by Catherine Austin Fitts
Monday, 23 September 2002
from
Scoop Website
"Engrave this upon my heart: ~ There
isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story."
--- Mary Lou Kownacki
What is relevant is what solves the problem. If we had thought
through real relevancies, we would be on Sirius by now."
---- Peter Medewar
It is time to deal with the 64 dollar question
- the biggest crazy aunt in the living room.
The questions that need to be raised in any effort to find the truth about a
significant event related to power and money in the US - and answered if we
are to ever find the truth of how our world works - are:
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WHAT HAS BEEN THE SIZE OF THE U. S.
BLACK BUDGET OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS?
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WHAT ARE THE SOURCES AND USES OF FUNDS
IN THE BLACK BUDGET?
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WHO GOVERNS AND MANAGES THE BLACK BUDGET
AND OPERATIONS?
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WHY HAVE SO MANY DECENT PEOPLE SUPPORTED
AN ILLEGAL BLACK BUDGET OPERATION OF SUCH MAGNITUDE FOR SO LONG?
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IS THE WAR ON TERRORISM MOVING THE BLACK
BUDGET ON BUDGET?
I do not know the answer to these questions.
What I do know is that asking these questions brings up a whole pile of
challenging uncertainty.
(For background on my experience dealing with black
budget/slush fund operations at FHA and Ginnie Mae at the Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Justice, Treasury and the New York
Federal Reserve Bank, see my article, "The
Myth of the Rule of Law".)
When dealing with challenging uncertainty, I find that many researchers
simply delete the existence of such uncertainty from their reality. That is
a big mistake --- again pretending that we do not have a very big crazy aunt
sitting in the living room. George Orwell once said that "Omission is the
greatest lie." Hence, our crazy aunt has to be dealt with.
If you listen to the Ferdinand video/audio depositions in the Carone/Tyree
lawsuit (http://www.blackopradio.com/inc_archives2002.html), what you will
hear is something I have heard many times. Carone gives his family the sense
of all of the organized crime operations by CIA, Army and Mafia through the
1970's as legitimate for national security purposes that then got out of
hand and turned bad in the 1980's. That is, what started out as justifiable
got out of hand.
This begs the question - Why Were Such Activities
Considered Justifiable?
The way to deal with uncertainty is with scenario design and probability -
i.e. to create a framework of the possible explanations with your best
estimate of the plausible scenarios and the probability (all adding up to
100%) of each one being true based on intuition. Maintaining such a
framework allows data collection on key variables and assumptions and an
evolution to occur that can enlighten - even determine - concrete questions
and answers over time.
So, let me tell a story, give you my framework that I use to handle the fact
that I do not have the answers and invite your framework. I am not looking
to hear only what is wrong with my framework. I am looking to improve mine
or find a better one. Or better inform my estimate of the probabilities that
this one or that one is true. Hence, I invite you to put forward your
framework for managing this uncertainty. If we had the truth of the issue I
am going to introduce, I dare say we could get to the bottom of
9-11
faster.
In 1998, I was approached by John Peterson, head of the Arlington
Institute, a small high quality military think tank in Washington, DC. I had
gotten to know John through Global Business Network and had been impressed
by his intelligence, effectiveness and compassion. John asked me to help him
with a high level strategic plan Arlington was planning to undertake for the
Undersecretary of the Navy.
At the time I was the target of an intense smear campaign that would lead
the normal person to assume that I would be in jail shortly or worse. John
explained that the Navy understood that it was all politics - they did not
care.
I met with a group of high level people in the military in the process -
including the Undersecretary. According to John, the purpose of the plan ---
discussed in front of several military or retired military officers and
former government officials - was to help the Navy adjust their operations
for a world in which it was commonly known that aliens exist and live among
us.
When John explained this purpose to me, I explained that I did not know that
aliens existed and lived among us. John asked me if I would like to meet
some aliens. For the only time in my life, I declined an opportunity to
learn about something important. I was concerned that my efforts with
Arlington could boomerang and be connected with the smear campaign and the
effects that I was managing. I regret that decision. At John's suggestion I
started to read books on the topic and read about 25 books over the next
year on the alien question, the black budget, and alien technology.
I had to drop from the project due to the need to attend to litigation and
the physical harassment and surveillance of me and some of the people
helping me. This process - which turned out to be incredibly time consuming
--- I now believe was connected with the black budget/slush fund activities
connected with FHA and Ginnie Mae at HUD. (See, "The Myth of the Rule
of Law")
John then asked me if I would join the board of the Arlington
Institute.
When I attended one of my first meetings, I joined in discussion with about
10 people which included James Woolsey, former head of the CIA in the
Clinton Administration, Napier Collyns, founder of Global Business
Network and former senior Shell executive, Joe Firmage, John, and
other members of the Arlington board.
The main topic of discussion was
whether or not the major project for the coming year should be a white paper
on how to help the American people adjust to aliens existing and living
among us. I said nothing -- just listened. Not that long after, I dropped
from the board due to the continued demands related to litigation with the
Department of Justice and their informant.
To cut a series of additional long stories short, when I talk with my few
sources from the military and intelligence community, I hear the same
themes:
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Aliens exist and live among us
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In part for this reason as well the
accumulated investment over the last 50 years, the technology we
have access to through the black budget is far more advanced than is
commonly understood
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The black budget/slush fund construct
was created to deal with this issue, which is why reasonable people
thought selling drugs to the children who were US citizens was the
better of several options - including the option of telling the
American public the truth and funding the expenses on budget.
As a result of these experiences, here is my
framework for dealing with this very large pile of uncertainty.
ONE OF THE THREE
FOLLOWING POSSIBLE SCENARIOS MUST BE TRUE
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SCENARIO #1. ENTRE NOUS: The alien
question is the single largest and most expensive disinformation
campaign in the history of our race. A portion of the human race has
advanced technologically so far beyond the rest of us --- and is
attributing various things to aliens as a way of managing their
resulting risk---that we have become as aliens to each other.
To fully understand this scenario, we
need to try to understand the use of individual mind control such as
criminal hypnosis to effect financial and government fraud and
corruption and the truth, whatever it is, of wider subliminal
programming and brainwashing. These are slippery subjects for most
people to deal with unless they have the training and ability to do
so.
% PROBABILITY SCENARIO #1 IS TRUE ______ (You fill in)
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SCENARIO #2 --- HOLY COW!: Aliens exist
and live among us. Planet earth is subject to the politics,
economics and laws and/or lawlessness of a larger system or systems.
The transfer of advanced technology into a society that has not
evolved governance and legal systems to manage a world with the
presence of such technology and the influence of such other system(s)
helps to explain current events.
To fully understand this scenario, we
must also try to understand the use of individual mind control such
as criminal hypnosis to effect financial and government fraud and
corruption and the truth, whatever it is, of wide subliminal
programming and brainwashing. Again, these are slippery subjects for
most people to deal with unless they have the training and ability
to do so.
% PROBABILITY SCENARIO #2 IS TRUE ______ (You fill in)
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SCENARIO #3 --- MUDDLED: Some
combination of (1) and (2) above.
% PROBABILITY SCENARIO #3 IS TRUE ______ (You fill in)
TOTAL % PROBABILITY OF SCENARIOS #1,2 & 3 BEING TRUE 100%
Could my experiences with Arlington and the Navy
or any subsequent contacts fit with a disinformation scenario? Absolutely. I
have no evidence to support any scenario.
The only evidence I believe I have is my
experience dealing with tremendous amounts of money siphoned off over the
years, whether through Iran-Contra S&L, HUD and BCCI fraud, or the latest
round of money missing from the federal government in the last five years.
This is all documented in the articles below. This cash flow and the
operations and syndicates it appears to fund are important to what drives
the governance and allocation of resources in this country and around the
globe. There is a reason that power and money are centralizing and the rich
are getting richer.
I want to know what it is.
Whichever scenario is true - and I do not know which one is - if we had
the truth it will help us grapple with 9-11 and the War on Terrorism. It
would also help us better understand all the efforts to press for
centralization of economic and political power that have grown as the black
budget has grown since WWII. The reality is the possibilities of why 9-11
occurred and how it was operationalized are impacted by the facts of the US
black budget and the advanced technology it has developed.
Why would sane and even decent people think it
was the best option for the good of the whole?
We must sit in the shoes of the person or people who gave the order
- whoever they may be and wherever they may be - and understand how
their power and money worked. Why would a group with the operational and
financial capacity to effect a 9-11 operation give the green light to plan
9-11, finance 9-11, do 9-11, stand down so 9-11 could happen, take advantage
of 9-11 or to make sure the truth was not illuminated?
My experience in Washington and Wall Street would indicate that there is a
reasonable chance that all these various people and many in the food chain
Are Not Bad Or Irrational People. That is, we have a better chance of
finding the truth if for purposes of our explorations we assume that the
people involved in all these roles were people like you and me - just with
a different map of certain parts of the world and dealing with a variety of
stress and pressures trying to build cooperation or achieve goals that we do
not understand.
Watching the federal government contract announcements and without benefit
of seeing the full budget and assuming The Disclosure Project allegations
regarding the estimates of the black budget size, if I had to guess today my
guess would be that 9-11 has been highly successful in permitting the black
budget to be moved on budget, partly in the normal budget and partly in the
budget that is only disclosed to the Congressional intelligence committees.
The solution to continued growth and funding of the black budget may have
been to steal as much money and assets as possible from the federal budget
and then to move the black budget on budget when control of media, Congress,
Justice and Securities & Exchange Commission ensured that the legal budget
was non-transparent, controlled by private government contractors and could
not be harmed or fiddled with by Congress. (See various stories on the
disappearance of over $3.3 trillion from the federal government from fiscal
1998-2001
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00031.htm#a )
Grossly oversimplified, by the end of the 2004
fiscal year, covert operations and the black budget may be fully legal, run
and controlled by corporations and banks without interference from
knowledgable career civil service, taxpayer funded, and non-transparent.
Why do I say all of this?
We do not have time to pay attention to people
who use smears like "conspiracy theorist" to waste our time. Money, budgets,
finance...these are all facts. If something does not work, and it continues
to not work, there is a reason. Systems have a logic. They have a rationale.
Money helps explain and illuminate that rationale.
Anyone who would smear a serious researcher or
writer for trying to understand where a great deal of money is disappearing
to as a "conspiracy theorist" is someone who would never be taken seriously
or associated with in the circles in which I travel. The exception is if the
person doing the smearing is a professional being paid to smear those who
have the scent of "the real deal" -
Cointelpro or related public relations.
The number of people paid to do such things are
many and growing.
9-11 was an operation that was implemented by a conspiracy. To get to the
bottom of what happened and why one must develop and use conspiracy theories
to research in what can only be described as a conspiracy reality.
We know in regards to
9-11
one of two scenarios must be true - some portion of the US military and
intelligence are:
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complicit and/or
-
guilty of criminal gross negligence.
We also know that the official story is not
truthful.
Either scenario and the reality of the official story beg the
question, "why?" This course always leads us to consider the fact that US
military and intelligence have enjoyed significant expansion of their
budgets and powers as a result of 9-11. We are rewarding failure. 9-11 was
great for business. Lockheed Martin's stock is up over 50% in a falling
stock market. The oil companies have their pipeline.
When a system does not work and continues to not work, there is something
that prevents its learning. Ultimately what we must understand that the
problem is not that the system does not work and that it is not learning.
The problem is that the system is controlled and operated by the most
powerful forces in that system and that the system is indeed working and
learning in the general direction they want it to go.
This happens in a manner that is highly organic
and requires lots of planning, trial and error and factionalism that
involves competition and cooperation over time in the pursuit of the
system's real goals. Hence, the system is working and is learning. It is our
construct that is wrong. We do not understand the system and the goals of
the system.
Once we are clear that the system is working and
is learning, once we stop falling back on scapegoating as a technique to
explain events, we can start to understand the real system that we are a
part of. This is how power and money work in reality.
The amount of money and power spent to keep the general population from
understanding this - and focused on things like scapegoating which keep us
from building a good map of "the real deal" or gaining the power to impact
events by using our money and time as a vote in the marketplace in which the
banks and corporations must thrive - is immense.
That is why I strongly encourage reading Jon
Rappoport's back interviews on his Infomonster and becoming a
subscriber for his ongoing interviews.
For those would like to know more, I would refer you to articles on all the
money missing from the US Treasury and the manipulation of the gold markets
as well as the
Disclosure Project video of their event at the National Press
Club. You can find them on the web. As for me, I do not have the answers. I
wish I did. That is why I am so appreciative of efforts like UnAnswered
Questions (http://www.unansweredquestions.org)
and the effort of researchers networking and collaborating globally to
illuminate, research and answer the right questions.
Let me close with the unanswered questions with which I began and which I
believe are critical to our ongoing collaboration:
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WHAT HAS BEEN THE SIZE OF THE U. S.
BLACK BUDGET OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS?
-
WHAT ARE THE SOURCES AND USES OF FUNDS
IN THE BLACK BUDGET?
-
WHO GOVERNS AND MANAGES THE BLACK BUDGET
BUDGET AND OPERATIONS?
-
WHY HAVE SO MANY DECENT PEOPLE SUPPORTED
AN ILLEGAL BLACK BUDGET OPERATION OF SUCH MAGNITUDE FOR SO LONG?
-
IS THE WAR ON TERRORISM MOVING THE BLACK
BUDGET ON BUDGET?