenhouse gas emissions:
Washington's new world order weapons have the ability to trigger climate change",
December 8, 2000 --
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27a/048.html (World History Archives website)
Michel Chossudovsky, "The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction:
'Owning the Weather' for Military Use", Centre for Research on Globalisation --
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO409F.html
Ronald B. Standler, "Weather Modification Law in the USA" --
http://www.rbs2.com/weather.htm
Although it does not deal with the most advanced weather modifying
technologies, this website details Court cases that have dealt
with this issue, providing a legal framework to begin combating
environmentally unsafe weather modifying technologies.
Laurie Goodstein, "Evangelical Leaders Swing Influence Behind Effort
to Combat Global Warming", The New York Times, March 10, 2005 --
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/national/10evangelical.html?oref=login
John Denver --
http://www.johndenver.com/
"Rocky Mountain High", Words by John Denver; Music by John Denver
and Mike Taylor, Album -- Rocky Mountain High, 1972
the name of the agency that had imprisoned him
Will Filer, "NSA Mind Control and Psyops" --
http://www.whale.to/b/nsa4.html
The Velvet Underground --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground (Wikipedia)
Author's Note: My cousin Walter Powers was Velvet Underground bass guitar, backing
vocals 1970-1972. Walter also played with The Lost and Willy "Loco" Alexander.
"What Goes On", Written by Lou Reed, Album: The Velvet Underground, 1969
The National Security Agency (NSA) --
http://www.nsa.gov/
Nicky Hager, "Exposing the Global Surveillance System", Covert Action
Quarterly no. 59, Winter 1997.
http://mediafilter.org/caq/echelon/
An excerpt from Nicky Hager, Secret Power: New Zealand's Role
in the International Spy Network, (Nelson, NZ: Craig Potton, 1996)
Patrick S. Poole, "ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network" --
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html
"Ex-Snoop Confirms Echelon Network", CBS News, February 12, 2001 --
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/02/24/60minutes/main164651.shtml
Democracies usually have laws against spying on the citizens of their
countries, but CBS News reports that according to Canadian intelligence agent
Mike Frost, Echelon members circumvent these laws by asking other member
countries to spy for them.
Otis Port with Inka Resch, "They're Listening to Your Calls,
Echelon monitors phones, E-mail, and radio signals",
Business Week, May 31, 1999, pp.110-111.
John St. Clair Akwei vs. NSA, Ft. Meade, MD, USA --
http://www.iahf.com/nsa/20010214.html
James Bamford, Body of Secrets, NY, Doubleday, 2001
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/author.html
pp 420-451 deal with the Echelon system and NSA abuses in spying
on American citizens and citizens of other nations and in exchange
of information with other UKUSA members. Of particular interest
is Shamrock (p. 434) in which US telegraph companies such as
Western Union, secretly gave the NSA access to *all* overseas
communications from American citizens.
Simson Garfinkel, Database Nation, Sebastopol, CA, O'Reilly, 2000 --
http://www.databasenation.com/home.htm
Jason Vest, "Listening In, The U.S.-led ECHELON spy network
is eavesdropping on the whole world", The Village Voice,
August 12-18, 1998 --
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/9833,vest,41,1.html
Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2002.
Frank Kitson, Low Intensity Operations: Subversion, Insurgency,
Peacekeeping, Harrisburg PA: Stackpole Books, 1971. p. 31
United States Senate, Senate Select Committee
to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence
Agencies. Washington, DC, Reports, 1975-1976.
The Committee was chaired by Senator Frank Church, (Idaho), Co-Chair: John Tower,
Texas. The reports are available on the website of The Assassination
Archives and Research Center at
http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/contents.htm
Documents FBI operations against women's groups
M. Wesley Swearingen, FBI Secrets, An Agent's Expose, Boston, MA:
South End Press, 1995.
Brian Glick, War at Home, Covert Action Against U.S. Activists
and What We Can Do About It, South End Press, 1989
School of the Americas Watch --
http://www.soaw.org/new/type.php?type=8
United States Senate, Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental
Operations with Respect to Intelligence Agencies. Washington, DC,
Reports, 1975-1976 The Committee was chaired by Senator Frank
Church, (Idaho), Co-Chair: John Tower, Texas. The reports are
available on the website of The Assassination Archives and Research Center
at
http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/contents.htm
as well as on Paul Wolf's Cointelpro website at
http://www.icdc.com/%7Epaulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm
Christopher H. Pyle, "Domestic Spying - Again?", Hartford Courant,
November 20, 2002 --
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/oped/spying2.shtml
(Mount Holyoke College web site)
Robert Block and Gary Fields, "Is Military Creeping Into Domestic
Law Enforcement?" The Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2004 --
http://www.dowjonesnews.com/sample/samplestory.asp?StoryID=2004030904000010&Take=1
(Dow Jones Newswires)
Declan McCullagh, "George Orwell Here We Come", CNET, January 6, 2003 --
http://news.com.com/George+Orwell,+here+we+come/2010-1071_3-979276.html
thewho.net --
http://www.thewho.net/
_Pete Townsend --
http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/
_Keith Moon --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Moon (Wikipedia)
Pete Townshend, "Run, Run, Run", TRO-Essex Music, (BMI) 1966
Mos Def --
http://www.mosdefinitely.com/
"War", by Mos Def, Album: The New Danger, Geffen Records
"An Interview with Jello Biafra" --
http://www.metal-e-zine.com/intex/jellob.htm (metal-e-zine.com)
Frank J. Murray, NASA Plans to Read Minds at Airports,
The Washington Times, August 19, 2002 --
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/news/nasa_brainwaves.htm (Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics
website)
Concluding Note
The NSA logo's symbolism of an eagle perched on a key is of interest in the context of a narrative
that addresses intelligence agencies as secret enforcers of medieval morality. In Renaissance art,
the keys to the kingdom of heaven are a symbol of St Peter the Apostle; St John the Evangelist
is represented by an eagle.
Since such iconography would be very inappropriate for a US Government agency that has illegally
gathered information on civilians, presumably the intended meaning of the NSA logo is not a covert
appropriation of the works or doctrines of St Peter and St John, nor an indication that intelligence
agencies have a hidden moral enforcement agenda and they do not serve all of the US public.
However, given the vast amounts of data intelligence agencies are collecting on the American
public, how such data was used in Germany, and the extreme secrecy that the administration continues
to allow intelligence agencies, it is very important to limit the collection of data on the American people.
And of course, it is the American eagle, trapped in a culture of surveillance, whom Archie
symbolically frees from the NSA logo. Archie's nonviolent actions and the work of the
narrative's writers, artists, and curators, in tandem with the need for legislation of
"nonviolent weapons" advocated in these notes, also symbolize the bringing of peace on earth -
not with the ancient methods of terror and violence -- but with information, acts of heroism,
and collaborative democracy.
luck of the Irish
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, "Attica State",
Album:Some Time in New York City, 1972.
Elbert "Big Man" Howard, "Slave Revolt at Attica", Its About Time,
Black Panther Legacy & Alumni --
http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Big_Man/Slave_Revolt_at_Attica.html
Attica Prison Riot - September 9-13, 1971, American Experience,
"The Rockefellers --
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/e_attica.html
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, "Sunday Bloody Sunday", Album:
Some Time in New York City, 1972.
"Remembering Bloody Sunday - January 30, 1972", LarkSpirit
http://larkspirit.com/bloodysunday/
John Lennon --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon (Wikipedia)
Jon Wiener, "Lennon's MI5-FBI Files", The Nation, February 23, 2000 --
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20000313&s=wiener
John Wiener, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files,
University of California Press, 1999.
The role of Britain's M15 in suppressing this information
is also discussed on pp. 94-95. There is an associated website:
John Lennon FBI Files --
http://www.lennonfbifiles.com
"The History of St. Patrick's Day - Irish Music" --
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/stpatricksday/?page=history5
(The History Channel)
Queen Elizabeth I decreed that all Irish Musician's and artists be hanged
http://www.visitireland.com/aboutireland/music.asp (Visit Ireland.com)
In the 14th century, Irish Minstrels, were excluded from districts
which belonged to the English Government. The British "Statues of Kilkenny"
and the Penal Laws were for the Irish akin to the Nuremberg Laws enacted
by the Germans against the Jewish people.
"Free America", Words by Joseph Warren, circa 1775, music: traditional
Keith and Rusty McNeill, "Colonial & Revolution Songs" --
http://www.mcneilmusic.com/rev.html
William Rooney, "The Men of the West", Album:
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Irish Songs of Drinking
and Rebellion, Legacy, 1995
The Clancy Brothers --
http://www.irishtours.com/clancy_sked.html (IrishTours.com)
Tommy Makem --
http://www.makem.com
Mahl, Thomas, Desperate Deception, British Covert Operations
in the United States, 1939-44, Brassey's, 1998.
William Stevenson, A Man Called Intrepid, Guilford, CT,
The Lyons Press, 1976.
Hyde, H. Montgomery, The Quiet Canadian, the Secret Service Story of Sir William
Stephenson, Constable, 1962.
Florence Reece, "Which Side Are You On?" , 1931
Written during the coal miners strike in Harlan County, Kentucky --
http://www.afscmelocal34.org/which_side_are_you_on.htm (AFSCME)
Paul McCartney - Wingspan --
http://www.paulmccartney.com/wings.htm
"Give Ireland Back to the Irish", written by Paul and Linda McCartney
Album: Wings, Wildlife, Parlophone, 1971
Tom Hayden --
"British Role in NI is a Model for Disaster", Irish America --
http://www.irishabroad.com/irishworld/irishamericamag/junejuly03/departments/britishrole.asp
Irish Northern Aid, 1994 Britain's Dirty War: British Garrison in Ireland" --
http://www.inac.org/irishhistory/garrison
Thomas F. Troy, Wild Bill and Intrepid, New Haven & London,
Yale University Press, 1996.
According to Troy, in the 50's. Stephenson (now in Bermuda) and Ellis were spying on and interfering
with Black Power activists moving from the Caribbean and Washington. p. 15
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, "Luck of the Irish",
Album: Some Time in New York City, 1972.
Ronald Howard, In Search of My Father, St. Martin's Press, 1981.
Written by his son, journalist/actor/art gallery owner Ronald Howard, this book
details the career and last months of British Actor, Leslie Howard, 1893-1943.
Leslie Howard --
http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/new_site/biography.php?id=979&showgroup= (The Biography Channel)
Donald E. Wilkes, "The Assassination of Ashley Wilkes",
The Athens Observer, June 8, 1995.
http://www.law.uga.edu/academics/profiles/dwilkes_more/other_1ashley.html
(The University of Georgia School of Law)
Archbishop Oscar Romero
http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/romero.html
School of the Americas Watch
http://www.soaw.org/new/type.php?type=8
Father Roy Bourgeois
http://www.itvs.org/fatherroy/bios.html (ITVS)
Don McLean --
http://www.don-mclean.com/
"American Pie", words and music by Don McLean, Copyright 1971, 1972 by Music Corporation of America
and The Benny Bird Co, Album - American Pie
Emmylou Harris --
http://www.emmylou.net/
Gram Parsons --
http://www.gramparsons.com/
"In my Hour of Darkness", written by Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons
Album: Grievous Angel, Reprise, 1973
Julie Ayer, More Than Meets the Ear, How Symphony Musicians Made Labor
History, Minneapolis, MN: Syren Book Company, 2005
FBI persecution of noted American composer Aaron Copland
is discussed on pp. 69-70.
John Cage, "Apartment House 1776" --
http://www.johncage.info/workscage/apthouse.html (John Cage Database)
Mark Guerrero --
http://markguerrero.net
"The Ballad of Lalo Guerrero" words and music by Mark Anthony Guerrero
copyright 1994 Mark A. Guerrero --
http://markguerrero.net/lyrics.php
Mark Guerrero, "Lalo & Amigos Tribute Concert October 11, 1992" --
http://markguerrero.net/misc_14.php
Judy Malloy, Ask for Sanctuary, 2003 --
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/sanctuary/beginhope.html
Marian Anderson: A Life in Song --
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/anderson/av/index.html
"Lead Kindly Light", words by John Henry Newman,
music by Charles H. Purday
The song written at Sea in 1833 by John Henry Newman
who had been sick and was going home --
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/l/e/a/leadkind.htm (Cyberhymnal)
Ralph Stanley Museum and Traditional Mountain Music Center --
http://www.ralphstanleymuseum.com/
Dr. Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys --
http://drralphstanley.com/index.shtml
"Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn", written by Ralph Stanley
Performed by Emmylou Harris in Album: Roses in the Snow, Reprise, 1980.
Ozomatli --
http://www.ozomatli.com/
"Coming War", written by 2na, Chali/Ulises Bella/Raul Pacheco/Sierra,
Asdru/Wil-Dog, Ozomatli, Almo Sounds, 1998.
Bruce Springsteen --
http://www.brucespringsteen.net/
Bruce Springsteen, "No Surrender", copyright Bruce Springsteen (ASCAP
Album: Born in the USA, 1984
Albert Ayler
http://www.ayler.supanet.com/html/biography.html
"Jazzed in Cleveland - Albert Ayler" --
http://www.cleveland.oh.us/wmv_news/jazz39.htm
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